" - I know these people. Something's wrong with them."

"Oh, I thought maybe that was just what mongrels are like in the morning before they've had their rat breakfast."

"What are you, twelve? Knock it out."

"How long are they going to be unconscious, Bella -"

I don't know, it depends on them - I can wake them up, but by themselves it could be minutes or hours.

" - then I propose we leave them and keep going. We can get help if we make it out."

"I just don't understand what happened." 

"These are the kids who went missing yesterday?"

"No. Months ago. We figured something ate them. - let's just keep going."

I can try to find out but - not something I would usually do on strangers, might be dangerous to me too, and would probably take more time than we want to spend here.

I'll come back for them.

There are some more in the next room.

Bella warns the party again. And she has enough stamina to knock down another bunch, but she's running pretty low after that.

"WIll a lunch break help you any, or is a full night of sleep kind of deal?"

It doesn't strictly have to be sleep, I passively recharge all the time, but I'd need a couple hours not doing anything more intense than talking and not too much of that before I could take out another party that size. I don't want to kill them, though, what if they're fixable? And I'm not good enough with a sword to take them down nonlethally unless it's enchanted for that, which I haven't had the impression any of us know!

"If we wait a couple hours the ones we left behind us will wake up, though. - I don't actually think angels usually carry Merciful swords, if it's enchanted past a little bit of swordsmanship I'd expect it to be Holy or something, but you can take a swing at me if you want to check."

If you're sure you'll be able to tell? She hefts the sword and gives Seelah a poorly-calibrated swat on the arm.

It cuts her. "Pretty sure that's not Merciful, yeah. We could try to rush them and beat them unconscious but I think we should expect if we do that we'll kill some."

"They're rabid beasts."

If you got rabies - or whatever the heck they have - I wouldn't want to kill you over it either.

Camellia looks genuinely puzzled by this. 

"I can try to take them down alive. I just want everyone clear that this will still kill them some of the time."

"Can't paladins do Merciful weapons, if we're making all this fuss?"

"Fancy paladins can. Yours truly doesn't even have the immunity to fear and disease yet, I'm worried about getting into melee with these guys because they might bite me. I don't think sitting here for hours is the best plan, though. Time for the demons to learn we're here and plan their own ambush."

I assume there are no resurrections in the offing - Lann, how many people went missing in the first place?