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Shun looked at the hand on his shoulder and shifted it out of his grasp. Thankfully his kingdom self wasn't really a fan of contact.

"She wasn't in the tower. She was at the labyrinth with me. The task was straining. She will be fine, but she doesn't need people fussing over her to add mores stress," he said lowly, resisting the urge to stab the not!hunter in the face right about now.

At least Riley stepped in to help him in this facade. Though he couldn't help but give her a bit of a look as she said that he was taking good care of her.

Before much more could happen, the voice suddenly came booming back. The black kingdom had fallen. Alright. Oh. And there was a huge battle to take place soon. Well that would make their job of slaying everyone a little easier. Warily, his gaze shifted over towards the king. The one who donned Xiu's image.

He may need to be the one to stab her in the back.

The warm feeling ran through her arm, and Rosy could only smile before she rolls her sleeve down. At the chime, she froze as she looks around. That Voice, she was really starting to hate it. What it had to say though, made a lump in her throat form as she shakes her head.

Her eyes turn to the King, this kingdom needed her. They loved her, she could see it in all of them. Turning her eyes, she pauses as she watch a few of them heading towards the Palace, then to the others just around her. She could see them all stepping forth to end their lives for her. But they all needed one another, she could see it.

Closing her eyes, she takes a small step forward before she looks to The King. She didn't say a word, she just smiles at her then bows her head alittle.

The tea hit her palette in a comfortable way, refreshing her nerves right before he had a lapse in consciousness. Suddenly aware of who and where she was, the Doppelganger looked down at the tea before warily taking another sip.

Two sips.... nope. She spit the liquid out as politely as she could. She liked tea, but only if it was sweetened. Who the hell even drank the spicy stuff?

Surely her other self was smart enough to have at least one jar of coffee, right? A frantic search would prove fruitless, but did produce a slightly irked Gene. So she had to kill fakes with her friend's faces, and go a day without coffee? This sucked hardcore.

She gladly got up with Riley, having recognized her, as well as Shun and Levi, in the dream. They were real - she could trust them.

"So...this will be fun." She whispered, looking over to...

Oh dear Jack, Levi. Don't blow their cover.

Somehow, Riley lacked the morality to care that Ro looked like a kicked puppy at their retreat.

The three of them had just made it to the palace steps when the sound of Levi's scream reached them. Riley let go of Gene's elbow, and slapped her face with both hands. Holding up the ruse? Not likely.

She hurtled, with a voracity that ruined her own ruse at that point, and stopped directly in front of 'The Queen'. She had to maintain some semblence of her own self, something.. what did weak willed women such as this one say at a time such as this..

My Queen, please, you're not well! Riley's tentacles slid, very quickly, around the Queen. A hug? No, all twenty three tentacles were cocooning the woman within them. Let me help you back up to your room, perhaps a nice warm bath and some smelling salts will ease the dark humors that plague you. You know what they say, a bath a day keeps the demons away! Ooohohohhoho!

Riley wanted to kill herself at that very moment.

She carried Levi all the way back into the palace, and out of sight, before daring to say a word.

All of you listen very carefully. We have a job to do, or else our friends are in a lot of danger because we're being idiots who run around screaming obscenities and ruining our cover. Yes, she was talking to you, cocoon formerly known as Levi. So please, calm yourself and remember that lives are at stake here. You saw the vision just as well as we did, and you know what we must do. Our priority must be to eliminate every single life in this alternate world, including those that we love. That means not being locked away in the dungeons because we attacked someone within the kingdom. We must make it out on that battlefield. Are you with me so far?

She didn't wait for the cocoon to answer.

You heard The Voice. Her own voice dripped with malice as she said it. We know Xiu. Or at least.. our Xiu. She won't send anyone out there, she will go and fight. That means we must eventually kill her, along with everyone else. But we have allies here, and we have to keep them until the very end. If you blow our cover, you throw away the lives of the people we care about. I will NOT let that happen.

The tentacles slowly uncurled around Levi, but her eyes were on all three of the people in front of her as she spoke. Our mission is simple. We leave to the battlefield, and fight for our kingdom, until everyone else is dead. Then, we kill them too. Her eyes narrowed to slits. And one more thing.. I know we all have people we care about. If you demand that someone's facade - and I must remind you these ARE facades - but if you demand to be the one to kill them, speak up now. Her hands clenched to fists. No one kills Malodore but me.

Gene let loose a little groan at Levi's antics - actually never having met the ghoul before this. Adversity built friendships, or something like that. She really needed to stop looking at inspiration quotes on sepia photographs.

Nodding along to everything Riley said, albeit with a little hint of hesitation, Gene cleared her throat to speak after Shun.

"I'll...take care of Mot, when the time comes." She managed, looking to the side. He was a fun guy, a good friend... and she didn't want to see him harmed in any way. But this wasn't Mot - this was fake Mot, an illusion caused by some sort of power calling itself The Voice.

The Voice could go shove it's mouth up it's cornhole, for all she cared.

"So, when all is said and done...we'll attack the fake Xiu as a unit, yes?"

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Laughing a little as they helped the girl up he nodded to Rosy, "would seem so...wouldn't it." Watching the stammering other and the blush that dusted her cheek he couldn't help but feel a swirl of pride for the embarrassment, cute. "It's alright really." He held back his tongue on more and looked to the King, like the rest he denied needing more time but with only a shake of his head before he abruptly laughed at the butt crack. "What a pity.." A teasing eye ran over the King with much appreciation, this King was something alright.

Spinar simply shook his head and rolled the sleeve of his shirt up offering the opposite forearm that Rosy had picked for herself. There was a brief moment of warmth when the mark was bestowed but after he felt more complete than he had in a while. Perhaps things were looking up, or at least he had thought this before the Voice spoke. Damn. It was clearly to late to retract now wasn't it?

Nervous and angry he grew with the words that were spoken. A sacrifice or the King? Neither were very good options in his opinion with a sigh he looked to Rosy whom had moved up and oh so silently offered herself to be taken. What in the hell did she think she was doing? Spinar reached for her hand and attempted to pull her back, it was much to soon to be offing themselves wasn't it? After all they had just joined. Even if he had to do something drastic he had to keep her here. with him, like, "Rosy." He called her name softly in attempts to get her to turn, closing in on her as he did.

She hit an incoming purple body with some force. Before the tatzel could assess who it was, she was engulfed by appendages. WHY YOU- Trying to remove herself from this very awkward restraint, Levi's nails dug and scraped at the tentacl- Tentacles?

Mind pressing the rewind button lodged somewhere in her minimal memory bank, Levi did recall the setting of the scene where she overheard Medea and Arel. Riley and Shun were there... and "the Tortoise." When she came back to, hearing everything Riley had said, her ears began to rise to their regular upright positions. Allies, tch, but it ain't them in'thar. That was her family the ghoul asked her to keep under the trance and Levi's voice rang with disapproval. I don't wanna see 'em in'ere anymore.Killing them quickly meant she wouldn't have to bare the thought of them lingering in a life that wasn't their own. Released, she looked at her new brand; once again she'd been labeled by the horsewoman. She didn't want to use them anymore than she was being used herself. They were calling out kills like critters on the hunt.

Rex n' Xiu. I want 'em outta'ere.

Levi wanted to look back outside to see him. He was out there somewhere.

n' West. He's mine too.

Her breathing began to even out, allowing her muscles to ease out of their tension. If tha'fake Xiu's got that much gut in'er, reckon it'll take tha'whole a'us.

Her tail curled up and into itself behind her, considering Gene's words with a stern nod and furrowed brow.