Cut Off

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It was fruitless to go back, they had tried to retrace their steps and had found there were no steps to retrace. Gilbert blamed himself not thinking about their safety and remaining gear before charging ahead. He'd gotten too interested in the mystery and not enough in the making sure things were ok and now they were lost in some kind of spirit purgatory with a teleporting bull creature.

"So what is that thing?"

"Not a clue, but I imagine we can kill it or it would have stuck around, its as afraid of us as we could be of it."

"Yeah except I can't teleport and I'm not the size of a small car."

"You never know about your hidden strengths Clarissa maybe you can teleport."

"Really?"

"No you can't teleport, that's just nonesense to make you feel better." Clarissa lightly hit Gilbert on the shoulder and he smiled. They still had some of the salt and had at least set up a new safe zone for what good it could do against the creature Gilbert wasn't sure.

"So what's the plan?"

"Iron, it's good against fairies, and this creature looks like something of the fey, and attacking souls definitely is a fey kind of thing to do."

"So iron?"

"Yeah they hate it, something about being connected to the earth, I dunno creatures of the Fey are assholes and Iron kills them if applied properly its all you need to know."

"Is this why Doris hates regular silverware?"

"No that's just Doris thinking she's better than regular people." Clarissa laughed, it broke up the tension of being potentially stuck in the world of lost souls. They did still have the question of how to get the bull fey to attack them, but Gilbert figured if they just stepped beyond the salt it might do that on its own. Gilbert made the first step outside of the protection of the salt, he didn't figure his first step outside would cause the creature to charge them, but fey creatures were weird like that and it just might have. Gilbert was able to step out without issue and Clarissa joined him, they didn't want to travel too far from safety because they didn't have anything anchoring them to it and the building had already changed on them once.

The bull fay charged almost immediately. Gilbert heard the hoof beat first before he turned and fired. Three shots landed home and the creature came screeching to a halt. Clarissa took up an arrow and fired two shots into the head to be sure. The bull fay was at least as Gilbert surmised killable.

"Now how the hell do we get out of here?" Just then the elevator seemingly materialized out of nowhere appeared behind them.

"All done?" He had a smirk on that told Gilbert he knew more than he was letting on, and that this job was just getting started.