Apparently what she needed , because the very sed after seeing Queenie was oh an ag back, bandaged chest, and much more active room. She felt a lot less in pain, though a lot more disfort now that there was not screaming agony overriding every nerve. Gng about the pce, Kiko’s heart lurched when she saw Yeni. Mother Dearest ttered with blood, though Kiko couldn’t see any real wounds on the woman, so it must have been other people’s.

  “What are you doing here?” Kiko asked Queenie, a groan cuttiween her words but not ruining them too much.

  “That is our question” Yeni replied, a tohat ht stated Kiko was in trouble so deep she’d not see the bottom with a fre.

  Kiko would pause for a few moments, trying to think of a way to expin. And then, she just shook her head and excimed. “.....You were being sneaky!”

  She wasn’t sure what to expect, but the ugh Queenie came out with was certainly not what she would have put in possible reas.

  “If there was ever any doubt, ehh?” Queenie ented, giving Yeni a smirk. Yeni did not seem to find the funny side and just gred icily. “There is a dozen Ars that’ll bang that frigid ice out your heart, darling” Queenie eurning to go look over one of her people. Electric blue hair and a SIR coat draped over her shoulders didn’t seem to be very regution, but SIR was a unique branch…

  “So” Yeni would ent after Queenie had left. “I was being sneaky. You, decided to follow me underground, without ons or backup, just to see what was going on?” she asked, the sharp tone making her displeasure abundantly clear. Saying it outloud made the absurdity of the act hammer home, so with the cat out of the bag, Kiko just spoke.

  “Sort of, yea. Whe to the warehouse, I thought it was all a bit too much, and if I was on my own I probably would have turned back. But Ele was with me and she was fully determio carry on. Couldn’t just leave her to go alone, so I followed her. And….got hit by some sort of magic sword thing. Must have been special, I’ve never heard of a Sword’s Symphony in any of the books Eternia has beeing me over the head with”

  Finishing up, and with a better head on her now, Kiko would take a deep breath, cycle her Mana through her body, and pop everything bato pbsp;

  “You wouldn’t. Bloodsoaked Orchestra is not something you’ll find in a book” Yeni replied, shaking her head. The displeasure was leaking off her as her mentality dissembled, and so Yeni was just generally irate that her daughter was being reckless.

  “Bloodsoak…who makes these names?” Kiko asked rhetorically, standing up and taking off her top to uhe bandages. “And where is Ele? That one is less rhetorical. I ’t see her. Was she badly wounded?” Kiko looked around some more, but couldn’t see Ele anywhere.

  “No, no. The Spidersilk prevented you twetting too hurt. Your ribs were chipped by the sword, but the silk preve from cutting to yans. Ele, is over there” Yeni replied, gesturing to the blue haired woman. Kiko would look to the woman, and then back to Yeni, and then to the woman again.

  “Is this a haha joke?” Kiko asked, entirely fused.

  “Go ask her” Yeni replied, looking over herself for a few moments, and then being drahen one of the SIR agents requested the presence of ‘Lady Ator’. Not getting a proper answer from Mum and feeling a little shocked at the formal tone, Kiko awkwardly walked over and crouched down. Staring for a few seds, the woman was definitely different to Ele in a lot of ways. But, mum wouldn’t be so cruel as to put her in a situation like this. Queenie would nod, though stay silent for the moment.

  “...Ele?” Kiko asked, apprehensive and not a little awkward. The woman looked up, eyes as electric as her hair, and gave a gentle smile.

  “Hey Kiko” she replied. However she had ged physically, that voice stayed the same, and Kiko immediately reized it.

  “Ohh, shit. It really is you. How the hell does that work?” Kiko asked, sitting down from the croud reag out to take one of the woman’s pale hands.

  “I’m a…” Ele would pause for a moment and look away, before looking back. “It’s a loory than this pce will support. I’ll fill you in whe bap” Ele carried on. She seemed exhausted, aremely downcast to boot, which was not a bination Kiko felt fortable seeing, in Ele.

  “What did you pay the Fae with?” Queenie would suddenly ask. Ele would look up with a raised eyebrow, surprise etched across her face. “Don’t give me that look. I’m frigging Tai’Zian, I’ve dealt with Fae before” Queenie excimed. Ele opened her mouth to speak, but Kiko blurted out something before Ele got the bsp;

  “Your name is Tai’Zian? Like…Talia’Zian?” Kiko asked. Queenie had a irk on her face to start, almost as if expeg a different question, and was caught entirely off guard by the ohat was asked.

  “How….do, you, know, that ai asked, her tone slow as if chewing each word before speaking it.

  “Ohh. I, err…heard it, in a dream” Kiko excimed. Crazy to be sure, but why not at this rate?

  “Huh. I’ve been given stranger excuses” Tai would ent, p for a moment before nodding. “Yea. Talia’Zian is the Great Aor of the Atara Ars. She gave birth to a thousand warriors to solidify ourselves during the Great War and theo sleep in Ragarus, awaiting the day she was needed again” Tai expined.

  “Huh” was Kiko’s reply. More questions than she cared to have answered here. So instead she looked to Ele. “Sorry to interrupt” Kiko apologized.

  “Hey, if someone said they were in the same as a person in my dreams, I would also interrupt” Ele replied, with a bit of her cheer back. “As for the Fae, it was my First Kiss” Ele told Tai, exhaling and shaking her head for an unknown reason and then shifting to stand up.

  “...So you snog a Fae and they make you look like someone else?” Kiko asked, helpio her feet. Seeing Ele not dead and Kiko here, Tai would depart to another room. Possibly fleeing Kiko asking her why she was here…

  “No. The Fae take experiences and cepts as physical things. I didn’t kiss them, they literally took the cept of ‘A Raiju’s First Kiss’ and gave me a Gmour iurn” Ele expined, leaning heavily on Kiko for support. The woman was exhausted both physically and spiritually, so Kiko didn’t push and just helped her outside.

  “Going bap!” Kiko shouted to the gathering. If everyone was milling around like this, the hostile party would be no more, so there was no worries of being overheard. And with that, she did just as she said she would.