Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-24849899-20151028205131/@comment-26948101-20151105050918

"H-how was that even possible...?" she wondered out loud. "Resurrection through....electronics?"

Before she could ask the inevitable follow-up questions, the door to the barn turned makeshift morgue flew open. Standing in the doorway was a Black Harpy and an Ogre. The larger mamono had a look of shock and dismay etched on her face, while the winged monster girl was clearly winded. Ilassa and Laskey didn't recognize her as one of the searchers that Merse had summoned. The white-haired Arch-succubus reasoned that this was the one who had been sent further upstream by Merse to check for further damage.

"Forgive the intrusion, your excellency!" The harpy said breathlessly "but we may have found out why the flood was as severe as it was."

Ilassa said nothing as the ogre hesitantly stepped forward.

"Princess Ilassa....I'm Iruka, the regional administrator for the Southern foothills." the ogre said quietly as she bowed. The strain that the events of the past 48 hours was apparent with her every word. "The rains from the previous week passed by without incident, but as a precaution we erected some temporary levees on the riverbanks outside of town. When the crews making the levees gave me a status report, they observed something unusual...your highness. They said that the river's water lever had actually dropped slightly in the aftermath of the storms that had moved through the area."

"What?" Ilassa asked.

"I wasn't sure what to make of it at first, myself." Iruka continued. "At the time, I ordered the crews to complete the levees and report any further occurrences to me." the ogre steeled herself. "Later that night, a wall of water tore through the town....some say it was as high as 30 tails." The Ogre's breath hitched. "There's nothing left, milady...the entire village of Nightcrest is gone...as are others, I fear."

"Ilassa-hime! I'm Yenora of the Demon Lord's Black Wing Expeditionary Battalion." the harpy said as she crisply saluted the Demon Lord's daughter. She seemed to have regained some of her composure as she introduced herself. "Acting on orders from Lady Merse, I followed the course of the river further upstream and I have reason to believe I've located the cause of this disaster!"

"Please explain..." Ilassa said.

"Several kilometers to the north of here, I discovered the remains of a considerable landslide in an unpopulated area. It looked as though an entire mountainside collapsed in the river when the most recent storms moved through....."

Yenora inhaled sharply before continuing. "This is merely conjecture on my part, but I believe the quantity of rocks and debris in the river was sufficient to dam the entire length of the river..."

"Which would explain why the crews were reporting an actual drop in the water lever when the river should've been at or past flood levels." Ilassa deduced.

"Yes, m'lady." the ogre said.

"Furthermore, as water began building up on the other side of the barrier, the more pressure that was being applied on the makeshift dam until finally, it gave way.....in the worst possible way." Yenora concluded.

"Excellent work, harpy- although it's too early to come to any definitive conclusions." the princess told her subordinate. "I ask that you rejoin lady Merse and continue searching for any survivors with your colleagues."

"As you wish, Ilassa-hime!" she almost shouted before crisply saluting.

"P-Princess Ilassa....?" a groggy and weary voice croaked from behind them. Laskey was tending to the revived demoness. "Oh...my princess....did you perish in the floods too?"