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"Don't be," Aria replied to Molly, taking her comment to have been directed at her. "At least you -- all of you are getting these experience now. Me? I had the pleasure of getting this effect while on the field." Aria looked away, her cheeks flushing as she recalled the memory. "It was... embarrassing. I'm lucky I was carried back." She shook her head, one hand moving to stroke her weapon. The memory alone was enough to make Aria send a quiet thank you to her weapon for being so useful; even when carried she could at least still aim and attack when needed while they retreated.

Symphony asked quietly, breaking into her thoughts. Aria nodded, breathing a sigh of relief as it seemed easier to stand up and walk.

Just enough to make sure everyone will be all right, Aria replied, Or at least until we get back to base. We can find somewhere to curl up and wait it out. Aria took a deep breath, shooting down the idea that Symphony presented to her. No. Not there. I prefer somewhere quieter. There's a chance that I'd be found and disturbed there.



Aria managed a chucke towards Syd. "Sounds like it's doing the trick though. It beats repeating Runic chants." She was with Candace; what was Syd's weapon talking about?

When Candace asked her question, Aria nodded. "Your body learns to adapt, but that... That takes a long time. Even after training it took me a couple years to reach this point. If I didn't have Symphony, I wouldn't be standing here." Aria shuddered, touching her weapon again. "The more time you spend with your weapon, the easier it is for a weapon to be in tuned to you. Symphony was able to warn -- remind me, rather, about the crunch effect before it hit." She sighed. "I'm sorry. I wasn't expecting Allan to have gotten his hands on some and turn them into animal ears like he did."

With Candace's second question, Aria shrugged. "Since nothing has attacked us? Possibly. I'm going to wander around and make sure there aren't any open windows or anything for one to slip into. It doesn't look like we're moving anywhere for awhile. And," she looked troubled as she glanced from face to face, frowning. "If Allan was able to get as many of these headbands onto hunters as I think he did... I don't think we're going to be in good shape. Keep trying to move around, and keep talking either to your weapons or each other. The more you move and the less you think about the cramps, the faster you'll recover. If you can, get some aspirin into you. Don't rush; take your time. You're going to be feeling like complete and utter s**t for the next couple of days until your body recovers."

"He's... decided... that I read poorly," Syd gritted out. "So now he's... reading a romance novel... from my memory. And it's... horrible because... he's good at it," she explained.


"With... sound effects," she muttered, her face bright red.

Marcus was trying to grin and bear it, save his masculinity but ********. It was hard. It was really hard with the whole 'feeling like a brick was being slamming into you'. Keeping his hand at her back he was keeping with the motions of rubbing trying to keep her somewhat distracted...himself as well. He would properly apologize to Aria for barging in later. But..Cass. Cass radar had gone off.

He couldn't just ignore Cassdar.

"Cass." He whispered, trying his best to nuzzle his way into her ear. "Candace is right we gotta-" Oh ******** if this was what women go through he was going to treat Cass like a goddess when she got her period next, "-Get up. You can climb on me if you want. Or I can try and carry you."

Try. Big words for the pain he was in.

Cass took a moment to frown as it seemed it was time to get up, shifting her weight to push herself up onto her knees before whimpering, a throb going through her body. "********, this is worse than usual..." she whined, and as it was, she was normally incapacitated by the damn thing anyways, so just sitting up took her about two minutes punctuated by long pauses and small whimpers until the next problem would be getting up onto her feet.

"Okay...getting up...." she whimpered, half into Marcus's shoulder.

Any time now. Nicodemus added helpfully as Cass slowly...slowly..did nothing. For about five minutes she had to give herself the pep talk to get her legs moving, wrapping her arms around her stomach as she inched one of her legs out from under her to start getting up, hissing.


It would take nearly fifteen minutes of Cass toughing it out before she was up on her feet, leaning against the wall and half in tears from the agony of her inside. Worse cramps of her life? She could hardly feel her legs and trying to stand on them was becoming a task.

"Marcus, I think I'm gonna half to lean on you, babe..." she whispered with a sniffle. She hated her body so much.

I can't help.

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Can't. I've been trying.

He groaned, grabbing the wall to stand beside her. "See? You can do it." So could he. Look at how amazing your man was Cass, just ignore the fact he was grabbing is side and biting back the pain lacing his words very poorly. Fingers went to her hair, brushing away a few strands from her face. Looking over at Candace he let out a choking chuckle. "She's strong...but she tends to... go over board at times." He take was taking the time to even his breathing. "The pills... don't help a whole lot either. Not yet for me at least."

He might have chugged a handful.

"You and lean on me Cass, I'll be right here okay?" He kissed her nose lightly, moving across her face. "Just take it slow and keep... your breathing steady." Kissing her helped distract him, helped him move off the wall. "We can go and Curl up, drink some tea, maybe sneak into the film room kay?"

Izy said gleefully.

"Noooo," Syd said. "Don't make him a wizard just because of that--"


Syd groaned, lightly hitting her head on the ground. "Brace... yourself?" she repeated. "Really, Izy--"

Looking over to Aria as she spoke, the moon hunter hoped nothing bad was going to happen but then again, he also thought about Murphy's law. If it can go wrong it will. And naturally, it would, and did when you were a hunter. No days off ever really.

Marcus liked the idea of running but in the condition they were in? Ahhhhahhhhahah nope. Nope nope nope. Maybe like a foot. Maybe. Then they would just writhe on the ground. He'd use his run card to find Cass. But, even in pain, he would be able to at least barricade some things. "Of all the days I go leave the caverns without the daggers..." He groaned, letting Cass go he moved to do something useful. Moving furniture wasn't a big deal, nor, was setting things against the opening. What was a big deal?

"Jesus ******** Christ I will never envy a woman ever again."

Path 1: 7
Path 2: 10
Path 3: 5
Path 4: 6
(IDK how many paths so just went with the course 4)