Humans in Disguise (Reboot)

@Jinx
 
@Steve61594  
“I’ll be going into town for a bit.” he says, zooming in on the small draconid to get a closer look “My joining the hunt would probably make it less fun for her. On that note…”
 
he takes a small orb of light from underneath the crystal and touches it to the kirin’s head, causing it to vanish as she is suddenly made aware of her prey’s location in the forest
 
“…I had best be going.”
 
and so he proceeds down the stairs toward the front door.

@CobaltTheMadMage  
“Get some tea while you’re in town!” Starfall calls down the stairs.

@CobaltTheMadMage  
“Hey, you need any help? I’ll back you up if that crazy mare comes back.”

@Luke1066
 
@Steve61594  
“I’ll see what I can do.” he responds to Star before turning to Steve
 
“You can come along if you want, I guess.” he says, holding the door open

@CobaltTheMadMage  
He gets up and follows him, closing the door behind them.

@Steve61594
 
@Jinx  
Cobalt yells back into the house before the door closes
 
“AISRA, go ahead and give Starfall a hand with whatever she needs, but make sure nothing breaks or anything. I’ll be back.”
 
And on cue a small glowing mare appears near Star right as the front door closes.
 
“Right.” Cobalt says as he begins trotting out toward the forest “Steve, stay by me, these woods can be tricky and I’m not allowed to teleport into town anymore. Jinx, happy hunting!”

@CobaltTheMadMage  
Star pbbts at the glowing poner.
 
“I’m getting the weirdest feeling of deja vu right now… You can handle magical essences without getting… tainted, for lack of a better word, by them, right?”

@Luke1066  
She sheepishly shrugs, rubbing her foreleg as if she doesn’t know for sure.

@CobaltTheMadMage  
“Hm. Well, i’ll just leave you with the sealed ones then… Here, read the elements and memorize the markings and names so you know what i’m talking about.” Star says, pulling out a leather-bound tome, resting it on a table so AISRA could read it while she retrieves some crystals.

@CobaltTheMadMage  
He stuck closely by him. “They’re better if you know how to get away.”

@Luke1066  
She nods and opens up the book, reading through it page by page with a look of mounting fascination on her little face.
 
 
@Steve61594  
“That and forests are surprisingly easy to get lost in. Theoretically it’s just a straight path from my tower to the towm, but with the inconsistent frame of reference dense forestry provides you can’t always trust your own sense of direction to keep you actually going straight. You’re better off just learning a specific path that gets you all the way through.”

@CobaltTheMadMage  
“I guess that’s true.”

@CobaltTheMadMage  
Star continues her drunk research from the last night, pulling out a couple crystals and watching them closely.

@Steve61594  
It is not long before the sounds of the village become audible to Cobalt and Steve. The only noteworthy sounds coming from the forest seem to have been in the direction of Jinx and her prey.
 
@Luke1066  
AISRA looks up from her reading to glance at the crystals Star had, then attempts to match them with the illustrations in the book she was reading.

@CobaltTheMadMage  
said sounds were a loud roar followed by a shreik

@CobaltTheMadMage  
“Remind me not to mess with that weird creature-thing. She’s not scary, but I certainly don’t mind keeping my face and everything attached to it.” Now they’re off into town, obviously in their pony forms. Unless, of course, you desire an exception.

@Steve61594  
(Bruh, reply to me in the other rp

@CobaltTheMadMage  
It seems that she had crystallized Ignis essentia resting on the table, and some vials of more complex ones that AISRA hadn’t read about yet.

@Jinx
 
@Steve61594  
“I know what you mean.” They were both in their pony forms, a convincing enough disguise that nopony in the village noticed anything amiss about them. Well, no more than an Everfree-dwelling wizard and his apparent traveling companion would normally be, at the very least. Nevertheless, after the initial stairs following their emergence from the treeline, most ponies simply resumed their day-to-day business as if nothing were out of the ordinary, though a couple mothers with foals noticeably shied their children away from Cobalt’s path as he led Steve toward what was clearly a general store.
 
 
@Luke1066  
AISRA parsed the book with increased vigor, trying to match the vials she saw with anything illustrated in the book. She was showing some signs of nervousness at the prospect of volatile materials damaging the lab…

@CobaltTheMadMage  
He raised a brow. What had he done to spook them? This was a little saddening. He continued following him.

@CobaltTheMadMage  
soon the kirin had returned to the tower, spilling the blood of her victim near the woods and bringing it inside and up into a high place to eat

@CobaltTheMadMage  
It seemed stable, for the moment.
 
She does recognize some of the vials of the more base combinations, an example being Lux, the tome listed it as essentially Light. Another was of ice, a curious combination of fire and chaos.

@Steve61594  
“Not the warmest of welcomes, I know. Folks around here are still hesitant to trust a strange wizard that willingly lives in a ruin in the Everfree Forest. Though I suppose the fact I only ever come here to grocery shop, hunt monsters, and/or clean up after a magic accident doesn’t help much either.” They reach the store entrance, and Cobalt opens the door with his magic. “Come on in, I guess.”
 
 
@Jinx  
The roof of Cobalt’s tower was angled, but not so steeply that she could not rest up there with her meal.
 
 
@Luke1066  
AISRA continues to watch Star’s work with a mixture of fascination and trepidation.

@CobaltTheMadMage  
“I guess I can see that. Travellers get better welcomes than this.”