Woooooo!! It's been a while! I'll get the reposts so we can remember where we left off last time! ^-^

The quickest thing that comes to Terra's mind to use as a weapon is the gun he put back in his pocket--not to shoot the bird, no, this time he takes it back out and slams it over the bird's head as it tries to flee from Sparky. He grimaces after that, the black blood on the gun finalizing that his and Sparky's suspicions were correct, but that doesn't help much. "... Ugh..." he quietly mutters, squinting at the bird for a moment and hoping it's dead before glancing around for something to wipe off the gun.

"... You did what you needed to," Sparky tries to encourage his partner some, hopping away from the dead bird now.

"I know..." Terra mutters again, testing to see if he can wipe the gun on the edge of his ghostly jacket. Since the material isn't truly physical, the blood doesn't stick, and the jacket more or less pushes it off of the gun.

Sparky watches Terra for a moment, then asks, "How about we try to go after that one that got away now? Try to find where it went? It sure seemed like it was in a hurry to get somewhere."

Terradream glances at Sparky and nods his head. "Yeah, it did... I doubt we'll find anything, birds don't really leave trails, but I guess..." he stops himself abruptly--he was going to say there's nothing left for him here, but... "... Wh-where do you think Fiona and Alex are? I-I haven't seen them yet... I h-haven't seen anyone yet..." he says, his tone and voice carrying his worry.

Sparky frowns at first, but still tries to keep optimistic. "I know, I know, it's a huge city, they could be anywhere, but I'm sure they're at least together. We can keep an eye out for them too as we follow the bird, right? ... If you wanna go get your stuff, I can make sure this bird is dead for good?"

Terradream gives another nod, puts the gun carefully back in his pocket, and rubs his arms before he turns to leave. He's mentally arguing with himself something fierce... //... I... I can't worry about them right now... A steady mind makes for a steady aim... But... But I can't just act like everything's fine, they both could be out there with countless monsters...! They could be dead! Or something could've happened again--Fiona's corruption could be taking over her...! ... No, but, I need to focus, I need to focus, I... I have to just pretend that everything's fine... I have to... No, I can't, that's stupid and delusional...! But I can't be panicking either, I /have/ to be calm... I wish we could've at least gone together... I... I wish I had even considered trying to link her up with Sparky... Why haven't I thought of that until now...? Now, it's... It's too late...//

After getting what would come up out of him Crimson just nodded and took deep shaking breaths, he was still hunched over and looking down at his vomit, it was a pitch black substance that boiled like hot water, the pungent smell wreaked but the longer the red king stared at it his body ached, craving the dark magic however when the thought creep in his mind that he should absorb it again or even go as far as eating it, Crimson shook his head and forced himself to get up, he needed to think on other things, so he did just that...

The red king then stumbled further into the alleyway, darkness was more comforting to him in the past and right now Crimson wasn't feeling well, he felt awful and scared but unlike the past he didn't feel alone, he had Glory with him and somewhere he knew Crystal was out there, he just hoped she was alright, that his vision wasn't true, that she and the others were dead or turned into monsters.

" h-ow far is the closest person... your linked to?..." Crimson asked struggling between breaths, he spotted what he was looking for, though it wasn't exactly idea, but it would work in the field... amongst the things in the alleyway like trash cans was a bowl someone had left out for Stray animals, the bowl had collected Rainwater and looked fairly clean.

Crimson placed a hand on the wall as he let himself drop down to his knees again, everything felt like it took more effort but this was something Crimson knew he needed to do, he reached up and carefully picked the little forgotten off his shoulder and held her in his hands "... she did get on you..." he Mumble as his lip twitch a little.

The red king doesn't say more and takes one hand and dips it in the water and bring it to the Forgotten and poor it over her, he then does his best to try and get off the remains of the blood sword, this is what he wanted to do, it was what a friend would do right? He felt it would be something Crystal would do.as he scrubbed Glory Crimson whispered ".... im sorry..."

Morning Glory glances down and goes to rub Crimson's shoulder again when he speaks up, but she stops when she loosely picks up on Crystal's call. //Crystal? Is that...// she starts to reply, perking her ears and antenna up to try to catch the rest of the message better, and then she smiles faintly. //Oh, I'm so glad, thank you so much Crystal, Crimson--he's really sick, he needs help so bad, we got away from the monsters and he needs a moment to breathe, but we both need to hurry... The... the evil things, they'll come to find him, I'm sure of it...! But... But I'll stay with him, I'll do my best to help him, I will...//

She gets slightly sidetracked when she remembers that Crimson also asked her something, and she holds on tight to his shoulder while he gets up and moves around. "Fiona's still rather close... Captain Boreas and Crystal are on their way... I just got a call back from Crystal, she says they're on their way, and... and she has some back up too...!"

Glory makes a cute, but weak, little squeak when Crimson picks her up, but she doesn't resist. "'She...?'" Glory quietly repeats, losing her small smile, but she doesn't say more when Crimson starts to bathe her. She rubs against his hand, then hugs his fingers when he apologizes. "... I'm just scared for you... I don't want to lose you... I don't want to lose anyone else, even... even if you're not Weaver... I don't want to see anyone else suffer like he is... You're a nice person deep down... you know that...? ... And I don't want to lose you..."

Now that they were on the move, Crystal did as she said she would and tried to get through to Glory. She didn’t know what she should say, but she did want to reassure that help was coming..

Watching the surroundings as they went by, she tried her best to calm her thoughts and focus solely on mentally connecting and talking to the little forgotten, and after a moment she attempted it. //Glory.. Hello? It’s Crystal..// She started, hoping she was doing this right, //I wanted to let you know we’re on our way to you now.. And we have a little bit of backup too.//

Jason looks up seen the birds flying over head, he answers back " Yo! That a lot of birds going towards the danger zone, I'm not no expert but experience has taught me evil things are drawn to evil things, no way those are normal birds "

// I got a bad feeling about this // the orange hair boy thinks, this whole thing with Crimson wasn't feeling right and knowing Scarlett is in fact involved only made his suspicions more " we should be ready for anything, Scarlett Is one of Sol cursed weapons and he got plenty of evil Goons to do his dirty work " he said knowing that everyone should already know this but he just wanted them to be ready.

Boreas listened to Jason through his earpiece, still scanning the area around them as he spoke. The strangest thing was, the streets that were previously filled with the sounds and tension of monsterous warfare were now rather silent. There were no signs of any of the previous shadow monsters they had been fighting anywhere...

"Ready for anything is right... There's something awfully suspicious about all of this." The Captain mumbled back, "What about your news?"

Even though Dreamcatcher had a fear of falling, right now he was more afraid of Dreameater killing him and Anna.
The window he jumped from was only a few stories high,The dark moons blood didn't have a lot of time to adjust to everything going on, how high the window was or the fact he could try to fly, though Catch hadn't actually fly before, he glided and fell but hadn't try to gain altitude before but he had gotten pretty good at crashing.
Catch made it a bit farther out, he tucked into a roll when he hit the ground and got back on his feet to start running // Anna! Get up out of his reach!// he told his partner as he let her go but he let out a surprise Yelp when something grabbed him. Catch flap his wings and thrashed to try and get away, he needed to get away or Eater would catch up to him in no time

Rage the Forsaken Lord seized the odd looking Nightmare by the back of his neck. He held white haired Nightmare in front of him " huh? You have wings but your not Revenge " Rage made a puzzled look " you not quite like the white haired wing clown ether..."

"HAY YOU LET HIM GO! " Rihanna shouted at the tall man and buzz

The freakish sounds of a Nightmare's roar ring out as Dreameater doesn't slow down in his pursuit. He's choking on some of his fire that he had been preparing to unleash, but was hit before he could fully shoot it at his target, but he doesn't even seem to care. Sure, Catch has some extra distance and earlier slowed down the Nightmare for a brief moment, but Dreameater's not going to sit there while his prey is being held by some other creature... If anything, it only spurs him on more, he doesn't care about nor recognize the thing that has Catch pinned...

Rahab twitched and grumbled thw whole way through the poison extraction, clearly not comfortable and wishing he could be on the move. But he still complied, knowing that doing so would probably make things quicker.

Eira waited on them patiently, but she couldn't help but feel a nervousness rising up, and she kept casting glances back at the exit. //I really hope everything is going okay... I don't feel great, and it's making me worry more for everyone...//
She glanced to the nurse as she finished the extractions and antidoting. "Is that all we're needed for?" she queried, checking if there was anything else before they'd all rush off.

"There's one more thing..." The nurse answered Eira's question, quickly picking up a wet, disinfected cloth, cleaning their wounds, and lastly bandaging them up. "That's all. Do be cautious out there. We'll study the toxins and get back to you with treatments when we can."

"Thanks a bunch for the help!" Fiona quickly said as the nurse gathered up her equipment to rush off again. Once the Vaseterm had left, the Elemental looked to Eira and Rahab.
"...Okay, now we can get moving." Although she may have tried to hide it, her own anxiousness was reflected in her tone as she looked between her two teammates, "Let's get out there and find Crimson and the others!"

Ok, I think that should be all!

(Hallooooo!

Cotton candy swirl!)

(Hi Fluffy! :D

I noticed I do a lot of swirls 'XD

How're you doing? :3 )

( HELLO! )

(Hahaha, swirls are cool and pretty to look at! XD

I'm doing pretty good! I'm excited for today! X3

HI SHADOW!

How're you both doing?)

(That's great to hear Fluffy! I'm pretty excited too, though I feel I need to get back into the RP mindset X'D

I'm doing good! Though going outside is not fun, I mean it's not super hot, it's actually a lot cooler today than it has been, but there's so much humidity, you can actually see it. Going down the road, you can see a haze in the air, and it's all just humidity ':D )

(HI SHADOW!)

( that good to hear!

I'm doing alright, I'm having to help my brother move some stuff so I'll be slow for the first part of the RP, but Ones I'm done ill be free ^-^ )

(Yeeee, I need to get back into the mindset too! X'D

/Oof/ that's a lot of humidity, Lilly. I hope you don't have to go out too much! ;w;

And alright, Shadow! Best of luck to you both!

Glad to hear you're both doing alright!)

(Alrighty Shadow! Good luck! :)

Me too Fluffy, me too ':D Hopefully I won't have to too much today, other than for tonight's worship service)

( that yucky Lilly D:
Soon it will be autumn!)

( I need to get back into the swing of RP to x'D)

Hearing Glory’s reply, Crystal was both relieved and even more worried at the same time.. As well as surprised and glad she was able to get through. /Thank you, Glory. If you can, let us know if anything changes./ She wanted to say more, but knew everyone needed to focus on their own situation, so for now, she opted to let Glory focus on Crimson..

When Jason mentioned the birds up in the air, Crystal glanced up, “Yeah, you’re right, they’re not normal.. Arthur told me those are spies for Soldormir, and apparently he can hear and see through them.. Though they do other things too.” She said, at that last part thinking about what that one bird watching her had done back on the roof.

Crystal then said, “Glory told me they got away from whatever was happening and are taking a moment to catch their breath… We don’t have long though, she said Crimson’s not well, and the monsters will probably find them again..”

(…bring on the autumn~ xD)

(OK! I AM DONE DOING THE MOVING WOTH BRO, and I have eaten! Now I work on RPING)

( I am with you on that one Galaxy xD
Autumn come soon! )

(Hey Galaxy! How're you? ^-^

I agree too--Autumn is awesome. -v-)

(Also, YAY!!!

...To you being done and having had food, Shadow.)

(Yess, autumn will be nice~ And I have ice cream now, that should also help with the heat!

And hey Galaxy! I'll join in the boat of asking ya how you're doing XD )

It took a moment for Crimson to even realize what Glory said, he was in a fuzzy daze, not quite like early were his corruption took over and he couldn't remember everything, this was a numb feeling, he knew what he was doing but he was so sick feeling and out of it.

the red king odd eyes drifted down as Glory words sink in "... I'm not a nice person Glory...." Crimson grimaced and squeezed his eyes shut " I... I... it's just I been pretending to be... but it's not the real me... I hate who I am...." he Mumble, Crimson leaned himself against the wall, he wanted to change, he knew what he did was wrong but he kept messing up, kept going back to his old habits.

The red king pulled Glory closer and held her in his lap, he rubbed the little forgotten with his thumb as he held her and just sat there zoning out in a fog, his mind jumped from one thing to the next but was really to tired to focus on anything, even fully on what Glory had told him, that Fiona wasn't to far away and that Boreas and Crystal were coming

//I will, I will, thank you Crystal, I'll try to do my best...// Morning Glory replies to Crystal, though she'd sound a bit fuzzier this time since her attention is being pulled in different directions, briefly.

After a pause, Glory then asks, "So... You're just pretending to be nice to me...?" She's still rubbing against his hand, but she stops to briefly shake her head and say, "I don't think that's true... I think you've got it backwards... You're very nice, Crimson, but... but there's something really evil... Some horrible evil that wants you..." the little Forgotten shudders as she remembers what happened earlier, the way Crimson looked, the... /thing/ that offered him the dagger... "... Can... can you stand? I know you're sick, and you're tired, but that... that thing is going to come back, I'm sure it wants to find you, can you at least walk...? Maybe we could try to meet Crystal or... or head towards Fiona...?"

(Ah, hello guys!
I guess I’m doing alright. :3)

(You're doing alright? Well, that's quite alright :3
Hopefully having a good time RPing can make your alright day a good one~)

(^^ Agreed!)

Dreamcatcher grimaced looking the giant of a man in the eyes // THIS IS THAT GUY HIIRO TRY TO PICK A FIGHT WITH AND HE SHIFTED INTO A MOUNTAIN LIZARD!!// The dark mood blood was struggling to keep himself calm, not only was he being chased by a Nightmare who wanted to kill him but now he was in a bigger pickle, he was in Rage's hands, a Forsaken Lord.

// Think! Think! Think! Maybe I can negotiate with him like Weaver did? worth a shot! // Catch didn't have many other options to go with as the sound of the Nightmare was Dangerously close" h-ay! Yeah your right! I'm not Revenge! " he did a sheepish wave and had a smile that was clearly forced because of how goofy it looked // huh? .. who is Revenge again?...and a wing clown? What he talking about? // he was quickly brought back to the situations " But hey, if you help me with my friend I can maybe help you find yours? "

Rage tips his head and make a thinking face, normally he didn't need any help, but something in this world was throwing off his senses and just felt weird, one thing he did know was Nightmare were good trackers and the white haired clown annoyingly good at it so maybe this weirdo was to, what did he have to lose anyway? " you think you can find Revenge?"

( I ditto! )

Just as Rage is asking his question, Dreameater makes a freakish howl as he charges directly at the Forsaken Lord, reaching his chains out ahead of him to attack Dreamcatcher... but when he slams into Danieru, he doesn't plow him over--in fact, Eater slamming into Rage is more equivalent to Eater running headfirst into a solid concrete wall.

Needless to say, Rage is another thing to momentarily stun the Nightmare, but just like the other times, Eater soon recovers, and now reaches his chains around Rage to go after Catch, his barbed chains in particular going for the prince's throat... Fog continues to pour out of Eater's chest, and he does try to bite Rage too, breaking some more teeth in the process.

Jason listened to Boreas but held off giving his his news until he heard Crystal input " Sol spies? that no good " he thinks outloud. There was so many flying around but so far they didn't seem interested in them, they were heading in one direction and the orange hair boy gut had a feeling " Freckles, can you ask if Glory can give and land marks so we know a better location on were there at? We need to find them before Baddies " after saying this he paused for a moment to add " im going to full in the Admiral and there some things you need to know about "

Jason then touched his radio to call " well Admiral, I got good news and not so good news, the good news is that C man got away from some Baddies but the bad news is those birds are spies of Soledormir and I'm going on a lemon saying they're following C man....but that not everything, were going to be mostly on are own, no one can reach the Palace and our radios have been knocked down to short distance. "

Boreas kept his gaze and mind sharp. The number of wrecked, abandoned cars they were passing was starting to increase, and anything could be hiding around them...

The Captain frowned at the news Jason shared, "Well, that timing's real inconvenient... And for something of Void's that we came to deal with, there's a lot of Soledormir.
...But I'd agree with your hunch on those birds... If we're thinking about heading to their location, I'd guarantee there'll a stormload of trouble to deal with before we can get to Crimson...
Are we sure that's /absolutely/ what we have to do?"

Crystal gave a simple “sure,” as a response to Jason’s question, but waited and listened to what he had to say first. Despite her not wanting it to be true, she had a feeling Jason was right about the birds and where they were going. And even though she didn’t understand the idea behind how it worked, she knew their lack communication range and contact with the palace could be a bad thing..

Taking a moment to refocus, Crystal then asked, /Glory, do you see anything in your area that stands out so we can find you?/

Was he really? A good person shouldn't want to use blood magic and other dark sorcery and yet even just sitting here he felt restless like he needed it, besides the Forgotten didn't know about his past...

Crimson cracked his eye open, for a moment he just stared as his mind wandered but then he glace down at the Forgotten in his hands, something evil was after him? He remembered Scarlett but that was all "... I can't exactly hide from her " he let's out a frustrated breath "were tied together by blood..." the red king leaned his head against the wall and smirked with a zone out look " ...you know she always thought I was sick to...maybe I really am..."

black birds had gathered and were watching the red king from their purchase, most of them looked angry and frustrated squawking at one another but when Crystal name got brought up they hiss, some of the birds left as if to take care of something... as others stay on watch.

Crimson took a deep breath and let it out in a frustrated growl like a kid who didn't want to get out of bed " I have no idea were anyone else is at " he focus himself to get up, keeping himself propped up against the wall

the red king still held on to Glory in his hands, he didn't bother to pick up his helmet even though he probably should have and if his head wasn't so in a fog he would had put it back on " were are we anyway?... it to new to be a dark world....but it feels dead " he ramble making it to the end of the Alleyway and looking out " What did you say again? you said someone close? " Crimson smirked and slowly shook his head " I don't even know what I'm doing anymore "

Morning Glory can't help but shiver some more when Crimson smirks and rambles about Scarlett. "C... Crimson..." she whimpers, but perks her ears up when she hears some of the birds hissing and leaving, then she holds on to his hand as he gets up and wanders out of the alleyway. "Focus, Crimson, please, stay with me..." Glory pleads, being very worried about Crimson's tone and words. She vaguely hears Crystal, to some extent, but can't focus quite enough right now to understand what she said. Crystal might need to repeat herself and hopefully the red king won't do too much more to freak Glory out...
"We're not in a dark world, we're in the human world," Glory quickly tries to explain to Crimson again, "You came out here to help Weaver and Catch, but you went off on your own, and now there's a terrible monster after you, you nearly lost yourself and I... I couldn't save you...! I couldn't stop it..." The little Forgotten, holding on to one of Crimson's fingers, flies up to look him right in the eye. "I'm scared... I'm really scared, Crimson... Fiona's close, Crystal is coming, I can try to guide you to Crystal maybe, but please, please try to focus and stay with me..."

Dreamcatcher put up his hands out and yells in fear as Eater chains come at him, he cup his wings to do his best to Shield himself from the barbed ones that would surely kill him if they stuck his neck or head but they never get the chance...

In a blink Rage pulled the dark moon blood toward himself in a way that he tossed Catch behind himself, the Forsaken Lord needed this weirdo alive for the moment and knew Nightmare had a way in killing things without asking, the move was so sharp that most Nightmares wouldn't be able to adjust their chains to follow as quickly.
In that same movement Rage had took his free hand and grabbed the wild Nightmare who was being annoying and twisted back around and slammed the Nightmare into the ground in front of himself, now the Forsaken Lord had Dreameater by the throat and was rising his other arm to get ready to punch his face in...

As Terradream flies upwards to retrieve his bag of things, he now is able to notice the large amount of black birds flying around, specifically how many of them seem to be flying in a certain direction, and this gives him all the more desire to get on the move. Maybe having a more present threat would distract him from his thoughts, too... He swiftly comes back down to the road, and heads back to Sparky, where he finds his Fairfin sitting squarely on the raven's back, with his arms crossed, a big smile on his face, and a slightly stronger glow around him.

"... I thought you said you'd make sure it's dead?" Terra asks, looking very unamused.

"I am," Sparky answers, continuing before Terra an say anything else, "I dunno if you noticed, but it almost looked like I burned it a bit when I rammed into it and beat it up." Sparky pauses to look down at his paws. "And, well, I'm a ghost, so if I /really/ burned it, I figured I wouldn't have to worry about anything sticking to me or, being icky. So yeah, I'm pretty sure it's dead."

Terra glances between his Fairfin and the dead raven as Sparky flicks the back of its head. "Alright, well, w-we need to get going now, I see more birds like that heading th-that way..." he says, already turning to leave, Sparky hopping off the bird and following right by his side. Terra does pause briefly, considering shifting back to his Venatavis form again to fly faster, but then considers that he'd lose his pockets and would have to hold on to the gun a different way, and his arms are still sore, so in the end he decides against that. If only he had more magic, if only he were alive, maybe he could do more...

Without having enough brain cells to fully comprehend what's happening, Dreameater isn't able to do anything at all to stop Danieru from grabbing him by his head and slamming him into the ground, with just the action of being grabbed being enough to break his nose. Making horribly painful shrieks and howls now, the Nightmare momentarily stops trying to murder Catch and tries to attack Rage, whether it's by trying to bite him more, claw or kick at him, use his chains, or even lighting himself on fire and igniting his fog in the process, all of which will likely do nothing to the Forsaken Lord...

Jason maneuvered his bike do the obstacles of the street, going around cars that were left abandoned and remained of the damage that had been done, but something seem more and more unsettling as they got deeper in.

" this has totally flip " Jason replied back to the whole thing started out with Void but now Soledormir seem to be the one up to something.

It still seem off, he had expected if Soledormir were to initiate attack he would send full force, but then again maybe he actually had... the Palace couldn't be reached and he didn't know what was going on beyond this District of the city, maybe it was worse, maybe they still had no idea of the monsters who wanted them all dead, Jason didn't know, and for a moment he was worried.

"Soledormir return might be closer then everyone predicted. that fine though, were still going to beat him! together!" Jason cheered this last thought outloud. " dude im not sure what we're going to be going up against but we already know it going to something out to kill us but dude by knowing that we already have the advantage, we'll just have to keep that "

Boreas narrowed his eyes slightly, feeling the unnerving sensation in the air as they went further. "Not a fan of this..." He muttered, making sure to check the skies above them every so often.

"Sounds like I may have wound up here just in time to join the cavalry." He said, "...I feel we're much more out of the loop with this situation than we want to be--but we're likely to find out more /real fast./ We'll just have to keep up."

While the Keyhunters are in the midst of the war zone...

Much farther away, where the Nightmare King's spell did not reach, the police are trying to escort and evacuate people out of the city. Even though this area was not affected, the city as a whole has been deemed unsafe for anyone to remain here. A large crowd of people are gathered here, in all states of emotions--panic, sorrow, anger, etc... And among the group of humans, a man in his late 30's holds an umbrella over himself and a much younger girl with crutches. The man has greasy black hair that he's slicked back, and is wearing mostly fine black leather clothes to match, with leather pants, fine shoes, and a leather jacket, on top of a black turtleneck. He has gold and silver rings on all of his fingers with different gemstones in each, strange hoop earrings with more shiny jewels in them, a gold chain necklace and another gold and silver necklace underneath, with a unique amethyst-type stone in the center that has almost a sunset colored hue to it, similar to that of the seven tiny feathers that surround it: three on one side, four on the other. The golden tanned skin of the man's face is marred by splotches of red acne, though that doesn't sully his vivid sea-green colored eyes. Possibly his most noticeable feature is his large, gaudy, bejeweled nose ring that sticks out like a neon light on his face.

The man makes a face, squeezes his eyes shut, then sneezes into his arm. "Uuuugh... Man, I can definitely tell my allergies have gotten waaaay worse since the last time I visited here..." he mumbles, trying to wipe his nose on his sleeve with his nose ring in the way. Then he looks over at the girl beside him. "How're you holding up, kiddo?"

A young girl about the age of 14 was leaning on her crutches, she was taking in all the signs off what was going on in the world around her, people talking about monsters attacking, others worry about family, she finally look up at the older edgy man, she looked out of places next to him with her mid back long blonde straight hair with red headband on, she had a cute red dress on with white polka dots, she had white half lace sweater on, white leggings and sparkly red shoes, she look like she just got out from Sunday school " everyone is in distress Uncle George " her voice was as soft as her look

~{Song: City in Tragedy - Solatorobo, Red the Hunter}~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6jftwkDFP0

Uncle George, as the girl called him, frowns at her comment. "Yeah, they are... It's a feeling all too familiar, isn't it Dorothy? You'd almost think we're back in Kansas..." he says more quietly this time, but quickly moves on, leaning a little closer to her as he asks, "Who or what do you think is responsible for this?"

Dorothy slowly nodded her head, this did feel something like before she left home the chaos of everything, the confusion, fear and anger.... " it's because of them isn't it? " she asked quietly as she grips her crutches handles tighter. The young girl then look up at her edgy uncle, it was clear that tears threatened to fall from her blue eyes as she asked " They betrayed them to didn't they?..."

"Well, it'd certainly be easy to assume that after what you've already seen of them..." George quietly replies, moving back and crossing his arms. "But we're coming in right as chaos is already unfolding, we're missing the context, just like everyone else here. What happened to lead up to this? ... When I look at this, all I see is Soledormir carving his name into this world, like a woodsmith carving his signature into his work..."

He watches the people around him for a moment, then looks back to Dorothy. "What do you think? Should we try to do some investigating?"

Dorothy look up at her uncle, she wanted to understand what he was getting at but the pain she felt wanted to hold her mind in place and the mixture of emotions showed on her face but at least she was willing to look for more evidence, to ether prove Uncle George right that this was all Soledormir doing or her belief that the key hunters were all monsters and were the real enemy...

The little blonde girl meekly nodded and replied " ..yes please...I do want to understand the truth " then she muttered under her breath "...whatever it may really be "

George nods his head at Dorothy's choice, and quietly says, "Alright, well let's get going then. We can start off slowly as make our way in, we don't need to go to the heart of the action right now with you still having trouble with your legs... You still got your coat, right kiddo?"

Dorothy simply nodded her head, she was ready, she had her /coat/ stuffed in a small backpack // I won't forgive them for what they did...//to her the answer was obvious but her uncle seemed to believe there was more to the story so the young girl wanted to know the truth.

George glances over at the people nearby, where the officers carefully continue trying to escort people to safety, even though some people are still persistent on staying for whatever their reason may be. The rather edgy man then carefully leads his niece in the same direction the other people are going, at least to a certain point, where he then guides her over towards a building, likely to help her get her coat and put it on...

But the two don't appear to leave that building afterwards, at least to the people around... Only a moving spot where the drizzling rain doesn't fall says anything about what really is transpiring here...

The girl couldn’t help but worry a bit when she didn’t hear a response.. Maybe the Forgotten was looking for a landmark, or maybe Crystal just didn’t focus enough.. ‘Should I try again..?’ She thought to herself, but soon got distracted by what Jason was saying.

Something in her stomach twisted when the boy said Soldormir could come early.. She wasn’t ready for that.. In fact, Crystal felt like none of them were. But whether or not they ever actually would be, she had no idea.. The girl admired Jason’s optimism about being able to defeat Sol though, especially because she didn’t have a single ounce of it..

Crystal didn’t say anything about the matter though, not when most her thoughts were doubts and worries. She just kept to herself and watched their surroundings, looking for any signs of Glory or Crimson.

( Ahhhh I want to keep going but it getting late and I start my new work hours tomorrow.

It been a lot of fun! I look forward to next week! I hope you all get some good rest! )

(I'm gonna have to call it a night, the sleep has hit me super hard and super fast, and it's only downhill from here ':D

Good night everyone! It's been fun! Everyone have a good week, and I'll see you all next weekend! ^-^ )

(Ahh, alrighty! Goodnight guys! See you all next time! ^-^)