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Arceli reaches an area she cant acces on her bike and she gets off, climbing over some rubble in the road she looks around at the pure devistation... where to start... this was unreal. She hears a child's cry not a baby but too young to understand whats going on. She realises it's coming from the basement of a collapsed apartment across the road from where she's standing. She runs over and calls to a group of mortals.

"Hey, there's a kid down here!"

Arceli reaches a grate at the base of the ruined building... the base was almost the roof, now... Arceli gets a bar and wedges it behind the grate. She starts pulling at it as hard as she can and the grate bends ever so slightly. A mortal man helps and begins to pull, too and soon he's followed by a couple others and the grill eventually comes free. Arceli lies on the floor and puts her head in the hole. She sees a young boy, no older than 5. He's sobbing.

"a rock hit my mommy inna head an she wont get up..."

The young boy points at his mom, her skull collapsed and her blood around her. He starts to cry again.

"is mommy gonna be ok, lady?"

Arceli closes her eyes against the tears. How does she tell a 5 year old boy that his mom's dead... she'll get him out first, she decides, and she slides herself through the gap into the basement.

"Well.. We need to move him. If a Vampire or a Demon finds him like this he has no chance."

"Look, I'm the weaker of the two right now.. I'll carry him. Then if something attacks us, we have a better chance of surviving.."

*She looks at Xandora again*

Nodding, she picks him, up, leaning him on her shoulder, to Rikku could support him. She determindly kept her eyes from looking at him, she kept her eyes focused on the end of the alley. "Lets just hope noones playing out."

Arceli lifts the boy to the grate and a small chear is heard outside as hands lift him out. Arceli takes one lest look at the woman before grabbing theedge of the little hole and pulling herself up. She slides herself out and stands up. She whispers to a mortal guy that the kid's mom is dead, and that she can't tell him and begins to walk away from the crowd, as tears begin to form and fall in her eyes. She couldnt take this, all this death... how did they do it? Rescue workers? firemen... anyone...

*She nods and follows Xan, shuffling Kinikki around on her shoulder so it's a bit more bearable.*

He began to awaken after passing out the night before. Blinking awake, he looked left and right, seeing Lilac busy with some people. He stood shakily, the only thing painful being the bandages on his back. Even those didn't hurt that much. He was already regrowing nerve endings and some of the tissue damage.

He looked around and stumbled as he began to walk, having to grab hold of the car. He had to get his things from it, they couldn't stay long. In the distance he still saw flames, rubble, death. Probably as a result of him. He whimpered as he realized what car he was holding, no sign of Pag...but his daughter crushed against a wall.

He openly wept. Sister. Father. Mother, gone in a war that he never intended to get involved in. He stopped and regained composure. He was in a war. Which side was he on? Vampires, Lycan's, hunters would kill him, Kin, one of the few next to Lilac that he trusted, betrayed him.

In anger he crushed the hood of the vehicle with a pound of a lanky arm.

Zei lurks in the shadows, watching Xandora and Rikku. He narrows his eyes as he stares at Kinikki. He gently pokes at his left hand with a dagger.