"And I don't?"
"My dear, I still help them to some extent. I did nothing for yours until that moment." He shrugged one shoulder.
She glared at him for a longer moment, but then sighed and knew it was no more use. They watched the other group destroy the spiders, and she shifted back into her heat sight, watching the lights merge and play.
Slowly all were destroyed, and their corpses left. They trailed back to the kenku and the god, chests heaving, eyes latching onto the nearby corpse and expressing certain guilt. Vitruvion glanced at Raevin, who gave him a firm nod, and the god nodded back. He breathed in, then looked around, trying to determine a new direction before they continued on their way.
"Sir, there is a possibility this could get worse. The forest just gets deeper from here."
Vitruvion nodded, knowing it was likely. "Stare at the front again, but we go as a close group now."
There were murmurs, and shufflings. Stare grunted and moved ahead, this time though Bolster and Raevin were at her near sides. They huddled as a tight group, with Vitruvion taking up the rear. Still, though, they had to go on with a task in mind.
Stare stayed entirely in her heat vision this time, eyes wide and constantly scanning. The small lights of the flies flickered in and out of patches now, forming over certain areas, or avoiding others. Silently she kept treading, calling out when there was a river. She hopped over it, closely followed by the rest. Together they went on, dispatching another two onslaughts of spiders, two at a time around, until she began to see ...
"Oh."
She paused. A hundred or more close lights, burrowed together. Huddled in some form of rectangular fashion. A quick look into her normal vision and peering into the darkness told her that ... Well. That they were in the beginnings of a long building, the doorway caved in. And from its depths thousands of tiny eyes peered, larger ones groping over the tops.
She whistled. "Oh my ..."
They had found the Bounty Hunter's Guild.
