There were a lot of those. - I can tell them apart from everybody else, though I can't do much else about them, I'd gone into the temple to offer to do this, the person there was looking for somebody called Hulrun when - it happened.

"You can tell them apart from everyone else? You mean with Detect Evil? A lot of the demons around here have ways to hide from that."

No, it's a telepathy thing, none of them were bothering to hide from that - well, that I noticed, obviously. It's just an extra sense I can use to recognize people that doesn't get covered by the same kinds of illusions.

"Oh, that's clever! That'll be really useful, when we're back up on the surface, one of the biggest problems we have is that demons like to disguise themselves as innocent people."

"Right now I think we have kind of a lot of problems," Anevia says. "But by all means let's make for the surface. Do these tunnels lead there?"

"I don't know, but staying here won't lead there, so I guess we'll try them."

Bella can fly.

No she can't.

She'll follow Seelah and help Anevia move along with the broken leg.

Then they'll come quickly to another survivor, standing over the mangled body of a dead elf.

" - demons didn't do that."

"There's all kinds of things down here. I tried to heal him, but too late."

"You have healing?"

"One left."

"Well, hopefully it's not that far to the surface."

It's an awfully discrete amount of healing to have left but - yeah, the emergency situation handily explains that. How can you tell it wasn't demons?

They'd have stolen his stuff, and if they were in too much of a hurry for that they wouldn't have half-eaten him, and if they for some reason did the wound would be poisoned. 

This is when they are encroached upon by an enormous man-eating centipede.

Shit, that does not count as something she can knock out with telepathy at all. She hides behind Seelah. If it really, really does come down to life or death - okay no she will make a policy about life or death situations in a calm moment if she ever gets one, right now her policy is NO SCIENCEMAGIC.

Seelah, being a paladin, is heavily armored and moderately competent to kill things with a sword and can handle the giant centipede, with some help from Camellia and with Anevia attempting to operate a longbow while leaning against a wall and not totally able to stand. 

She can also handle the next several giant centipedes, though she does say after the fourth one that she really hopes they're in fact headed towards the surface. 

On that topic Bella cannot really reassure her and couldn't even if she were doing magic! She will instead operate as a crutch for Anevia and try to pay attention to the possible approach of enemies that are smarter than giant centipedes.

After a while she'll notice some minds up ahead, of ordinary person intelligence, to the left of where they're plodding through territory that now also contains giant spiders and giant slugs (and normal-sized spiders and slugs, but those are less dangerous.)

There's some people up that way. None of them are demons, though I don't know how good a recommendation that is down here.

How many?

Just two. Anything smarter than an animal that isn't a demon I can likely knock unconscious, if that matters here.

- seems like a good option to have, though hopefully they're just some more survivors in the same straits as us. 

"Hello?" she calls, heading in that direction. 

"Who are you? Stay where you are!"