Luna could sense that the younger woman was most relieved about the switch in focus from conversation to a task. She herself had some social difficulties during her early steps in her career, and growing out of most of them was simply a matter of time so she knew all she had to do was be patient. Luna herself was looking around but her senses were on the same page as Brianna's as they found the blood traces. Luna was mentally reciting her own prayers as she was trying to keep a thought that the poor girl could be saved as she followed Brianna to the mortifying scene.
As Brianna stepped aside to take point and look around, Luna got onto her knees as she gently assessed the injuries of the neko girl, reading the embers of her life force as her hands traced along the body. Her fingers first looked around the neck. looking at a rather deep slash wound that had almost a slimly black char in the wound emitting a rather dark magical sensation. "The main wound and cause of death, appears as though her neck as slit with a rather large blade, think a hatchet, ax, or maybe a rather thick blade. But that's not the worst bit... Don't know if you can sense this ominous energy from the wound but..." Luna picked up a thick stick from the ground and swabbed off some of the black ooze before holding the stick up. Smoke came off the body as she stick up before smoke came off, the stick quickly dissolved. Luna dropped the stick as it disappeared into nothingness leaving only a few droplets of the black ooze. "Vicious stuff, favored by Pergrande Assassins but has been known to frequent a few higher end black markets. Called Shadow Acid, must be cheaper stuff a bit past expiration. Even then to coat a dagger lightly you're looking at 8 million. Mostly used to make bodies disappear. Given it hasn't dissolved the full body I'm guessing it was applied while alive."
Luna looked away the throat as she looked for other wounds, her hands tracing over the wrists as she gently picked them up, inspecting the markings. This brought Luna no joy, in fact it was tormenting her as her naturally curious mind and dutiful nature were making her process the terror. "Given the bruising, she was held by the wrists behind her back by someone much larger, with one hand, and I'm guessing the stray hairs and patches in the grass were from being held by her hair with the other... Lines up with the throat."
Luna traced down the various bruising on the abdomen, waist, and legs as well as a dislocated foot. Luna started to see the incident play out in her mind, these bandits were not just out for treasure, they had pleasure. Luna looked around and saw various kinds of footprints of different sizes. Luna could feel her stomach retract as the story playing out was so sickening. "Seems like the package was stolen before one person held her arms behind her back and pulled her hair down. Various injuries inflicted by blunt contact..."
She looked around at the footsteps pointing towards the body, clenching her teeth in anger. "These sick bastards... this was entertainment. Up until the grand finale. Looking in the wound it appears as though some insects tried eating at the flesh, but died in the process... I can see the wings." Luna took a moment to consider the obstacles, there was a residual life force and the boy was barely intact, but before she could do anything she would need to deal with the Shadow Acid. "Alright... gonna have to get a consult. I was gonna need these guys anyways"
Luna reached her hand out to over the ground as a pink liquid oozed out of the palm of her hand as a large droplet with a diameter over the size of her hand before dropping into the ground, soaking into the ground before a patch of grass swallowed into the writhing dirt before a hoard of tiny beetle like creatures, with a brown body, glowing green eyes, and a green trim running from the tip of the horn in a line around the body came out of the ground. They circled around the body, taking a few laps before grouping up again by Luna, this time in six orderly squares of equal numbers, with one larger beetle in front of the Fae. "Brianna, meet the Soul Parasites, they are extrodiary little bugs that are nigh immortal. They reside in a special dimension where they reincarnate with full memory, and they die rather quickly as that is their goal. You see their bodies are essentially pure medicinal magic. They have self termination abilities that dissolve their bodies and allow their flesh to mesh and mold into each other and other bodies; a twelfth of these could reattach all four of your limbs, an eigth can repair almost any organ as long as you have the original, a sixth could regrow a limb or organ but it won't be like the original for a while, case by case on the timeline." She said introducing the new mage to the bugs. Luna looked down nodding, there was the a slight shrill sound of the six Soul Parasites standing out was they were looking amongst themselves and Luna as the seven were having a form of dialogue. "Alright, yeah, that was my concern too but we'll cross that bridge later, mhmm. Problem is anything we do risks a volatile reaction... Intriguing but that does have one major risk, we have about as much margin for error as if we were trying to pull a magma larva out of a metal kitten's nose. Think you can take it all?" Luna took a deep breath as she rolled up her sleeves and took a deep breath as the Soul Parasites arranged themselves into a formation.
One remained in a square formation at the back, while the remaining five turned into a narrower column by the throat of the neko girl. Luna used her terrakinesis, slamming her hand down raising the ground underneath the bugs to ease their access to the wound on the throat as a narrow hole three feet deep opened on the other side. Luna herself raised her other leg above the neko girl a she got on top, placing one hand over the girl's heart and the other on her forehead. Luna took a deep breath as she closed her eyes. "Alright now!" Luna declared as the Soul Parasites stormed forth, the narrow column meshed into a mass that outlined the wound before filling quickly, appearing to have absorbed the Shadow Acid as it pushed out into the hole, there was smoke coming out of the hole as the wound was cleaned, burned flesh remaining and Luna sighed relief as the last batch of Parasites took over and merged with the flesh, Luna gritted her teeth as she was starting to sweat.
The Soul Parasites melted bodies merged and seemed to take a flesh like form as Luna was focusing as much as she could into her magic, before suddenly she could feel subtle movements of the chest plate. It was a few more moments before there was a sudden gasp from the girl as her life lungs drew breath, her heart rate started as her Life Force flared. She was gasping for air before attempts at cries that came out as dry gasps. Luna removed her left hand from her head, still healing with her right hand letting Nature's Mercy calm down the woman as she spoke gently. "It;s okay, it's okay, they are gone... I am Luna Mira, Sabertooth Mage, my partner Brianna is nearby. The bad men are gone now. You're healed but I need you to breathe." Luna said as the brown mesh started to turn into blending in with the black haired Neko girl's skin.
Luna gripped her hand making the hole cover itself up, slowly getting off the girl as she helped sat her up. The Neko girl tried to speak but only the sounds of gasps accompanied the moving her her lips. Luna bit her lip as she held the Neko girl's hands. Luna knew in her heart that this girl had been through enough."I am so sorry, but I couldn't save your voice. It may come back in time but save your throat, it's still healing considerably. I can arrange for you to be escorted home, but if you could, would you try to answer a few questions?""
The Neko girl looked scared, mortified, sweating in fear but was calming down through the supportive and soft demeanor of Luna. The girl nodded slowly. "Alright... is there anything you can tell us about the wherabouts of the bandit camp?" Luna asked gently but the neko girl in response shook her head. Luna sighed as she had a feeling it was not going to be that easy. "Alright, can you tell us which direction they came from?" The Neko girl looked around frantically, before pointing South east. Luna nodded, rubbing the girl's shoulder. "Alright, thank you."
Luna stood up as pink ooze dripped out of her finger before she flicked it, mid air the droplet took the shape of a seed before burrowing into the ground. A twisted root shot forth from the ground before untwisting halfway into a spiral with the tips pointed up. A pink magic circle formed for a moment as Luna began her summoning chant. "I call forth from the forest beyond the horizon, the tempered flame that pierce through the night! The centauress archer, Savi!"
Out from the circle came forth the white centauress wielding a bow of fire, landing majestically as her eyes canvased the scene. Luna stood up, helping the Neko girl onto her feet leading her towards Savi. "Savi, mind leading this young lady back to her village? She has lost her voice and I would like if yo would relay that message, and then come find me." Luna asked of her centauress spirit before turning towards the neko girl."I trust Savi with my life, and just lead her home and she will protect you." She said as Savi smiled gently reaching out her spare hand to the Neko before both started to walk towards th village.
Luna turned back towards Brianna, slight anger in her voice as she was preparing to make the bandits pay. "Alright, I think it's time these bandits get what's coming for them..."
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