[ It's currently Venti (unharmed), Lupine (battered), and a . . . cottage.

Like someone, perhaps, dropped a house on the wicked witch of the west. ]

Aliza really wants Lupine dead, and I don't think she's picky right now about who she has to go through. She'll hate herself for it later if we let her succeed at hurting anyone, though.

She's, ah . . .

[ Just. Points at the cottage. ]

Asleep, for now. But I want Lupine to get rid of the cottage so I can heal her. That's where you come in . . .