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"I'm fine... I was actually hoping to stay on the roof for a few hours until you woke up... by then it would've probably healed..." She turned her head a little away, a bit embarassed that her little plan was what caused all this trouble. "Heh... I guess it didn't work..." Rivera slowly took her arm off her eyes, adjusting to the dim light with blinks. Note: No more hiding in dark places for long periods of time... Just great... going out into the broad daylight was going to be such a pain... stupidity... "Just a question... how did you get Koishi to do that? You broke a class 1 sealing barrier... I can't break those yet and I'm an assassin. And Koishi's not even past mature period yet. How the hell did you control it?"

Rin finally tore her gaze away from the wall, muttering a few things under her breath as her eyes darted around for someone else to ask. She spotted another who was leaning against a wall. This spirit was male as well but, unlike the others, he seemed very bored with nothing to do. She approached him slowly, arms folded irritably under her breath. "You," she began sharply, causing the spirit to look up at her, blinking a couple times. As soon as she thought she had his attention, Rin continued. "Do you know of anyone who could turn that guy back human?" She waved her hand at Razzer once more, having a short staring contest with the spirit who just gazed blankly at her. Then he nodded his head once, and started drifting lazily down the hall. Rin stared after him, and then glanced back towards Razzer. "This way, maybe," she mumbled. The spirit hadn't replied, so she wasn't sure, but he seemed to know. She began following him, walking right through a spirit with each step she took.

Rin glanced over her shoulder once, to see if Razzer was following, and then turned to face forward as she saw he was. She didn't bother talking to him, since she didn't have anything important to say. Instead she simply smoothed a bit of white lace that decorated her black dress, and then slightly adjusted one of her fingerless black gloves. She kept her bright eyes locked upon the spirit's back as she followed him further into the temple. "Are you sure you know someone?" she asked doubtfully.

The male slowly looked back at her, nodded once, and then disappered into a wall. Rin stopped abruptly, looking surprised, and then furious once more. Though, a couple seconds later the male stuck his head back out of the wall and then began leading them again. Rin watched him in a slight confusion, and slowly started following again, a little more wary this time. Hopefully he wasn't leading them into a trap of some sort. She couldn't say she trusted this place.

Razzer followed Rin who was, presumably, following a spirit. She stopped abruptly and put on a couple strange facial expressions. But then she began walking again. Razzer, slightly baffled, said nothing. Instead he just followed silently. The halls of the temple, while not as magnificently decorated as the entrance hall, were still beautiful in their own eerie way. The mage shook his head violently. This place is really starting to affect me. He thought. It's too pure...

Razzer wasn't evil, but he certainly wasn't a saint. The temple obviously had some sort of purification spell on it to dispell those of a less-noble heart. He briefly wondered if Rin was affected like he was, but he figured she wasn't. Anyways, if she was, she wasn't showing it.

Kira looked at her and grinned at her comment on the sword. "Yeah... Koishi is a great sword..." He said quietly, looking over his shoulder at the blade hilt. "Rivera... Don't over exert yourself..." He said when he heard her stop short in her sentence and nearly collapse, leaning on to a wall to keep herself up. He snapped with his right index and middle fingers against his thumb, causing a shadowy limb to emerge from his back. H picked her up with his right arm and makeshift left arm, his left arm of flesh still hanging limply at his side, carrying her out through the dimensional rift that lead back to her dorm.

((Next post at the dorms!))

Razzer followed Rin for a minute more, then they stopped again. She stared ahead for a moment, and muttered something to whatever unseen spirit was in front of her. She slowly turned towards Razzer.

"Do you want to change back now?" she asked him. "He says he can do it."

This was it. The moment of decision. Either he say yes now and (hopefully regain the body he lost) or decline and learn to live with his current body for the rest of his life. He took a deep breath.

"Yes." he said finally, closing his eyes and exhaling.

When Razzer gave his answer, Rin nodded and turned her back to him. A moment or two - though it felt like an eternity longer - Rin turned back to face Razzer. Her eyes were glazed over, and she looked at her dress for a moment. Slightly baffled, she mumbled the exclamation that she was wearing a dress. Obviously the spirit speaking through her - or she'd gone off her rocker.

"Are you ready?" Rin/the spirit asked. She held her hands out, and closed her eyes. That's when it began. It was barely noticeable at first, but then the glow began to make its way from his bottom-most tentacles upwards, eventually enveloping his whole body. The feeling was the most bizarre one Razzer had ever experienced. It hurt, but wasn't a painful hurt... it was kind of like he was a doll, being unstitched. It made sense to him, anyways. Razzer closed his eyes and let the unfelt changes take place.

A few moments later he could feel the energy surrounding him going away. He waited a moment before slowly opening his eyes. His feet - feet, not tentacles - were fit snugly into the shoes he had worn before he had been transformed. His clothes must have transformed with him. Man, was Razzer glad. He held his hands in front of his face and stared at them. Just to see if they were real, he wiggled his fingers. He was back!

Just then, Razzer's tentacle involuntarily twitched. Slightly surprised, he looked behind him. One of his tentacles was still protruding from the bottom of his spine, just above his butt. Razzer blinked. Well, he still had one tentacle, but he was back. He could have cried, but instead he settled for looking back to Rin and smiling.

"Rin, thank you." he said quietly.

((g2g, back in about an hour))