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Danny nodded with Roch, happy to be of assistance. "Well? Hop on," she said, crouching lower so that Taryn could get a good place on her back. Hopefully the wings wouldn't be too in the way. Hey- if she could carry Rikki, she could probably manage Taryn.

The monster that was known as Chuppi had been very happy to see Rain, and she smiled (?) as much as was possible for a creature that had a muzzle rather than a mouth with lips. There was much to talk about with Rain perhaps, coming together after so long, but before she could say anything something else did - a roaring voice inside her head and in her ears and before her eyes.

It went on and on, crying and screaming and laughing and talking. The monster clamped her hands over where her ears were as she dropped down to her knees, a familiar form switching over her body. Her tail slid away as she bit back the urge to scream, her claws shortened themselves as her teeth buried sharply into her lips and drew blood.

When it was all over, the voices finally gone from her head, Chuppi was back in the humanoid form the school had forced on her and she was crying, hard and hot tears. Her fingers had dug into the side of her head and the glass had cut into her back, and she was all around miserable from what was going on.

"What...why.... " Her words were barely audible and hardly understandable even though she was speaking clear English.

FINAL HP 20/40

She didn't realize that anyone was even near them until Calder spoke about parts. Up until then she had been content to try and dredge herself out from her own misery and to cuddle Christof's weeping head against her chest.

"Mm?" Amrita lifted her head to look at the Mare that...she was pretty sure was Calder. "O...Okay." The Vetala shifted Christof's head to one arm, using the other to wipe her blood-teary eyes. Yes, she was needed, right? She couldn't let them down, no matter how much her heart hurt. "I'll be okay, I can wait." There were people much more hurt than she was, it was better to focus on them anyway. "Y-you and Barth and Chris..." The names were spoken as though they were proof. But ah...Her name again?

"...Yes?" Her attention moved to Barth as if noticing him there for the first time. "Oh. Um...n-no, but...I'll go find them." She promised, dragging herself to her feet and holding out Christof's head, pressing it carefully into the Mare's sticky skin. For a moment she was worried it would fall, but thankfully nothing happened.

The currently miserable unhappy tired ghoul wandered off then, determined to find every piece of Christof and to bring it back to the sticky Calder, even if it threatened to break her already weak stitches.

Needle wasn't sure what happened, just all of a sudden she felt terrible. Everything was wrong, everything felt bare, and for a moment she even started to laugh darkly. The Insanity, the pain she felt...oh that would make such lovely marks in someone else's flesh...she could hear the screaming...

The insane chuckles stopped when she was pushed to the ground, and further silence through the shock of realizing there was another body on hers. "...Petro?!" She gasped out when she realized that the body covering hers was none other than the horse boil who had protected her since day one. While the shards still got her, plus the boil's crushing weight and the sudden meeting with the ground, she was still mostly protected and still mostly okay.

"Sheridan...?" She breathed out, tearing her arm spikes from the ground to try and get back to her feet. Blood, she smelt blood everywhere. Oh, she did so love blood---

No. No no no. Bad Needle. No blood.

"Do you have a smaller form, Sheridan? We must get you to the infirmary." Needle said softly, following the larger shape of the Dragon to look in his general direction while not getting close enough to cause him to strike her, if he was not the type for touch.

Yer chillin' ta tha'bone, all a ya. Levi didn't sound so comfy herself, but Shun and Xiu were shivering like leafs. Levi had no second thoughts in returning the baku's snuggling to her, coiling her tail up on the other side of the petite ghoul to provide more fur to hopefully warm her. It might've been cold for a moment, but at least it wasn't wet; the fur would work with their combined body temperatures soon enough. Also, Levi still had the slightly oversized coat, which kept a bit of the chill out. Levi opened one side to Xiu and curved it as best as she could over the ghoul's shoulders, looking over to the wrath demon. His :[ face was pretty typical of him so Levi wasn't all that concerned by his interactions with the pup.

They'd all made a mistake in turning their backs to their opponent. Levi would kick herself after for doing so.

It was as if she was in one of her dreams where the crops were burning. Her family's crops. She couldn't do anything about it and she was certain it wasn't eve real but- ... she could see blue fires blazing, like the ones that had dissipated her in the haunted house. Her crops would burn in an instant. This was horrific. Before anything could be muttered, glass rained down on them all and Levi did her best to not crush Xiu in trying to cover her with more of the coat protectively. The glass and the bomb to follow it were nowhere be seen. Not much of anything was to be seem.

Well, dorms' definitely lookin' good right'bout now... The pup took a hit too; the bigger you are, the harder you... take falling glass and shockwaves? Perhaps. Xiu... Rex... if yer needin' some aid, lemme know. I'll head on over with ya if ya can't do it on'yer own. Though, they both seemed to be in fine shape... Demi would be the more difficult of the two to mend given his size at the moment.

Levi felt the shock of the attack, but was more baffled and pained by the mental infliction. Danged critter.

My HP: 29 - 18 = 11

Despite the attempts to protect themselves--and Levi's much appreciated attempt to protect Xiu with her coat--it seemed as if no one came out of that quake unscathed. On the bright side, the baku's own coat had protected her arms from the shards of glass, but her legs were now sporting a variety of small cuts. Nothing that a few bandaids wouldn't fix, but it still wasn't pleasant.

"I-I'm fine, aniki!" She assured Shun, offering him a weak smile as she looked over the reaper and Mitsu. They were both hurt as well, but at least they were still in one piece. Turning to the tatzel then, she hugged one of the ghoul's arms and stared up at her with wide eyes. "Jiejie, are you okay? If you didn't try to protect me, then maybe..." She trailed off, trying to look the ghoul up and down for any sign of injury.

At the mention of the dorms, the baku suddenly relaxed. Right, the dorms. The dorms, where she could find warm, dry clothes, and some bandaids, and--"O-oh! I should be fine on my own! What about you guys--" Xiu cut herself off as West suddenly turned to leave, but she said nothing, simply lifting her hand slowly in goodbye. After watching the demon retreat, she looked back to the others.

"Will you guys be okay? Did you want to come over, or have me come over and help tend to anything?"

HP: 22

I think it was called something like retribution, the way the falling glass shards cut into the ghoul as they rained down heavily from the sky. A protective layer of ice coated her skin in a reflexive move, but that did little for her for she was on the ground, on the bed of glass and ice, as the earth shook and tossed her unceremoniously onto her side. That wasn't the worst of it however. The torrent of voices, chattering, screeching as the wave of Insanity spread through the area was reminiscent of a certain event the ghoul wished to forget. Edel clutched her head, as if to push out the voices and shut off her head to the Insanity. She would not scream. She would not scream. But it was hard to tell if she did for the chorus in her mind would have drowned it out.

Then it stopped. The physical pain still lingered. Her hands were shaking.

Were they here?

She couldn't help it. Every time there was a possibility that it pointed towards them, every time these horrible, horrible things happened -

The ghoul fought her way onto her feet, standing tall, but still quivering. Frustrating as always. That she couldn't do anything, or in this case, she did something against their side. It only occurred to her that what happened with her was ... akin ... to being transformed into one of those weapons. But it's alright now right? she tried to convince herself. It couldn't have been as bad as being transformed into a weapon. Perhaps it was that she didn't want to take Christmas Town seriously, still. More likely that she was in great denial.

Maybe she didn't want to take the blame. It was more easy to bemoan the school's security, which had failed them at least twice in the span of two months. What could she have done about that? Edel knew there was still reevaluating herself to do. But she already knew, she knew, she knew.

....
Moure

The ghoul looked around the scene of wreckage for a sign of the patchwork boil. Nowhere to be found. Good that he wasn't here, caught in this mess. It would only occur to her much later that he could have been taken. But for now, the ghoul was feeling far too vacant.

HP: 21

((exit))

At first, Astra had almost missed the voice. but soon, her antenna twitched, and she looked up to the hand that was outstretched. She blinked, looking past at the Undead ghoul that was offering her hand. For a moment, she looked like she would cry again. But she didn't, and instead took the ghouls hand and helped herself up.

"T-thankyou..." A sniffle, and she went about wiping the tears off her face. Inwardly she felt a little foolish at her own actions, again going to pieces and then being helped by someone else. But yet again she felt every so thankful for it. It was hard to be brave when everything had been thrown at you full force.

It was then she noticed what the ghoul was carrying; body parts. Body parts that looked quite familiar. Her suspicions were answered when she saw calder nearby, and Christoph's head. Not attached to his body.

"Ah! Christoph!" She said aghast. "Do you need help finding the parts?" She asked Amrita. She may have been crying, but that wouldn't stop her from trying to do something, at least.