Jade walks out of the inn.

“They’re out of rooms.”

“Ugh. Wanna try the other place I know here?”

“Yes. And we’re going to walk to it.”

“Yeah, sure.”

He sets off walking in the direction of the other inn he knows in the area, presuming Morgan doesn’t produce an objection! Twisty little deserted alleyways, varyingly bright street lamps, broad avenues, queer little lights peeking out of windows...

And a body, face down in one of the alleys.

“- by promise of night, I wait, until -“

“- the promise of dawn has since been fulfilled -“

He hurries over to the body and lays a hand on its shoulder; the same sorts of glimmering specks that appear during his transformation sequence swirl over it, condensing into a tight coil around its neck and then fading into the skin.

It feels like a force hits them all at once, pulling down on them, making it harder to move.  The ex-corpse gasps and shudders.

- Kamin does not really approve! His balance is solid enough that he doesn’t sink down to his knees or anything but his tail droops down very abruptly and his ears flatten against his head.

And Zeke... doesn’t really look like he notices. Although his hair does get less fluffy.

”Don’t super recommend continuing to do that,” he says, to the former corpse. 

She curls into a ball on her side and groans.  The gravity around her remains twice as strong.

Morgan steps back until she's out of the effect's circle.  It's not terribly far.  Her bird gets taller.

Kamin also steps out of the circle; his ears and tail perk back up. Zeke doesn’t bother.

”- um, I don’t think that she’s actually hostile, I think she’s still reacting to whoever killed her? - and there are only going to be so many major elementalists in the city with that outfit and her hair, I think that she’s the same person we ran into fifteen minutes ago?”

She is far too damaged to attempt taking literally any actions.

Yeah that’s an unsurprising amount of response.

“... I guess it’s probably, like, safeish, for you to heal her up the rest of the way, then?”

“Yup, I suppose that’s a thing that I can do...”

He gingerly steps back into the heightened gravity and pokes her; the blood pooled around her and on her dissolves into softly glowing dust, a dim light pulses, and now she should be back to full health.

Probably she should say something right about now.  She does not seem to have that ability at the moment; after several seconds of trying she starts counting down from ten, and she hits negative twenty before she manages to start the process of standing up, but she's definitely not steady enough to aim for one number per second and they're ticking by quite quickly so probably that's fine.  She lifts herself with flight rather than pushing against the ground to haul herself up and oh, she's still doing double gravity but fixing that is just going to have to wait until she's upright.

Okay.  Deep breath.  Gravity: back to normal.  And -

"So, how are my new best friends doing?  My new best friends, as enforced by the universe and also random rogues on pain of literal death.  How're they doing, what's your deal.  - If you hired a random rogue to kill me so you could swoop in and I'd join up I will be extremely angry, but if you tell me about it now we'll part ways with you all still breathing, whereas if I find out about it after we've been buddy-buddy for months I will definitely kill you."

“We didn’t hire a rogue to murder you. If you have a psion you trust for verification I’m fine with being mind read - I suppose I don’t definitively know that Morgan didn’t put a hit on you, I don’t really know her, but that also seems very unlikely?”

"Uhhhhhhh.  . . . No."

"For the moment I'll take him also saying he didn't."  She gestures to Zeke.

“If I wanted to murder you I wouldn’t get someone else to do it, that would be super weird.”

"Alright, best friends it is."  For the moment.  "Now what."

“The bard didn’t, like, mention a next step, to me or Kamin, dunno if she said anything to Morgan?”

"'Go then into the catacombs beneath the heavenly train, yada yada. Toodles.'"