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Edel listened grimly as Moure recounted his side of the events to her – so that was it. They were being saved by the Lady called the Soul Harvester .... but more importantly, what became clear was that they couldn't have done it alone. Right now, there was simply no viable, feasible plan for another rescue mission. Lattice was right, going back to the rooms to choose their next path was the only thing they could do now. And hope that they could find Professor Red or Cee. Perhaps it was now a little foolish to think that going back to Halloween to prepare for a counter attack would be the best choice. In the short span of time she had spent outside the house, more of them had been captured, and perhaps it was not just Barth or Freya – there were so many others that came along.

The frost demon smiled weakly at Moure. There was no Plan, perhaps, just to stay alive and hope for an opportunity to come. But perhaps there was hope – the Soul Harvester might appear once again, she did so before. Their duty would simply be to stay alive until the next chance comes along. With that, there was only one thing she could do for them now.

The ringing of the bell filled the room again, draining her of her FEAR. They needed to recover for what could possibly lie ahead. Edel was feeling significantly weakened, almost as though she had just stepped out of the cage when they were being rescued. She would tell Moure a blatant lie “Yes, I'm alright. Please stay safe.” With luck, the reinforcements may arrive, or another organised rescue would happen.

“I'll be heading back to the room for now,” she told the patchwork boil, taking his hand and squeezing it before she let go again. For now. She'd see him again. She'd see all of them again. Here's to hoping.

Turning to Lizzy who had been standing quietly in the corner (Edel never noticed when she appeared), the frost demon motioned for the two of them to enter the room once more. Had she heard everything she had said before? It didn't really matter now. Turning around to give her schoolmates in the hub one last look, she headed through the door.

((Exit))
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Edel's HP : 10 – 5 = 5
Lizzy, Roch, Moure, Christof : all + 4 HP
Bell uses left : 1

Slowly, dimly, Christof felt Edel's healing rings shift through him, although there wasn't much Fear could do for his battered spirits.

His Best Friends... His Master... His... His whatever-Calder-was-to-him...

He heard Herryk moving, and dimly could sense the sound of voices, but it was all so far away....

He was useless *useless*... but... but it hadn't been his fault entirely, had it?

Slowly, a head rolled across the carpet as though drawn by an invisible force, an arm following suit from under a chair, and the hunchback slowly pushed himself back together, wobbling to his feet.

With a whine he watched Herryk leave, but slowly limped his way after.

There was no one else to follow. But Freya was captured too.... they could find them *together*... even if it killed them. He picked up his pace.

((Exiting after Herryk back to their Group 3 room))

Moure wished that he could've told Edel that there had to have been a way they could do it on their own when he saw the frost demon's face fall. But he too knew that without the Soul Harvester's help, they wouldn't be able to pull off another big rescue like before.

Moure's RPM-meter-of-a-heart clenched a bit when he saw how strong Edel was trying to be. Her forced smile just made the patchwork want to stand in front of her and protect her from this whole ordeal. She'd gone through so much. As she rung the bell again, Moure wished he could've rung it for her, that it could drain his fear, not hers. He saw her weakening each time the bell rang out. Still, she'd kept a brave face even as she hurt herself to save the others in the room.

As she lied to him, Moure gave a swallow and a nod. "Don't push yourself too hard, okay? And you too. Be safe." He said with a weak smile, "I don't want to lose you again..." The last bit was quiet and trailed off, refering to the whole rescue ordeal from eariler.

As she gave his hand a squeeze, he returned the action, letting hers slip from his fingers as she moved to start heading back to her own room. "I'll see you later then. Please be safe." He said, forcing himself to believe that he'd see her again. He had to see her again.

He still had her pendant, after all.

After his frost demon left, Moure looked around the room, giving Roch a nod before looking back at their own door. "Good luck Roch." He said as he walked pasted the reaper, just in case something happened again like what had happened in the Hub before Moure had arrived.

Moure made it to their own door, and when back through it.


((Exiting to Finale Thread, since Moure's already put in his answer back at his Group Thread.))

He watched as they all left, upset that they'd all seemed to be invited to go somewhere at the same time when Fitzy's invitation must have gotten lost somewhere.
"Oh poop!" he whined as he witnessed the last few two legger fleshies hoist themselves up and out through the door. Now what? Obviously he couldn't just wait around here, he needed to go somewhere too... He was tired of being left out!
Floating back up from his corner, he phased out of the room.

((Exiting to Domain of Couch!))