Lya turned a faint red when she saw Amuné on Jareth. It wasn't jealousy, she was embarrassed. She frozen, trying unsuccessfully not to let her eyes widen in surprise. She fidgeted with her hands for a moment before drawing a breath and opening her mouth to talk, but no words came out. She held there for a second before regaining her composure and relaxing. Looking down at the floor, Lya smiled at herself for being stupid.
"I was going to see if you wanted to come with me to see some cool stuff around here since you're not staying long..." she looked up at Amuné, then shifted her eyes to Jareth. "But um.. you're busy, so I.. uh, well I... guess I'll just go.."
She felt so dumb standing there, rambling like a schoolgirl. She was a princess! Even the great Tsitukaiza Sealious hadn't done this to her! She turned, conspicuously disappointed as she bit her lip and hesitantly walked back toward her own room where she could beat her head against the wall and call herself an idiot a couple times.
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Nunque met a wall of mental defense that spiked upon his arrival. Physically he popped his neck so loud that the metal door faintly reverberated the sound. He withdrew his prod and giggled girlishly. "Oh, Big Sister. You're a tricky one aren't you?"
This was Nunque's stomping ground, though. While his mind was unhinged and unstable, his powers as a mental chakra user were superb. He formed a three-layered prod. The first layer was a sense of worry that anyone in Big Sister's position would possess. To keep his focus, he began to gnaw on his left index finger. The second layer was a cloaking layer of his own design. It would hide beneath the sense of worry, but it was thick enough to cover the third layer. The third layer had two feelings. One was assurance that everything was okay and that she would be safe. The other was that pull towar the leader. He mixed them into an over sense that giving Tsitua a chance was at least worth the trouble of traveling up and aboard this craft.
He marveled at his brilliant design. It was a noble gesture to be applied with slightly deceitful means. These means we're a necessary evil, however, and soon enough Big Sister would See that, but not until Nunque was sure she was ready.
The three-layered prod would take a simple approach. Her spiked defense would attack the negative influence, allowing the hidden one to pass through. He pushed his prod gingerly into Big Sister's mind, almost hoping it wouldn't work just for funnzies. That wasn't likely, but he had chosen her for a reason.
Blood was blotting his white scrub pants as it dropped from his near-mangled finger.
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Orion breathed a sigh of relief. She wasn't in their territory, for now. "Yes, I'll come see you soon, but I have to go for now." He stood, allowing the pushed-out stitches to fall to the floor. He looked to the others around him, "Thank you all. The Circle is in your debt. I'm in your debt. If you ever need us, simply pray for us. We'll come."
With that, he left. He made his way out of the city, to an adjacent farmland on the outskirts.
Leader, we have a problem. Send Cain.@shylarah so I have a problem. I meant to write this in such a way that Orion ended up at the train station with them, but I messed that up because I was fixed on Nunque's vision. Sooo I may have to do some editing around, or maybe you can just forgive me for being a dummy and pretend he was never on the subway train? ... .-. *derp*]