"No. I'd've expected to be hurt a lot worse, from that kind of fall."

"Usually, yes... I wonder if we were falling slower? Magic can do that, even though I don't have the spell for it."

"There are definitely pokemon who could have cushioned our fall...Ava could learn to do that when she gets stronger, but not right now, and anyway none of them were out."

"Maybe someone is helping us."

Ember calls forth a little petal of heatless flame, which hovers above her head and casts a radius of soft white light. This reveals details about the cavern they're in, including "covered in blue moss," "not actually connected to the larger rift Deskari cut except via a hole in the ceiling," and "full of hand-sized white spiders which scurry away from the light."

Lucy immediately crouches down to try to get a better look at the spiders. 

spider spider spider hand? hand? frighten. spider. spider hand frighten. frighten scare

(It's a bit more on the crustacean end than properly arachnid, with sharp chitinous chelicerae and serrated pedipalps. If she tries to touch it she might get bitten, the little guy is pretty freaked out.)

She's not going to try to touch a random wild pokemon "animal" without its permission, that sounds like a great way to get zapped or poisoned or, yes, bitten. 

Then it will scuttle away unmolested, its pacifist streak maintained.

"I want to ask what pokemon that was, but I guess I have to instead ask what...animal...it was."

"A spider! They spin webs, and some of them have poisonous teeth."

"Spider is another term that gets used to describe pokemon, and most of the pokemon you'd call 'spider' have webs, and some of them are poison-type..."

"Huh! So you've got pokemon that are like animals... Maggie looked like an owl, a bit. And Dana was sort of like a dog. But Linty and Nom and Ava and Tess weren't very much like anything I've heard of."

"Linty is a corsola. I've heard them described as a 'coral' pokemon...Nom is a ditto, and Tess is a chikorita. Ditto is a 'transform' pokemon, and chikorita is a 'leaf' pokemon, but transforming and leaves are, like, normal words, that have meaning outside the context of describing pokemon, which isn't true of coral or spider or owl."

Ember nods. "Would you like to see if we can find a way out of this cave?" she asks. "I don't think anyone will likely find us down here."

"Ava could Teleport us back up to the square but it's still full of...murder guys."

"Yes, I don't think we'd be safer there... honestly I don't know that we'd be safer finding a way out, either, it's only that we'll do badly if we can't find food and water."

"Well, I have some on me...although really I ought to try to do something about the murder guys, it's not like murder is okay just because it's not me being murdered."

"Most of the demons are stronger than the one I put to sleep," Ember says carefully. "That's not to say we shouldn't! But... we should be careful. If we die we can't help anyone."

"...Yeah. What--man, if they're really not pokemon, they wouldn't have types, would they..."

Ember blinks. "...no, what do you mean?"

"Well, Tess is grass type and Linty is dual water and rock type. Water and rock are both weak to grass, so they'd take more damage if Tess used Razor Leaf on them than Dana would."

"Oh... well, demons like fire and ice," she says thoughtfully. "And they can't be hurt by lightning. I think they don't mind poison, either. But they really don't like cold iron. Or priests can do some things that they don't like either."

"Cold iron? Like steel? Like...steel and ice together?"

"It's a special metal that doesn't melt until it's hot enough to melt rocks. It hurts demons very badly."

Nod. "It's called steel type, and most steel-type pokemon have steel on them, or something like it; but it could be any metal. ...You said something about priests?"