She took three more from the dungeon before she decided she was finished, all smaller than that first one, all tucked away in extradimensional space, either sleeping or tied up. It was hard, dirty work, but contrary to accusations against her, she had never held much disdain for getting messy.
Still, she stopped on the precipice of the dungeon’s exit. So far she’d done nothing wrong, nothing that might come back to bite her, but pulling monsters from a dungeon was against all kinds of laws and, worse, might bring the attention of her family down on her in ways that would be difficult to wriggle out of. No one had stopped her from going into the dungeon, there had been no proactive punishment for crimes not-yet-committed, but you had to think carefully when doing this sort of thing. She hadn’t always been careful in the past.
She’d done the dungeon late at night, not too long before the witching hour, and she’d made a habit of slipping out away from the party at odd hours, so that would arouse suspicions earlier. She’d trained them not to ask what she’d been up to, mostly by concocting elaborate lies about it, often embarrassing and uncomfortable to them.
She paused, thinking it over, hoping she hadn’t made a misstep she couldn’t unmake. There was a chance someone would be waiting outside the dungeon for her with questions.
She passed through the threshold and found no one there. For Lola, this was cause for a smirk rather than a sigh of relief. She had the monsters stowed away, and would take a few undone days to see what they were like, how much of a challenge they would present, and whether they were suitable candidates.
She wanted something that would put fear into them.
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