"I shall look forward to your artistry," Aria smiled meaningfully, and stored her wand while Kass skewered her sword through the creature's brain, slaying the dying beast instantly. "And if it includes bending samesaid priestess over before you, I shan't mind being part of that audience." Her tail twitched under her skirt, and she smiled.<br/><br/>She glanced at the encaged priestess and said, "I don't see any magic auras about the wooden effigy or the priestess either. Speaking of auras..."<br/><br/>She gazed over the dead dragon body for magical auras, and found two small and localized ones, each from the scales on the undersides of one of its two foreclaws. Marveling at the beast in general, she remarked, "You have not only lived to tell the tale, and earned the right to; I suppose you could even sing about it, such as your talents, Kass. Since Rana, though ostensibly having gotten to witness your feats and battle and magic rescuring her just now, seems so out of it...perhaps if you end up taking her later, you could even sing of the rescue to her while you do. To accompany the moans I can't imagine she wouldn't be making while being fucked by one so gorgeous and gracious as yourself - especially to judge from Acenith's overwhelmed reactions to your oral talents."<br/><br/>With her kukri she chiseled and carved under the scales at each of these two places, finding at the first a smooth polished cherry-sized opal of iridescent colors which was the source of one of the auras, and at the second, a small compass which also radiated magic. The dial spun in response to her moving it to pick it up and clean it of the gore. "Huh," she said, "To judge from the sun and the rough time of day, it doesn't seem to be settling on pointing straight north or south as you might expect."<br/><br/>Thereafter she moved closer to the tall wooden effigy, starting up at the delirious Rana within. "How shall we go about getting her out, do you think?" Inspecting the thing, she said, "No magic auras about it, as I mentioned, and I don't think I see the signs of any mechanical booby-traps."<br/>