"I swear, with the amount of dramatic actions between you, Larel, and Kaori, you must be related by blood," Mera sniffed a bit, smirking at him as she made one last attempt at wiping off her cheeks, "I'll head back then, but do be careful. We don't know what could be lurking out here," she mumbled before walking forward, going back towards the camp. She ran in to Raina as she stepped out of the woods and the two exchanged a look that wasn't very pleasant, "Trying to spy on things that are none of your concern?"
"Just wondering what was taking so long. I couldn't imagine you had enough emotional capacity to take that long to get your act together," Raina said to which Mera rolled her eyes, "Where's your boyfriend?"
"What exactly is it that I've done that has made spiting me your life's goal?"
"Acting like you're better than me. You didn't deny he was your boyfriend?"
"I am better than you though, so it's not an act. You've never bested me in a fight."
"That's because you've always used that damned magic of yours."
"I treated you as I would any other foe, why should I do anything less?"
"If you didn't use it, I could definitely beat you," Mera's eyes glinted at what she said.
"Some other time I'll let you test that out," She walked around Raina and went over towards Mary, crouching next to her. A small vine wrapped around Mary's wrist as Mera looked at the clear frustrated Hotaru, who hadn't found any of that conversation helpful in the slightest, "What's happened here?" she asked, looking over to Larel.
"I made the mistake of thinking Zenmaru would be helpful," Hotaru growled a bit, "That damned demon's voice hasn't stopped for the past twenty minutes and I'm not in the slightest bit thirsty so that's not the problem. She's much more vocal than last time, much more rooted in my head, and is getting in places I would prefer her not to be," She put her hands to her head, shaking it, "She's been making snide comments this whole conversation, including about Zenmaru having the creativity of a child if the village bit was her idea of amusement," She waved her hand towards Larel's shadow, "She's not sitting here telling me to do anything, but she won't stop talking and it's so damned annoying," She growled again, closing her eyes, wishing she could shut it up.
Mera took a deep breath, "If it's not one thing, it's another," she mumbled before a vine wrapped around Hotaru's arm and pulled her so she was sitting down, "Getting agitated only fuels her more, I'm sure, and probably is allowing her to increase in volume and making her more tangible in your mind," she crossed her arms, "Focus on calming yourself down and stay more.... positive, and maybe she'll be about as annoying as a fly buzzing in your ear," she suggested, "This is merely an idea that seems like a decent one to try since we need to make you a new cloak before we can go traveling in the day time."
Hotaru huffed a bit, yanking her arm away from the vine and crossed her arms as she glared at the ground, sitting cross legged. As stupid as the idea sounded, or as stupid as Sybil said it sounded, she was willing to give it a shot. She took a deep breath, closing her eyes as she just tried to shut her out.
"While that's happening," Mera looked over at Larel, "I see you've gotten a substantial amount of food this morning, if you're still hungry, I'm sure I can help with that to avoid more unnecessary dramatic performances today," she said.
Raina was glaring at her from where she was standing, hating how Mera just seemed to command the space without actually commanding anything. She would have left by now if she wasn't concerned about Mary, but as soon as the runt was awake, she was out of there. And after she kicked Mera's ass. Since the challenge had been made, she couldn't let her just walk away from it. Then something else dawned on her and she decided to point out, "You avoided the question again by instigating me in to that fight, didn't you?" She put her hands on her hips.
"I haven't got the slight clue what you're talking about," Mera said innocently