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In the distance foot steps sounded and awoke Thorn from the trance she had been in but when she looked around the foot steps had stopped and a group of twenty or so dreamer stood circled around her. " Aw dammit!" she let out a sigh. " Should have been paying more attention" She drew the sword that had been attached to her belt. " Come get me you stupid ugly things" she taunted the dreamers and they came flooding over her. Thorn fought hacking and slicing at them but it was no good as she well knew but didn't intend to die there on the spot. As dreamer after dreamer came she began to tire. She let her guard down for a second and a dreamer was able to cut a gash in her right arm and leg. She winced in pain but kept fighting until she finally was able to escape from the dreamers and get back to the hotel. She entered the hotel with a deep gash in both her left arm and leg and a cut bleeding badly just above her left eye with minor cuts all over. She started to head for the stairs but nit getting there quick due to having to limp across the floor.

As thorn finally reached the stairs her injured leg gave way and she collapsed hitting the ground hard enough for everyone to hear. She slowly moved her leg making sure that it was still able to be used for walking prepossess. She let out a sigh and slowly stood up again her leg threatening to give way again. Step by step she climbed the stair leaving a trail of blood as she went. When she had finally reached the top she stopped to rest completely exhausted from the days events. She tried to stand again but her leg wouldn't permit it. She sighed again and sat at the top of the stairs before trying again and failing again. Thorn finally grew impatient and stood unsteady on one leg taking short hops working her way to her room. When she reached the door to her room her other leg gave way from being put under so much strain. When she fell she hit her head and fell out of conciseness.

Iris shrugged about the incident and headed outwards with only slight reservations. She took the boy's hand and led him further into the Wasteland.

Nienna wandered out of the kitchens carrying a leg of chicken to find a trail of blood leading up the stairs. She swiftly teleported up the stairs, then followed the blood to Thorn's open door. On the ground in the room was Thorn, lying in a pool of her own blood. Nienna gasped loudly, then quickly sprang into action. She lifted Thorn onto the bed, ripped a sleeve off of her own shirt, and wrapped it tightly around Thorn's leg and arm. She wiped the blood off Thorn's face and changed her into clean clothes. Then Nienna settled into a chair and waited for Thorn to awaken.

Iris walked onwards, still glancing nervously in the direction Thorn had come from. And then she saw them.

"Oh. My. Goodness." Iris stopped in her tracks and glared at the things gathered around.

"Ehm, Paris, do you have any idea what those things are?" She had been paying plenty of attention to what had been going on in the hotel, but hadn't heard much about these--things. Without waiting for Paris she headed straight back to the hotel, giving the monsters a wide berth, and stormed through the door, her face livid.

"Was anyone going to tell me I needed to fight things?" she spat out angrily, not only afraid of what might have happened to her, but guilty that she had almost brought this defenseless boy with her.

Wes smirked as he said "Those things are quite literally your worst nightmares, as well as mine, hers, and everyone else here's. at least as far as I can tell. they are like the embodyment of fear." He then looked at the angry girl who had abruptly returned. "What, did you think we were all warning you against going because we were afraid you'd get sunburned?" he let his voice raise a little. "And Even if we had mantioned them to you, you weren't exactly in a warning-heeding mood when we were talking to you, now were you?" he finished his cigarette, and took another, breaking off the filter for his own this time.

"Well, I found you on the floor in a pool of blood, so I'm guessing you passed out." Nienna said, "As for the bandages, no problem. My parents were docters, so I picked it up from them. I wouldn't suggest sitting up just yet. You lost a lot of blood, and even now I think you have just enough. You'll live, provided you don't sit or stand for a few days. If we had a hospital nearby, I could take you there for a blood transfusion, but..." She trailed off, staring out the window at the bleak landscape.