"But exactly how do I distract the despots?" Colene demanded.
Before Provos could answer, a blackbird flew overhead, peering down at them. "A despot familiar!" Nona cried. "We must go immediately!"
"But it will see us go into the water," Darius said.
That was readily taken care of: Seqiro stunned the bird, and it plummeted into the water. Now the despots had no spy-eye, but they already knew the location. So Colene remained, while Darius conjured the others one by one to some other location. Nona was the last to go. She used her magic to make the footprints they had all left fade out.
"Thank you for saving my life," she said to Colene, with a warm and sincere smile.
"It wouldn"t have been threatened if we hadn"t come," Colene replied, feeling warmed. But the woman had disappeared.
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