corrinesbell | 115. Light

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115. Light

Hey. We've got a lotta new people this month, huh? For anyone who's new, I'm Sheena. I think the guide answers just about every question, but I've been here for a really long time, so if anyone wanted to ask, I'm okay with answering about stuff.

I was thinking about trying out that battle arena thing. Anyone done it already and wanna tell me what it was like? If it's like the coliseum I dunno about trying it.

What would you guys think about having a winter, uh, festival thing like we did a couple years ago?

[Yuri]
I met your crazy rival.

[Raine]
Hey, are you up for visitors? I know it's gonna get late soon...but hopefully Albert'll forgive me.

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[that's a sigh as she closes the door and sits down in said chair, followed by a half-smile of sorts]

I am now, mostly.

Only mostly?

It's...I still have nightmares and stuff, a lotta the time. But it's way better than the first few days after Halloween.

But I'm not over here to talk about that. [unless that's what Raine wants to talk about...]

O-oh... I see. I'm sorry that it's been difficult. [She can relate. She can relate to Sheena in many ways. It's just getting Raine to talk about it that's the problem.]

I guess I can talk about it if you want. [if it's a good enough distraction.] ...Can't guarantee I'll stay coherent though.

If it makes you uncomfortable, I can't very well ask you to do that. What matters is that there's been... improvement, correct? You haven't been dealing with things alone.

Yeah. It's a lot better now. [not being at the point of breaking is so great. No confirmation or denial of the alone part.]

Are you doing okay?

I'm... dealing. Just like I do with everything else. [But every day it gets harder. Every night when she's alone and woken up by her dreams and the pain, clinging to her pillow, pressing it against her eyes until the tears stop, until it's finally time to take more medicine, for her sanity's sake.] It ... shouldn't be much longer now. It can't be.

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[Judging by the look on Raine's face, there's a lot more going on in her head than she's letting come out of her mouth. So the questions all have to be right, now.]

Much longer until?

Until this... effect goes away.

What effect is it?

[She's quiet for a moment, part of her not really wanting to say, but the words seem to find their way out anyway. Softly.]

Something is interfering with my magic. I could feel the presence of it before, but lately I can hardly tell it's there at all.

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'Something?' Like it used to be, when everyone's power was really limited?

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I... I'm not sure. It seems more like it's sealed off, rather than just limited. Or perhaps I just haven't been able to concentrate on it properly. [Even with trying that weapon as a focus. ... The devil's arm. She's never even told Sheena or anyone else from their world about it turning up here, had she? ... Too much had gone on in these few months.]

[Sheena doesn't know about it just yet, no.]

It's not really like you not to be able to concentrate. Is your Exsphere okay?

[As though her wrist with the bracelet on it isn't right there]

The exsphere seems fine. The issue... may be from another source. Something that interferes with that as well.

Something...specific that you're thinking of? [and after realizing how that may sound...] You're talking like you have an idea but think I might not believe you if you share it, or something.

[She sighs softly.] There's a mark on my hand. I know it's connected somehow, but I don't know... why, or what it really is.

Can I see it?

[she doesn't expect to know either. But you never know what the Malnosso are going to do.]

[She clearly hesitates for a moment, before slowly slipping the glove off of one of her hands. There's a small bandage covering the area, but that's peeled back as well. It doesn't look as bad as it did during those first few days, with the skin finally beginning to heal itself, but the mark is still there, if not faded a little more distinguishable.

Her hands are trembling, though. That at least is obvious.]

[she looks at Raine for permission first, before holding onto Raine's hand so she doesn't have to go to the obvious effort of holding it out like that.]

Does healing magic from other people work on it? Since you can't use yours.

It ... has helped temporarily relieve some of the symptoms, but the mark itself hasn't been removed. I don't know if it can be, or even if it... should be. It could just go away on it's own.

Symptoms? So it brought back access to your magic for a while?

[at least she knows better than to touch it or something]

Ah ... n-no. I haven't had access to my magic at all.

...Then what were you talking about?

[and the fingers she's holding with her own are still...trembling. Almost without really thinking about it, she's got Raine's other hand, too. And it's the same, even without a mark (that she knows about)]

What's this thing doing to you, Raine?

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