[h3]The Hunter's Dream[/h3]
“If you call the Shopkeeper somewhere, they will hunt anything they deem viable prey, good Hunter,” the doll cautioned Ophelia with an apologetic bow of her head. “They can't help themselves; it's their nature as the Great Hunter. Your instructions will mean nothing to them once they are before Arrayah, they will simply hunt to the best of their ability until they win or is defeated.”
“That fits with what I've seen of them,” Gerlinde nodded her head with a smirk. “They're nice and cooperative as long as things are calm, but as soon as there's an enemy nearby they lose their mind.”
“Though perhaps oversimplified that may be an apt description,” the doll admitted. “Though you can at least take solace in that the Shopkeeper you summon is only the Moonborn Hunter, who you have already seen vanquished once. If the enemy is powerful enough, even the Moonborn Hunter may need more than one attempt to figure them out and slay them.”

Listening to it all, Torquil shrugged, uncharacteristically calm and indifferent about it all. “I'll do as I'm told, you know that. Just tell me what to do and when to do it.”
“There is a lot we could do,” Gerlinde admitted, idly examining the condition of her threaded cane. “If we went all out like you said – spent the hourglass, the darkbeast vial, the bolt paper, all that stuff – we could probably do some serious damage. But I felt how big the pull was when I looked at them in the birdbath; we'd probably have to kill a lot of things to get new ones if we fail, and Arrayah would just go munch on the other creatures of the Old Labyrinth to replenish her strength. We could also go do something else and come back later, that's completely fine with me, but we didn't actually even get to [I]try[/I] to fight her yet. Who knows, she may turn out to be a pushover now that we can actually fight back.”
She let out a small giggle. “I say we go back one more time and see what damage we can do without spending everything we have on it. And I'd say stick with Fulmen, Torquil; that thing can go electric anytime, but we only have one strip of bolt paper. That way we also don't tip off Arrayah about everything [I]we[/I] can do; she learns from fighting us, too, after all.”