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Riley assisted Malodore back towards the others in relative silence, punctuated only near the end by a brief I'm just glad you're all right. When she reached the general assembly, she shook the soot off of her tentacles. But no. We're not here for some candies and gifts. This is about power. It has to be.

And yet, they hadn't encountered the real objective: Sandy Claws. How were they going to bring the jolly old man down if they were trapped in a room with no escape?

She transmitted her thoughts to the entire room in a businesslike manner. Those of us who can walk should search for a weakness. There may not be an obvious way out of here, but if there's a weak spot, we may be able to exploit it. Just don't go wandering alone - if you find our weak spot by falling into it, and we can't hear you, I will be very displeased.

Seeing how bad off Corbin's wing was, his face showed his sympathy. Losing the ability to fly, and especially some feathers like that, looked painful. If only they were back home, then he could heal, couldn't he? It was impossible to miss the fact that others were moving and he slowly pushed himself to his feet. Though he was healed, his body was still sore and moving was vastly discomforting. But he had to move. Had to. Staying still would only get him killed off, he was sure.

Sighing and looking vastly displeased with the state of his clothing, he dusted himself off after he had pocketed his somewhat bloodied peppermints. What a waste... His head shifted in a shake before he noticed Corbin moving to see if others needed healing. Oh, that's right, he hadn't used his bells yet. There had to be some who needed the assist and it was more than time to use it.

As he heard Riley's voice, he glanced over at her briefly. He still recalled the last time he had seen her really; out of it as she had been. He had been inclined to do as she said, since it sounded reasonable, until her last statement. To that, his eyes narrowed slightly before he turned and went to look about himself, slinging his pack over his shoulder. As it was, it was easy to see the others and he was almost impossible to miss. There had to be a way out of this mess. There was truly never such a thing as no escape. If Corbin joined him after he helped out, that would be awesome. But he saw that Aksaja seemed okay for the moment and he was glad to see that.

Laiha stroked her chin, eyes narrowing. To have a telepathic on the team was certainly handy, and this one in particular made perfect sense.

"I'll go with you," she offered, turning to Aksaja. He seemed... hurt. Did he not have any bells left? Either way, it seemed like he was going to need some serious healing when they got back to Halloween.

She wondered idly what the other doors held, as she was certain other students had gone other ways. She approached Aksaja and offered him a rare helpful hand.

Seeing the doctor recover, Jericho turned his attention towards Riley and nodded to her. With the explosion, there was bound to be cracks in the wall somewhere. Between himself and the others, they could probably bring down such a barrier. It was too bad this area wasn't made of gingerbread or something like that.

"Let me know if you need me," he told the two nearby before carefully moving to examine the concrete.

Sin rang the bell a little harder healing Aksaja for 6HP and nodding, that was a bit better. She still wanted to fix up Maladore a but more and double check Junko. She disliked the darkness, the smoke, not for themselves but in this situation how trapped and vulnerable they were.

"Hopefully that feels a little better, but sit tight for a few more minutes..." She glanced around barely able to catch the shapes of her friends.

Raziel had been slowly recovering since the giant elf robot thing exploded. He sat up from where he had been laying and rubbed the back of his head. Ouch... That had hurt quite a bit. He looked around the area at the other students. They all seemed to be in some state of injury, and there was one demon running around ringing her bell like a loon. The noise was starting to make Raziel's head ring too.

He grimaced before saying, "So... Now what?"

Riley nodded briefly, accepting that Malodore could be most useful to those who needed heals or other medical assistance. She looked away for a moment to catch the sight of Aksaja trying to move, glad to see he was feeling better, and considered joining the search - but she paused when she looked back down at their intertwined arms. Would you rather I stay with you? She knew she wouldn't be much use here, except the idea of leaving felt sour - it was still hurt, after all. Though, it did look better than when she'd first found it, she still worried. If he wanted her support, she was sure there were enough students to handle searching without her.

The lightning dragon caught the tail end of Maladore's comment about the smoke and nodded quickly at that, coughing a bit. "Good point... though if there wasn't some way the smoke was filtering out of here, it'd be worse." Which gave him something of an idea...

"Maybe we should try to ... follow the smoke somehow? See if it's going in any particular direction..."

HP: 17