Daeran will listen enthusiastically, though before she gets fully underway he'll ask her for one of her papers so he can take notes on what the official version should look like. He offers a second pen to Aranka, but apparently she feels confident she can memorize a shorthand version on the first try, which causes Daeran to whistle appreciatively. He's overall a very credulous listener, but when she mentions the run-in with Areelu Vorlesh he can't help but evince surprise.

"You know, I always wondered if she was even real. It's the perfect story for suckers, you know? If you serve the demons, maybe you will get lucky and become an archmage that outranks Balors without even having to die about it, when in reality almost none of them will ever amount to anything except cannon fodder. But if she can show up to monologue ominously at you in the middle of a fight for the city, I might owe some people some money."

"It was pretty alarming but she didn't seem to want to actually interact with the situation at all. I wish I knew what that was about."

"I can imagine. Normally I'd suggest we claim you drove her away with the light of heaven or something, but that's one woman I absolutely don't want coming after me for taking issue with her portrayal."

By the time she gets to the point about the wardstone granting her and her companions extraordinary powers to defeat the demonic army, he's back to being ordinarily enthusiastic again.

"That'll definitely go a ways to giving your tale more appeal among adventurers. If there's one thing they like more than the fabulous riches, it's the suggestion that there might be a way to obtain some extraordinary ability. Are any of them particularly flashy?"

"Ramien knocked a lightning bolt aside like it was a dueling sword!"

"Well, he's always been good with his hands, but that's exactly what I was asking about. Yes, I think this will do nicely; I'll make sure to send you a copy of whatever drafts I receive, though if you don't end up staying with the library you might need to supply me somewhere to address them."

"I am very keen on moving into the library."

"Then I do not foresee any problems. Do feel free invite me along at the next such adventure of yours, because this one certainly lived up to its advertisement."

"Will do, your participation was much appreciated today." She bows.

The rest of the tasks to accomplish at the grey garrison largely consist of varying kinds of cleanup, and many of the people here for the assault will instead fan out to go hunt down any remaining demons or cultists still active in the city, or else rescue and defend survivors in places with more civilian inhabitants. The wardstone should stop any reinforcements, but it doesn't do much about the demons that have already crossed and of course the humans are completely unaffected. They'll happily take Kybele's help with any of these she cares to assist with, but nobody seems to consider her to have a duty that involves her doing any of them.

She will go demon-hunting! Her paper is working much better on them now, maybe being really scary to some demons helps a lot with standing??

It might not be easy to pick it out from everything else that happened at the wardstone, but angels do seem to count as people at least enough that she is getting something out of them that's not the mysterious new power, and there was another, somewhat smaller jump when she blew the roof off the garrison. She'll get a steady trickle extra as more and more people learn about the events, but it seems that either people are rather busy or Kenabres' rumor mill isn't reliable enough on details to efficiently turn hearing about her thirdhand or more into fame. It's hard to say if any of that is from demons rather than normal people, but of course the demons are also dying fairly regularly at this point whenever they encounter a large enough patrol so it wouldn't be accumulating that much long term.

The area immediately around the Grey Garrison is mostly clear of demons, with presumably everyone ambulatory she could find having been drafted by Minagho, but if she widens her net there are some schirs and dretches that aren't able to hide from her and Camellia fast enough or are uninformed enough to think they can take them.

She's imagining Minagho telling horror stories to other demons back wherever she fucked off to but perhaps she is mistaken. The ballads will help when they're out there, at least. Papercuts! Papercuts for the demons!

They go down much more easily to papercuts now that whatever was getting in her way before has been firmly told to get out of it. They're still more dangerous than ordinary people, because they're faster and stronger and can take more punishment, but that's a different question than being objectively dangerous. On a few occasions, she'll encounter grateful civilians who will thank her and Camellia for their assistance, but even now that the fighting is dying down and the fires mostly put out people still seem to be judging that the smart decision is to stay hidden as much as possible.

Totally reasonable, she hopes comparatively vulnerable Iskander is laying low. She will go check on him after she runs out of immediately obvious demons to slay.

That will take anywhere from one to four hours, depending on what her definition of immediately obvious is an how far she's willing to range, since she and Camellia are significantly more mobile and able to safely range far from possible backup than most of the groups out clearing the streets or going house to house, but there isn't an infinite supply of demons and over time the ones willing to be in a place they can be noticed have largely done so and been killed or shown the error of their ways and gone into hiding. There will be more of them after dark, and it'll of course probably be weeks before the city is cleared (barring whatever miscellaneous survivors that pop up in the future and will blend in to new arrivals in reports), but there are absolutely diminishing returns to be had.

Whenever she returns to the temple of Desna, she'll probably notice that there are no demons whatsoever to be found within a few blocks and a moving perimeter being established. The area around the temples and the garrison that has been declared clear isn't very large, but it's safe enough that some of the people who took shelter are starting to return to their homes and basic reconstruction is under way.

In that case she will check in with Iskander and catch him up with what's been going on. "And they'll probably give me the library."

"You must really like it here."

"I mean, I could like it better, but of places to mysteriously be..."

Kenabres does have quite a bit going for it, other than all the demons and cultists everywhere. The water is all clean, even with the infrastructure damage, due to clerics being able to supply nearly arbitrary amounts of it, and there's free healing from the temples of Iomedae and Desna on regular schedules so most people are in relatively good health outside of diseases. It's not especially rich when it comes to material goods, but of course there are entire sections of goods she couldn't get for any price back home in magic items, and if the people seem distrusting that's not that unreasonable after a crisis like this and it doesn't translate into anyone trying to give her or Alex a particularly hard time. Lots of stores and services are still closed, but there are people selling or giving away necessities, depending on how picky she is on kinds, and of course occasionally she might run into some of the people who participated in the attack on the garrison who tend to look at her with a healthy smattering of awe. If she wants to find something to do before her library situation gets worked out, there's a decent array of options available, including attending services at the any of the temples to try and get a better understanding of what the deal is with gods, but if she wants to see about getting a real bed and living supplies and getting ready to move into the library full time nobody is going to stop her.

She would actually like to attend services - she's seen a Desnan one, she'll swing by an Iomedaean one - but yeah she wants to get at least camp beds moved in to the library.

The Iomedaean service is somehow even more packed than the Desnan one was, even with the damage to the temple; people in Kenabres seem to be very religious. Select Stasia is the one doing the service, and seems to have gotten some sleep in between now and when Kybele last saw her, because while there's still some tiredness there the bone-deep exhaustion is gone. The service today is a reading from something called the acts of Iomedae, which appears to be at least in part tales of Iomedae's life while mortal. The reading for today is obviously not chosen at random, and Stasia introduces it by talking about how during Iomedae's war against the necromancer Tar-Baphon, her ally Arazni had been slain as a result of her own foolishness, and the crusade seemed lost and the world doomed to be conquered by the undead. She the reads aloud from a section about how Iomedae had eventually managed to rally the armies and make the war a real fight again, and how it had required hard work and immense sacrifices but in the end the person who had seemed unbeatable without divine intervention was eventually stalled by mortal hands, and that they then went on to save the world itself. She's obviously not as good at speaking extemporaneously as Ramien was, but when she it's scripted she can put real passion into what she says and people are hanging on to every word when she relays the bits from the story. There's two collections, one for repairs for the church and one for aid to those in need in the city; both are clearly marked, and it's emphasized that some people don't have anything to spare and that's okay because they're the people this is trying to help. Shortly after the end of the service is the evening channel, which a lot of people stick around for.

It'll take a bit to find out where she can get bedding, but if she goes to the church of Iomedae or Desna they have supplies for the displaced that include them, and it's pretty easy to get a meal while she's at it. She can also purchase something that may be higher quality if she's willing to go around looking, but it might be a bit difficult if she doesn't have a good sense of who to ask for assistance in finding someone.

She really doesn't but she can ask Camellia for a ballpark price and then try to find something that costs about half that!

In that case she can get something of good quality while only mildly overpaying, and leave the person quite enthusiastic about the deal.

Will he throw in delivery to the library?

Most people are not very enthusiastic about delivering outside the cordon, even with the protection of several adventurers, but there's enough people without the skills to actually fight and with no real employment prospects for the duration of the crisis that she can find some porters.