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-----Sol then disappears inside the building. In just the next moment, Sol's voice can be heard saying, "Dear cultists, please tend t'yer fire! Despite it being recently fed th' coming storm will drown it out, so come on outside."
-----In the next few seconds, Sol rushes out of the building taking a defensive stance just a few feet from the entrance. Suddenly, four more people, two men and two women, dressed in the black and red robes emerge from the building. They carry swords and daggers. Just as they leap out underneath the cloudy sky, they stop opened mouth staring at the party of adventurers before them.
-----Sol grins at the surprised cultists as he leaps towards the center of the group, flailing his sword about with wild abandon.
-----Raven takes aim at one of the cult members and fires off two arrows. The arrows impale one of the men instantly killing him.
-----Sol quickly dispatches the other three cult members as his Lathanian blade flashes through the air. The bodies quickly hit the ground.
-----"Wait!" Romney gasps out, "Should we not at least try to bring these people to face justice?"
-----Lovan, who has watched the instant response of the two heroes with an impressed look, spins and faces the guard. Glaring from underneath his helm at Romney, he firmly answers, "No."
-----Sol's reply to Romney is understanding, yet firm, "We all have different ideas o' justice. An' how they apply t'different situations." The Gorian quickly scans the area and he notes the bad timing of debate, "We'll speak o' this later. Yell if any cultists come from th' other buildings."
-----Once more Sol heads towards the building he entered a moment earlier.
-----Lovan watches Sol enter the building again. The priest then stretches forth his arms and lifts his head skyward with his eyes closed. He silently recites something.
-----Taking Raven's example, Rinda and Garrison draw their bows. The surrounding buildings remain quiet.
-----Keeping an eye on the surrounding buildings, Rinda quietly whispers to Raven.
-----Sarah takes some tallow, sulfur, and powdered iron and starts rolling it into a ball. She laughs at Lovan's comment. "Romney my dear." She says to the guardsman. "Justice is in the eye of the beholder."
-----Romney gives an uncertain look as he takes in Sarah's comment.
-----As they continue to wait, everyone suddenly hears Sol's voice. It sounds as if he is giving some kind of strange war cry.
-----Rinda immediately looks over at Raven for any reaction from the hunter.
-----Lovan stands in the direction line of exit from the open doorway of the building.
-----Rinda begins to dismount telling Raven, "By the Hunter, if anymore prey are begin flushed out by Sol, I want to get a better sight on the door." She then shoos her horse off so the animal does not get tangled in a sudden battle.
-----After a few almost too long moments, Sol dashes outside from the dark interior of the building. Seeing his companions ready to fire arrows and what not at the exiting cultists, the young warrior gives them more room to do so. As he comes out of the building, he turns sharply to the left, stopping about five yards from the entrance so that his friends can get off a volley before Sol moves into to take on what's left standing.
-----Lovan backs off from the entrance with his arms extended, his eyes trained on whatever is to emerge. Just as focused is Sarah, the young beautiful mage preparing a spell.
-----For the next few seconds, everything remains quiet. Rinda looks over at Sol with a questioning expression.
-----Romney and Shema inch their way carefully by Sol with their swords drawn.
-----"Cheating sod," Sol grumbles. He turns to his companions and explains hurriedly, "Alright, after I made a mess o' th' large chamber inside, some woman in th' upper chambers started calling fer others. Inside this demonic looking thing formed from th' flames o' th' altar an' I hoped it'd follow me out."
-----"Lovan, it might not be able t'leave th' place at all. Either way it looks like we're going t'have t'dig th' rest o' them out." Sol looks at Raven and says to his friend, "Unless this thing is just some magic spell, we've got something serious inside t'deal with. So, ye up t'taking down some horned devilly looking thing wi' a burning sword? Sarah? Rinda?" Sol also looks at Romney, Shema and Garrison letting them know that they're invited too. With that, Sol dashes back inside a fierce grin lighting his face.
-----"Hmmm....fire may not be the answer then." Sarah muses. "We shall see." She races after Sol into the darkness.
-----Raven puts away his bow and draws his swords. "Devil, you say?" Raven says as he runs after Sol, "Let's send it back to Hades!"

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