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Walking through the door seemed to lift everything off of Camille Ryland, obviously a Sun Trainee. She was inside the fifth, secret room back in her twenty-two year old mind and twenty-two year old body. She looked destroyed, utterly wrecked, and like she wanted to cry. Had been crying. She didn't even bother to go far just picked a portion of the wall where she was out of everyone's way and sank down to the ground, staring dead-eyed out in front of her.

The first thing Maebe noticed when she entered the room was not the group of people trying to see some secret message in a frame, but the fact that Cami looked like she'd been hit by a wrecking ball. She beelined over to kneel in front of the woman, discerning with a quick visual once-over to see if she was injured.

No, clearly the only thing that had injured a woman as full hearted as Cami, was a place like this. Maebe walked out relatively unscathed (according to her) and Cami was in tears. It was telling proof of which one of them had the real heart, and which had nothing left to cry for.

"Hey." She whispered, holding both of her hands out. "I'm here, beautiful. Miss me?"

Maebe caught every subtle difference in the way Cami said her name, the way she acted, the way she hesitated. She responded by lurching forward, pulling Cami into the embrace firmly. "Well you're not in the dark now. Neither of us are. We've got light here, and other people, who really don't matter, because they're not us." And they were busy, anyway.

"Forget everything you heard, everything you saw. This entire place is just one big bad joke, trying to hurt you. Nothing about it is real, except us. I promise." Her hands wandered, even though this wasn't the time or the place, but they were right there - she just lightly brushed the back of her hands up, continuing to rest against Cami's neck.

"Look here, Cami." She took the woman's chin in her hand, and pulled it up, bending in to brush her lips against hers. "Feel that? That's you, not being alone anymore. Now, let me see that smile."

Nothing could have surprised Cami more than having been dragged into a hug by Maebe of all people. Demonstrative affection of this kind, the reassuring and caring kind, hadn't that been everything she said she was against? But it was so good. So good to have a voice she trusted, a voice that was reasonable and soft against her ear, telling her that everything was okay. She wasn't in the dark, she was in the light, she wasn't alone. She wasn't going to be alone.

A shaky laugh when hands drifted along her curves and stole a squeeze, the most oddly reassuring part of all of it, sealed the deal. Throwing herself hard in against the smaller blonde Cami squeezed the Moon Hunter tightly. "You're right. You're absolutely right. But you're always right, aren't you Maebe baby?" The smile was there and while the redhead's eyes didn't sparkle, they didn't shine, there was life in them again. She was smiling.

It was only the shift of her eyes that betrayed her. "We're friends, right? I'm not...not pressing in on you right?" It was important.

Quietly, because she did see Hanna and had heard her apology, Cami leaned in as if they were sharing a secret which, of course, they absolutely were. "Well yeah we very much are but somehow I think being your friend is a much harder thing to be than your squeeze. Which you're welcome to do as often as you'd like when we lean in again." Sitting back but making sure that she kept a light hold on Maebe's hand, cornflower eyes finally looked up at Hanna.

"No longer goin' on about the opiate of the masses then?" Alright it was rude and a little mean to tease her friend about the fact that she'd gone out of her mind with the Ancients' pools but Hanna had bitchslapped the hell out of Cami. She had to get a little bit back in return! "Apology accepted. None of us were in our right minds." She still hadn't looked down the corridor at what everyone else was doing because, frankly, she didn't care.

Leaning over she wasn't happy until some of her weight rested against Maebe. "I'm happy you're here." It was spoken coincidentally but she did mean that she was pleased both of her friends were there. All they needed now were the boys and it would have been perfect. A hug from Otto, long and tight, lingering the way that his always did? It would have been heaven.

More hunters were showing up, which was making Shun more ill at ease. He kept a narrowed gaze leveled on them all and a good grip on his daggers. Chel showing up and trying to ease the tension didn't really help all that much, unfortunately.

"There are bigger issues at hand, unless you decide to make yourselves the immediate threat," he simply warned. He'd 'play nice' for now, but if violence broke out, he wasn't about to hold back if he could help it.

It was a bit lucky that Chel was very obviously a hunter or there might have been a bit of a reaction to the fact that Cami was being asked not to kill someone. Blinking a few times, finally looking down the rest of the room, she snorted. Today was not the best day and the sweet, kind, snuggly Cami was somewhere back on Deus. "I highly doubt anyone from Halloween can be actually cool but I really don't care to smack and be smacked right now. I'm sitting down over here for a reason." Which was mildly untrue but again, give a damn.

All gone. So gone.