"Scion in the skies?" Ariel clucked quietly when the team had crouched away from the larger, greater fiend -- almost as if they feared it. This newcomer, Verana, made her feel vaguely uncomfortable, though not in too advanced a manner. Among the entire throng of prisoners, all had fled but a single one, one woman who had carried along their side with not a single question asked.<br/><br/>Ariel narrowed her eyes slightly at the woman, her head beginning to carefully tilt while she waited for an answer. The red-skinned fiend was not important to her -- it would be tactically sound to let the team keep up their strength, and morally satisfying if they were to destroy it, and therefore either option was equally appealing.<br/><br/>Her concern was Verana. Any onlooker would be able to tell the grugach's inspection was not casual and certainly not mundane -- the silvery halos of her eyes seemed to bore directly into the heart of the newcomer, searching for darkness. She now began to wonder if she should do the same for the illithid, and the rest of her party members, for while she hated to be "the pious one", it was worth a sour reputation for the good of the mission.<br/><br/>((Detect Evil.))<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>