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Kries stood to the side of the doorway for a minute to catch his breath. Yuri instructed them to help those around and made his way off to act on his own word. Kries would in a second, but he needed to organize his thoughts first. And catch his breath. The man was a monster, he would never run out of energy. Well, Kries had never asked his to slow down though, but he really hated asking something like that. He really wouldn't want to inconvience anyone that way.

They had met up with Daiavani along the way, another one of those that had been called to the temple. In fact, if Elle was here, everyone whom had been called to the temple was at the mages guild already. If that was true, then they should be able to leave soon. And the sooner they left, the sooner they could get the village back to peace.

Well, at least apparently. The elders had no reason to lie to them at this point, but how could they know why the seekers would attack. And why would the seekers be after them? Kries winced as he sat on the ground next to the doorway and continued to think. Something was amiss here. The seekers knew where the village was. If they had the capacity to follow pyreflies, they should have been able to figure that out. Then why not attack until now. The obvious answer was that it was not necessary at that point, or that they didn't have the capacity. So something about the pyreflies had triggered something in the seekers, something that forced them to attack. Well, now that he thought back, the elder mentioned something about them being able to defeat sin. That would make sense, the pyrelies triggered that ability, whatever it was, in them and now the seekers wanted to eliminate the threat.

So now this left him with even more questions. Why attack? Why not just concentrate on defending Sin? Or if they indeed had to visit all of the temples, why not concentrate their defenses there? It seemed to make more sense to him. But then again, maybe he was giving them too much credit for their ability to think. But his other question was more disturbing. What was it the elders knew? And how did they know it?

No time to ask the question now, if they stayed around longer than they had to, the elders may just die before they leave. And then their information would vanish in smoke. So it all led back to escaping, as soon as possible.

Kries stood back up, wincing as he put pressure on his injured left arm. He could fix that up when they got to the ship. He didn't really need it to fire his gun. And he didn't want to take the medicine or effort from the people there. But it was a good idea to group up and leave if they were all there. Kries took a deep breath and began to look around for Elle, Yuri or Dai to decide what they should do next.