Hotaru sighed a bit as she sat next to Larel, leaning back on her wrists as she stared at the four of them, "That boar is probably pretty thoroughly cooked by now," she told him as Raina walked over, picking one of the pieces up, "Hey, that's not for you," she said
"Everyone else ate all the fish, you can survive if I take one damned piece," Raina spat as she moved to sit on top of the boulder that hid the view back to the village from the night before, watching back that way.
Hotaru rolled her eyes, "Seeing as she's eating it I guess that means it's done," she muttered to Larel before looking over at Jin, "Why are you even hanging around?" she raised a brow at Jin wondering why he was still hanging around since she was assuming he had joined up with Alari sometime in the short duration of their stay in the previous village, "Have you nothing better to do with your time?"
"I'm sure we all have something better we could be doing with our time."
"Mera cheated," Rapide realized and pouted as she saw the cuffs were gone.
"How do you know she cheated?" Hotaru looked back at them
"Because," Hayate pointed to Alari, "He still has the key, meaning she never told him how she feels about him," he said
"Probably because you little shits trying to play cupid are part of the reason we're in this mess."
"Oh," they looked at each other, "We didn't even think about that."

Eryn sighed a bit hearing Alari call her adorable, "If it happens again, that's not the world you'll be using. I think this space is targeting Mera and Mary for whatever reason, so even keeping her right with me might not prevent the change from happening," he looked at them, "Just keep close anyways. We don't know what else it'll do and even I don't know all the different states of mind she went through in the phases she'll most likely hit," he motioned to Mera who put her hand on her hip.
"I am [i]right here[/i]," she said in annoyance before starting forwards, pulling him along, "Mary!" she called out, stopping as she heard a crunching sound nearby.
"I told you to stop yelling," Eryn whispered, looking around as a hissing sound followed.
It took a second before it dawned on Mera what it might be, "We need to move, now. If this place is reflecting Mary's fears, that thing might be a monster from one of the books she read when she was little and it will not be fun to deal with in the slightest," she said, grabbing Eryn's shirt and dragging him along. 
The path seemed never ending, ever winding, and the crying seemed to get louder and louder the further down the path they went. As they encroached on a cave, Mera stopped looking up at it before a sudden bout of darkness completely blocked out the little light they hand for a brief moment. When the light returned, Eryn swallowed hard at the Mera next to him before looking at the other two.
"I think I know what's going on," he murmured, "Mary, in her mind, has returned to the night that Mera saved her from Father and so the closer we're getting to Mary, the closer to that point in time Mera's getting," he looked over as she looked at him. 
Her heart was short, like Raina's was now, and she was a bit smaller in stature. The cloak was gone and she was wearing some sort of travelers garb. Her tattoos weren't on her shoulders and upper arms yet, and the scars that were hidden by the tattoos were visible now and she was wearing her artifact, "We're wasting time," She said shortly before turning and running in to the cave, Eryn having to scramble a bit to keep up since she had a bit more stamina.
"I'm just worried," Eryn looked over his shoulder at the other two, that thing keeping Mary here is the thing that's been haunting us all for years.
"That bastard has her," Mera growled, "I'll kill him."
He went to suggest maybe they slow down before the hissing filled the area behind them, "Well, that really limits our options," he swallowed a bit, trying to grab Mera and make her slow down, "Her powers will be more raw and uncontrolled if she really does reach that point in her mind as well, her rage fresh towards him, but I have no idea how that battle would have actually gone if she had faced him head on," He said to Alari and Kaori, "I doubt this will go down the same way as it did then, but Mary's hoping her sister will save her as she did before, that's why the realm is changing the two of them this way, or that's my guess," he said to them, trying to keep up with Mera