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Her speach was occassionally interrupted by deep gasps for breath as her fatigue finally caught up with her. The quickly fadeing strength provided by her anger was the only thing holding her up at that moment, and what ever was feeding on her anger and sorrow was quickly finding the appitite to gorge itself on what remained of Rintala's sorrow. She could feel it being eaten, but she could also feel the emptiness that sorrow normally brought. Still on her hands and knees she cried, chunks of stone and metal falling from her armored body. Pain writhed throughout her entire body and she cringed at it's presence. Why couldn't the pain be devoured as well? Wrapping her arm around her mid section, Rintala fell to her side. The stone and metal she used to create her armor was sucked back into the earth so she didn't fall ontop of it. Laying on her right side she wrapped her other arm around her mid section, crying without heed. All she wanted was to be alone and cry...

A rock flew through the air and connected with Phia's right shoulder to which Xol appeared at her left. "What's uuuu... wow. Phia. You look like you've been through a hell of a week." He gave her an apprehensive look and a slight grin. "Does this have something to do with the unknown blood on your chin?"

Xol tilted his head and quirked his brow in an extreme gesture of bewilderment. With a shrug he followed her into the tree and sat on the branch beside her. "You know... keeping it all bottled up inside isn't going to help. However much this weirds me out by saying it... you can talk to me Phia. I mean... we're friends rights? You need someone to talk to and I have nothing better to do than listen."

"Well... I just thought... that... nevermind..." He turned away and shrugged his shoulders, jumping up onto the branch above Phia.

Xol was oddly silent, just looking up into the night sky through the opening in the trees canopy. His legs dangled below him, everyone once in awhile rocking back and forth with the warm night breeze.

"I miss Raven..." He huffed slightly and layed down on the branch belly first so that he was looking down at Phia. His crimson eyes glowed slightly as he glanced from her to the ground below.

"How's Aria doing? Haven't seen her since you took her to New York with you. Going to school and whatnot I assume..." Xol asked, letting his arms dangle off the branch.

"Damn... thirteen already. Time does fly fast over there. I haven't visited in so long..." He chuckled remembering his last visit and grinned at Phia.

"Well at least she's doing good, however... too bad I can't say the same for her mother." A flicker of concern flashed in his eyes before he turned his head and rested it on the branch.

"What about D?"

"All you need to do is find a way to seperate him from old D and you'll be a happier woman again, eh?" Xol laughed and shifted slighlty as a branch poked his back and startled him enough to cause him to roll off his branch, falling and bouncing off Phia's branch onto the one below.

"..." With a groan, he leapt up onto the branch he had feel from and looked away.

"Anyway... at least you got to see him. I haven't seen Raven in forever and a day." Xol whined, rubbing his back and deciding to not follow up on her problems anymore.

"Well Phia... If you ever need a hand or a friend... you know where to find me." He gave a slight grimace and rubbed his back.

"Damn tree..." Xol growled before dissapearing into a plume of black mist. It would encompass Phia for a brief moment, hopefully giving her a slight sense of relaxation before entirely dissapearing.