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Silver eyes stared blearily at the illustration of a castle made up of beetle shells and spider web as two fantasy like pixies flew carrying a hollow acorn top full of water between them. The next page showed one of the two pixies flying above the top of the words backwards as if she was having fun while a unicorn in the lower hand corner pawed the ground. He stared at the unicorn blankly and wondered why it stayed before sighing and lowering the book completely.

A quick glance toward the machines showed there was no change to the beat, at least not one that meant she was getting weaker again which was a relief.

Placing the book back on the desk he got up and stretched his wings, looking closely at Hexxis and some of the restraints added encase she woke up as Ashral and Ashral was still acting as she did when they arrived. He still wasn't sure what happened in that room, Mara didn't answer her phone and neither did Kae...Ree left the base but said he was going flying. He could ask Zira but didn't want to leave the room to do so.. making sure to be here when Hexxis or Ashral woke.

Leaning down he smoothed some of the blankets over her and headed to the window to look out as the sun started to rise.

"TRIII!!!"

Tri raised his head in alarm and pushed away from the window at the same time the machines started to beep a warning.

"Hexxis!" He said quietly but sharply, moving into her line of sight as he reached out with one hand to rest it against her forehead, trying to distract her before she injured herself or went into full blown panic. "I'm here..." He glanced down at the restraints, wanting to pull them off to show she was fine but not daring to now even now. Instead he lifted his wings up a little and looked at her eyes, never having replaced the eye patch since Ashral didn't seem to need it. "I'm..here " he repeated instead hoping that might calm her down before her heartbeat climbed to a dangerous number.

He stared at her chest as she grasp at it frantically, his own mind blanking out but knowing it was important and wishing automatically that Estrian was here. The meta would know what was wrong, would have a better understanding of what was going on.

He looked up at the jangle of metal as she pulled her hands away from her chest and tried to give him a hug. At that moment he resented the chains, the malice, all the reason that force hm to keep them on her instead of allowing her to hug him. He watched her for a moment as she looks around then down. Pulling his own hand back he stood there helplessly "You were injured"//dead// "Ashral had been keeping you alive for a few days now. Give me a moment, let me call someone in to check on you and I can fill you in " he said quietly as he moved to the edge of the door and looked outside, calling for assistance from any of the staff he could see. He knew there was a button and a clicker somewhere to call them, something he barely remembered in the hazy of his own pain when he was last in Medical.

Returning to her he was eventually followed by medical personal who moved to her but waited, looking to Tri then her for an okay. "Hexxis....will you let them?" He ask quietly.

Tri glanced down at the light pull on his jacket then back up at Hexxis, reaching down to gently cover her hand with his. He had moved earlier to the other side of the bed and had been watching the relation between what the doctor did and Hexxis's heart rate on the monitor. It was one less set of eyes looking directly at her since he did not have the forethought to grab her an extra eyepatch from her room.

"Al-" he started with intent to comfort her when she spoke. Code? His own heartbeat speed up as he motioned for the doctor to step away but Hexxis was already pushing her. He started to let go but thought better of it and focused only on her, waiting to see if Ashral took over again.

"Her voice?" He repeated confused for a moment, Ashral was talking directly to her? At her next words he nodded with a flicker of anger in his own eyes.

Glancing up he motioned for the doctor to leave, it didn't seem like Hexxis was in much trouble now and if not he could always call them back. Waiting until the door closed he sighed softly but it did nothing to hide the anger that was reflected in his eyes.

"Yes....Ree accepted a new modified deal with her. Ashral will be allowed to come out for at least an hour every month and when she gains enough energy to form a body we are to let her leave without trouble. In exchange she will not torture you and will not harm others unless told or you are in danger " he explained quietly and quickly encase they were being overheard now. "Supposedly ..Ash will now be an ...ally "

Tri frowned lifting his hands to support her back as Hexxis shoved her face against his side. It tore at his sense of duty, wanting to let her go. Even while they were calling Ashral an ally, those were just words, none of them really believed it maybe other than Ree? And he really hoped not. Still with Hexxis awake... It meant the code phrase could be use to shut Ashral down if she broke the deal...assuming he could say it.

On top of that..the relief he saw in her face brought the same amount of guilt on his. She could have lived without the torment up until now if he had agreed... Not that he would have agreed to it even now, but it made him feel like less of a person for not having done so, even if he had his reasons. Adding the fact he had also chosen Ree over Hexxis, saying nothing when Ree tried to get Ashral to sleep.

"We hope. She is a malice so we are not quite sure on that yet " he said quietly, not trying to give her that much hope as he finally decided and pulled out the key to the restraints. He unlocked the restraint on her arms but left the one at her legs, not pulling what Kage did but still following Mara's orders partially. Pocketing the key he finally reached down to her and gave her a hug, top wings extended forward and crossing behind her back as well.

"If she is truthful...then yes I would be included " he said quietly, knowing that it would be true only be because Ree ordered it.

Tri held her tightly before resting his forehead against the top of her head. Guilt mixed in with relief scratched at the long held mask he wore, threatening to make him tear up but it never got through.

"Are you hungry?" He asked thinking what she would really want now that she was awake. Slowly he release his hold on her, relieved that Ashral didn't take over.

My life is not worth the compromised safety of this base."

Fingers twitched in response, a similiar thought passed through his mind as he watched Ree coax Ashral to sleep...holding out on a hope that it wouldn't kill her. Having that hope answered but now living with the guilt of having chosen that route...and also hearing it from her as well...that it was correct..the most logical choice.

He stared at her and sighed while lifting his arms to rest them on the rail between them. "Killing her would kill you...so let me detail what happened." He tried not to sigh again because everything that had happened was almost like a train wreck with near impossible events at the end.

"Kage and Mara got into a fight that ended with Mara having her memory temporarily erased. " he grimaced as he said it "Kage used that time to escape with Andy and Blaise while taking you hostage. Ree and Zira were sent after them, it ended with Ree giving Zira an order that flipped the car killing you and nearly Blaise. " his fingers dug into his own jacket but he never looked away or let any of the emotions he was feeling to leak out onto his face.

"Andy and Kage who were outside were unharmed and you were sent off with Andy. Ree allowed everyone else to leave before he and Zira eventually chased your inhibitor signal to a recently abandoned renegade base." These were the parts he received from Ree and Zira. " Inside we found one of their members, Leukos, keeping Ashral calm. The renegade leader and one of his subordinates healed you and left you for us to find. Leukos purposely stayed behind to keep her company " not mentioning how long records said she was dead before they found her, unless Andy zapped the inhibitors off while she carried her and then carried them with her...it was a while.

"Ree assumed you were still dying and attempted to heal the left over wounds which Ashral then transferred to him." He looked pointedly to her stomach then up at her. " Since Ashral was weak and being handled well by Leukos, it was decided to take them both back to the base. Leukos kept her calm for most of the week until a meeting between the metas on the base just to..touch bases, finished with Ashral attempting to get me to agree to her deal. Ree pointed out a flaw and she adjusted it to the one I mentioned and offered it to him ..which he agreed to. " this time he clenched the fabric of his sleeve within his fist, his only outward sign of anger.

"If she is planning to break the deal or if she has some ulterior motives...we just don't know " he said quietly to her. "So I can't truthfully tell you to trust her. At the same time, she is the danger and not you " he sighed again "I wouldn't want to see you gone " this time he let go of his own sleeve and tried to brush her hair gently with his finger tips, some comfort some indication he cared even through his guilt.

Tri saw the moment he misstep in the pain her saw on her face as mild as it was. He had not meant that she was not trained or a danger herself, but that she was trusted. As he started to correct that she spoke and he listened instead of interrupting.

" I wouldn't have recommended the majority of those actions but Ree can be... impulsive sometimes " he sigh as he used the distraction of those words to try and find something that wouldn't injure her and would give her a goal.

Yet ..what ever she did would give the malice power..and now that Ashral wasn't taking power from Hexxis torment she would be taking it elsewhere as well as learning. What to do was a tricky problem and one he would want to talk to Kae about if it seemed Ashral was keeping her word. Yet for now..what to say ...his last attempt to comfort her only made it worse. Yet she has ask to get stronger against Ashral..that did not mean she had to be stronger physically just mentally, especially if Ashral was asleep.

"I might have an idea... but I will need to speak to Kae " telling her while the malice was awake was not the best of ideas. He pulled his hand back seeing her pain and felt it reflected in him. If that didn't work then he would look around for something else, but he hoped Kae would have an idea. "Then you need to recover fully...can you wait that long?" he said softly.