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"[color=d1fffc]'M...fine, Raylll,[/color]" Alja slurred out, surprising herself with just how indistinct her words were. [i][color=d1fffc]Somethin's wrong. Somethin's wrong.[/color][/i] Still, she tried not to let her concern show on her face, attempting to get up again before falling back down in a gross display of miscoordination. "[color=d1fffc]'M jus'...dizzy for sum reason. Dunno why.[/color]" She rubbed at her eyes aggressively, trying to will her vision back to clarity and somehow being surprised when it didn't work.

She tried to stand again, and this time she managed to make it to her feet, supporting herself on the table and breathing deeply as a denizen came over, concern on her face. Alja waved her away, but removing one of her hands from her support table had the reasonably predictable outcome of her barely managing to stay on her feet. She turned to face Graves, frowning as she found it difficult to see his face clearly; it kept swimming in and out of focus. "[color=d1fffc]'S gotta be...debuff or som'thin,' righ?'. 'M real dizzy...[/color]" she brought her hand up to her face, feeling the heat rushing through it as her normally fair skin was suffused a bright red by...whatever this was.

She sat down again, grunting in mild irritation as the waitress continued hovering out of something like concern. And, it occurred to Alja, there was something she could use at the moment. She waved the waitress over and, voice still slurred, asked: "[color=d1fffc]C'n you get me some water?[/color]"

She nodded and scurried off, and Alja slumped back down, her eyes drawn as if magnetically to the blurry image of a tearfully happy Luci being congratulated by everyone in the bar, and Aaginim standing next to her. She looked on, the previously confused expression on her face replaced with what seemed like an almost comical melancholy. "[color=d1fffc]Sh'd b'mm,[/color]" she mumbled, her face lying sideways on the table and distorting her mouth to the point of incoherence.

Then--for the first time in a long time--some of her IRL self leaked into Alja, and she pivoted her head until she was looking at Graves almost piteously. And in that moment, she looked almost as small as her real-world counterpart. "[color=d1fffc]'M I gonna be okay, Graves?[/color]"

Then the moment passed, and she slumped back into the table with a dizzy groan.