"....Garlic soup." she offered.
"His secrets I can give away even if I don't trust you." she nodded, fiddling with her dagger.
"Quite the story I imagine. You aren't from around here then...that's a first. Then again, its the first anyone finds my hut too."
"But make no mistake, white hair or otherwise, noble daughter or not, you can easily die...or worse. At least if you go like...that." she said, pointing towards Cyra and her attire with the dagger.
"What's there to know from me. Dad was a hunter, so am I. We just had to hunt...different things. Say, have you ever eaten a human or sacrifised someone in those rituals or things like that?" she eyed Cyra suspiciously.
"Like I was saying, you are almost naked. Where are you going like that. And very ill equiped. You seem unaware of what's going on, aren't you."
"Well, no one knows the details, like why or hows. But Garus is a vampire, of some sorts. He and his...brides however not only can suck blood, but they can suck some...soul-mental-whatever thing out of you."
"Also, he uses illusions, mind controls, and unholy magics. Now, you gonna ask, what's with the forest? I'll be damned if I knew." she shrugged "There are shadow creatures all around. Now, how to beat them is the next question."
"The silver mines." she concluded to something that didn't really make sense.
"Garus takes silver and sunstones from there. Sunstones and silver is what you need to beat both those creatures of the forest, and keep the vampires away. Don't ask me why he does with that or what the fuck is the sunstone, I just call it like that. He has the miners take it and bring it to his castle."
"Right. You gonna ask something silly like why I don't tell others at the city." she guessed "Have you seen those empty-eyed folks?"
"Whatever they see, Garus also sees. Or can see. Not sure if he can peek everyone at all times." she shrugged, 'shaving' her palm with the daggers edge.
"Thing is, he can also control them if he wishes to. So...if you go to the city you are gonna find only trouble. That been said, if you don't stir shit up he won't go after you too hard." she explained.
"There were rumors the church had a weapon that could go against him...but forget 'bout that, we need at least to steal a shipment from the mine if you plan to survive here." she explained, pulling out a bad from under the table and giving it to Cyra "Those will have to do for now...the water has some sunstone leftovers in it. Think of it as poison for your weapon that only works on the creatures of darkness."
(Inside the bag there is a silver dagger, a hammer, 5 wooden stakes, a flask of a sparkling water (2 doses), two torches, a tinderbox and 50ft of rope.)