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Since the weather had cleared up considerable since the major storm, Ebony had decided to go outside and tend to the job of cleaning up the utter mess the yards and greenhouse were in. Meanwhile Cordelia was still inside, toiling away at her violin again. Having been stuck inside for as long as they had and without television, the girl had very little else to do other than tend to her studies. Something she was most grateful for now. All that studying was paying off. Her reading and writing were quickly picking up as was her violin playing. She almost felt silly now thinking back on how she'd complained to Ebby before. Her woman had been right, everything came with time.

It was while she was heading back up to her room to put her instrument away did she notice the blinking light on the answering machine. Delia tilted those loose lavender locks, positively puzzled. Had someone called? She hadn't heard the phone ring. Either the girl had been too absorbed in her playing or the music had simply drowned the sound out. Either way she shrugged and pressed the button, wondering whom it was.

Now normally Cordelia was very careful with her precious string, but upon hearing the dullness of Aphismet's voice as he suppressed whatever emotions he was feeling while explaining to them that Rivener was injured and in the hospital, Delia couldn't help dropping it as a horrified gasp gripped her. Without word or even care to replace the violin to it's proper place, the girl fled straight out of the house.

Since she couldn't drive, Ebby refusing to teach her legs or not, Cordelia had to take the train with what little money she had on her at the time. Every stop between Gambino and Durem drove her positively batty, eyes glaring and feet tapping impatiently as they crept to her final destination. Once in Durem, the purple haired youth bounded from the train like a bullet from a gun, knocking a few loading passengers down as she did. She could care less, a friend was hurt!

It took several tries before she found the hospital, even more to find his room since running about and calling 'Riven' was obviously not the correct method in finding the scorpion faster. It wasn't until some orderlies had managed to stop her and after she breathlessly tired to describe the Sigel, his real name having flown the coup of her mind then, that they pointed her in the right direction. Without thinking, Cordelia burst through the door and fell onto the side of Rivener's bed. She didn't stop to think that maybe he was sleeping, that maybe there were others there to visit him too. No, all that mattered was that Delia was finally here to see her friend.

Tanned face red as a tomato and tears flooding down from her silver pools, the girl managed to sob the night Raevan's name. "RIVEN!" Breathing in gulps of air as her British laced voice hitched heavily, "Are...y-you...okay?"

She sobbed an answer into his hospital sheets as she gripped them so tight her knuckles turned white. The girl, in her flurry, had briefly seen the state the scorpion was in and didn't want to really face him now to find it true, that he was indeed mortally wounded. Yet she also knew he couldn't have possibly heard a word she'd said, what with her crying and muffled voice.

Still sniffling, Cordelia slowly lifted her blood shot, waterlogged eyes towards Rivener. She winced slight at seeing him all bandaged up like that and fought down another series of sobs threatening to escape her. Since she didn't trust her voice to keep stable enough, surely to betray her the moment she spoke, Delia simply nodded in answer to the Sigel's flummoxed questions.

When his hand finally connected with the top of her head and he gently tried to coax her back to a more stable place of being, Delia breathed in shakily and nodded, feeling immediate relief at the touch and his words. She was truly glad he was fine, but it didn't help to see him like this. Perhaps she should have waited to visit, but what if it had been much worse and she never got her chance to...no no NO! That purple head shook in defiance of her negative thoughts and quite furiously she buried her face back into his sheets, angry at herself and her inability to keep herself calm like Riv was already trying so hard to do. He shouldn't be comforting her, she should be comforting him after all!

Cordelia heard his somewhat confused question, but it was a long time once more before she lifted her head back up and answered. When she did, her dark cheeks burned bright with embarrassment. In her haste to see the elder Raevan, Delia had completely forgotten that she was running around in someone else's body. A human body for that matter.

After meeting his crimson gaze for a moment, her silver pools cast themselves downward to her hand as it lightly pick at the lint on his covers. Quietly she murmured, "I don't know why. We just woke up one day like this."

Delia continued to pick at the lint, existent or not it was just easier to compose herself when she wasn't looking directly at her friend's broken body. She didn't know if she had any special powers for healing or anything, but if she were a Raevan again at least it wouldn't be so awkward as it seemed to be for Rivener to speak to her then.

"Ebby says she's working on it, but...I think she just tells me that to keep me from worrying. If I don't know how we got like this, then how would she?" The girl had the courage to finally look him in the face and his smiling made her smile too, but it wasn't the same Delia inspired grin. It was too saddened, too tight to be the youth's. She was trying though, to cheer up like Riven had suggested, but it was hard when she knew he had to be in pain.

Try she did though, to push past this bout of gloom looming over her. Carefully she fingered the material of his hospital gown. Normally she loved green, but this pale mint shade of the glorious color was utter fail. Why would a hospital ever use such a shade? It was a little depressing. "This color doesn't suit you." Then she finally asked what she'd been wondering the whole ride from Gambino to Durem. "Riven? What happened to you? Why are you here?"

She watched as he laughed and his expression light up ten fold when talking about Zul. Delia tilted her head curiously as she remembered the last time the two had been arguing or something. She smiled a little brighter this time, happy that the two had made up. Of course her smile faded back once more when Rivener explained what had happened. Of course she knew what a gun was, her recent expedited studies had greatly widened her knowledge and understanding of the world from what it previously had been. Or at least...she'd thought it was that. But now that she thought about it more, was it possible that being human was what was helping her to achieve this sudden leap in mental growth? After all, even though it was her mind driving this body, physically it was Ebony's brain. A brain that was far more developed than her Raevan one. Would she lose this time, these achievements later when she went back to being herself?

Delia was beginning to agitate herself again, but was interrupted by Riv's playful tug on her locks. "Hey!" she whined, swatting at the Sigel's good hand. Though she frowned it was most evident in Cordelia's eyes that she wasn't truly upset, but she was still worried about him no matter what he said.

"Well I'm glad you're going to be okay." the girl replied as she smoothed down her lavender hair. "So, Zul came to visit? How was that?" She could only imagine that the demon was just as upset as she'd been. Probably even more judging by his and Riven's very close relationship.

Cordelia nodded and finally gave a genuine grin towards the beautiful array of red flowers by the bedside. Zul surely had a way about him for making others feel better. "Good. I don't like you two fighting. It doesn't seem right."

She would have been happy to listen to him prattle on and on about the flame and creme haired Frei, after all Zul was her friend too and she liked to know how he was doing, but Riv had other ideas. Delia blinked and carefully viewed herself, trying to see it like he was. She sighed, rolling her stormy eyes. "It's weird. I hate having to eat so much and so often. And Ebby won't let me eat what I want, only healthy stuff cause she doesn't want me "ruining" her body. The bathroom stuffs annoying and gross too."

Delia looked down to her feet then. He couldn't see because of his position and because of her shoes, but the youth was wiggling her toes. A tiny smile began to break up that scowl. "It's not all bad though. It's fun getting to wear different kinds of clothes. And shoes! I really like shopping for shoes." She grinned big, really happy now. "The best thing is not having people stare at you like you're going to kill them or something. Ebby seems to do well with that though. Ignoring people." She laughed, knowing that Riv would probably get why and maybe laugh with her.

"A man's body? But...you're a man...right?" She looked at him quizzically then. Everything about him screamed male, but sometimes you couldn't be so sure. "What would be so wrong with that?"

The girl started to blush when Rivener's rambling turned towards naked men. She was starting to read between the lines and finally get what he was talking about without him having to flat out say it. Her cheeks burned red hot in embarrassment at where her thoughts lead her. She'd not told anyone, not even Ebby, but lately she couldn't help noticing and appreciating the form of some of the men she'd seen. It stirred feelings she wasn't really old enough to truly understand and at the same time it made her feel like she should be ashamed or something. Reason enough to not say a word to anyone she figured.

Though she vaguely understood what the bed-ridden scorpion talked about, not having seen it for herself but knowing enough to not feel completely naive, Delia just nodded sympathetically towards his obvious distaste for what he'd eventually become. If that was indeed how the Raevans progressed that is. They wouldn't know for sure until one of them grew again.

Battling down the heat that rested within her face, Cordelia cleared her throat and directed her eyes else where other than Riven's eyes. "It's not all smooth and pretty you know." Of course she knew, how could she not living in Ebony's body for awhile now. But like the Sigel, she wasn't exactly keen on sharing the finer points of what lay beyond the waist. He was older, so he'd probably understand better than she anyway.

Decisively, Cordelia changed the subject in hopes of lessening this somewhat uncomfortable conversation. "Where's Aphi?" her purple hair whipping around as she looked, finally realizing the lack of a white haired human.