"I fully intend to."

"I can speed your end, if it's painful."

"It's actually just numb, but thanks for offering." Lipbite. "I can go elsewhere if you'd rather not– hear it."

"If you would like privacy..."

"I don't know. Maybe. Probably."

So she gets up and… sort of pathetically waves at Elleira. A lot of her visible skin is vaguely transparent by this point.

Elleira walks a short ways in the opposite direction.

Then she won't be disturbed for a bit.

After a while, she heads back to see if she can find a body.

A very pale and somewhat translucent one, yes. It's lying down, curled slightly into a ball.

Definitely seems quite unmoving.

If she pokes it, does it still feel like a normal body?

Approximately. Maybe slightly squidgier.

Hm.

Well, nothing to stick around here for. She picks a random direction and starts walking.

And after a couple of minutes she'll see Thario, stumbling away from some buildings and being chased by a few water creatures.

He survived, did he?

Elleira moves closer, then takes out the creatures.

The creatures prove somewhat more resistant to vaporization than last time, seeing as how they coalesce back into blobs and continue their pursuit. She might notice that the quantity of water is reduced, though, so perhaps she can still take them out by continuing to vaporize them.

Thario does not seem in a particularly fit state to run, though he still manages a relatively fast-paced stumble.

She deals with the creatures as best she can, then shuts her saber off. It does not have too much longer.

Over to Thario.

Scratches, bite marks, scuffed clothing, bits of dirt and grass around him, some bleeding from various locations.

He continues to look to be in a bad state, though he slows a bit when he notices her kill the water creatures.

"I see you made it out. Maya's dead."

"Wh– what happened?"

"Water-bunny. We were well out into the woods, I think it came from a puddle."

He looks around for any nearby puddles and, spotting one close to a nearby tree, moves away from it. "I– do I want to know how it did it? I mean, I know this place is weird, but, uh, did the water-bunny savage her or what?"

"Just a small bite. Venom. She went numb and the area turned translucent. It spread quickly, didn't take much longer than ten minutes, start to finish."

"Oh, ugh," he says. "And this was wholly without intervention from you?"

"Its appearance went unnoticed. It had bitten her before either of us could react."

He nods. "Right."

"Did you find any more spells in that book?"