As quickly as it all started it all came to a screeching halt. There was no more violence, yelling, pain instead it was replaced with an eerie sort of silence. A silence that helped reinforce the idea of how alien and strange the surrounding world was without any animals, or other sounds. Only sparse occasional chatter, and the static whaling of the televisions from the televisions. Adrenaline begins to slowly taper off as the Adrenal gland slowly becomes to stop production, breathing begins to slow back down, heart rate decreases as whatever was holding you up just a moment ago pulls away letting you free fall back to normalcy. Masako didn't pay attention to it but she did now, how much her arms were shaking, how utterly terrifying all of that had actually been. She was still holding the rake above her as Minto had gone to vomit out something from his body. The girl limply handed it back over to the same hands that had tried to bludgeon her to death with it earlier. She said no words, none were really needed and she frankly didn't feel like talking that much.

She expected the pain, she expected the shock but she didn't expect how tired she felt. Guess it was natural though right? With your body running on all cylinders to try and keep you from getting killed takes a lot of energy. She just needed a minute to think to herself and maybe sit down. So while the others reunited or talked she found the furthest point she could from the rest of them while still being in earshot which happened to be where the Televisions were in the first place that started it all. As she approached the wall where the two remaining still spat out static she half expected another memory to display. But for the moment it was just two fields of black and white shuttering back and forth. She didn't realize she was acting until it had already happened the first one getting a foot straight through the center and the other a fist a moment later. Reactions of anger, reactions without thought.. only human and it made her feel better a little bit. 

She sighed as she slumped to the ground in front of them not caring for the glass as he rested her head and closed her eyes. She tried to find something happy, anything within herself anything to take off the edge of how crazy all this shit was, of how stupid it was and how trapped she felt by it all, she just wanted an escape for one minute. It was in this searching that a sudden warmth flooded her body. It was like an electric shock running from the scalp down to the toes, vibrating coursing with life as it tickled the skin. As she opened her eyes a large figure was towering over her bathed in light. It was a large women dressed in mail and furs with long blonde hair that cascaded down her back, piercing  blue eyes strong and determined met tired ones. She was holding a large spear in one hand still stained with blood and a shield in the other. The figure spoke as it thrusted its spear point downward so that it was mere inches away from Masako’s face. [color=dodgerblue][b]“I am thou, and thou art I. I’m Hervor the Shieldmaiden, Herald of Fortune. Together we will forge our own paths.”[/b][/color]

Masako confused and a little bit awestruck reached up with her hand and touched the point of the speartip. At contact millions of cracks appeared throughout Hervor’s body and she shattered like glass vanishing from sight. Masako was confused and felt oddly alone again as the brilliant warmth that had enveloped her moments ago had dissipated in an instant. She was brought out of her revere quickly though as a commotion among the others draw her attention.

It seemed that the same kind of masked thing had appeared this time taking the appearance of the transfer student. Which was bad because it meant these things could exist without their hosts, which meant they may have to deal with the others again and they barely made it out intact this time. It seemed more powerful than the others had been, more in control of what it was doing and able to control that power that they had all unlocked previously. After leaving the transfer student with some choice words and threats of the future it vanished but not before leaving them with a giant wall of fire. 

It was at this point that the man with rabbit mask stepped out of the darkness. Masako reacted accordingly reaching for a gun prepped for another fight but it seemed that all this man wanted to do was talk. Though Masako didn't like the rabbit man mostly it was in the way he talked like he was better than them, like he was some omnipotent puppeteer and that they were some puppets in a toy chest. And yet he had’nt tried to kill them yet so that was something. At least that meant that he still wanted them alive. So far he was the only thing in this  place that didn't seem hostile at first sight. It spoke of Ms.Saski and how they were going to be late to save her and that they had to hurry. The others began to interject their own thoughts some filled with more emotion than others, but they all had their points and Masako took them all in.

During this time Minto did something like the others had with their creatures of whatever like that women Hervor that Masako had spoken to. But this was something not angry or harmful but filled with a soft light that surrounded Masako’s and the other’s bodies. It dulled the pain until it practically vanished and well Masako was impressed by that at least. Giving Minto a small nod of accident when he asked if everyone was okay. Then the rabbit man continued to talk and the debate for what to do next continued as others began to voice their own opinion. 

Masako was not having any of it though she was beaten with a rake, dealt out fly by emotional support to total strangers and was stuck in some crazy reality that really shouldn't be happening where people puke up darkness and get psychoanalyzed by televisions and now there was this guy. [color=dodgerblue]”This is just rich isn't it? This world has a sick sense of humor to it does it not mister rabbit? We get here by getting pulled down a hole in the ground, we end up in some alternate world that plays on rules that are not our own and now we meet you Mr. White Rabbit with a pocket watch and talking about people being late. What’s going to happen next? You're going to tell us that Ms.Saski was captured by a Queen in Red and that we are going to need to enlist the help of a mad hatter to save her? Yeah because we didn't have enough shit to deal with beside the shadow monsters and our classmates attempt to murder us. Just... just fuck all of this crap.”[/color]

She hit her head back against the wall and sighed cooling down after her little outburst. It felt good though surprisingly to just be able to yell at somebody. She spoke again resigned. [color=dodgerblue]”But sure. Let’s follow the creepy rabbit man because he so [i]radiates[/i] trust and we are going to get torched alive later anyway if Mister Fancy Pants's Freudian doppelganger has anything to say about it.”[/color] She explained gesturing towards Kazuo.