"No, there's definitely voices around here somewhere." He nodded to her when she amplified the sound and looked around again. "See? Are there any underground tunnels or something that run under here?" His attention turned to Eru and he followed her over to tear the top off the crate after nudging her back. With a scowl he dug into the box of corpses. "Huh. I think I may know what's going on." He pulled out an arm and extended it to Leena. "The flesh looks bruised and is split..." Ras looked around the area again and sighed. "Venom. These people were sacrificed to a snake god, killed through snake venom, the blood drained, and used for one kind of ritual. Classic Troll stuff, really, but we're not hearing Trollish voices... At the risk of sounding self-centered, I think we've found out that I have a cult of followers I never knew about. And it's entirely possible they're the ones responsible for the curse on Ashia's bastards, we just need to find them, figure out why, and wipe them out with an extreme prejudice. Eru, can you follow the smell of these people and show us where it came from?"<br/><br/>Yvette nodded but Astiria shook her head.<span style="color: violet">"It can be, some women just aren't meant to be mothers and Sarevess was one of them." </span>Yvette pulled Amber onto her lap and gave her a gentle squeeze.<span style="color: darkorange">"Naga can come in all colors of the rainbow and even colors that are so beautiful you can't even begin to describe them. Silver shines beautifully in the sun but indoors she's that gray color you saw. No, most Naga are evil regardless of the color of their scales. Your... Uncle is just one of the few Naga that aren't evil."</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>