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Shira unfroze as she recognized what she suspected was only a shadow cast by a large piece of wood.

"Eh...wait what?" Blink blink. "Spazzy things?"

Shira almost spazzed herself as Yashima started singing one of the songs from her many forbidden memories in High School, that song being one of the major no-no's. Her brow twitched un-intentionally.

...Damned highschool musical.

Trying to push those thoughts away from her mind--since her twitch was only getting worse-- she continued her previous chanting; adding on rainy days on the roof and green tea incense.

"Mmmm.....tea."

Shira had been going through many different types of teas in her head. Really, there were so many delicious types! Drooling at the thought of a nice hot cup of Vanilla Chai, her trance was broken by the crackling movement of the burning wood. She was reminded again of the current situation by the cold chill down her spine.

"Um...." Her thoughts weren't so much centered around the danger they were currently in, but she was still aware...kind've.

Somehow she'd dropped her neutral sword in the moment of coziness she had deep within her thoughts and bent down to retrieve it. Should she speak out? Probably not. Their 'Happy Thinking' session seemed to be keeping the monster at bay....

"Apples!" The child piped up, smiling a little bit as she struggled to stand up. She was getting tired and her foot was throbbing and...

WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!

Coailiann let out a screech of pain as the Shade bit into her injured ankle, tears immediately springing to her eyes. She struggled, trying to pull her foot from his grasp when he started to pull her down and she began sinking into the floor.

He was right. She was freaking out and flailing, all rational thought forced from her mind. THE HOUSE WAS EATING HER!

Nataki screamed when the thing finally showed itself, trying to drag her into the floor! Without even thinking about it, the frizzy blonde lunged at Coailiann, ignoring any fists or feet that might have smashed into her face. However, she was too late--two others were already helping and she backed off so she wouldn't get in the way, eyes wide, hands silently strangling one another. No, no, the happy thoughts were supposed to have worked!

Without even thinking about it, the mousy woman rushed forward again, trying to stomp the place where it looked as though the girl was sinking. "L-L-Let her go!" She squeaked, her breath hitching in her throat.

Vana was awakened suddenly and rudely by the sudden panic filling up the room. Eyes fluttering open, the little girl had a distinctly worried look as she tried to sort out what was what; unable to see past Zah to the source of the commotion, however, the fern baby was incapable of figuring out what was going on.

This did not please her, not in the slightest. People were screaming bloody murder, and after all else that had happened, she didn't want to be in the dark as to why.

"Irp," the babe grunted, squiggling a little in Zah's hands to try and get an eyeful of the world behind him.

Thae had been about to congradulate them on a job well done for cheering themselves up. It was interesting, what fire did! And sight. Sight was apparently very important to these living things, of whom she was now irreversably a part of. But her words were lost on her lips as the white haired girl was pulled into the floor. Instead of panicking herself, she just stared at the girl, then at the crowd of people.

Stupid shade! All of her hard work was now down the drain. With an aggrivated huff, the redhead stormed to the corner of the room where she and that boy had started the fire; luckily, it was being contained. "I'm coming~" She said calmly, in response to her name being yelled. Apparently this shade was pissing her off, for she had gone quiet and almost withdrawn. Reaching fearlessly to the edges of the fire, Thae picked up a piece of wood that had turned itself into a sort of torch.

"Like I said people! Don't. Be. Afraid. I'm pretty sure its doing this on purpose." She sounded grumpy now, but she was making her way through the people to the poor girl being sucked into the floor. "Lift the littles ones off of the floor, that might help...and Nataki, you can hold onto me if you feel scared, just try your hardest to relax, okay? Miss Sicily isn't going to let anymore bad things happen to you people, so I won't either." Even if that swift-footed fool fooled her into it, she was going to do it. She lifted a hand towards the woman hitting at the shadows, as if letting her know she was there, and that she didn't want to get hit in the crossfire, so to speak. With that, she knelt near the poor girl.

"Its alright sweetling, you just take deep breaths and calm yourself, we'll get you out, we promise...but you have to relax for me as best as you can, okay?" Thae sounded sweet, like a fawning mother trying to soothe a child against the fear of the monster under their bed. "But you can fight it too, if you're not too afraid to move. Kick it in its fugly shadow face! Put up a fight! Oh yeah, and...Happy thoughts! Fuzzy Kittens! And You" She hissed at the floor shadows around the girl. "You go back to Jori with your tail tucked between your non-existant legs, filthy pile of soot."

Then, promptly, she started poking at the shadows around the people she felt oddly protective over. Wth her aqua eyes narrowed in a show of anger, she snarle threateningly at the shadows. "These people are MINE, ugly. Go stalk elsewhere!" It was a lie, but maybe she could scare it...or at least draw it off. She could only hope she hadn't lost all of her spirit scent...but then again, she could've been wrong.

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Zasalamel had turned to face the people again once Kay screamed. His first instinct was to help her, since she was not only hurt, but also because she was just that..a she. but when everyone else went to her aid, the Drow stayed back. He didn't know what to make of Thae, but he felt he had no choice but to follow what she said...and although he did as Vana subtly whined for by letting her sit on his hip like he'd seen Kishi hold his brat brother, he still kept her against him.

"...Sumun' geht moore fyre!" He spoke up, after seeing Thae poke at the shadows with her little torch.

"Oi! Anethea! Grab Iamel! Iamel! Stop being a ******** WUSS or I'LL tell Diacyn!" Yashimas voice barked from his position near Zah, taking a slight step back to wave at Anethea.

Iamels voice was a soft murmur and his eyes were closed."I'm too tired to be mad, Yashi.." He hadn't even gone to rescue Kay. The thin boy had a lot of energy, spiritually and otherwise, but it all burned very quickly. Without eating or resting, he became listless.

The fox paused and his eyes narrowed contemplatively. "I'll tell Tousan you've thought about kissing him."

Now, THAT part was probably untrue but it made Iamels eyes flick open and his body jerked. "You WHAT? You will NOT, puke! That's a lie!"