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Amelia gritted her teeth and continued her attempts to get free as Rhys appeared, hurtled down, and... barely managed to grab onto Rei's leg. She stared at Rei merely kicked his leg free and let Rhys crash down to the bottom of the stairwell. "Rei, will you stop being such a p***k and let me go?" she demanded angrily, trying once again to dig her heel into his foot.

He seemed to be ignoring her, but apparently only too willing to comply; before she could brace herself, his hands were at her back and she was hurtling down the stairs after Rhys, colliding hard with someone. "Ow...!" she mumbled. Then there was Rhys' voice, and she pulled her cheek up from his chest, looking at him. He seemed all right, at least... "I-I'm fine, yeah. Uhm... I can't-- Augh!" Aran came down next, and Amelia barely avoided getting hit by rolling off of Rhys and tugging him out of the way. "I can't tell, Rei went insane..." she looked up. He disappeared from sight, and Amelia scowled.

"Rei...! Rei! Get the hell back here!" Amelia pulled herself to her feet despite her aching knees and cheek. He did not expect to wound her, threaten Alihi, Renault, and Ashnard, threaten her, and then let herself, Rhys, and Aran nearly crash into each other like it was nothing, did he? She scooped up her fallen lance and scrambled up the steps, reaching the top. Oujay was already running after Rei. She ignored him, bursting outside. He couldn't have disappeared that quickly. "Rei!"

All the sort of commotion got Ephraim's attention from the 2nd floor's balcony. He ran back through the door and toward the main lobby. Rather then take the stairs down, the prince simply leaped over the ledge and landed on the ground with a rather loud clack that echoed the halls just a little.

He landed just in time to watch Amelia run out the door. Ephraim followed, getting a jump start but not after his head connected with that of another. One who was coming up the stairs. "S-Sorry!" Ephraim apologized, catching the person before he landed on the ground. "You alright?" Addressing the man in white robes whom didn't really look too well in the prince's eyes.

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Thus far that day, he'd walked to and from the town of Eyris, been busy tending to the sick, fallen down stairs, and now butted heads.

After all that, "Eeeeeaaaaamm" was the best he could manage to Ephraim, trying to focus. "D... did you get the crest of that Knight?"

Nils shook his head, pushing his thoughts aside. ... I'll deal with that later. For now, just get inside... He willed his feet to move, suddenly feeling rather worried and afraid. The bard had been out for a while... he had not a clue what was going on. He stepped inside, already dreading what he would hear. The thought that something bad happened to Rei was set in his mind, making him anxious. He turned to Rhys, who was with someone he didn't recognize.
"... Milord? What's going on?"

Rei kept walking out into the field, ignoring the calls of Rhys, Amelia, and whoever else decided to pursue the Druid.They can't catch me, anyway. His eyes glanced at Nils as he absentmindedly walked past, but quickly dismissed it. I don't need any dead weight, especially not that pipsqueak... His pace quickened as he waved his hand in the direction of the house, making a few tendrils shoot from the ground to occupy any of his pursuers.

"Hmmm... whatever should I do now...?" He jokingly mused, making arcs of dark energy shoot across his fingertips. "Maybe terrorize the village? Or an assault on the castle? Oh, the possibilities!"

Amelia was still running after Rei. He had a lead on her, but he was walking amiably, like he had nothing to worry about. Not if I have anything to say about it...! Amelia gripped her lance more tightly. She was gaining on him, she would soon be close enough to grab onto his shirt and smack some sense into him. "Rei! Rei, get back here!"

His response, unfortunately, was not to answer verbally, but to vaguely gesture in the direction of the house he'd walked out of and send up black tentacles of dark magic. Amelia scowled at them. It wasn't as if they could speak, but she seemed to treat them as if they could. "Get out of my way!" She shouted, slashing the head of her spear at the tendrils. One hacked right in half, wilting and disappearing in a puddle of black goo, while the other two didn't seem to be affected at all. Amelia swore and tried her best to run around them to get at Rei. It was slow work; she was not good with handling magic, and their attacks affected her more than they might affect, say, Rhys, but soon (or at least, she hoped it was soon) she had managed to dodge around behind them and was sprinting after Rei, her pace a little slowed by the gash one had given her across her side that was slowly trickling out red blood against her shirt.

"Hmm..." Rhys paused, his mental faculties returning. He looked off into the distance, then glared upon seeing the vague dark tendrils. The magic felt all too familiar. "Oh, so. Rei thinks he can do whatever he pleases with us, does he?" Rhys said. "Right... well, he may be too far off, but maybe Amelia and... some other guy will slow him down. Nils, do you want to come? I don't think Rei's magic will smite me that easily."

He slowly walked forward, reaching down the inside of his robes. From an inside chest pocket, he pulled out a Light tome.