Bella the angel incarnates on Virata
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"Healing, yep. Consecration, resurrection, ecogenesis."

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The Captain takes a deep breath. "I'm not familiar with that last one, but the Guard will pay you if you feel inclined to heal or consecrate on our behalf. As for resurrection... I understand from the legends that it is much more difficult than other things."

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"I may not be able to do it right away, these things run on my accumulated credit for behaving angelically and I'm brand new." Can she, like, feel, her favor reserves.

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...Eh?

It's definitely a 'feel' situation more than a 'numbers' situation, but yes. She has some. She could Heal or Consecrate right now, maybe twice, but not Greater Heal or Greater Consecrate. Ecogenesis and Resurrection are out of the question for now.

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"- yeah, feels like a not yet on the resurrection and ecogenesis."

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"Well, if you're interested in healing some guards who are on the mend right now I can pay you their salaries for the estimated time they'd be down plus two silver a head."

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"Sounds like a pretty good deal to me." Assuming Eirwynne isn't making a face.

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"It may not be the maximally effective way to accrue heavenly favor, but to accrue coin you'd be hard pressed to find an easier way."

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"Well, one of those is a shorter term need than the other. Where to?"

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"We have a little hospital building near the gates. It's a bit of a walk. Wanna head over right now?"

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"Sounds good to me."

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Back out onto the streets, then! The place, on further observation, is reasonably clean for a medeival city, if perhaps disappointing for someone used to the modern day. Most people don't have magic running through them, and they tend to be popular, rich, or successful-looking ones. Most of the buildings are two or three stories high, and typically shops or some sort of public space (for laundry, hanging out, schools, etc) on the first floor, with something else up above. The guard captain says hi to lots of people and gossips with them. Bella and Eirwynne are introduced to famous local shopkeepers, low-ranking guards, and so on. Plenty gush about an angel visiting Liscor.

 

-There's a demon off thataway. She can see it through walls, a persistent Wrong. It's moving away from them.

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"- is there a baseline number of demons to expect to be around such that I shouldn't drop everything to chase one down?"

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"-No, don't drop everything and chase it. And try to keep acting casual, so we don't let it know we're onto it."

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"Okay. Sorry, I just haven't noticed one before, it's - distressing."

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"Right. Yeah, it's not great." His whole demeanor is shifting. Still outwardly casual, but he's walking a bit faster and more intently. "It's just- Here in Liscor we actually try pretty hard to keep them out, we still have old consecrations on the main gates- So any that are around are either new or sneaky, and I want to confront it from as advantageous a position as possible."

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"Naturally I will offer my assistance as well. Can you discern anything else about it?"

(It's out of her range now, but it was moving at a normal walking speed, on ground level, among a crowd. So it must not stick out much.)

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"I can't feel it any more but when I could it wasn't going particularly fast, and there were people around it. So it must be blending in." She points.

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"Okay, if you're up for it we can do some scouting later. A runner carrying you around to try and locate it. No need to rush this and screw it up like a newbie's first time fighting for real."

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"I'm not a very combat oriented angel." Sigh.

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"No giant flaming swords? Sure, makes sense. Takes all kinds. Okay, we can work with that. The city guard elites will do any fighting, if fighting is to be had. Your role will be... Demon detector. Unless you have purification, to exorcise it?"

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"I can manage the appropriate configuration of White, Silver, and Grey mana for an exorcism. Not entirely without risk, but since we already have one demon..."

The guard captain nods.

"Hopefully we can resolve everything without issue."

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"Thank you, Eirwynne."

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The rest of the trip to the hospital is one of forced calm. It's a stone building right up next to an impressively high wall, more people patrolling on top of it. The Captain talks to one of the nurses for a bit, and then they can go around and try to heal people. Mostly drakes, humans after that, plus one bird-person and one person who seems to be made of plants. They skip a couple, who apparently want to heal the long way.

She has enough Favor to cover them all; Healing people in need seems to give most of what she spends on it back, anyway.

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It's nice how that works! She hums to herself while she goes around miracling people better.

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