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That thrusting hand met a flowing resistance that felt nothing like skin, or anything else for that matter. Like she should, she tumbled away but not so fast as expected. The rolling and flipping were controlled, only there to test how the opponent reacted to weakness. Her hand reached out and she stopped imedietly. That pale little hand had passed into the material of the roof, combining with it to hold her there, and it did. The face showed not a mark on it, as if Jack hadn't hit her. She wasn't smiling anymore. "Your as strong as you ever were, even stronger. Serenity would have fun with you, in fact. . ." The possessed girl grinned.

The look was quickly replaced by that thoughtful look that Serenity had on earlier. "I like puzzles." She mused softly. the voice was back to it's childish meanderings. She studied Jack intently. She just seemed to notice her stone arm, and puckered her lips at it. It simply slid of her arm as if it had was a simple fluid. It was a solid cone when it hit the roof. There was no opening for her hand, not that she needed one. "Jack?" She skipped towards the tall man, the pillar with the arm outstretched. When she was close she reached a hand out calmly.

The girl slowed, and then stopped in mid stride. She was completely silent. She was stopped in time. A smile was frozen on her face. Her eyes stared forever onward. Holding her still in time."I wonder why i never thought of that?" The cruel voice seeped from inside the frozen pillar. " No wait, I did think of that, and did do it to the girl." The mood around Jack grinned, bubbling with pride. "It would have worked this time too, but you have to understand that I have my own built in clock. In only ticks one way."

An aura slipped through the pillar of clockwork around her. Slowly, time restarted for her, her heart beating again. Her body continued on as if it had never been stopped. The aura was working against time now, and it lived inside her body, not apart of it, or maybe it was. Such things were hard to tell. She reached forward again, hoping to touch Jack. It was all she needed.

Serenity didn't stop with the hand. It was only flesh, almost flesh, not really flesh. What it actually was confused her, like many thing did, but she knew what she had to know. She knew what she had to do. They passed through each other as if both weren't there, skin mingling with jack, flesh carressing jack, and everything moved through Jack. The feeling wasn't unpleasant. It was almost enjoyable, but that enjoyment would fade as the hand stopped fazing through his arm. Her little arm seemed to become solid, still halfway through Jack's hand. She smiled and tugged. She tugged at something more than the hand. Something deeper in jack. Something buried, something that Jack didn't want to come out. She didn't know what she pulled at exactly, but she pulled all the same.

Serenity looked at him oddly. She singled out the virus almost instantly in her body, but she made no move against it. Instead, she did the opposite. She moved towards it. Her hand simply passed through Jack, becoming something intouchable again, and so did the rest of her body. She could absorb things, phase into them if she wanted, or even let them pass throuh her as her body made room. The destruction moved, but touched nothing important, except something that didn't naturally reside in her body. It went straight through her heart, extending into her lower torso. Her organs continued as if it wasn't even there, and to them, it wasn't. It was a dagger, a short sword with a ruby that flowed into the hilt, and a blade that felt as one piece with the rest of it. The aura that had gotten her out of the stasis was thickly around that little dagger, diverting the virus from the beating blade. It pulsed with the girl's heart, it was the girl's heart.

The simple touch brought something else with it. A desire to kill that passed through his arm, a desire to feel the life of somebody leave them, letting that life settle into the blade, making it stronger, and the user stronger. It was just a simple flash of the feeling, but it was powerful. The simple hint of the rewards was enticing, and there was a certainess that they were more than just hints. It was that feeling that made men fall to it's temptation. The feeling of power. The ruby glowed faintly.

Serenity didn't understand him. She was searching through him with her blind hands, looking for something she could touch, take, or destroy, to end him, but she didn't find what she was looking for. Her hands removed themselves from Jack and she looked at him curiously. "What are you? I don't understand." Serenity wondered aloud. She could find the one pull that could kill anything, but she couldn't find his. Maybe it wasn't there. The tendrils of his found nothing of purchuse in her either, except that sword. She couldn't be touched by anything she didn't want to touch her. That was what made her so difficult to kill.

( gotta go, I'll continue with ya next time we can. )

She finds herself engulfed in darkness. Her form would rise slowly upwards as his voice is heard. "Little girls should be in bed." She then found herself plummeting downward. Through the roof, then more building, until she lands in her room. Of course, she would not remember much about tonight except those final words she could hear. "You will be needed in the future."

Katherine was down in the main hall Set was there as well though sitted a part form her. She sat at a tale flipping through a couple of papers. She wore a soft blue gown that clung to her selennder form her long golden hair down her back as always. Her purple eyes were on what she was reading until Paradox walked in she looked up from it seeing him with a smile. "We have some good news at least the reports say that no one has herd or seen any of Craven's men."