This picture is the direct follow of this one : https://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/the-outcome/2819760/?p After they arrived to the little city, Delphine, not taking the time to rest, convoked the leaders of the town, and convinced them to go to the place of the attack to bring back the corpse of at least one of the creatures. Minalva, too wounded and tired to going back to the place of the fight remained with the unconscious Romatzo. Marina wanted to accompany Delphine, but she was truly exhausted by having walked all the day with Romatzo on her back. Delphine insisted that she stayed with Minalva to rest. Marina is stubborn, but she was too tired to argued for long. The fatigue of Delphine was more psychological than physique. But before the time the expedition was ready to go, she took the time to eat a little to regain some strength. Then the expedition leaved. Arrived in the place, Delphine constated that the bodies had disappeared. She was not really surprised though. She suspected them to be issue from some kind of invocations. The spell had probably gone to an end, sending back the corpse from where they came, even before the four arrived to the city. But the people accompanying her were not unwilling to believe that some demons were here before. If the bodies had disappeared, their purple blood, spilling everywhere was still there. Even if the corpses had disapeared, the expedition hadn't being made for nothing. Delphine retrieved their abandoned equipments, and she had been able to take some blood samples of the creatures, for future analysis. Three had past since the group arrived to the city, and Romatzo was still unconscious. Delphine magical powers having been completely drained during the fight, she couldn't apply a heal spell on him right away. Because of that, when she finally had enough magic cast the spell, it was already too late to be really effective. With healing spells, the more we wait the less it work. That is also why Minalva's right thigh will keep cicatrices. Minalva had barely left Romatzo bedside since they arrived in the town. At first Marina and Delphine thought it was because she felt guilty of him being in this state. But, while discussing this, they realized there was maybe something more than guilt. It seemed that after they had left her tribe, Minalva have been closer to Romatzo. Sitting next to him when they eated, and putting her bedroll almost everytime next his when they were sleeping outside. Deciding to take a discrete peek to the chamber where their friends were, Marina and Delphine find Minalva gently kissing Romatzo on the tip of his nose. Amazed, the two women watched the scene without saying a word. "What's happening here ?" they both thought. Then Minalva, after finishing her kiss, raised her head and looked at her friends, like if she knew all along they were here. Giving them a mysterious smile, she retuned to her chair, taking back her watch of Romatzo. Delphine and Marina respond to her smile with awkward smiling, and got back to the room where they were coming from. The two friends were perplexed. With her ear and her personality, it was perfectly possible that Minalva have heard their conversation. And, listen to them approached, she kissed him, as some kind of prank for them. The two rooms were close and Marina and Delphine weren't especially trying to be unheard while speaking. And a nose is not particularly a common place to kiss. Or, had they catch Minalva in a tenderness moment ? The kiss was undeniably loving. And she wasn't only kissing him, she was also holding firmly his hand. It was almost impossible to say what was the truth. Wood Elves thoughts could be as secretive that they could be an open book, depending of their good will. ________________________________________________________ The text is already rather long, so I prefer stop here. But don't worried for Romatzo, he will wake up not so long after, and he'll continue the adventure with the girls. I don't know if I'll going somewhere with the "feelings" of Minalva (are they really real ?), but I had this idea in mind and I wanted the door to be open. The picture is still pretty grainy, but it lasted 60 hours and it was not even at 30% of its rendering time. So I decided it was good enough. Thank you for reading and watching. ^^