Hotaru frowned at first as she heard the words the witch had spoken towards the paladin. How rude of her to behave that way. She shouldn't be too surprised though seeing as there was always a difference between a witch and sorcerer. Both could be evil but at least Sorcerers had more class and had manners as well. Well most of them anyways. The ones she meet had great manners. She couldn't however let them stay in the back unprotected and with that she picked the best thing. She had to lean the staff against her shoulder for a second while her hands performed some magic. What she did was remove from the palm of her hand a black rose stem first. When she was read she knew the witch would likely be reluctant to hold onto it and looked to Kyalia. "Here,... this shall protect you from any magic the demons throw at you, if they catch up with us that is." She said. She then ran up beside Ishmael once more her staff in its rightful place. He was doing something with his helmet and she was about to say he shouldn't drink that but suddenly he performed some sort of purification method that she never saw before. He then passed it to a woman in the crowd telling her to drink and to pass the helmet around and make sure everyone got a drink from it. Then he looked to her and greeted her with his name. "My name is Hotaru,.. pleased to meet you Ishmael." She said happily.
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 Nova had her eyes forward but something at the corner of her eye caught her attention. The object was a dark elf whose name she did not know. She was helping the people by leading them out and remembered her at the sewer entrance. Cassandra was her name, she knew about her very well from her betters in the elven city. She was gesturing over to her and finally yelled out [i]"Hey I need your help for a second."[/i] Nova rolled her eyes and decided to see what the drow wanted . "What is it you need help with?"