Jane the homebody was not the only one these strange figures had stumbled across and valiantly rescued. Their group, which consisted of twenty members total, had rescued just over half of their own number.
It was quite easy to pick out which were the rescuers and which where the rescued. Even with a mixture of human and non-human figures, such as the man who was composed of dirt and black sand.
Of course, there was the fact that most of their rescuers carried weapons, but not all of them did. For the guaranteed way to know who was who, All you had to do was look at how they held themselves.
A large man who seemed to be half tiger shivered like a tiny, scared kitten, while a woman half size with green, flaming hair stood tall and proud. Both might have had these mystical abilities, but it was the confidence of the seemingly harmless woman that held the truth of her dangerous existence.
