It's a towering demon, six armed, fourteen feet tall, wreathed in black flames, cackling madly as it induces the terrified neathers to consume the flesh of a captured angel, the whole deal. It turns, contemptuously, to look at them, and Seelah tries to stab it even though she is very obviously and very ludicrously outclassed because it's not like there's some alternative that looks less doomed -

- and Bella's chest bursts open and starts bleeding, again, but this time the bizarre ripples of memory and sensation that accompany the chest wound are - under her control, mostly, more like watching a TV show that happens to be in her brain than like being inside one - and the power that's surging through her doesn't want to attack her, it wants to help, if she can only direct it -

WELL CAN IT ATTACK THE DEMON THEN??

SURE!!!!!!! HOLY FIRE DEMON BLAST!!!!

She doesn't kill it, but she terrifies it, which is nearly as good, because it Teleports out, and then it's just a matter of taking down its much, much, weaker minions. 

- she'll kill minions now, ask questions later.

Can it do more holy fire blasts??

Okay, apparently that's a once per day thing. Is she still bleeding.

Yeah she's kind of lightheaded and there's definitely some blood soaking through the front of her shirt. 

Then she's going to stand back with Everybody But Seelah and try to catch her breath.

Camellia will totally be on the front lines whenever they're not insisting on nonlethal force. 

The minions die under a hail of arrows and some stabbing, and Lann rushes over to the mongrel children who, predictably, are starting to go monstrous and rabid from the angel-eating ritual. 

" - you need healing, Bella?"

Might not work. This - thing - isn't normal. Save it for later.

"If you say so."

"I think we're near the surface. I hear running water, and smell something that's not cave air."

"Well, that's not nothing. Bella, take a protective amulet I got off one of the minions, you very obviously have the worst ratio of offense to difficulty-of-injuring. Can psions wear armor?"

I've never tried it but it won't interfere with doing psionics.

"I'll keep an eye out for something that makes you a bit harder to impale but won't interfere too much with walking if you're not used to it."

"Bella, do you know what's wrong with them? The mongrel kids? The ritual - did we interrupt it? Or are they going to turn out like the other ones?"

I don't know, I'm sorry, if I were going to poke and prod them I'd be looking at their own memories and it looks like what they remember is being forcefed an angel. Is the angel super dead.

Yes. 

Poor angel.

No one is having a particularly great day. Or week. 

"Shall we press on?"