Appearing next to Sadie, without much fanfare or visual display of light, is Anahita. A few small leaves and insects spring to life off her upon doing so. Upon arrival, she reaches out and touches Sadie whiles casting a spell to neutralize the poison. An strong scent of jungle wafts off from Anahita, for those with keen sense of smell.
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Anahita is, as before, still dressed in her desert cotton outfit, white, standing some five foot eight feet in height, glancing around taking in the situation.
::I shall restore your health further, give me but a moment, Sadie. I would appreciate anyone able hearing this, to give me a quick over view of what has occurred.::
That action completed, she stands ready for combat, peering about at the room while assessing the situation.
As Anahita takes in the scene of the rather humongous underground chamber, one thing should be immediately apparent - her allies are in the middle of a battle! Across the room, the draconic bulk of Vai is crouched and ready to strike at an unseen opponent. Meanwhile, within some 40 ft of her, Yrrin battles on against a foe who who appears to have had his hands replaced with hammers. Opposite the room from where Vai is, standing the slithering member the group has picked up - backed against a cage - which appears to be housing the villagers that were sought - by another twisted humanoid-like being, though this one appears to have once been two creatures, now sewn together along their backs to form one.
A curious thing to note is a ghostly image of a teenaged girl sporting draconic wings similar to those of Vai, and apparently caught up in some impressively massive machine of dark metal. Everything about Anahita's being screams that the machine holding the ghostly girl is wrong. Wholly unnatural, an abomination if ever there was one.
All this though, may be irrelevant, as there is a foe much closer to home - another of the twisted creatures, badly wounded, standing nearby and engaging Sadie. His eye has turned to this apparently unarmoured newcomer. He looks as though he's about to engage Anahita...
Ace smiles a greeting at Silinrul and Tural "Well met, come have a seat, we were just discussing the events of the weekend."
::"I didn't know you had a brother Jai. He looks a little outta place though, like he is rather uncomfortable or something"::
::Pretty sure this is his first time being inside an actual building.:: Ehos replied back, just a touch smarmy there, nodding in greeting to Tural and Silinrul.
'Tural, are you a Leonal?' Ehos displays to the apparent-celestial, curious. There were alot of outsiders at the school. He wondered how Phaeze would deal with an Agathion. He knew he didn't like Angels or Archons all that much.
"Yeah, i am. Uh... What's with the... Whatever that is."
tural says, pointing to the datapad. She takes a seat, clicking a bit more as she moves.
A silver plated snake detaches itself from around his arms. What used to look like solid metal, uncoils and reveals fine plates of it the move on their own. The thin, whip sized snake slithers down into the freezer near-ish to Pyry.
"This is an invention of mine. It's given name is Hal. While I return to operate the ship, Hal will stay here. If you feel endangered, Hal can contact me on my radio."
"Um, thanks." Pyry watches the snake with a look of confusion and wonder. It looked a tiny bit like the telescope, but moved like it was alive. What was it? "I'll let it.. Let Hal know."
"T-t-t-teeth!" he stammered, his brain trying to catch up, but his eyes rather caught up in the sight right before him.
".....Rena? What? How?.....Ungh," he grunts in pain as she tries to nudge him out of the compost heap. "No, don't.....think I might have broken a rib or three....just don't let them take me back to the infirmary. No more. I can't take any more. Too much pain there....I think it might kill me to go back," he said, his vision starting to blur. He wasn't even sure if the big snake with Rena's voice was real. He wouldn't be shocked if he was having hallucinations as a side effect of one of Dr Wuxn's 'treatments'. On that cheerful note, Bradley passed out.
Rena had originally shrunk back slightly at Bradley's apparent fear, a little ashamed of herself. She knew Bradley would be scared of her.
She immediately stops trying to move Bradley when he objects with his injury. She knew she had to keep it together to help him... She couldn't panic... but what could she do? She didn't have any healing ability, and certainly no potions! If he didn't want to go back to the infirmary...
As gently as she can possibly manage, Rena delicately scoops Bradley up, wrapping her tail around spots that she thought weren't injured, and lifting him up, maneuvering so that she set him gently on her back, nestled into the space between her wings. Then she slowly makes her way back to her and Asha's room, using her tail to ensure his stability. Her instinct was to 'slither' through the air, but she suppressed that as much as she could so as not to jostle him.
Once at her room, she opens the door with her tail and once again takes Bradley, this time laying him gently on her bed.
"Stay here, I'm going to find some potions." she says quietly, mostly speaking aloud to herself. She's true to her word though, heading out to find some healing potions, and using the arrows, unless she hears Bradley stir before she leaves.
"Flying over Kuros." she replies, sounding to Ghalen's trained ears just a little bit strained, but trying to hide it. "There's an incredibly powerful sentient virus which had infected the people here. We've managed to cure one group - the victims die once the virus is cured. I'm currently seeing if there are any other infected."His eyes flash silver as a low, inhuman growl comes from his throat.
"What does My Lady require? Do you need assistance here, or in Kuros?" he does not hide the worry from his voice...
"I need you to find a way to contact my Mother - my magic is spent. She may be able to tell us if the disease has spread beyond Kuros - I certainly hope not. If it has.. I fear for all of Agartha." she says grimly, flying along as she is, her eyes continuing to scan the town below her, looking for signs of more of the infected.
adon lashes out, black aura surrounding his arm.
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"Heh. You don't scare me. You never will. You're weak, pathetic, Like most of your race, and i intend to prove it."
"You know what I like about qausits? They're basically like the flues of the fiendish realm. You can try to turn me inside out, but that's not something even a pit fiend or Blair could do, so...." She shrugs, smiling, and as far as Adon or the Quasit can tell, she's telling the truth...
As Adon's anti-magic strips the Quasit of his illusions, he once again flickers back into a non-shaded state. If Adon or Belyu could read quasit expressions, they might think he looks a little nervous at this point, flanked by these two teenagers, one of which had eaten his spell and stripped him of all his magic... and the other was unsettling in other ways...
Despite this, the quasit attempts to draw himself into a somewhat dignified position. "My master would rip you to shred no matter what you are." he sneers, boasting, and trying to be intimidating, which of course is somewhat ludicrous for a creature so tiny.
"Right then Hermes, yee ready to git this old tub a moving again."
Carl heads up to the Flight deck.
"Yeah, i am. Uh... What's with the... Whatever that is."
tural says, pointing to the datapad. She takes a seat, clicking a bit more as she moves.
'My voice is destructive, so I'm kept silenced until we figure out a way to fix that. This lets me communicate since I don't have any natural telepathic ability. It's called a datapad.' Ehos explains as best he can, while holding the datapad a little awkwardly so that both Tural and Silinrul can read it if they want.
With Midori sat behind Lang, and Simba and Sara engaging in some light aerial acrobatic manuveurs, the kunoichi cannot help but to put her arms around Lang's waist and hold on tightly, pressing close behind him. It wasn't that she was scared, it just made sense that if she was going to fall, as long as she was close to Lang-kun, he could catch her.
Once the acrobatics let up a bit, Midori releases her grip, scooting a little bit back from Lang to give him some space, though she's still holding onto his clothign at the hip.
Belyu just laughs, a soft, clear sound.
"Is that so? Well, when we send you back to your fiendish home plane, I'm sure you can tell your master all about me. Do you want to do it, Adon, or should I?"
"Through the door there." He explains, pointing to a door that wasn't there before. "while they may provide little comfort, given how easily my best defenses and wards are outright ignored or broken, several protection protocols are in place to ensure your health and safety."After Nala has gone to her work, Vare stands awkwardly for a moment longer before quietly clearing his throat and speaking. "Is there any way I could be of assistance? I came to bring news, but if there is an emergency..."
Ryo sighs.
"I am not sure it would be wise to expose more people to the virus... What us your news?"
"I need you to find a way to contact my Mother - my magic is spent. She may be able to tell us if the disease has spread beyond Kuros - I certainly hope not. If it has.. I fear for all of Agartha." she says grimly, flying along as she is, her eyes continuing to scan the town below her, looking for signs of more of the infected.
Ghalen suddenly turns to the wall near him, with a sense of great need to see the headmaster, fully expecting a door to appear.
"I was already on the way to speak with the headmaster about the errand he sent you on. I will ask that he contact your mother, or himself assist, perhaps. Hold on, Tyrrin..."
Ryo sighs.
"I am not sure it would be wise to expose more people to the virus... What us your news?"
Vare reshuffles his robes slightly, and nods to the Headmaster. "There appears to be a person within the boundries of the school who is caught somewhere between the Material and Ethereal planes. A young woman, if I understood Anahita correctly, by the name of Adina. I believe it may be possible for me to draw her from her trapped state into the Material plane, but I do not know the exact nature of the plane in which she is trapped, and it may pose a risk to the school... and also to the girl herself. I'm not quite sure how to proceed with this. More research may be needed before we attempt anything."
adon smiles, holding his blade up, ready to strike.
"You sure? We may be able to get something out of him."
'My voice is destructive, so I'm kept silenced until we figure out a way to fix that. This lets me communicate since I don't have any natural telepathic ability. It's called a datapad.' Ehos explains as best he can, while holding the datapad a little awkwardly so that both Tural and Silinrul can read it if they want.
"Oh, alright then."
"hey, tease away, I won't mind, so tell me about yourself, what is it that you do here? has anything interesting happened as of late, any funny stories, any scandals?" he wags his eyebrows at that last statement
She shrugged. "I can make illusions from smoke. Really good ones. It's a normal ability for a firebird, but one that's looked down on a lot. And last week I came down with a sudden case of psychic power which is a first for a firebird as far as I know. Still trying to figure out how that works."
"Not a whole lot of funny stories the last few days really. They've been busy, though. Got mind-controlled into dating a guy. Obviously that ended badly. My grandparents were complicit in getting my current boyfriend beheaded. Long story, but hey, as it turns out psychic powers, not all bad. I was able to sort of put him back together. Not sure how that works. I just did it. And the incident led to a riot which led to the firebird government being deposed which is why we're doing this evacuation. So. Oh, and of course, last night my sister-in-law got mind-controlled by her evil future self from an alternate timeline into attacking us all during girls night. So, you know, just another week at Avalon."
Tybalt and his outerwear begin to fade back in almost as soon as it becomes apparent that he isn't phased by it.
"And I had a feeling that you wouldn't be any fun to do it to, walking around with your clothes half blown off anyways."
He jokingly sticks his tongue out at him.
"Clothes are optional where I'm from, fashion options, but we have fur. As far as I'm concerned, if you have to wear them, they might as well look good."
He shrugs.
Asha giggled and clapped when Tryko'Sam's clothes disappeared, and gigled even more at Tryko'Sam's reaction to it.
"It's a good trick," she said, smiling.
"And I like your fashions, Tybalt. It's such a nice change from the frilly ruffled awfulness I had to wear at home. You can't even move properly in those dresses."
Exiting the infirmary a young and timid nurse carefully closes the door behind her. hold her clipboard tightly in front of her chest her arrival is rather timely at the Clothing is over rated comment.
She lets out a small muffled giggle as she eyes the boy making the comment.
Going over to the group Hello, I am Nurse Julie, is there something I can help you with? she addresses the group a bit shyly and only close enough for them to hear.
"Oh! Hi. Ummm.....I think I need some kind of something...I forget the word....I had a brand new power kind of just poof! happen but we don't know what it is and I guess it isn't magic? I don't know. Anyways Tybalt said I should get checked out at the infummery? infammery? in...infur...well, whatever this place is called."
"If you'd like to get it a try, go ahead."
Professor Nix's voice comes back, slightly shaken, which is also highly unusual, <<Professor, I have permission to use the plane. I have to replace it, and I have to annihilate the plane we infect when we are done there; Antigenesis will destroy anything. Where would you like the gate?>>"Right now we don't have any way to kill this virus. I have someone working on studying the virus in an isolated lab, but these things take time. It's probably safer to assume that it would be permanently infected."
"And please hurry. The death toll in Kuros is already....it's bad, Professor."
"Just a moment. I'll get the team's exact location for you."
She switched channels. "Tyrrin, I found someone with a dedicated demi-plane that they are willing to part with for this and a means of destroying it and everything in it once the clean-up is done. Professor Nix is going to gate it to you. What location should he send to?"
Ryo pauses for a moment to process this.
"I second the need for more research. I'm sure the library has books about similar experiences. Journals, reports, even fiction may provide clues or answers."
Study of the interaction between arcane and biological processes leads Nala to suspect that a total disruption of the arcane metabolism will only slow its mutation and reduce its communicability. You think it is likely that you may also kill the subject if you subject her to an antimagic pulse.However, the virus's mutations do not seem to target its outer structures, so an attempt to strengthen the viral capsid to make it more difficult for the virus to infect other cells would severely reduce its communicability. On the other hand stripping it of its capsid entirely would make it unable to survive in air.
Another avenue would be to attempt to modify the regions in the girl's bone marrow that produces the virus so that the virus loses its sentience, as well as tuning its arcane metabolism so that it requires the specific magical aura within the girl's body so that it would be unable to survive outside of her body.
"Okay, I have a few ideas of how to deal with this. I think I can save the patient. She'll still be infected, but I think I know how to change the virus to make it safe. Non-sentient and non-infectious. I also have to deal with the virus that's already loose in the room...I have some idea for that as well. I'm going to worry about curing the patient first. Since the infection stems from her that seems the most logical place to start dealing with it," she said as she started the complicated programming sequence required to make the nanite treatment for this particular task.
"You're right, it's probably not worth it."
adon stabs away at the quasit, enjoying himself throughly.
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"hey, tease away, I won't mind, so tell me about yourself, what is it that you do here? has anything interesting happened as of late, any funny stories, any scandals?" he wags his eyebrows at that last statementShe shrugged. "I can make illusions from smoke. Really good ones. It's a normal ability for a firebird, but one that's looked down on a lot. And last week I came down with a sudden case of psychic power which is a first for a firebird as far as I know. Still trying to figure out how that works."
"Not a whole lot of funny stories the last few days really. They've been busy, though. Got mind-controlled into dating a guy. Obviously that ended badly. My grandparents were complicit in getting my current boyfriend beheaded. Long story, but hey, as it turns out psychic powers, not all bad. I was able to sort of put him back together. Not sure how that works. I just did it. And the incident led to a riot which led to the firebird government being deposed which is why we're doing this evacuation. So. Oh, and of course, last night my sister-in-law got mind-controlled by her evil future self from an alternate timeline into attacking us all during girls night. So, you know, just another week at Avalon."
arthur nods at all the right places, listening intently, "fascinating, and you said this was just this past week? I was expecting the highlights of a month, and, wow, ok so the boyfriend is better now, yes? And the previous one, how did that end? You think he might be trouble later, do you need someone to rough him up or do you want to do that yourself if it comes to that?"
Tybalt smiles and does that thing where you laugh silently by exhaling through your nose.
Asha's enthusiastic attempt to describe what they were there for caught him as cute.
"Hun, it's the infirmary." He says to her, in a caring way, not condescending like the phrase might sound.
"Hi. I'm Tybalt and this is Asha and Tryko'Sam." He says gesturing to both of them in turn. "We were wondering if Asha could get a check up. She has a new ability she doesn't know how to use. It isn't magic, but looks like it kinda. We were wondering if you could shed some light on the situation."
The short kitty-person looks generally happy as he moves his paws, while he explains why they're there.
"Just a moment. I'll get the team's exact location for you."
She switched channels. "Tyrrin, I found someone with a dedicated demi-plane that they are willing to part with for this and a means of destroying it and everything in it once the clean-up is done. Professor Nix is going to gate it to you. What location should he send to?"
"I left some of our party at the site... it's near to one of the bigger squares in town, at..." Tyrrin provides as much detail as she can remember about the location where the infected ice was.
"Professor... if it's already spread beyond those here, then we are going to need a larger scale solution. Hopefully before it kills all of Agartha." she replies evenly, trying to keep all emotion from her voice.
Ryo pauses for a moment to process this.
"I second the need for more research. I'm sure the library has books about similar experiences. Journals, reports, even fiction may provide clues or answers."
"I shall do just that then. Shall I stay for the moment, and see if I cannot assist in Kuros with Summoned creatures? We ought not need to worry about their safety."
"Howdy. We probably want to just get her basic biological and mental states scanned, for record keeping as base lines, and if any notable anomalies come to the surface in the course of this, awesome. Otherwise-- if you happen to have any prior records or information on a Firebird ability to phase, desolidify, vibrate through matter or similar, that's what we're trying to pin point. It appears to not be a magically detected ability, per Tybalt here, but, hey, sometimes there are unique scenarios, right?"
He grins and is quite charming once he shares all that, waiting to see what happens next.
"If you can control them from so far away, try it. I agree that the creatures you summoned won't get infected, or at least they won't carry it back to their home planes since they are simply magically created copies."
Hermes nods and closes the door.
"We still need to return him to the medical ward as quickly as we can for examination. This allows us time to operate as air procedure calls for."
"Okay, I have a few ideas of how to deal with this. I think I can save the patient. She'll still be infected, but I think I know how to change the virus to make it safe. Non-sentient and non-infectious. I also have to deal with the virus that's already loose in the room...I have some idea for that as well. I'm going to worry about curing the patient first. Since the infection stems from her that seems the most logical place to start dealing with it," she said as she started the complicated programming sequence required to make the nanite treatment for this particular task.
Due to the complexity of altering cellular production centers that create a virus with an active arcane metabolism, the nanite fabrication will take several hours, at which time the girl will have to be removed from stasis for the treatment to be administered.
After Nala sets up the nanite fabrication and oversees the first few stages, she is free to return to studying the active viruses that she removed from the stasis field. During the time that she was programming the nanite factory, the viruses seem to be moving more sluggishly. A closer examination reveals that their internal processes are slowing and, in a few cases, shutting down. Nala can conclude from this that the virus is unable to live for long without a host, but due to their extreme mutation and infection rate and communicability, they would never reach this stage on any planet with animal life.
Hermes nods and closes the door.
"We still need to return him to the medical ward as quickly as we can for examination. This allows us time to operate as air procedure calls for."
"Hermes i nee thought I would say this but ya as good a pilot as I'll ever be, I think ya best fly us as fast as Ye can to the school, once where close I'll get the feller to the sick wing, how's that sound. Just like Mel a"
He smiles and moves his goggles up.
"I comprehend the logic of your statement."
He takes his seat at the helm.
"I would like to request that I bring the patient to the ward, as I can relate what I have observed, if necessary. I will also be able to speak with Ms.Waverider regarding her condition."
Kitty scrambles back up the tree.
"The birds said it was just a bit north and east from here. The bear said to make sure to take a left at the apple tree and if we get to a meadow we've gone too far."
"Alright then, let's keep going."
"I comprehend the logic of your statement."
He takes his seat at the helm.
"I would like to request that I bring the patient to the ward, as I can relate what I have observed, if necessary. I will also be able to speak with Ms.Waverider regarding her condition."
"All right lad, sounds fine te me, once we get close you go get him put the ice box."
Hermes nods and takes the ship back from autopilot and begins taking it down to the planet.
Pyry sits in the cold room trying very hard to concentrate solely on the snake left with him and not the incredible intensity of the cold putting his body back in order.
arthur nods at all the right places, listening intently, "fascinating, and you said this was just this past week? I was expecting the highlights of a month, and, wow, ok so the boyfriend is better now, yes? And the previous one, how did that end? You think he might be trouble later, do you need someone to rough him up or do you want to do that yourself if it comes to that?"
"Yep, a week...welcome to Avalon, where there is literally never a dull moment. And yeah, my boyfriend is fine now. For certain values of fine...we didn't make it in time to save his parents, so he's obviously pretty upset about that to put it mildly. But Ardiente is all back in one piece and no lasting ill effects from the beheading, so that's good."
"And the thing with Dave ended when we found out that I was only dating him because I was being mind-controlled by him. In all fairness, he didn't actually know he was doing it. Sometimes that happens with a new ability. But, honestly, I don't know that that really makes me feel better about it. I don't think Dave is going to be trouble. At least I hope not. Tybs is pretty convinced that Dave really didn't know what he was doing and that he feels bad about it. I haven't felt like spending enough time around him to find out for sure. I guess I'll have to talk to him at some point. I should probably tell him about me and Ardiente before he finds out from someone else...I just get so angry every time I see him."
"Just a moment. I'll get the team's exact location for you."
She switched channels. "Tyrrin, I found someone with a dedicated demi-plane that they are willing to part with for this and a means of destroying it and everything in it once the clean-up is done. Professor Nix is going to gate it to you. What location should he send to?"
"I left some of our party at the site... it's near to one of the bigger squares in town, at..." Tyrrin provides as much detail as she can remember about the location where the infected ice was.
"Professor... if it's already spread beyond those here, then we are going to need a larger scale solution. Hopefully before it kills all of Agartha." she replies evenly, trying to keep all emotion from her voice.
"I'll pass on the coordinates."
"I know," she said, sounding like she was holding back tears. "First, let's worry about cleaning up Kuros and the surrounding area. Then we circle out from there. If we work quickly we can still catch it before it spreads to other communities. I hope. And with some luck, Nala will find a way to kill the virus soon."
Due to the complexity of altering cellular production centers that create a virus with an active arcane metabolism, the nanite fabrication will take several hours, at which time the girl will have to be removed from stasis for the treatment to be administered.After Nala sets up the nanite fabrication and oversees the first few stages, she is free to return to studying the active viruses that she removed from the stasis field. During the time that she was programming the nanite factory, the viruses seem to be moving more sluggishly. A closer examination reveals that their internal processes are slowing and, in a few cases, shutting down. Nala can conclude from this that the virus is unable to live for long without a host, but due to their extreme mutation and infection rate and communicability, they would never reach this stage on any planet with animal life.
Nala had continued working furiously as the nanite fabrication processed. She stopped abruptly, checking and rechecking her data.
"Ryuzo! I need a full scan from one or more of the plague victims in Kuros. I need to see how the virus interacts with its hosts....I think I might know how to stop it!"
"Alright then, let's keep going."Kitty scrambles back up the tree.
"The birds said it was just a bit north and east from here. The bear said to make sure to take a left at the apple tree and if we get to a meadow we've gone too far."
Kitty led the way, following the directions that the animals gave her.
She easily found the way from where they were to the lake.
"Well, it looks like the bear was right. We weren't that far off the mark," she said, a little bit proud of herself for having found her way there.
The snake is coiled up and looking at him with two camera lens eyes, occasionally shuttering closed and open again to clear the layer of frost developing on them and the rest of it.
"Oh! Hi. Ummm.....I think I need some kind of something...I forget the word....I had a brand new power kind of just poof! happen but we don't know what it is and I guess it isn't magic? I don't know. Anyways Tybalt said I should get checked out at the infummery? infammery? in...infur...well, whatever this place is called."
nurse Julie give a little giggle at Asha's innocence. but nothing really intended to be offensive.
Of course I will help you out, please do come in and have a seat.
Looking to Tryko'Sam. I will be the judge as to what we will be looking for, at least while Miss Nala is busy with other matters.
she shows everyone into the infirmary.
We have an open bed now since Ms Waverider has been discharged.
she shows everyone to the room. Please have a seat. I would like to ask you a few questions before we scan. First you say that you had an experience? or an episode which resulted in some ability appearing in you? I would like you to tell me as much detail as possible. especially what you were thinking about and how you were feeling at that time.
Julie allows Asha to answer as she moves the scanner into position.
Due to the complexity of altering cellular production centers that create a virus with an active arcane metabolism, the nanite fabrication will take several hours, at which time the girl will have to be removed from stasis for the treatment to be administered.After Nala sets up the nanite fabrication and oversees the first few stages, she is free to return to studying the active viruses that she removed from the stasis field. During the time that she was programming the nanite factory, the viruses seem to be moving more sluggishly. A closer examination reveals that their internal processes are slowing and, in a few cases, shutting down. Nala can conclude from this that the virus is unable to live for long without a host, but due to their extreme mutation and infection rate and communicability, they would never reach this stage on any planet with animal life.
Nala had continued working furiously as the nanite fabrication processed. She stopped abruptly, checking and rechecking her data.
"Ryuzo! I need a full scan from one or more of the plague victims in Kuros. I need to see how the virus interacts with its hosts....I think I might know how to stop it!"
The clone steps forward.
"I'll need a scanner..."
"If you can control them from so far away, try it. I agree that the creatures you summoned won't get infected, or at least they won't carry it back to their home planes since they are simply magically created copies."
"Exactly my thought. I will summon them as close as possible to the town. What is most needed at the moment, if you've been observing the situation?" Vare replies, closing his eyes and readying himself to bring forth creatures to help.
"I'll pass on the coordinates."
"I know," she said, sounding like she was holding back tears. "First, let's worry about cleaning up Kuros and the surrounding area. Then we circle out from there. If we work quickly we can still catch it before it spreads to other communities. I hope. And with some luck, Nala will find a way to kill the virus soon."
There's another moment of silence over the comm channel as Tyrrin looks out over the town, thinking. "Professor, if there's any group of people who can do this, it's Avalon. We are not yet lost." it felt strange, attempting to offer comfort to her teacher. "Ghalen is going to contact my Mother, we may need her assistance." she adds after-the-fact.
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arthur nods at all the right places, listening intently, "fascinating, and you said this was just this past week? I was expecting the highlights of a month, and, wow, ok so the boyfriend is better now, yes? And the previous one, how did that end? You think he might be trouble later, do you need someone to rough him up or do you want to do that yourself if it comes to that?""Yep, a week...welcome to Avalon, where there is literally never a dull moment. And yeah, my boyfriend is fine now. For certain values of fine...we didn't make it in time to save his parents, so he's obviously pretty upset about that to put it mildly. But Ardiente is all back in one piece and no lasting ill effects from the beheading, so that's good."
"And the thing with Dave ended when we found out that I was only dating him because I was being mind-controlled by him. In all fairness, he didn't actually know he was doing it. Sometimes that happens with a new ability. But, honestly, I don't know that that really makes me feel better about it. I don't think Dave is going to be trouble. At least I hope not. Tybs is pretty convinced that Dave really didn't know what he was doing and that he feels bad about it. I haven't felt like spending enough time around him to find out for sure. I guess I'll have to talk to him at some point. I should probably tell him about me and Ardiente before he finds out from someone else...I just get so angry every time I see him."
"wait, so around here people just spontaneously start mind controlling people and then go "oops my bad" when it comes out? that's a thing here, huh," he then notices Hermes' ship taking off, and begins his preflight checks. after a short pause he starts talking again while doing the checks "well, first off, were you the only one mind controlled? cause if you were it kinda seems just that much more off, you know? second, do you want to patch things up with him, I mean you aren't going to be friends with everybody, and what little I've heard about the guy isn't good, I may not be seeing the whole picture but that's what it looks like to me, oh er... is this line of discussion uncomfortable.... we could talk about something else, like that Ardiente guy, or you could ask me questions... or silence... that also works" Arthur looks mildly embarrassed