[hr]ATTN: [@AzureKnight] (Xashan), [@Hammerman], [@Silverstein], & [@Rune_Alchemist][hr]There was a mounting pressure, as Xashan dragged the two women back to Eon Tower against their wishes and wills; using his position of seniority to make an executive decision for them in the field, regardless of how they felt. Throughout the return journey, they'd been making their escape in cahoots; speaking to each via their Espermancer connection with their Third Eye. Playing docile, Scarlett would bloat a fine mixture of iron and copper dust into her scarred arm, while drawing blood and moisture out of the flesh and muscle; leaving a fragile, desiccated arm from the elbow down.

As she finished, she would tune back in to notice that the witch she'd met so long ago was starting to depart, and Xashan was distracted by some walking pound of flesh. Both parties opened their Third Eye to coordinate, as Lupina stuck out her hand to shake, and Scarlett seemed to reciprocate - only for her mummified arm to tear off at the elbow. Part of the plan, Lupina would shriek, and toss the arm up; silently summoning Baast off the end of her fingers to bark at it, and send it towards the ceiling.

Scarlett would cackle, as the arm cracked on the ceiling, and point her blood-gushing stump at the failing cloud of dust, as her arm shattered, and scattered. At the same time, she summoned Milli within the disguising font of blood, and had the grass snake spit a teeny ball of fire into the dust cloud.

[center][i]The very explosive dust cloud...[/i][/center]
The explosion would mask their shouts, "[color=00ccff]Milli![/color]/[color=BDD3E9]Baast![/color]" before the Spirit Animals engulfed them in the chaos of the sudden detonation, and flew off with their keepers in their mouths.

Not shackled by terrestrial movement, and unbound to the conventional means of flight, the two serpentine summons would swim through the air, back to their incomplete mission.

More than likely, Xashan knew where they were headed, and could direct Roze to give chase with her own flying summon. However, they both had to prioritize the explosion, first. Even if it was fully calculated by Scarlett to do the minimum amount of damage - more flash than bang - it was still going to take time to get through the ensuing paperwork in the form of incident reports from Xashan and Roze to the eyewitness accounts for Lanus, Renee, Haase, Leon, and the newcomer, Giselle, and whatever other various bureaucratic measures would crop up that they were counting on to keep the two from being chased immediately.

As they soared through the sky, Milli's mouth would open, as she saddled up beside Baast, and Scarlett looked over with her arm wrapped by her underwear. "[color=00ccff]Not bad acting for a sheep,[/color]" Scarlett says, as she sat cross-legged. "[color=00ccff]I almost believed that shriek was real for a moment.[/color]"

"[color=BDD3E9]I could say the same for a human,[/color]" Lupina says, laying back in Baast's tongue like a warm bed. "[color=BDD3E9]They won't take kindly to insubordination, y'know.[/color]"

"[color=00ccff]Technically, the mission is closed yet, so we're still on task as given,[/color]" Scarlett says. "[color=00ccff]Xashan didn't even entertain our suspicions...[/color]"

"[color=BDD3E9]Admittedly, that did piss me off. Dragging us off like that, without even looking into anything, and for what, a public squabble,[/color]" Lupina scoffed, "[color=BDD3E9]Honestly, it wasn't even that deep. Just banter between women. We better hurry, though. We're on a clock.[/color]"

The two looked at each other, and nodded in sync, before declaring:

[center][i]"[color=00ccff]No secrets allowed[/color] [color=BDD3E9]before the Apostles[/color] [color=00ccff]of the[/color] [color=BDD3E9]Maiden Abyss[/color]!"[/i][/center]