The sound of someone yelling was a jolt that shot Nathan to attention. Running outside, he soon found Meria beating up a group of boys. One of which, was being held by the face as some dark looking stuff did...something to him, which was extremely painful by the sounds of it. Nathan was only immobilized by shock for a few seconds. Once his brain was back online, he rushed over to Meria and yanked her arm away from the other boy. The second his skin came into contact with that strange black stuff, he felt like his arm was starting to burn from the inside out, something that was starting to spread to the rest of his body. Extremely painful, but nothing unfamiliar. With a little Spiritual magic, he was able to dull the pain enough to not interfere with his ability to talk. "Okay. [i]What the hell was that!?[/i]!? I'm not sure what these guys were trying to do, but straight up [i]torture[/i] seems extremely excessive! Is this going to happen every time you get a headache? Because if so, then you need to keep a lot of pill on hand. We can't have a queen getting all smite happy on us."