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Neko could almost FEEL her bones healing, demonic strength passed down from her parents healing her broken bones quickly and efficently. One of the....benefits, of being demonic it seemed, however irnoic it was to her. Her head had also been healing, but the skin was still not whole, blood still flowwing from her ruined palm. But hopefully she would be up soon, even without casts or the other things humans needed to heal such major injuries. And when she healed, she would make the oni pay.

It would pay DEARLY for what it had done to her and all the others.

"Thank you." Neko murmured, as the mage went to work, casting a healing spell and an energy spell, her broken bones mending and her bloody and ruined palm being covered wtih skin and infection driven out. She felt as if she had had a full night's rest and plenty of good meals besides. She sat up after he was done, just to prove to ehrself that she could.

"Thank you." she said, heartfelt, adn fro both the mage and for Velante. She moved limbs that had been in pain fro so long, now unencumbered. She smiled, fangs showing and making her look quite unlike her usual self.

"War..." Neko said the word slowly, almost as if tasting it. "Between Lycans and vampires..." She hugged her knees, something she ahdn't been able to do in a long while, and looked blankly at nothing. "Velante, I can't. I know too many on both sides to take part. There's you, and Logan, and Tsunami, and Ligato, and Farsite, and Arceli, and so many others. I have to remain neutral."

She sighed, and stood up, unsteady after not walking fro so long yet she quickly regained her balance. She walked behind the counter, disappearing behind it for a moment. She she ducked back out, she held three guns, and a belt full of sheathed knives. "Since it took my others..." She murmured, and put on the belt and gun holsters mechanicly, making them invisible when she was done. "Too many to take part in, but I'll give aid to any who ask it of me, be it you or any one else. Does that suffice?"

She caught it quickly, her reflexes still sharp. "I'd never turn away from a friend in need, Velante." She cliped it onto her belt, making it invisible, and soundless, to all but her. "I'm not promising to do anything out in the open, or to spy for you, but I'll help you as I can. Just remember that not all demons, or lycans for that matter, are cut from the same cloth or beleive the same things."

She had things to so, people to contact. "I'm sorry to be so rude, but I have many things to do. Please, feel free to stay as long as you like, and make your self at home. Help yourself to any of the drinks or food you desire." She bowed to him and went to the back room she sued as a bed room. Insdie was a computer, anda message she would dread reading, and another she would love to send out. Time to get to work.

((Later all!))

Asmodai suddenly became visible after everyone was gone. "Yes, dearest Neko. What will you do in time of war? You cannot fight for or against either side. Will you join me I wonder. My way is the only way that this seperatist way can end. Chaos must ensue, to destroy this order of prejudice. Will you join me?"

He smiled and backed into the shadow, melding with it, seeming only as smoke or a fog.

He stepped forward, and it looked as though he was walking from some sort of veil or curtain.

"Hello Catrina..."

He put his arm around her. Even though he'd changed, he still loved her. His heart was not completely dead. In fact, being here, like this, brought a bit more compassion to his face. But it also brought the hurt from what had happened.

"I'm sorry..."