Oh! Good! As many seals as can possibly be stuffed onto that space! That is heartening and she’s glad they did that! Pardon her, she’s going to immediately check their work. How good are these seals, and how quickly are they decaying?

Most of them are standard seals that you could get a bunch of non-adventurers to copy over and over and over in a very short amount of time, which is to say that quantity is definitely overriding quality. There are a few better ones, though, with a lot more oomph behind them, and those seem to be doing most of the job of holding the others together, so the smaller ones are fraying a lot less rapidly than they otherwise would due to the distributed loads.

Also, there's an obvious adventurer standing right by the entrance. Had she been there before? Unclear. She's in kind of dark clothes, maybe she was just not standing out very much against the dark stone. "Eden send you?" she asks.

Hmmmm, it’s a patch job, but an understandable one. And the better ones are pretty good, so. This wall of seals gets a pass.

“It did. I’m not going in right now, I’m just checking the seals. Come get me if…” and she points at one of the load-bearing seals, “that one starts to fade or look ragged, yeah?”

"Roger that. You stayin' at the temple, girl?"

“Probably! I just teleported in, my sleeping arrangements are pending. Were you one of the adventurers that went in, do you know specifics about the fox demon ghost girl?”

"No, I was called in to keep anything nasty that slips out from doing a ton of damage, at least assuming it's not too nasty. They're at the temple, too, pretty sure."

“Right. Then I’ll be there, too,” she says, nodding firmly. Because it’s important that she be easy to find in these circumstances. “Good luck, and I hope you have a very boring day. … that sounded a bit like a curse now that I said it out loud, but, well. The difference between blessing and curse can be a matter of perspective.”

"I'm getting paid anyway, getting paid for not dying sounds like the better option," she says with a shrug.

“Blessing it is, then!” she says cheerfully. Then, with a casual wave to respectfully depart from the presence of a person who could almost certainly kill her, she will head off to the temple.

In the main room there are a handful of people kneeling and praying, plus a person in robes that look like those of the person who walked Akiho here but fancier—plausibly the high priestess?—lighting incense before various statues. She looks up when she hears the door open and looks very alarmed to see the fox ears and tail for a moment. Then she realises nothing bad is happening and... looks very confused instead.

"May I... help you?"

This sort of reaction isn’t new to her. If anything, it drives her to be painfully professional, out of spite. Also because if she lets herself wallow in spite, she’ll start burning through some of her seals. Which would be stupid, sealing ink’s expensive, especially when it’s tattooed into skin.

“Hello! I’m Morikawa no Akiho, Eden sent me in to help however I could. Are the adventurers that went into the cave around? I’d like to ask them questions about the situation and circumstances.”

"—oh! That was much faster than I'd expected, yes, if you'll come with me? I'm Ga-in, high priestess of this temple," she says, leading the way through a little back door behind the main altar.

“Pleasure to meet you, pity about the circumstances,” she says, cheered by the immediate turnaround of this woman’s discomfort. She dutifully follows.

The main temple building of course has lodgings to house visitors, and it's to one such room that the high priestess leads her. She knocks.

"Come in," calls a voice.

She opens the door and gestures for Akiho to walk in before her.

The little room has a tiny short table on which there is some food and hot tea. There are two people kneeling by it: someone who's probably a rogue, with the sleeveless leathers and the daggers as long as his forearms attached to his hips, who looks like he's definitely seen better days, and...

...someone wearing a gi which, combined with the footwraps and visible muscle, is probably a monk of the Church of Odin. She looks a lot healthier than the rogue.

He freezes, for a moment, when he sees Akiho, but upon noticing Annika's non-reaction and his own lack of symptoms relaxes again.

With his terrible condition, probably at the hands of another kitsune-human hybrid, she’s honestly not even offended by his flinch response. Instead she brings her hands and sleeves together and bows politely to them both.

“Hello! I’m Morikawa no Akiho, Eden sent me because I am uniquely specialized. Can I ask you some questions about your encounter with the spirit?”

"—of course, please, come in," he says, gesturing at the open places at the table and looking at Mother Ga-in to include her in the invitation. "My name's Taharqi, and my friend is Annika."

She walks in, too, and closes the door behind herself.

“Pleasure to meet you both.” She sits politely, because her mother made her sit in the river until she knew her manners. “So… first, could you describe your encounter?”

Hoooo boy. Could Annika start?

Yeah. 

"We went into the cave to investigate the source of the disturbance. It was very deep inside, and the negative spiritual pressure suggested a rank 3 entity or stronger. It was spawning horongs" (spiritual beings of uncertain nature shaped like floating balls of violet flame, which often spontaneously appear at sites of great spiritual disturbances) "from a large distance, but once we got close enough they stopped." She looks at Taharqi, now, because she feels like this is his part of the story.