#elsewhere

Symon steps back

Softly, to the corpse. "I'm sorry."

Symon glares at it. Clearly, he is not.

The manatee changes and the pooka before them looks close to their age

Huff!

"You okay there?"

Symon eyes the corpse enviously, but they are on a mission...

He's not fat, just big boned, wearing a purple baseball hat "Sure am, much obliged for the rescue from that celeb. My name's Wade. I'm a River Selkie, come to help folks only to end up needing help my own darn self from that tuna with the antinea. I'm on a quest for true love, but I reckon it can wait"

"You seem suited to rescue in these conditions, yeah. Bad luck, that shark."

Symon can gather a few teeth, some blood, maybe even a loose fin or eye as they go by but that's all they've got time for

He takes advantage of Dagmar talking to the pooka to snatch a few souveniers.

He earned this. Heroism is exhausting

Wade nods "Oh aint' no never mind, irregardless of my many problems, I could care less...... for I am a man in love, and have dreamed a hundred dreams of her. My beautiful sea manatee. "

"Just your luck, she'll turn out to be a mermaid instead."

"Well, you can ride with us or dive back in."

"We're not going back for a while yet. Got some ground to patrol."

A glance at the water. "Such as it is."

"There's ground under there, eventually."

"oh no, she's a Sea Manaattee, I seeen her in my dreams, skin like mocha chocolate, eyes wide like pools, sleek and with a voice musical. She's lives on Emerald and I... " Wade snaps out of it "Oh sure, let's go gather mother goose's kids"

As they move on past some roofs, they see a mortal calling out, but she's not kithain, nor even enchanted... further out still, they see another roof, and it is LOADED... with a sluagh grump and what look like three sluagh daughters

Symon points to the second roof. "There."

How much room is in their boat?

It was built for 6 trolls so.. lots

"We can probably fit all four of them."

The grump, their father seems them approach and whispers to his daughter, who stand up and wait.

Then the grump waves to them

Symon waves, and gestures, mimicing a spider with his fingers, climbing down the side of the building to reach them?

If they have the sluagh sticky-fingers boon, that is... fairly common, but by no means standard.

He makes a gesture to just one of his daughters

Symon nods, and he ties the rope around his waist.. "Dagmar, can you get us up against that building? I'll take a rope up to help them down."

GLancing at the sky - how's the weather currently? Floodwaters, yes, but has the storm ceased?

In this area, it has

the sky is surprisingly clear

"I think so, yeah..."

Dagmar gets them close... and they can hear the father whispering "Pestilence you go first, Famine wait and stop picking at your clothes. Poverty don't hiss at the strangers, they're here to help us"

Symon starts carefully up the siding, dragging the rope behind him.

Pestilence touches Symon as he gets to the top "Infected"

"My apologies, it's her favorite game" the weary father helps Pestilence get down to the boat with Symon's aid. The girl's voile is very 'the time of cholera' victorian

Dagmar holds out her arms to take and place the childlings safely down.

"Infected" Pestilence pokes Dagmar too

Famine is skin and bones and dressed more Dust Bowl era americana, she's light and easy to carry

A small quirk of her lips, darn near a grin by troll standards.

"so much for wasting away from want" famine sounds almost saddened

"Another time, dear" her father says

Wade is helping steady the boat while the others help with the kids "AIn't no trouble sir, me and these two go way back. I vouch for em"

He makes sure that all three are safely in the boat - and gives that clear sky a suspicious glance again, before climbing back down.

Poverty gets on "Thanks guv" she says

And the father joins them "Abraham Gloom. THank you for rescuing my daughters. They're a bit young for death. Not suitably ripe"

"No, and there are yet many plagues to be spread."

Pestilence beams at that