Re: Jungle of Desire (Mind Flayer) GMed by ranger
Getting herself ready as quickly as she could, while still maintaining a good thoroughness in her personal hygiene, Sera was soon ready to leave and followed June to the dining hall with their packs to get some breakfast to eat. When they entered the dining hall Sera saw Keri and the four nuns she'd rescued waiting for them. Sera hugged them after June did so, not shying away or anything and wanting to leave them in high spirits. As they ate, Sera joined in their merrymaking, chatting and giggling and cutting up with them all the while. However when they were done eating and everything, Sera knew that it was time to prepare to leave, before June decided to back out on her and stay.
"I will miss each and every one of you girls. Even though my time here was short, I feel that I've made a good friend in each of you, a friend that I shall always hold dear," Sera said to Keri and the other four. Then to the four former captives of Jaxis, Sera smiled kindly. "I know that it's hard you four, but please believe me when I say that it gets better. Now I want all of you to be brave and to try and not let the past rule your actions, because what's in the past is just that, in the past. I have a parting gift to you girls as well, here. I want each of you to take one of my feathers. My mother always told me that it's a gift that should be given to mortals when they have a greatly troubled mind and or past, that it would help give them the strength of will to overcome it," Sera said to the four nuns, taking two feathers from either wing, where they wouldn't hinder her ability to fly, though in all honestly just 2 feathers from both wings wouldn't likely prevent her from doing so really. Anyway, she plucked a pair of feathers from either wing and handed one to each of the four nuns, wishing them peace before she and June turned to leave, hugging Keri and asking her where she might go just in case they didn't return before she left.
Leaving Keri and the others behind, hugging and kissing them all, Sera and June made their way out of the church and to the gates where mother Esther was awaiting them. Sera knelt and allowed mother Esther to give her the blessing she prepared for her. After June received her blessing and hugged mother Esther, Sera stepped in and hugged her as well, kissing her on either cheek. "Oh mother Esther, I'll miss you so much. And I swear to you that I'll do my best to protect June on our journey. And... I won't let what happened to you happen to her, I promise," Sera said to mother Esther, giving the elderly nun a big hug just as June had. "We'll try and come back as soon as we possibly can, hopefully I'll be able to find what I'm searching for and we can do so," Sera added, smiling at mother Esther before taking June's hand in her own and holding onto her as they set out, stopping to wave bye to everyone there before moving out of sight of them all.
"Goodbye everyone, and stay safe all of you. I shall do my best to take care of June, also tell the children at the orphanage that we shall return and come to see them again as soon as possible and that we love them," Sera called to them all before turning around and moving on, heading towards the butcher first to collect some meat to take with them.
Heading to the butcher, Sera asked for enough bacon, ham, porkchops, and beef jerky to last them for as long as it would keep before ruining, where she would pay the man and put it away into her pack and thanking whoever the butcher was before she and June set off in earnest. "The jerky we can eat while we walk and keep us going. And I suppose we could pick up a few apples to do that with as well, come on," Sera said, quickly looking in the market for a vendor that sold apples, where she would grab a dozen or so of them and put that into her pack as well, where she then told June they were truly ready to go, and with that she led the young nun and Ivy out of town and out into the wide world, heading in the general direction of the ruins mentioned to her by someone in town, she forgot who it was that had mentioned it.
"Alright Ivy, you can come on out now," Sera said to her little companion, whom she'd hidden under one of her wings as she tucked it in so nobody would see her and try to attack her.