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Azurite made her way quietly towards the giant bird cage that held the transcended senshi in it. She stopped just short of it, taking in the girls appearance and wounds. The corrupt found it hard to believe that this was real, but here was the evidence before her eyes. It was all very, very real. And for as much as Azurite didn't want to be, she knew that she was part of it all.

"Ganymede??" She called softly. "Ganymede, my name is Azurite. I'm a friend of Cyllene's." However, the second the other corrupt's name was past her lips, she wondered if that had been a smart thing to say. "Do you have any wounds you need me to look at?" She asked, holding up the bandages and ointments for the eternal to get a better look at. "No funny business involved. Promise."

Opening the cage door, Azurite placed the supplies on the bottom of it before easing herself in carefully. "Just breathe sweetheart. Cyllene's okay... She's up set over all of this but she's okay. Valhalla's well.." The corrupt cringed slightly. "He's... beat up to say the least, but alive none the less. I've uh, tried to bandage him up whenever I got the chance. I'm no doctor though, there's only so much I can do, but I'm trying."

Just like she had with Valhalla, Azurite took a seat next to the senshi. "For now though, my focus is on you though. I've got water if you need it. Bandages, salve for any wounds you need. We can talk if you want? No questions, I promise. About random things. Or uh, we can just sit here. Which ever."

God why was she so awkward about all this.

Azurite watched as the slow tears rain down the woman's cheeks before moving closer. "Come on now... Don't cry. You're gonna get me started if you're not careful." She joked lightly, tearing off a section of the bandages she had brought and using it to wipe at Ganymede's face.

"You can't.." Azurite said softly. "Believe me... I would let you if I could. But, that's just more trouble then any of us need right now.. And I don't wanna see you two any more worse then you already are. It's not what you want to hear right now, but... atleast for now, try and stick it out a bit longer. I know it hurts, but you've made it this far." Again she moved closer to the eternal. However this time, Azurite collected the girl in her arms, holding her close as one would a child, a lover, or a friend in need.

"Yes you can." She said softly. "You're not alone. I'm here aren't I?" Maybe not the best thing, all things considered but. "I can stay with you as long as I can. If you want someone else to sit with you, I know a few people who would be willing to do so." Azurite fell silent for a moment. "You have to be strong for him.. For Valhalla. You two are close right? He misses you just as much as you miss him right now. I've got some heavy duty sleep pills if you want to try those? It may not help a lot with the pain but you'll get some sleep."

Azurite shrugged lightly and hugged the woman gently. "I don't know.. I never thought something like this would happen. But then again, given what I've already been a part of, I guess I shouldn't be surprised." Blue eyes glanced around them, from the cage, to the rest of their surroundings before back to Ganymede. "I'm sorry for attacking you like that at the Hotel... I figured if you guys passed out from my magic, it would save you from a few injuries.. I thought it was the fastest process." Obviously she thought wrong. "I don't particularly like using my magic like that in small spaces."

"I'm sorry." Azurite murmured, glently stroking the girl's hair. "Soon." She promised. Or at least she tried to. But the words felt hollow and lifeless even to her. "Someone always comes to save the people from the bad guys right?"

That's what she was in this case wasn't it. She was the bad guy yet again.

"Listen to me." The corrupt spoke gently. "You're not going to die here. I won't let that happen." No one deserved to die in here, least of all in there condition. "Val's okay for right now." A little drugged up and fever ridden maybe, but she didn't need to know that right now. "I know you won't... But you can't stop fighting. You can't give up Ganymede. There are people who look up to you. They need you."

"He loves you a lot you know. I could see it in his eyes when I was with him." Az gave her a small smile. "He wanted me to come check on you and bandage you up... I'm sorry I didn't come sooner."

When Ganymede sobbed Azurite just hugged her close. It was awkward in so many ways but she didn't care. "A baby huh? You'll make an adorble mother. I love little kids. You'll have to show me all sorts or pictures when they get big okay?" Future tense. Keep things possitive. "Do you want a boy or a girl? Do you have any names or anything?"

"You won't lose them sweetheart. And they won't lose you. They know you love them."

"Oh yeah? Thats cool. I like seening names passed down." Azurite hummed quietly to herself as she let the other talk. The corrupt barely knew this woman but it was all so easy to picture. "A little Val would be cute. give him your eyes though. You've got pretty eyes."

Then all at once she was crying again snd Azurite gently pushed Gany up into a better sitting position. ". You will die, yes. That's a given. But you are going to die an old lady withadorably greyish white hair. You will die with him surrounded by your babies, and your babies babies and so on." When the woman mentioned her shoulder, Az reached over to her supplies and grabbed the burn balm. "Let me see your shoulder." She said, unscrewing the cap. "This may sting a bit but it will help. Now tell me about your stomach."

"Stop trying to force it up..." Azurite mumbled. "They aren't exactly my favorite thing either... That must sound weird coming from me, being the 'evil' one and all." The corrupt gently smoothed the salve over the burn, applying a generous amount, probably more then the wound really needed.

"It's not your fault Ganymede. You did what you thought was best. It may not have resulted the way you wanted, but you tried sweety. You did something instead of just sitting around. ...You did more then I'm doing."

Azurite blinked, sitting back to look at Ganymede's hands. Gently, she brushed her fingertips against the glowing lines on the blondes palms. "...Do you wanna know what I see?" Azurite asked lightly. "I see someone who just wants to protect her loved ones. I see someone who doesn't want to get lost amongst the chaos and the darkness. I see someone who is a light to others. I see a young woman who just wants what everyone else gets, but is putting that on hold so that she can protect those who can't protect themselves. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Nore is that your fault."

"If anything, I wish I was as strong as you."

"If I had none things would have turned out like this in the end... I would have just stayed home." Azurite laughed lightly, almost bitterly. "It's almost like White Phoenix all over again.." The corrupt wondered if she'd get a brand for this catastrophe too.

"Just because I follow them, doesn't mean I agree with their ideals..." She had her own goals in mind. "I know I'm not like them. At least, I'm not like most of them." She wasn't Schorl, Mica, Obsidian, Labyrinthite, or heck, even Wolframite. She wasn't anyone like that.

"I stay with them because I choose to. Just like you, I have people to protect. I have people who need me here. People who I can't afford to lose." Azurite couldn't just leave Kor or Richard like that, and she never would. "I have a family here... If I left, I would lose that." Yeah she knew she could start over, rebuild. But she also knew that there would always be a part of her that was missing. Whether that came to being her Negaverse family she didn't know, or her real family. "Someone has to do this. Someone has to go through and pick up the pieces. We're not all bad, I just want people to see that." She was no saint herself though.

"I don't... agree with what I've seen." Whether it was the events that had unfolded during the capture, or those nightmarish visions she had had. "I want to make things right. But I can only do that by being here."

"Well for starters, I have the one I was born into you know..." She said flatly. "Ya know, the birds and the bees happened and poof I showed up. Family. Second, I'm engaged to some one. Oh look. More family." The white haired girl crossed her arms, glaring right back. "Third who the hell are you to tell me I don't have a family. If someone said that to you, you know damn well you'd pitch a royal fit."

"So what you're saying is next time something like this happens, you want me to not do what I do? You want me to stand there and ignore people who need help? I could have left you here to rot. I could have left both of you here to rot. But I didn't. I made a promise to your Valhalla that I wouldn't just leave." The senshi hissed. "I may have had some hand in your being here but that doesn't automatically make me some soulless creature. And don't you dare tell me that there aren't others on your side who aren't like me or those who attacked the hotel because there are. There's two sides to every coin. Just because my uniform's black, doesn't mean I'm wrong. Just like white doesn't mean your right."

"If I'm here its either because of my choosing, or because I have a freaking purpose you don't know about." Azurite then thrust her upturned wrist under the Transcendant's nose. "Do you see this burn?" She asked, momentarily not caring if the other woman saw it or not. "I got this right after the attack on the Dark Mirror's that was organized by one of my people. And before you open that pretty little trap of yours and say it was forced on me. It wasn't. We were each given three options. At first, I chose the other's. I went back for this." She could still remember Zinkenite's pause as she stood nervously twitching in his office after she'd asked for it. "I went back for this of my own accord. I use this burn as a reminder that s**t can go to hell. As it obviously has. I use this burn as a reminder that I can't control everything, and yes, I am going to get involved in some things that I would rather not take part of. But I also use this as a reminder that acts as a drive for myself. To be a better person in my own way."

Then Azurite's shoulders slumped. "If I purified, I would be alone. Ganymede. I wouldn't have my fiance, my blood family or any of the friends I've made here. Yeah sure, I get it. I can make new friends, a new family over there. But I've seen at what cost that comes. You forget half of yourself. I wouldn't be whole. I wouldn't be me. Is that what you want? Is that what you want for Cyllene? Alright, so maybe she purifies cause of all of this, then what? What are you honestly going to do Ganymede. She'd be even less of the girl you originally knew. I've seen it Ganymede, not just with Cyllene. I've seen what Persephone's gone through, I saw what Vespa had to go through. Me? I don't want to forget me. Yeah sure, I could have a chance to forget all the wrongs I've done. But that doesn't make those wrongs valid at that point. I want to remember what I did wrong so I learn from it."

"So yeah, you know what? After the attack on the DMC, you're right. I was afraid. Afraid because I had ******** up. Afraid because I was watching my friend take a stand for me, and getting the absolute life beat outta him. And no matter what I said or tried to do, I just made it worse on him. He's gotten mad at me a few times for my actions, but he wouldn't leave me. Hell, knowing him? He'd march right into a mass of you guys and drag me back. I'm meant to be here Ganymede. We both know that."