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Levi turned back to the skull... remembering their professor again before looking back for the hound. Ah- he was leaving back through the doorway...

Do they... really go there to go home? It seemed to be the case. Many of the students passed through and out of sight. The tatzel supposed leaving this place before another ruckus could occur would be a fine idea. She thought of the baku who'd gone off to run around in a panic hugging others despite her condition. Worry struck again. Indeed, the petite ghoul looked shaken. She wasn't really keeping on her feet all too well.

The tatzel confronted the petite ghoul then, crossing her arms across her chest for a moment. Hopefully the baku would listen to reason. Xiu, ya ain't lookin' too well, screecheart. Listen... Levi knelt down, keeping her back curled and offering a hand to the baku to help her get on the tatzel's back. ... lemme take ya home. Need ta git yew fixed up, I think. Levi'd had a broken bone or two in her day, but honestly seeing Xiu with her injuries worried her more than any of her own mishaps.

"What are y- oh.."

It took a moment for her to realize what he was doing, but once she had Shehk didn't fuss as she was picked up. Instead she leaned herself against him, burying her face into his shoulder so that she didn't have to look. Certainly she knew it was there, but...she didn't want to look anymore. The skinwalker was a convenient door against it, her arms firm around his neck to keep herself upright as he carried her.

Even when he moved towards the skull she shifted, burying her face further to avert her gaze from it. She'd said her peace, had a piece, and left her emblem already. She...was ready for the nightmare to be over. But really, something in her gut told her everything had started there, and that it would all get worse.

She had another image for her waking nightmares, sorrow, and it felt like her heart was being teased with how hopeful it felt.

Going home would help, she hoped.

[[Shehk has gone through the door to home with Nuk! O_O ]]

With a final shake of his head, West turned away from Levi and her shenanigans, his brow furrowing at Holly's question. He was fairly sure he knew where the cut had gone, but he had no intention of getting into a conversation about that when he could barely speak. Instead he shrugged, then nodded. The sooner they got out of here, the better.

His expression didn't lighten when Savior added her question to the mix. He had no idea how to convey to the Marrowstripe that he and the tatzel had died, so she received a shrug as well. With the hand that wasn't steadying Danny over his shoulder he gestured, motioning them all toward the door. He nodded at Mandy. Yes, they should be going.

He turned one final time to look at what was left of Red. His anger toward her remained, but the tiniest bit of regret was beginning to color his most dominant emotion. He wouldn't miss her skittersharks and he wouldn't forgive her for sending him to that place, but still, no one deserved to go out like that. In the end she had won against that thing in her head. She had protected them all from those... creatures. West rolled his eyes and sighed, closing his gloved hand and reopening it again a moment later. He tossed his pin at the base of her skull, but was out the door before he saw it land.


(( West has exited. ))

Cym's silence was rare, not having gone unnoticed by the others. At her uneasy glance, Aisa's iris eyes softened and closed briefly, remembering briefly, the time of all four of them together before the island. How all of them had been very different back then .. and yet, not so different now. But there was an entire world between those times. Connie comforted Eris .. and Aisa's arms slowly and gently wrapped around on Cym's shoulders. Aisa was so much taller, it being a rather odd fit. But a comfortable one. The world had lost something irreparably precious. A part of their world that they would never be allowed to take back. In their own, rather stoic way, it was hitting them with a vengeance.

The fact, that they could not simply take it back. Death was not something that could be, as Aisa knew best.

There was a silent message in the company of the horsemen: There was no doubt that their worlds might break upon losing one of the heirs. Aisa would do her utmost to make sure that would not happen-- They could-- no, they would not allow their worlds to grow smaller, through the victories of hunters. Too much, the hunters had taken from them-- their once clever minds, coherent and unrivaled amongst the generations of clan leaders .. Not that they hadn't gained the amusement of insanity and it's rather unique viewpoints.

But now, their clans looked upon the heirs with uncertainty. The aftereffects of their time would never go away, it only warped their worlds so and other's opinions of them. But in a way, that quality filtered out the unnecessary and made the necessary prominent. It was difficult to explain but it was also difficult to keep themselves in check. Red's death had emphasized that they must not fall. Fall to the hunters. Fall to insanity. Fall to depths that they could not crawl out of.

Xiu returned Vaith's nod with a one of her own, only to cringe at the pain that passed through her head. "I have a bit of a headache," She said, turning back to Remi, Raziel, and Lacie and offering them an apologetic smile, "Probably just tired from...from everything that happened. I-I'm going to get going--don't stay too long, okay? You guys are hurt too."

Hand clutched to her head, she started forward towards the door, nearly walking straight into Levi as she stepped up in front of her. Puzzled, she blinked at the tatzel when she crouched down. What was Levi trying to do--oh. Xiu began to shake her head at the offer, but promptly cringed at the headache beating at her skull. Maybe it was best to take Levi up on that offer.

Hesitantly, Xiu climbed onto her back, using her good arm to hang onto the tatzel while her injured arm was stuck stiffly to her side. "I-I sorry to be an inconvenience, jiejie." She murmured, resting her forehead on Levi's shoulder and shutting her eyes in an attempt to relieve her throbbing headache some, "Thank you for the help."

"Alright." Bea replied back to Cady.

She took one last look at Red's remains and walked through the door, following her teammates.

((exit to halloween))

She would have slapped his hand away- she didn't need anyone. Even now, when her body was hurting all over. If she leaned on him- what if he fell, and let her fall, too?

Vieve began struggling to stand- it was enough that someone got to see her in this vulnerable state. Her legs were like jelly under her, and her arms were still tender from having been burnt by Red's fire attack.

"I'm fine," she managed, her voice barely audible. She didn't need pity, ever. Considering how small and weak she was already feeling, she didn't.. need anyone to make her feel smaller.

Tears were welling up in her eyes again- but that was stupid. Why was she being so emotional? This was such a far cry from the girl who'd first entered the haunted house, ready for any challenge ever, ready to beat everything up. In the end, though, she was the one who'd been beaten.

"I'm fine," she said again, more to convince herself, than him. Her vision was blurry, now, from crying, and she rubbed at her eyes, only to realise she'd just gotten ash in them, and it burned.