Yoshe was fairly quick to move when she realized there was a dragon in the inn. She had gracefully turned to face the potential threat and jumped into the air where she would be the least inhibited for movement, but before any further reaction could occur, the dragon and its master had disappeared, leaving one wounded man in their wake. Yoshe’s whole body flushed warm with adrenaline for a moment before she calmed down again. Once calm, she immediately started moving again.
Floating over the heads of the other patrons, Yoshe moved to where she could see the wounds of the man who’d been attacked. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Kokensiu and two of the other wardens coming into the diner from the hallway. They were alert and distrustful of every shadow. Yoshe signaled Kokenshiu, then turned her attention back to the wounded man for a moment.
Someone started to apply spearmint to the wound, making Yoshe’s nose wrinkle for a second at the unexpected assault on her senses. She was nearly upside down and almost directly above the action, examining what she could see of the bite. Kokenshiu joined her and demanded an explanation.
"As for what happened," Yoshe started in hushed tones, "I not see them enter, but suddenly there was man with youngling black dragon that attacked this man." She indicated the victim. "Then they disappear with magic. As for why... him you ask."
"You see to asking questions," Kokenshiu commanded. "I want to try to find their path." With that, the three other other Yaksa Fey started hovering around in circles where the two attackers had been. Small points of light could be seen occasionally as they probed for any kind of magic teleportation. Yoshe was left alone in the group of people tending to the wounded man, who at this point had given his name and thanked the other human-things for tending his wound.
Yoshe was about to asked her first question after a man came up and inquired about "this place" and "the orb". Sensing he was new to Aeolida, Yoshe chose to ignore him for the moment so she could ask the more pertinent question: "Why those two come here for you?"
The man that was with this Falco human spoke out to the whole of the tavern, but Yoshe ignored it, focusing her attention on this human as she did on the children of her own race who often trespassed on the temple she was charged to protect. It typically had the effect of getting answers out of children and making adolescents feel uncomfortable. There had been few adults she ever looked at in that way, but they always seemed to at the least appreciate how serious she was being.
Before Falco could answer her first question, she asked another, "Do even you know who they be?"
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