"Let's."

And they wade in, grouping the melee fighters away from the stragglers on the edges that Juerai's spells are taking out.

Zerri and co fire at the plants. There's not exactly a lot of cover for the plants to avoid being hit.

Plants go down quite quickly between them all.

The woman they'd helped laughs as she cleans and sheathes her knife. She then bows grandly to the party, saying, "I'm quite appreciative of the help. You all would be...?"

"Zerri Merrydirk, pleasure to meet you." She points at Khelresse and Kaemoque behind her. "And Khelresse and Kaemoque."

Liliane introduces the others as well.

"You may call me Decima, then. My main pursuit is paladin, most recently associated with the Pegasus Order."

"Always nice to have a few more paladins around, eh?"

"You wouldn't happen to be the party that was mentioned as having a good number of puzzle cubes, would you? I was quite tied up when that all went down."

"Yeah, that's us. I'm assuming it was the plants that had you tied up?"

"A slightly different group. I've been having an interesting time of it."

"I'd say that applies to everyone here. It's not every day you get summoned to a different plane in the middle of doing something else."

"It gets unfortunately common once you're more powerful. Or perhaps once you're sticking your nose more interesting places."

She shrugs. "I'm not really... from here? So I wouldn't know. But noted."

"Another plane? Or planet, or country - " 

She seems excited.

"It's another... set of planes, really."

...she knows about planets? Huh.

"Fascinating - though I suppose here and now isn't the time for cosmology..."

"Maybe once we've got back to where we should be and got rid of Lichy McLichface."

"Sounds quite delightful."

"So, have any plans for the rest of the cubes. While trying to get literally everyone on side would be ideal, in practice--"

"Very unlikely to work. We're after Emes and Ras Nsi, right?"

"Emes is my sister, at least. Which means she'll try to kill us or team up with us, it could honestly go either way."

"Ahh siblinghood, that's just way it goes."

Nod. "We might want to aim for Ras Nsi first - Emes will probably be going after him before us, and whoever gets his cube has a better bargaining position."

"Yeah, and if you're sister is around your capabilities, I would really like a bargaining chip."

"I don't know - there's a chance she is? But I haven't talked to her in... A while. And she has an entire - let's call them a mercenary company."