Uh, hello? - kiddo do you recognize this person -

The kiddo does not recognize the person! The person does not recognize the kiddo, either. He halts when he seems humans who don't look immediately inclined towards murder. "- help - we need your help -"

What is it?

"Count Daeran's house is besieged by demons. We can hold them off but not forever."

Uh - Hulrun, do you want to go handle that -

"Count Arendae has made his bed and may as well lie in it." Also that is probably an ambush arranged by demons, but he doesn't tell the demons he thinks so.

Uh - can you get this kid to Defender's Heart while we go to Count Daeran's house - where is it please -

"I know where it is."

One of Hulrun's guard will take the kid, though not with the affect of someone who has much idea what to do with a kid.

They just have to be able to physically carry the kid if the kid attempts to do something stupid, all of these people are qualified to do that.

To the Count's house.

There are a lot of demons between their current location and there. Babaus, which go down in horrible sprays of acid when you hit them and can impale you if they get in a hit themselves. Woljif gets speared through. Seelah fixes him. The next one leaps the front lines and attempts to spear Bella through.

Will the sword do the thing PLEASE

It'll glow soothingly any time she wants! It's not doing any holy smiting right now. 

Stab.

Oh that sucks so much.

She also gets sprayed with kind of a lot of acid in the course of the babau getting taken down by the rest of the party. 

Seelah can fix Bella, but it takes her kind of a while. "I'm low on healing."

"Count Arendae's a healer. If he's alive, which is unclear, and inclined to help, which is also unclear."

yaaaay she did not impulsively explode the whole town by attempting to save herself with arcane healing

Well, do we have a better idea?

"Don't think so."

"Nothing to do but forge ahead."

"We could run away, that is also a thing we could do."

Frankly I don't want to spend the psionic stamina or moral ambiguity on stopping you if you want to but I wouldn't have the first idea where to go.

"Yeah, there's the rub," says Woljif. "it's just tundra north of here. I'm in hot water with my buddies so I can't go anywhere they'll follow me. If you go south, Ustalav's full of vampires and Lastwall's full of paladins, dunno which is worse."

Seelah seems lovely.

"Sneaky, boss, saying nice things about a paladin who just fixed the hole in my chest, so I can hardly contradict you."

On the next street they encounter some men who are lighting fire to houses and wearing unfamiliar holy symbols.