[h2]Tyaethe Radistirin[/h2] Sighing, the vampire released the armoured bodyguard, armour disappearing and shrinking... though, as short as she was, it was at least considerably more adult than normal. After all, it seemed like there wasn't likely to be much more fighting here, and this was less intensive to maintain. Healing lethal stab wounds off a limited diet... well, it worked, but it was inefficient. Haelstadt, of course, went straight for Veileena, hovering protectively behind the noble and not taking their eyes off Maritza. Probably, they couldn't be seen. "As the senior representative of the Goddesses present, only why Lady Cal knows about the shard is of interest to me. Haelstadt bleeds and I can hear a heartbeat, which rules out any form of undeath that Reon would have me exterminate. And Mayon is not, on the whole, interested in investigating [i]every suspicious piece of magic[/i], otherwise we'd be rounding up every healer in existence..."