She has a fancy borrowed sword now! Stab!

Why are the mortals pointy?? They should stop being pointy. 

Rather than attacking either of the pointy mortals, it's going to attempt to keep running towards the horrible shiny mortal with monomaniacal focus, even if it means taking more injuries.

(The other mortals will attempt to attack it too, but less effectively.)

Blai has no idea why it's obsessed with Count Arendae but it does mean it keeps making predictable mistakes. "Get some distance, please, Count!"

He is perfectly wiling to back away from the horrifying creature.

It's going to be like that? Fine. How would they like it if there was another abrikandilu here?

...Grease?

The new abrikandilu is slightly smarter than its companions, and is going to attempt the strategy of "attack the caster". (The old one is flailing on the ground.)

Hopefully Seelah's borrowed sword is up to helping him out in melee here.

It is!

By the time the Count-obsessed one has staggered to its feet, they've managed to bring the new one down, with the help of Nenio blinding it for a moment with a ray of brilliant light, though not without damage to Woljif's face. The Count-obsessed one staggers in the last direction it saw the Count, and falls to their blows as it attempts to flee. The one busy with the shop finally manages to blink spots out of its eyes and come after them as well, hurling the broken pieces of a table at them as it does, but it eventually goes down as well.

Phew. Everybody up? The seamstress and her husband want to come stand in the channel?

"Thank you so much — we can't possibly hope to repay you, but we have some lovely winter scarves in the cellar that the demons didn't get to—"

Channel! It heals up the seamstress and her husband, but the party still has some injuries, including an unhealed gash along Woljif's cheek.

"I only have one remaining; should I spend it now, or would you prefer to do the honors yourself?"

"I've got it, better to not have it all concentrated in one person -" Bam. "I did not direct us this way hoping for your scarves, ma'am."

"Of course not, sir, we mean no offense, but we can hardly let you go without giving you something for all the trouble—"

"Of course you can. You've lost enough today."

Are Lawful Good people not allowed to take gifts for free???

"That's very generous, sir."

Lawful people are PROBABLY allowed to do that but he's not COMPLETELY SURE and also does not super want a scarf.

"Best of luck with repairs." Onward.

They continue not to hear sign of the looters as they make their way back to the tavern.

When they're about a quarter-mile out, they see a badly injured man jogging in the opposite direction from them, wearing a pendant with a pentagram.

"He's Evil," says Seelah quietly.

The man skids to a stop and looks up at them. His eyes widen, and he glances between Blai and Seelah's holy symbols.

"It's not what it looks like, I swear! I — I serve the King of Hell, if you kill me you'll be going against the treaty!"

"Fascinating! Would you be interested in participating in a survey of your theological knowledge?"

"What? I — I'm here to fight demons, not study theology!"