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Yashi put the toddler down once he started to wiggle, fingers touching his hair briefly before. Neveahs death had shaken him and the lack of anything to do in order to help just left him trembling in his rage.

That's when Zah moved past. Golden eyes followed him and his fangs shrunk as h is best friend registered in his mind. His brother wasn't even spared a glance as Yashi pattered quickly after his friend...carrying his mothers body.

"Zah," The kitsune whispered, moving to walk just slightly behind him and his hand reached out to touch the boys shoulder as they walked into the place they had been told. "Z-Zah... I'm sorry. I am."

The flash of light tore across the cieling, stopping Taylor in her tracks again. She watched, eyes squinted, it as it brightened the room, bristling with strange, squiggling tendrils of light.

Light and dark, light vs. shadow... she wished for her physics textbook, but had an idea that this was no mere matter of photons.

Wait... if there was all this light, where was the remaining darkness coming from? She scanned the chaotic crowd, loud with shouting and crying and fighting, not entirely sure what she was looking for-

There. A horribly familiar shadowy figure, far away from the action but still too close for comfort.

"It's over there!" Taylor shouted to anyone within hearing, pointing her wand at the distant Jorianth. "The thing! It's still here! Come on!"

She was NOT taking this on alone.

Nicolai stood quickly, still frantically searching for Wiko, but gave enough time to shout his own warning to Taylor.

"Did you not hear?? I said we have to get OUT!" he almost growled. "Leave him to the others!"

Not his style... but it had to be done.

"And where the hell is my malysh??!" he continued, inadvertantly blurting Russian in the process. Catching sight of him down the hall, and satisfied enough by that, he darted after, herded with the rest into the training room.

"And how are we supposed to get out?" Taylor shouted back, her voice high-pitched and frightened. "There isn't any out! We're enveloped or-"

She jumped as a pair of razor-edged shadows shrieked through the air at her. She jumped clumsily, dodging one, slicing wildly at the other, but she wasn't quite fast enough. The deadly dark edge bit into her ankle, sending drops of blood splashing to the floor.

Not fatal, not incapacitating, but really, really painful. Her stride became more of an agonizing limp. s**t.

Still, she stood firm, wand at the ready. It had done an okay job fending off shadows so far. And at this point, she couldn't turn and run. She had to win. Had to finish it.

Was this how Diacyn felt all the time? It was a little scary.

Rouge had crossed the room in the time that had passed. And now with a fainted Kay on the ground she decided it was time to move. Picking up the child she moved in the direction she had been deduced was towards the training room. "I'd say we've lingered a bit too long." she mumbled. Right about then she missed Steve. Steve and Tandy and Chip and her crew.

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Then she noticed Taylor. "Oh no. You aren't staying here." she hissed adjusting Kay so she was under one arm and going back to the other. Bending down she grabbed Taylor round the waist, slinging the other over her shoulder. "You are hurt and I refuse to let you stay here." and with that she turned, heading toward the training room once again.

Shira was still partialy blinded and blown by the light when she arose, holding the sword with two hands and blinking out the white spots in her eyes. She heard and acknowledged Nicolai's wise advice of leaving this up toe whomever these entities that appeared were. Ready to leave she saw Coailiann fall to the ground.

"Whomever your child is I'm sure he's safe, as Coailiann has said!" Shira yelled at Nic. "Now help take in those who are here!"

Unaccustomed to fighting, but willing if her next action caused it, she was strided quickly towards Taylor and stopped after another darker being arrived. Shitshitshitshitshit Luckily Rouge picked her up, but Shira was now worried if they had drawn the dark one's attention.

Taylor collapsed as the shadowy whip curled around her leg like a lash of razor wire, spilling even more blood onto the floor. Dark grey blood in a shadowy world. Through the pain, she saw two more figures, or maybe one figure- was she having double vision now?

NO! Can't- give up- she flailed blindly at the whip with her sword-wand, having no idea if it was working or not. The edges of her vision were starting to go dark-

And then someone was picking her up, dragging her back to her feet- the whip's grip loosened and she was able to follow, though just barely. The ankle, at this point, was hardly functional at all. A trail of spotty blood was left on the floor behind them.

"I guess there was an 'out' after all-" she murmured vaguely, more then a little dizzy. "Hey, thanks... whoever you are?..."

I really am an idiot.