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Jul 17 18:05:01 <Oxford>	Cimbrian Air Defense Ministry Issues New Civilian Guidelines - see inside for details!
Jul 17 18:10:28 <Oxford>	Outside Glasholme, the rolling hills build slowly towards the island's craggy peak, green mounds criss-crossed with dusty cart-paths leading to and from a few cottages that nestle between them.
Jul 17 18:13:10 <Oxford>	The pastures are dotted with the white shapes of sheep in groups of five or six, as fluffy and carefree as the clouds that dot the pure blue sky.
Jul 17 18:22:13 <Oxford>	Henriette leads the way up the dirt road out of town, following the parallel grooves worn over the decades by the farmer's wagons. Behind her come Naida, Lily, Cille, and Rosalyne. Some of the tension from earlier has disappated, though not entirely.
Jul 17 18:24:09 *	Firespitter (~Firespitt@Rizon-F7E73F59.dynamic.axtel.net) has joined
Jul 17 18:24:23 *	Firespitter is now known as Rosalyne_Holst
Jul 17 18:24:30 <Naida>	Naida wrings her hands as they march, a nervousness quite uncharacteristic of her. Each shadow of a bird has her head snapping towards the sky.
Jul 17 18:25:47 *	BigTentacruel has a determined stare on her face, the corners of her mouth turned up in a grimace. These girls want training? They'll get training. Henri spent most of the previous day scouting out areas from high in the sky, far from visibility by any land-dwelling person. The weather was too terrible for hot air balloons.
Jul 17 18:25:51 *	BigTentacruel is now known as Henriette
Jul 17 18:27:56 <Lily_Blevins>	Lily's trying to hide her exuberance. Ah, the wonderful plains!  The beautiful outdoors! The clear blue sky~!  Every step she takes has a plant sprout up in her footprint.
Jul 17 18:29:03 *	Rosalyne_Holst 's gaze is fixed to the back of Henriette's head. Yeah so she finally decided to start training, something she should have done since the start. Instead all we got was la bathtub and she got a date with the officer. She managed to shoot down a plane but she now considers it luck even if it was instinctive at the time.
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Jul 17 18:30:58 *	Cille_Lund seems less upbeat than Lily, and less paranoid than Henriette. She knows what she came for, and certainly hopes she's getting it instead of shenanigans! So, she follows the Henriette, ready to begin...and hoping she (or Lily, really) knows how to train people.
Jul 17 18:36:27 <Cille_Lund>	...Or for all she know, she could NOT be paranoid. Still, though.
Jul 17 18:45:13 <Oxford>	A few miles out from town, Henriette sees the area she was looking for: a small patch of twisted seapines, clinging to the eastern slope of the island. The trees seperate the far side of Fjendet from sight of the cottages, providing a safe place for their sparring match.
Jul 17 18:50:00 <Henriette>	"Ah, there!" she says finally, a moment of relief bringing her shoulders down from their hunched position. "This will be far enough from la civilisation. Nous aurons plenty of space to practice here."
Jul 17 18:56:35 *	Rosalyne_Holst crosses her arms, "I barely understood what you said. But it was enough." She drops her bag on the ground and gets ready for whatever .
Jul 17 19:01:10 <Henriette>	"Lily, how do you want to conduct practice? I have some ideas, mais perhaps you have the gentler touch."
Jul 17 19:03:08 <Cille_Lund>	Cille is READY...for whatever, putting her bag on the ground (but not in the middle of the place), and hoping Henriette has--hoping Lily has better ideas than Henriette.
Jul 17 19:05:09 <Naida>	Without a word, Naida simply summons the bacterial suit that is her reviled magical form, flexing each tentacle to try to find out if she can even actually feel them like normal limbs. Octopodes smell with them!
Jul 17 19:06:55 <Rosalyne_Holst>	After a gust of wind and clouds forming around Rosalyne she emerges in her transformed form.  "SHould we just start fighting to see what we can do or what?  What do you think 'leader'" She says the last word sarcastically.
Jul 17 19:09:19 <Cille_Lund>	Cille (apparently has the pendant, and) promptly TRANSFORMS! Her expression is slightly strained, though only after the transformation. YEAH, THIS OUGHTA BE GOOD.
Jul 17 19:12:46 <Henriette>	"I was going to suggest that, myself. I wondered if Lily would have more errr... structured... that is the word... ideas," Henriette replies hautily. "If I had my way, we would simply fight round-robin, non?"
Jul 17 19:13:10 <Lily_Blevins>	Lily hits the pendant, transforming into her dryad form.  "Flying practice.  I know Rosalyne is really really good at flying but I dunno' about the rest of you so I want all of you to do a few laps in the air around this area, then practice barrel rolls and quick turns and everything!  Then we'll get to combat practice.  Yes Rosalyne, I know, you probably already can do this fine
Jul 17 19:13:10 <Lily_Blevins>	because that's how your powers work out but do it with everyone to start!  Then we'll do some combat exercises for long ranged magic!"
Jul 17 19:19:57 <Rosalyne_Holst>	/me shoots up into the sky faster than anyone else and begins doing circles around the clearing, going higher and higher with each turn.  Oh hey she's doing an upwards corkscrew.
Jul 17 19:21:16 <Cille_Lund>	Cille complies! "Got it!" She's focusing on attempting to be restrained with her magic use, and even so, once she goes up, SHE GOES UP, and when she does laps, she does them pretty well! FOCUS ON THE FLIGHT, without going too fast! ...But still going pretty fast. Not ROSALYNE fast, but pretty fast!
Jul 17 19:21:20 <Naida>	Naida takes to the air cautiously, traveling at a modest speed. But as the shadow of a cloud drifts away from her, forcing her into the sunlight, she intuits the wrong magic completely. With the glory of a fat kid trying to run, she manages to half-ass a shadowstep, flinging her back into the ground, slightly dazed.
Jul 17 19:21:41 <Lily_Blevins>	Lily flies up along with the others, leaders can't slack off, and does a lap, doing a few simple twirls and a flip to turn herself around at one point without losing any acceleration~
Jul 17 19:23:02 *	Henriette floats irritably in last place, moving at a leisurely rate but visibly glowering as a cascade of light pours out from behind her.
Jul 17 19:24:49 <Lily_Blevins>	"Okay!"  Lily touches down.  "Now, we're gonna' have some target practice with moving targets!  There's gonna' be a fruit at the top of these trees, they'll fall apart if you hit them in the fruit!"  TIME FOR SORCERY
Jul 17 19:27:43 <Lily_Blevins>	Lily makes a bunch of biiiig trees in front of her, with pinecones on the trees growing into pineapples atop the tree.  She sprouts up a whole mini forest of them.  "GO!"
Jul 17 19:31:09 *	Henriette cleanly cuts a trove of pineapples with a single swipe. It's clean, cold, and utterly without compassion. The slices fall to the ground, the smell washing upwards towards the girls.
Jul 17 19:31:50 <Cille_Lund>	Cille is PRETTY GOOD at restraining herself, but in this case it's...not quite as successful, hitting the tree with a 'barrier' (it's more like a needle, really), having missed the fruit entirely. "...Nnnn. Try that again..."
Jul 17 19:34:21 *	Rosalyne_Holst grabs her sword and she seems to dissapear for a moment as she charges forward into the growing forest. She slices the fruits with her sword and whenever her sword moves a gust of intense wind follows. She doesn't only slice several fruits but also cuts her target trees many times lengthwise.
Jul 17 19:35:25 <Rosalyne_Holst>	-lengthwise +horizontally
Jul 17 19:35:30 <Naida>	Naida weaves a bow completely out of fungus, taking aim at a pineapple...she looks back down to her tentacles...and conjures another bow, using the tentacles to effectively handle and aim the bows at the fruit. A trail of shadow seems to spawn, serving as the bowstring and arrow. She draws back casually lets the arrows loose, and they home in immediately on the fruit. Piercing straight through, they don't appear to have left a
Jul 17 19:35:30 <Naida>	 mark. But within seconds, the pineapples begin to twist and rot, dropping off as shriveled husks. The contagion doesn't stop there, as it spreads throughout the rest of the tree, the leaves wilt and drop. By the time they reach the ground, all that remains of the tree is a collection of exotically large mushrooms.
Jul 17 19:36:21 <Lily_Blevins>	"All right!  Henri, Naida, Rosy, all of you did real real good!  Cille give it one more shot!"
Jul 17 19:36:55 <Cille_Lund>	"A-alright!" THE ONLY ONE, HUH.
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Jul 17 19:38:47 <Cille_Lund>	She's PRETTY GOOD AT RESTRAINING HERSELF. This time, the not quite flashy attack actually strikes the fruit she was aiming for! Perhaps actually making the 'needle' bigger helped, and the fruit falls, a noticable hole through it.
Jul 17 19:39:00 <Henriette>	"Of course," Henriette says. "You should learn to withold your power." She stares plaintively at Naida and Rosalyne. "Unless you want to end up like myself, you should expend extra only when needed."
Jul 17 19:40:30 <Lily_Blevins>	She floats up to everyone.  "You all did great!  But yes, you should hold back, like Cille did...maybe a little too much, but Cille, you've getting there!  Balance is important  otherwise..."  her eyes go vacant for a moment
Jul 17 19:41:12 <Lily_Blevins>	Then she dashes forward and grabs Cille and oh there go her lips to Cilles and now she's viciously tonguing Cille.
Jul 17 19:41:38 <Naida>	"Um..."
Jul 17 19:41:43 <Oxford>	Viciously.
Jul 17 19:41:43 <Naida>	"Is...is that the next test?"
Jul 17 19:42:07 <Cille_Lund>	At least she's aware! ...Maybe a bit too accepting that she's nuts, but at least she's awar--abort thoughts abort thoughts SELF DEFENSE SELF DEFENSE
Jul 17 19:42:26 <Henriette>	"Like that..."
Jul 17 19:42:47 <Lily_Blevins>	There's a loud moan from Lily as her eyes close hard and her ears and tail twitch madly
Jul 17 19:42:57 <Henriette>	L-lewd.
Jul 17 19:42:58 *	Rosalyne_Holst 's eyes in comparison immediately change color. Her left eye goes silver and her right eye goes red. She doesn't notice but she stares, unsure what to do..."Girls really shouldn't do that, especially to other girls."
Jul 17 19:43:59 <Cille_Lund>	Without really thinking about it at all, she flings a barrier forcibly at Lily! A SPIKED BARRIER.
Jul 17 19:44:22 <Lily_Blevins>	Lily gets knocked over, a gleeful expression on her face as she falls to the ground
Jul 17 19:44:35 <Lily_Blevins>	She twitches a little on landing, eyes off in space
Jul 17 19:44:56 <Naida>	"Well would you look at that, girl's actually got some piss and vinegar in her."
Jul 17 19:46:31 <Lily_Blevins>	There's cuts all over her body but she looks gleeful
Jul 17 19:46:35 <Rosalyne_Holst>	"That's weird." Rosalyne eventually says, "But well done Cille!"  SHe gives the girl a thumbs up.
Jul 17 19:48:21 <Naida>	"So...magic makes you float, be a cat person, be a lesbian, and...well I guess it just does whatever the hell it wants, eh, Gaulian?"
Jul 17 19:49:25 <Cille_Lund>	There's a glow in Cille's eyes as she forgets to stop. "NOPE." She forms a barrier blade, and viciously charges Lily! SHE'S NOT DONE.
Jul 17 19:50:34 <Henriette>	"Oui, Cimbres," Henriette replies without even endeavoring to hide the rancor in her voice. "Watch something you will likely not see for some time. The Novgoraadi will send their own girls, and you must be ready to fight them as well."
Jul 17 19:52:07 <Lily_Blevins>	Lily stops drooling and twitching, her eyes narrowing as the new girl charges in to attack her, and does an acrobatic flip to her feet, stompin gher foot down and creating a tangle of vines that rapidly grows to block Cille's attack!  "Whoa, looks like I got carried away there with the magic!  I'm back!"
Jul 17 19:52:46 <Naida>	"Oh, they also...are they...actually trained? Like I expect most soldiers are, not like...this. I'm not trying to make a dig at you folks, I just mean...there's a difference between a pub brawl and martial arts."
Jul 17 19:54:26 <Rosalyne_Holst>	"I'd think they would, at least more than us right now."  Rosalyne shrugs, "Though I'm sure we can take them."
Jul 17 19:55:26 <Cille_Lund>	She's not the only one getting carried away! In response to thorns being made, which get cut (eventually), she goes back a bit and CHARGES AGAIN.
Jul 17 19:55:37 <Naida>	"So...either of you two wanna have at it like those chucklefucks?" She gives a rather warm smile for asking to fight.
Jul 17 19:55:49 <Henriette>	"The Novgoraadi have a... different idea of how to use their forces. They waste their planes rather than their best combatants." She glances at Rosalyne. "I do not claim to have beaten one in combat, mais if you cannot defeat Lily or myself, you cannot hope to win against even a single girl, let alone an entire flight."
Jul 17 19:57:16 *	Rosalyne_Holst smiles and draws her sword and points it at Naida. "Sure, I'd love to!"
Jul 17 19:59:15 <Naida>	"It's fine to, right, Featherface?" Despite the rather eloquent and lovely nickname, Naida seems to be earnest in her request for permission.
Jul 17 20:00:57 <Henriette>	"If you mean myself, I don't have any feathers. Glass." A shower of light swirls around her as she grins at the other two. "Do not kill one another. We will need you functional for the next battle."
Jul 17 20:02:12 <Naida>	"Oh but you're like an angel and the- nevermind..." She turns back to Rosa, taking...a rather passive stance for what will be a battle. This is a little awkward, afterall. "I'm used to playing host, so you go ahead and go first."
Jul 17 20:07:09 <Lily_Blevins>	Cille charges in, and Lily sees it coming and...puts up a hair barrier!  Which is shattered by a barrier sword because seriously, why are you barriering against the best there is at barriers?
Jul 17 20:07:10 *	Rosalyne_Holst charges forward and in the blink of an eye she is standing in front of Naida beginning her swing of her sword. As soon as she stops to swing a burst of wind follows and blows into Naida's face.
Jul 17 20:07:47 <Lily_Blevins>	Lily's knocked back several feet, getting up.  "All right, this is stopping now!"
Jul 17 20:09:48 <Naida>	As the sword swings to connect, Naida is simply no longer there. Following a thin trail of overlapping shadows, she rises back up a few feet away with her bow aimed at Rosa's leg as she fires.
Jul 17 20:12:10 <Lily_Blevins>	Lily slams her hand on the ground.  "Sorry, but that's enough!"  Vines sprout up out of the ground and grab at Cille's legs, then at her arms, and then she's being pulled down on to the ground, completely restrained.  "Calm down!  I'm not sure what I did but it wasn't that bad was it!"
Jul 17 20:12:18 <Lily_Blevins>	*!?
Jul 17 20:15:38 <Rosalyne_Holst>	Like when Naida attacked Rosalyne, the girl dissapears with a gust of wind and is now suddenly behind Naida readying her next strike.  Whatever Naida was going to do it wasn't going to be good for her.
Jul 17 20:16:08 <Cille_Lund>	Cille attempts to struggle against her binds! ...Then she comes to, really lightheaded and completely restrained. "...Um! Whoa! ...What's going on?! What happened?! What are you doing to me, Lily?!"
Jul 17 20:17:16 <Lily_Blevins>	"I blacked out and probably did something bad and then you hit me and you blacked out and were doing bad things so I restrained you so you couldn't hurt me or yourself and now you're better right?"
Jul 17 20:17:52 <Lily_Blevins>	"Right?"
Jul 17 20:18:20 <Naida>	Lacking in any real originality at this point, Naida continues their waltz, appearing behind the bag of hot air with her bow primed for another shot.
Jul 17 20:19:25 <Cille_Lund>	"Well better is pretty subjective when what you did in the first place was try to kiss me with your tongue"
Jul 17 20:20:00 *	Rosalyne_Holst is too slow to detect Naida behind her and when she does it is already too late.
Jul 17 20:20:00 <Lily_Blevins>	"I what."
Jul 17 20:20:16 <Lily_Blevins>	"Well you tried to kill me so we're even?"
Jul 17 20:21:16 <Naida>	The arrow finally manages to hit its mark. As it makes contact with Rosa's leg, it pours into her pores with considerable pain. The muscles contract painfully, restricting Rosa's movement considerably.
Jul 17 20:21:56 <Lily_Blevins>	The vines loosen their hold on Cille, allowing her to pull out.
Jul 17 20:23:00 <Cille_Lund>	"In response I defended myself and then apparently I defended myself more--I don't exactly remember what happened either!" The loosening of vines allow her to sit on the ground and hold her head a bit...before turning her head to the the fight with Rosa and Naida. "...Oh dammit, I think I set an example."
Jul 17 20:23:25 <Lily_Blevins>	"Seems like it huh?"
Jul 17 20:24:06 *	Rosalyne_Holst falls to her knees and supports herself with her sword. Before she is fully immobilized she turns and swongs at Naida one last time. Hit or miss she will call it quits.
Jul 17 20:26:51 <Cille_Lund>	"...They...don't seem as crazy, though? I think whatever happened with us was magic induced, and if it weren't, I wouldn't know if I was even or not, for reasons I'm not going to go over, but...they seem like they're actually training."
Jul 17 20:27:18 <Lily_Blevins>	"Hyup!"
Jul 17 20:27:36 *	Rosalyne_Holst 's sword manages to connect against something at least. It isn't until she takes a good look that she notices that she chopped something off. Something extremely soft that made a loud squishing noise when it hit the ground. Not unlike a sopping wet towel falling to the ground.
Jul 17 20:29:25 <Naida>	The severed tentacle flails wildly and vaporizes as it falls. The loss of only one limb of many doesn't leave Naida reeling, but it clearly hurts SOMEHOW as she grits her teeth.
Jul 17 20:30:39 <Rosalyne_Holst>	"Wait, lets call it a draw!  Don't want to hurt each other, right?"  She keeps supporting part of her weight on her sword.
Jul 17 20:32:11 <Naida>	Rosa submits just in time, as Naida barely stops herself from releasing another arrow aimed at her face. "Oh, is that a forfeit I hear~?"
Jul 17 20:33:04 *	Rosalyne_Holst grits her teeth, and glares"A draw."
Jul 17 20:33:30 <Naida>	"No, I'm preeeeetty sure when only one party wants to stop and the other is more than capable and willing to continue, it's surrendering~."
Jul 17 20:33:31 <Henriette>	"Remember, a Nov won't give up."
Jul 17 20:33:34 <Henriette>	"Ever."
Jul 17 20:34:57 <Henriette>	"If you are still hungry to fight, Naida, je serai votre adversaire," she offers, gesturing to her chest.
Jul 17 20:35:48 *	Rosalyne_Holst really wishes Henriette wouldn't talk right now.
Jul 17 20:36:46 <Lily_Blevins>	"Looks like Rosa lost~"
Jul 17 20:36:56 <Naida>	"Jay say rei- oh, not gibberish...well, now, shall I carry on with my turn then, glasshole?"
Jul 17 20:37:47 <Cille_Lund>	"...On the other hand, maybe the example was within them all along."
Jul 17 20:38:15 <Henriette>	"At your leisure, ma belle," she says.
Jul 17 20:39:36 <Naida>	The arrow is pulled back once more, the shadowy glob of gross aimed at a similar area of Henri's leg.
Jul 17 20:41:09 <Lily_Blevins>	Lily discretely intensifies the sunlight around Henriette, some of her wounds and sore muscles mending.  She's not going to ASSIST Henri, but she's not going to make her start out at a handicap
Jul 17 20:46:01 <Cille_Lund>	Cille, shrugs, and attempts to watch from a safe distance. ...If she wasn't transformed, there wouldn't BE a safe distance!
Jul 17 20:46:31 <Lily_Blevins>	Lily motions at Rosalyne to come over and join the peanut gallery
Jul 17 20:47:01 <Henriette>	It's almost as if Henriette's leg isn't even there. She waves a hand around idly, and a maelstrom of glass shards appears in a small circle above her palm. "Naida, tell me, ma cherie... what is my rank?" The glass suddenly vanishes and appears behind Naida, puncturing from somewhere unseen. They dig in deep, imbuing Naida with supernatural internal damage as well.
Jul 17 20:48:51 *	Rosalyne_Holst limps towards the two girls before Henriette does her big fuck you attack and sits down beside Cille and Lily. SHe rubs her legs that she can't feel stares forward.
Jul 17 20:50:44 <Naida>	The glass cuts deep, but more importantly the combination of Lily's sunlight and Henri's natural luster compounds the effects of the light, which eat through the Naida's necrotic body. With a howl, she takes another potshot at the same area of Henri's leg.
Jul 17 20:51:03 <Lily_Blevins>	Lily keeps the light bright on the battlefield, keeping the light bright for both to see (but not so bright one has to strain their eyes).  Under the light, some dark splotches start appearing on Naida's figure, an dthe light briefly intensifies to clear them away.  "Naida, you need to be careful, you're nearly at your breaking point!"
Jul 17 20:53:25 <Henriette>	"You can surrender, if you like, ma cherie. You fight well." Henriette smiles in an almost motherly way suddenly. All pretense of antagonism vanishes for a moment. "I am sorry if I have been... unreasonable with you."
Jul 17 20:55:47 <Naida>	With a bit of a sigh, Naida drops her bow, which immediately rejoins her body, filling in for the previously severed tentacle. She knows when to bluff and when to fold, "I...will accept your offer. I'm starting to...I need to lie down..."
Jul 17 20:57:12 *	Henriette floats down to catch Naida in her arms. "Of course, ma belle. I did not actually mean to hurt you."
Jul 17 20:59:35 <Cille_Lund>	...Oh no, they're following the other half of the example.
Jul 17 21:01:11 <Naida>	Naida's ickysticky recedes into her skin as she drops out of her magical form. But unnervingly, it...still feels like it's there.
Jul 17 21:06:11 *	Rosalyne_Holst stands up despite the prickling sensation and walks slowly towards both Naida and Henriette. She looks at both of them, "Are you two alright?" She gets closer, more than she should really. She puts her right arm on Naida.
Jul 17 21:06:27 <Rosalyne_Holst>	Before socking her with her left fist.
Jul 17 21:10:22 *	Rosalyne_Holst punches Naida right on the face.
Jul 17 21:10:36 <Henriette>	Henriette attempts to react, seeing the obvious motions of someone with very little combat training. "Rosalyne!" she shouts, but it's too late. Her reaction times must be slowed by the magic drain of two consecutive fights with little rest.
Jul 17 21:10:40 <Cille_Lund>	...Oh, no, they're still following her half.
Jul 17 21:10:51 <Lily_Blevins>	Oooooooooooh that's bad.
Jul 17 21:13:36 *	Rosalyne_Holst blinks in confusion, looks at her fist that has some of Naida's blood. "Huh."
Jul 17 21:14:56 <Naida>	Completely caught offguard because she had just had her ass handed to her, Naida's nose seeks to express its more artistic side. Unfortunately, it only paints in red. Before Naida's even finished reacting to the punch, the shadows in the air begin to swirl faster and faster, quickly creating a vortex that centers in on Rosa, grabbing at her legs and viciously yanks her out of her favorite existence. Okay, the only existen
Jul 17 21:14:56 <Naida>	ce she's known.
Jul 17 21:16:00 <Lily_Blevins>	Lily cringes, before running over.  "Rosa there are so many other better ways to do that so don't do it we're fighting the enemy not ourselves and really we need to be friends not enemies and you really have been antagonistic since we started and that's not good we need group unity and you're not helping it at all please don't do this to us calm yourself down and take a deep breath and
Jul 17 21:16:00 <Lily_Blevins>	we can all work this out and- nooooooooooooo!" Lily grabs at her cheeks like The Scream.  "Don't go!" ;_;
Jul 17 21:17:33 <Cille_Lund>	...It suddenly occurs to her what the benefit--the only benefit--of this training was. They all exploded in a remote area. ...But they built up most of it here in the first place, so...
Jul 17 21:17:48 <Cille_Lund>	"...Damn it this was a terrible idea."
Jul 17 21:18:24 <Henriette>	Grimacing, Henriette glances at Lily. "They wanted training, non?"
Jul 17 21:19:19 <Lily_Blevins>	"Well, I guess they got a taste..."  She's grimacing to match
Jul 17 21:19:43 <Naida>	Horrified by what her own magic caused, Naida draws closer to Henri as her breathing quickens and shallows. "OhgodIdidn't...meantoIdidn't..therewasn't..."
Jul 17 21:20:02 <Rosalyne_Holst>	Somewhere far away and nearby, a girl screams in terror.
Jul 17 21:20:33 <Cille_Lund>	"...I'm really hoping you didn't see this coming."
Jul 17 21:21:06 <Lily_Blevins>	"I didn't...but in a way, I should've."
Jul 17 21:22:58 <Oxford>	A moment passes silently. Then, out of the empty space where Rosalyne was standing just a moment ago, a tiny squirt of crimson blood splashes out onto the green, green grass. The scream fades away to nothing.
Jul 17 21:23:05 <Naida>	Henri notices...well she's not quite certain at first, must have been one of those squiggly eye thi- there it is again. Oh, it seems to be happening more and more. It's not long before Henri can't help but see swarms of something moving in every shadow, with the effect much more pronounced when seen through her peripheral vision.
Jul 17 21:23:47 <Oxford>	Rosalyne is gone. Completely.
Jul 17 21:24:27 <Lily_Blevins>	"And this, I now know, is why Stranahan and Vaughan didn't train us despite them wanting us to do our very very best."
Jul 17 21:25:03 <Henriette>	"Shh... shh..." Henriette says, holding Naida close to her angelic form. Nevermind the bizarre images slowly creeping in on the edge of her vision. She slowly begins to sing a soft Gaulian lullaby both for Naida and for her own sanity. "Au clair de la lune, mon ami Pierrot..."
Jul 17 21:26:57 <Henriette>	Her voice audibly shakes as she sings.
Jul 17 21:28:19 <Oxford>	The blood on the ground turns to rust-brown as it dries. There's no sign of Rosalyn, and no sign that she's ever coming back.
Jul 17 21:28:44 <Cille_Lund>	"I imagine we all should have, and as someone who's just starting to know--" She pauses when noticing the fountain. "--what bad ideas are, like 'using magic', as well as the fact that our superiors are bad at ideas, I was a fool to come along to this." GRIMACE NUMBER 3. "Though I might as well stick around, since it'd be bad if it got worse without me."
Jul 17 21:29:14 <Lily_Blevins>	"Well!  I'd say that does it for training for today!  Um...let's have lunch!  I'll go get something, I had something ready!"  She runs off
Jul 17 21:30:14 <Oxford>	When Lily gets to the food she'd prepared, she's puzzled. Why did she make five sandwiches? There were only four of them...
Jul 17 21:31:46 <Lily_Blevins>	Well, training wears people out, had to make sure there was an extra!  Gotta' be prepared!  ...right?
Jul 17 21:31:55 <Naida>	Naida is unable to pull her hands away from her face, now overflowing with tears. I don't recommend drinking those tears, unless you want horror. Her eyes remain transfixed on the dried blood.
Jul 17 21:36:04 <Henriette>	"Naida, ma belle, shhh... it wasn't your fault. It wasn't your fault." Henri keeps repeating the phrase over and over again as she holds Naida close.
Jul 17 21:38:07 <Cille_Lund>	Cille remains silent. SHE IS SO DONE. SO DONE.
Jul 17 21:38:16 <Henriette>	The strange swarms are creeping slowly closer in her vision. In only a few moments, it seems, they'll crawl all over her.
Jul 17 21:38:36 <Lily_Blevins>	Lily walks back over, hands Cille a sandwich since she seems to be sane and sets down her basket while she waits for Henriette and Naida to calm down.  She's seriously considering sorcering up a poppy field and knocking everyone out.
Jul 17 21:39:25 <Oxford>	Why /is/ that blood there? None of them lost that much blood. It just sits there, like a bad memory half-repressed.
Jul 17 21:40:28 <Cille_Lund>	MUNCH MUNCH. She is absolutely done. ...She was pretty sure that it could have been Rosalyne's AFTER she was sucked in, but...munch.
Jul 17 21:47:27 <Naida>	The longer Naida focuses on that spot, the more the shapes Henri witnesses thrive, becoming more plentiful and animated, some even seeming to venture out of the shadows, though they quickly dissipate in the light. When did Naida get so sweaty? Gross.
Jul 17 21:57:31 <Henriette>	Fighting back tears in her own eyes, Henriette whispers into Naida's ear so that only the other girl can hear. "Je suis desole, ma cherie. Je vous ai manque, et je suis vraiment desole..."
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Jul 17 22:05:34 <Naida>	The whispers lead Naida to jolt to attention as the demonic so- ohthankgodit'sjustthatstrumpet. Naida buries her head in Henriette's shoulder, though she's quite past the point of tears by now.
Jul 17 22:05:51 <Lily_Blevins>	"You two should eat up, it might make you feel better!"
Jul 17 22:10:32 *	Cille_Lund clearly does not feel better. And she wasn't even responsible for anything in particular!
Jul 17 22:10:46 <Henriette>	"Venu, ma fleur, vous devriez manger," Henriette says. There's some unholy thing in her arms by her vision, but she shuts her eyes and instead relies on her magic to find her way through the nightmares around her.
Jul 17 22:13:50 <Oxford>	Naida catches herself rubbing at her sore face. Strange - it feels almost as if she had been punched in the nose...
Jul 17 22:15:07 <Henriette>	"Eat," Henriette says as she offers the girl a sandwich.
Jul 17 22:15:53 <Lily_Blevins>	Lily slowly works at her sandwich.  Something's nagging at her mind...but what?
Jul 17 22:17:12 <Naida>	With a nod, she takes small bites, hardly seeming to process the fact that she's eating, but managing to technically succeed in doing so, however inefficiently it may be. "...c-can we go? I don't like it here..."
Jul 17 22:17:34 <Lily_Blevins>	"I...well..."
Jul 17 22:17:49 <Lily_Blevins>	"Something tells me I shouldn't leave!  That I'd be leaving something behind."
Jul 17 22:17:57 <Lily_Blevins>	"...I don't know what it is though."
Jul 17 22:20:09 <Lily_Blevins>	She straightens her hair, taking a look at the last sandwich.  Sure is a lot of extra stuff there, enough for another person!  Was she expecting them to get lost out here or something?
Jul 17 22:20:43 <Cille_Lund>	Cille finishes her sandwich. "Same here, actually. ...I don't know what the something is, but damn, did it bleed. ...Probably why I feel bad." She DOES remember the blood.
Jul 17 22:21:52 <Henriette>	Still very much transformed but no longer holding Naida tightly, Henriette settles onto the grass to stare at a sandwich without much interest. "This is why I avoided direct training. Magic can be... volatile."
Jul 17 22:25:21 <Cille_Lund>	...Cille suddenly feels disturbed. "...In between getting kissed, being thrown into a violent frenzy, and all the other crazy shit that's happened, I feel like the question of 'who's blood is there' is part of the trend. Do any of you keep...journals, diaries, anything?"
Jul 17 22:25:42 <Lily_Blevins>	"Oh, yeah, I do actually!  I keep it around in my room!"
Jul 17 22:25:56 <Naida>	"Same here..." Why is this bread soggy?
Jul 17 22:27:17 <Cille_Lund>	"Lily seems the most fit to move for the time being--nnn. ...I'll make sure everything doesn't explode when you're gone, or at least contain it, so could you grab that and check? Whatever we're missing, it feels important, so surely it could be noted in there?"
Jul 17 22:27:55 <Lily_Blevins>	"Oh, sure, keep it together while I'm gone!"  WHOOSH, to the sky.
Jul 17 22:29:19 <Lily_Blevins>	She does her best to discretely land near the city's edge and revert, then run over to the Rusty Tub to grab her journal~
Jul 17 22:31:52 <Lily_Blevins>	Rummage rummage rummmage.  She does her best to grab it quickly and get out of town to FLY BACK
Jul 17 22:32:55 <Henriette>	Henriette returns to her normal form, shaking visibly from the strange visions she still remembers so vividly, and she reaches into her blouse to bring forth an a tiny journal. "Indeed, mais... I am not a good writer... It is mostly... personal notes."
Jul 17 22:34:06 <Lily_Blevins>	Lily returns.  "I've got it, lemme' see..."  She rummages through her notes.  "Anything you want me to look over?"
Jul 17 22:35:48 <Cille_Lund>	"Just read recent entries and see if something bugs you. It's a good of a starting point as any. ...Probably watch for names."
Jul 17 22:36:57 <Lily_Blevins>	"Hmmm~"
Jul 17 22:37:32 <Oxford>	The names are exactly the ones Lily would expect: Henriette of course, going back months, but more recently Naida, and Cille, and Rosaly-
Jul 17 22:37:45 <Henriette>	"I feel it, Cille. I do not need to look over my journal. Something is wrong, mais I am not sure what..." I mean, Naida is still kind of bleeding.
Jul 17 22:38:37 <Cille_Lund>	"It's less knowing something's wrong, and more 'figuring out what that something is'. ...You know, besides the dried blood."
Jul 17 22:38:45 <Lily_Blevins>	"Rosa-!" She probably gets interrupted
Jul 17 22:39:11 <Henriette>	"Of course! I'm not stupid, Cille!"
Jul 17 22:39:20 <Henriette>	Interrupted~
Jul 17 22:39:21 <Oxford>	With a whoosh like the air being sucked into a vacuum-sealed cask, Rosalyne hurtles back into existence and tumbles headlong into the huddled girls, arms flailing wildly at unseen foes.
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Jul 17 22:40:31 <Lily_Blevins>	"-LYNE!" There she is!
Jul 17 22:41:14 <Cille_Lund>	"There we go! ...Oh gods, check if she's bleeding. She's probably bleeding."
Jul 17 22:42:03 *	Rosalyne_Holst stops flailing around as she sees light and then hugs herself and begins crying. God that was terrifying.
Jul 17 22:42:04 <Lily_Blevins>	Lily gets to INSPECTIN'!  "ARE YOU OKAY WHAT HAPPENED DID YOU DIE WERE YOU DEAD ARE YOU NOT DEAD ARE YOU ACTULLY HER AND AAAA!"  She was at least TRYING to inspect
Jul 17 22:42:09 <Lily_Blevins>	but now she's just freaking out
Jul 17 22:42:42 <Lily_Blevins>	Fidgetfidget
Jul 17 22:44:41 *	Henriette bursts into tears. "It was all my fault. Naida, I am so sorry. Je suis desole..."
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Jul 17 22:45:55 *	Rosalyne_Holst is shaking in terror and doesn't pray attention to anyone else. She keeps her eyes open and staring forward, afraid of even blinking. If she blinks the eyes might come back.
Jul 17 22:46:28 <Naida>	"No...no it wasn't...I was the shit that ignored you..." She reaches toward Rosa a bit, but quickly hesitates, not wanting to break the girl again.
Jul 17 22:47:35 <Lily_Blevins>	"It was really weird it was like you never existed but we knew something was off and it was really weird and I got my journal and it reminded me of you right before you got back!"
Jul 17 22:47:39 <Lily_Blevins>	"ALSO!"
Jul 17 22:47:45 <Lily_Blevins>	She hands Rosalyne a sandwich.
Jul 17 22:47:46 <Lily_Blevins>	"EAT
Jul 17 22:47:47 <Lily_Blevins>	"
Jul 17 22:48:36 <Henriette>	"I just wanted to... to lead as my own superiors had, mais they have had years of experience. I am... still learning." She reaches out a hand, hesitating just before it reaches Naida's shoulder, but it lands firmly on it anyway. "Will you forgive me? I only want to protect you and Cimbria as I said before. I swear it."
Jul 17 22:49:36 *	Rosalyne_Holst 's eyes focus on the sandwich, then on Lily, then staring forward again. Is that girl ever going to blink?
Jul 17 22:50:03 <Naida>	Henri is answered with a simple, silent nod.
Jul 17 22:51:38 *	Rosalyne_Holst is trying really hard not to blink but she can't last forever. SOMETHING happened to her in the time she was gone.
Jul 17 22:52:04 <Lily_Blevins>	"...Rosa, is something in your eye?"
Jul 17 22:53:18 *	Rosalyne_Holst slowly shakes her head.
Jul 17 22:54:02 <Cille_Lund>	"...It gets dark when you blink." Cille (correctly) understands the lack of blinking as being Naida's fault, being all too aware of how scary the dark is by virtue of...Naida. Only this is probably worse. Cille probably isn't huddled with the rest, keeping her distance from insanity!
Jul 17 22:54:34 <Lily_Blevins>	"Well, if you guys ever want to train again..."
Jul 17 22:54:37 <Cille_Lund>	"No."
Jul 17 22:54:41 <Lily_Blevins>	"We should do it without pendants."
Jul 17 22:54:47 <Cille_Lund>	"...Better."
Jul 17 22:55:03 <Oxford>	/session