"I hope the same." Okay, here's a place out of the rain for them. Granted, it's under a bridge, and they will both need to fly to get there, but Voshrelka now has access to the fourth circle spell Air Walk, and she's totally going to use it. Is she a little smug about literally walking her way up to the nook? No, because she's very smug. Fourth ciiiircle!

Liushna is not aware that that spell is fourth circle, because the Itarii druids don't have it, because why would they ever need it, so she remains unaware of the heights Voshrelka has reached. 

Except literally! She flutters up to the literal heights Voshrelka has reached. 

Ahh, out of the rain. Much better. 

Yes! And no one can bother them up here. Which is preferable to the alternative, and she didn't even have to use another wildshape for it.

"So. Is there anything you need in the immediate sense?"

"--Well my bow seems to be intact, and my familiar seems to be okay, now, so...I should check on the halflings' house, I guess, I was sleeping on their roof." 

Nod. "I... don't know the specifics, but I don't think it's good. There were no halfling bodies in the main temple of the god of money, but someone was arrested there, related to halflings. One of the men who was on the slavery committee, then stormed out and wasn't let back in? He said a halfling," actually he said a slip, but Voshrelka will not be using that word, "stabbed him in the eye. I don't think any of them would do that without reason, and it didn't sound like he treated them kindly, after. But I don't know what's happened to any of them, or the state of their house. Sorry." She actually wasn't aware they had a house, and furthermore could not locate it, so. She extra cannot help.

"--Wow. Uh, was it the one who's a cleric of Abadar, the one with the stupid beard, or the other one?"

“I don’t know the criteria for a beard being stupid, but he had one, and wasn’t the cleric of Abadar.”

“That’s probably the guy who stormed out of the meeting and got offended when this was interpreted as quitting. Good for whoever got his eye, I guess.”

"Yes. Pity that it was healed, but. Perhaps soon he will lose his head."

“Yeah.” SIGH. “You know, the humans in Pezzack seem reasonably sane. It gave me inflated expectations for the capital.”

"This was... when they were arrayed neatly with an obvious enemy to fight and bring them together? Yes. Humans have trouble when they don't have one of those. I think it's why they reacted the way they did to the associated speech - it would be so easy, if they could just kill the bad people and everything be fixed. Instead of the reality of how fixing things is difficult, and slow, and how it kind of sucks, actually."

"In Pezzack when we killed the bad people it did fix things," Liushna grumbles. "...I mean, there was work rebuilding afterwards, obviously, but that was just...work. Normal people work that you do everyday, for normal problems that aren't Asmodeans." 

"Pezzack was smaller, and simpler. A lot of the problems of this are... who count as the bad people? I'm sure the people who killed you thought they were killing a bad person, because to their eyes, you were stealing children. I'm sure the man of an ambiguously stupid beard thought he was hurting bad people. People are stupid, sometimes, especially in such large quantities."

"I'm honestly less mad at the people who killed me than at the guy who was holding a knife on the kids when I found them."

"... why would someone..." Sigh. "Because one was a tiefling, I'm guessing? But I suppose neither of us will know. Ugh. I hate civilization."

There is enough room for a bedroll here! She will accordingly start laying hers out. She'll be sleeping here, probably, if the city doesn't descend into riots again.

Liushna left her sleeping stuff on the halfling roof and will have to investigate that whole situation before she decides on any kind of long-term sleeping situation but she can in fact sleep on bare stone. 

"I didn't ask, just put a couple of arrows in him. But I thought that was probably it. It really is increasingly looking like 'civilization' is the problem, although the whole system of nobility is also deeply concerning and I'm not convinced that that's essential to the whole thing." 

"Nobility's also insane, and I can't say it's my favorite thing ever, but... hm. My major problem with civilization is that the people themselves do not seem to understand it, either? They participate, and insist that it's the best possible way to conduct themselves, constructing a massive flammable hive of people that all can't directly feed themselves if outsourced food isn't reliably brought to them, and point at any major achievement as only possible under this system of theirs. Like those of us they call uncivilized haven't made achievements either, just because we didn't breed out of control and don't make big impressive cities with shiny monuments, where seventy percent of the population are miserable and oppressed. I think I pity them more than anything." Though, for the record, she does also hate them. If they stopped trying to grow like some kind of malign fungus, instead keeping their insanity to themselves, it'd be one thing, but no. Everything else can burn in favor of this thing that they think is clearly better, and that she hates.

...Liushna contemplates Westcrown. 

"That makes horrifying amounts of sense."

"It is the best explanation I have for why they're like this, but I will not claim to have complete understanding. I'm attempting to earn goodwill for druids by feeding them. There's a fourth circle druid spell that makes a banquet."

Is she smug about this, and kind of bragging? Respectively: yes, and then no, because she's definitely bragging. She's so pleased about it, okay!!!! Fourth circle!!!!!!!!!!

“Really? How big of a banquet? You’re fourth circle?”

"I am!" she says, sounding actively pleased about this instead of her usual dour. "Mmm, it does a multi-course feast that would entirely feed, hm... around fifteen people? Who will then be full as if by Goodberries for the rest of the day. Thirty can comfortably split it and be full for twelve hours. Sixty, everyone would eat, but it'd perhaps be just one ordinary meal for them, instead of a magical druid meal. Still probably more nutritionally sound than what they might normally have, in this city, the general populace eats far too much bread for my liking."

"Oh, wow, that would--free up so much time from hunting and gathering. ...Is there any chance we could, like, send a druid to the Barrowood to study, or something, our druids don't have very many fourth-circle spells because...they don't hit fourth circle very often." She's not bouncing but only because the current space isn't convenient for it. 

"I think just directing members of your tribe to fly blindly into the Barrowood to find a teacher would perhaps go poorly, but.... I expect I will be busy flying all over the country, for at least the next year. I can come visit and give introductions, and teach druid spells while I'm there, and set individuals up for apprenticeship as they'd like?"

"That sounds amazing!"

"All right. I expect I'll be able to find them eventually, but let me get out my map for slightly more directed wingwork." Map! Where on map should Voshrelka go to find tribe?