A third of the world is covered by the howling maelstrom that was born a century ago. It is not ordinarily a place you'd find people surviving, but sometimes things appear in it. Strange things - otherworldly things - brought into the mist of a howling storm of cloudy dust and wind that blows in whichever direction it wants.
"...I'm going to carry you, and we're going to make our way over to Laithan's, same as if we ran into anything else I couldn't handle, and tell him about it, okay?"
She picks her route to head past the people Laithan told her to call for if she needed muscle. If she needs it emergently she'll call them. The trouble is that before they're actually attacked, she doesn't expect those people to believe her. "What do the wolves look like?"
"One of them has red hair and a gun and one of them had no hair and-" Eefa describes each in turn, focusing on their hair and weaponry.
Pelape keeps an eye out, and places Eefa so she can look behind them over her shoulder, and beats feet faster than she would have dared before the touch telekinesis, especially given that she's carrying a kid.
Next time she passes a muscle guy on her chosen route: "Maybe don't look right now but there's some guys following me and I think they're bad news. I count three right now but I think they've got a couple more friends."
"They haven't done anything yet but the last time I was this worried about somebody they tied up the entire kitchen staff of Elysium and tried to shoot me, so... I want them in a position where if you grab them there won't be any credible call to let them loose again."
...whether corruption is bad depends on what it is you are corrupting. Fine. Well. "I have no idea. I wanted to talk to Laithan about whether stalking me and my kid through the market is even a crime, but if you're sure it's at least close enough, sure, grab them right now."
Muscle guy leans over to one of his friends, and soon enough there's a group of muscle people fast walking all casually towards the three in sight, as well as a few more out searching for the rest.
The accused wolves notice that they're surrounded before too long.
"What seems to be the trouble, friends?" asks the red head.
"Oh, are we friends? I didn't recognize you, do tell me, where do I know you from?"
"I sent out some runners..." He squints into the distance. "I think that's them, and it looks like they have company."
The company is a woman with an eye patch and a machete, plus a man with a shotgun strapped to his back.
One of muscle guy's friends raises his eyebrows at the sight of the woman. "Sal! Boss, I've known Sal since I was a kid, she's never been trouble to anyone that ain't started it with her first, and she's a damn good ranger too - the venison last fall was her find."
Sal seems to find this amusing. "Well, if I'd known all I needed to do to get you to say such nice things was to get dragged to you like a naughty schoolgirl, I'd have arranged it much sooner than this."