Much as Ellisaria dislikes the intimation of weakness, she dislikes being impaled on a mountainside even more. Her human form is simply more subtle, and thus better suited to evading the gronn.
Unfortunately, it is also conveniently sized to be eaten in one gulp by the mirror-faced snake (what) that comes out of literally nowhere.
At least she is alive to be indignant, even if she's no longer in Outland.
She sighs, laying down. "I'll wait here for you, then. Unless I hear screaming. Or roaring. Or everything catching on fire!"
She looks very innocent. So innocent. Definitely not a spirit of chaos. "Oh, I won't."
It's a bit of a hike, and thoroughly midnight by the time she arrives. There's a guard at the gate over the bridge - which looks designed to be easily collapsed. He squints at her. "What's your business, traveler?" he asks.
He glances at her. "Unusual place to stop, but I suppose not much else is around here. If you're looking for somewhere to stay - old Alve's place is more a tavern than an inn, but she's got dry rooms available. What merchants we get usually stay with the mayor, but he won't appreciate being woken up this time of night."
He shrugs and gives her directions to the inn, stepping aside to open the gate.
There's a low lantern light on inside, and the door's unlocked. No one's at the bar, and the room's empty except for one person in a cloak reading by lantern-light. There's three doors exiting it, other than the one she came in on - one of them behind the bar.
No one disturbs her in doing so, though the person reading glances up at her briefly before turning back to his papers.
"Excuse me," she says. "Do you know where the proprietor of this establishment is?"
He glances back up. "Alve's probably asleep. She don't mind being woken up too much, though, especially not for late night customers - door past the bar leads to the kitchens. Her room's on the right of those."
"Thank you for the information." She gets up to investigate the door behind the bar.
He nods and turns back to his reading.
The door's unlocked. A bit sticky in its frame, but not too bad.
Let's see, then... the kitchen should be here, then she's looking for the room to the right.
It's as described. There's only one door to the right, and it's latched, though doesn't seem to be properly locked.
There's some rustling from within, a lantern being lit, then the door's being unlatched and opened, an old human woman staring blearily at Ellisaria. "You here for a room?" she asks.
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