"Now, where did you say this young lady is?"

• Azuo & Nisuo

After having gotten up, stretched, and retrieved his officiating robes, Nisuo stepped outside his room - Azuo stepped back in surprise as the engraving he had been examining whilst waiting suddenly swung open, revealing the priest.

Nisuo cleared his throat, and said, "Alrighty! Hello hello, young priest - we've got a lovely priestly lady to look after, yes?"

Azuo nodded his head with a "Yes."

"Alrighty, where're we heading off too?" Nisuo asked, having turned to Azuo with a riased brow.

"We're gonna go down to the south outhood," Azuo said.

"The working type, eh?" Nisuo said with an elbow nudge. "I respect it! Lead the way, lad!"

As they walked, Azuo took note of this apparent apprentice to the Lady Zazunue. They carried themselves with a certain lightness - not unserious, but not too grave either - and they seemed to walk with a certain zing of confidence.

Nisuo seemed a fair bit older than Azuo too. Granted, he certainly didn't seem as old as Lady Zazunue - not many Anar were, in fact - but his feathers seemed a bit rough and limp compared to a more young and spry Anar, even if he himself didn't sag as much as his feathers did.

As they approached the door out of the erzurin, Nisuo looked at Azuo with a raised brow and said, "Well now, you say it's an emergency - what should I be expecting, lad?"

Azuo suddenly shook their head and pushed up their glasses.

"Right right, well... it's mostly her hand, and whatever that entity might have done to her," Azuo said, having tilted his head in recollection.

Nisuo nods their head, and responds, "What type of entity are we dealing with here, exactly? An unsel, a curshk, something more... ? What are the details?"

"Dunno. Something busted out of the temple up atop the Consturna Pillar-"

"The Urgan Temple?" Nisuo asked, a little tense.

Azuo looked at him as the two of them walked the roads of Woodside. The compacted dirt underfoot and the scent of cut wood tickled their senses, setting the backdrop as Azuo asked, "You know what she might've been attacked by?"

"Well..." Nisuo began, looking off before a wave of confidence seemed to crash over him, "I'll just have to see her myself and find out! Now, where did you say this young lady is?"

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