Wally wasn't affected by the plague itself, thanks to his enhanced aura, but he couldn't do a thing to stop it.
[AMV the Plagues Apothesis, In case some of you wanted to see it for this chapter too. Set the tone.]
He tried to draw the spores into a whirlpool and carry it away--but they drifted back towards the kingdom, like it was seeking human hosts...he supposed because it was grimm.
And Glynda was unfortunately too late, because well meaning hunstmen had blown up most of the other pods, and the few left were doing nothing, but that didn't matter, pretty much everyone who was outside was getting infected by the spores.
The only good thing was it didn't seem entirely lethal. People were writhing, crying, and developing sores from where they got burned--and they started to fester--but it didn't seem to get into their bloodstream.
The only people who were sicker were ones who had open wounds already who'd been infected--they were suffering worse internal damage.
It took Wally only a short time to find all this out.
He took Theo back to the school, not sure what he was going to do about this, and hoped that Shine knew what to do...but where was she?
There he found Cinder infected already, and Glynda trying desperately to keep it away from herself, while Ruby and Oscar were protecting themselves with aura shields, but didn't know what else to do.
Cinder had too many exposed areas also, she was in agony.
"I can't believe I'm saying this, but I kind of feel sorry for her," Ruby said, backing up. "Can we stop this?"
"We have no way to stop it," Glynda said. "We should put her out of her misery before it does. In fact, that would solve our problem."
"Were you not listening? We're not doing that," Oscar said.
Theo coughed.
"Mr. West, you can't heal?" Oscar said to him. "I know Alicia could."
"The thing is, Oscar," Wally rubbed his head. "I'm still barely learning to use my gifts, I don't know what all of them are. Maybe... but I don't know. We all do different things. How did Alicia do it?"
"Her staff--" Oscar stopped and looked at his staff. "Hang on...Alicia told me she was giving me some of her authority...do you think that would include her gifts?"
"I'm not up on this stuff yet," Wally said. "But it sounds like it could mean that."
"It's worth a shot, Oscar," Ruby rubbed her arms. "We should try something. Cinder can't do anything while she's like this--and Theo too. This is awful."
Cinder was clawing at herself to get the dust off--and it was stuck.
Glynda was covering her ears while still trying to keep them away from herself.
"Well..." Oscar held up his staff. "The way she did it was just them looking at her staff. I don't really know why that worked but it's what she did."
"That's crazy..." Theo muttered.
"Please Theo," Ruby said, using her cape to cover her hands and then lifting his head up. "We could at least try it."
Oscar wasn't sure what to do here.
"Uh..." he looked up. "I guess...if I do have some of her power, could you make this work the same way it did before? And...help these people?"
He didn't feel any different.
Ruby and Wally exchanged a look questioningly.
Theo looked up and suddenly, he stopped gritting his teeth in pain.
The grimm dust disappeared.
And so did the spores and burn marks.
Glynda's mouth dropped open. She hadn't heard what he said over Cinder's yelling, but this still surprised her.
"It worked," Ruby said.
She dashed to Cinder. "Cinder, look up!"
"Don't touch me!" Cinder tried to hit her and missed.
"Shut up," Ruby said. "We're going to finish this, you have to look at the stick thing."
Oscar came closer and held it up.
Cinder looked at him like he was crazy and then looked at it like it might explode. "What are you doing--"
The spores vanished from her also.
But it went further than that.
She put her hand to her left eye--well where it had been.
Then she pushed her hair aside--and she had two eyes again. And the scarring around them had vanished.
Ruby screamed--maybe in delight or maybe in shock.
Cinder blinked like she was refocusing. Then she screamed also. This time in fear.
"What did you do?!" She looked up. "What did you do?!"
"Oops..." Oscar said. "I guess we overshot a little...I don't really know how to control the effects..." he looked at the staff.
Ruby started laughing. "Oscar, that was awesome!"
"Well, I don't think that was me, really," Oscar said. "It was Alicia."
"Not her either," Wally said. "But dang was that cool."
"What is she screaming about?" Theo got up and brushed himself off.
Glynda almost fainted, she sank onto one of the benches.
"Impossible..." she said.
"But wait, why didn't her arm reappear too?" Ruby asked.
Sure enough, Cinder was still down an arm.
Oscar frowned. "Do you think it's because there was grimm magic in that part of her body? Maybe it stopped it from healing."
"That is the downside of using dark power," Wally said. "It makes you incompatible with light...wow, I sounded just like Shine when I said that--oh gosh, she'd love this, where is she?"
As if on cue a portal opened and all the rest of them, including Watts, came out.
They looked a bit scraggly like they'd air dried without a chance to primp afterward, but otherwise intact, except that Neptune had been bitten, but Jaune had mostly healed it, he was just a little stiff still.
"Oh we're already here?" Shine said. "Good, I wasn't sure I could make it because of the magic, but I guess it's fine..."
"Careful," Wally said. "There's something going around in here-"
"Actually Mr. West, look," Ruby said. "It's gone.
It was gone.
"Must have gone with the staff," Oscar said.
"Guys, you're not going to believe what just happened!" Ruby squealed.
"Why didn't you answer our calls?" Jaune cut in.
"Oh my scroll is busted," Wally said. "You should have called Glynda."
"We did," Shine said.
"Sorry, I don't answer numbers I don't know," Glynda said. "I have enough on my plate."
"Same, honestly," Shine said.
"Well, Cinder, so you survived after all," Watts said. "How disappointing."
Cinder smirked suddenly. "Arthur, look me in the eye and say that."
"Why?" Watts looked at her. "And I only can in the right eye--ahhh!"
He jumped
Cinder smirked.
"What on earth?" Shine noticed something was different.
"Didn't she only have one eye before?" Neptune said bluntly.
"Huh?" Yang said.
"I have no idea," the pilot, whose name was Potts, said.
"What's going on outside?" Pyrrha asked.
* * *
After the explanation, Shine said that Oscar had better go outside and handle the rest of the plague.
"Okay, but what about..." Oscar glanced at Cinder.
"We'll wait for you," Shine said. "And more grimm will be here soon if they aren't already, so most of you had better go also. Stay close to Oscar."
"Someone should guard you just in case," Pyrrha said. "I can stay."
"Then--" Jaune began.
"Jaune you'd be more help with them," Pyrrha interrupted. "Mr. West said some people are hurt worse, what if Oscar isn't fast enough? Be better to have two people on it."
"But Pyrrha..." Jaune began.
"It's fine Jaune," she said.
"Like I said, we aren't going to go to the vault yet," Shine said.
Jaune reluctantly surrendered. "Just don't do anything till we get back."
He and everyone else left.
Potts decided to just wait outside the dining room, he didn't want to be involved in this anymore.
[My sister named this character after the Father from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, if anyone knows that old movie.]
"Why your eye and not your arm?" Watts was finally over his shock.
"Shut up," Cinder said.
"Well, you see," Shine said. "Just like magic, our power does what it is meant to do. Not always in the amount we expect. Quite fitting I think. And now that it's just us, I think we need to talk."
"Enough talking," Cinder said. "We should just get the relic and go."
"We?" Shine said. "It's we now?"
"Well, the fun part comes after that," Cinder frowned.
"Typical," Watts said.
"Now that we're here," Shine said. "I think it's time I told you the rest of the reason I brought you here."
Pyrrha looked up from where she was at the window for any sign of attack, but she said nothing.
Cinder and Watts frowned at Shine.
"I knew there was a catch to this," Watts said.
"No catch," Shine said. "But something you said before Cinder, has stuck with me. You said that if I thought you could take the relic, I never would have brought you here. That was a good observation."
"Then you're about to say you'll kill us if we try," Cinder said.
"Not at all," Shine said. "I wanted to correct your misconception. It's true that I would never let you just take the relic by force...but, it's possible I would just give it you."
Pyrrha almost screamed, but controlled herself.
"What?" Watts frowned in disbelief.
Shine folded her arms and paced a little.
"In my mind, we might win if Salem got that relic," she said. "It makes little difference to me."
"I thought you said that Hazel was wrong when he said that," Watts said.
"He was wrong to think I would do it for those reasons," Shine said. "I don't want the relic, I'm indifferent to it. Because of that, I've tried to judge the situation unbiasedly. And I don't really see why we need it. It's just another reason to attack us. But before I let you have it, I think you should know the full truth. And then you should decide for yourself what you want to do. Fair enough?"
"Please, proceed," Watts said. he knew Shine wouldn't do this if she didn't have an ace up her sleeve.
Cinder was less sharp than him, but she had to be curious. "Well...what?" she said finally.
Pyrrha watched Shine closely.
Shine pushed her hair back.
"We've never told you what the kids saw in the lamp, fully, have we?" she said. "They saw everything about Salem. At least what the lamp can tell you. She was turned immortal by the god of light as punishment for trying to get Ozpin back, did she ever tell you that?"
"No." Watts said.
"What?" Cinder said.
"They refused her," Shine said. "Unfairly, because they later brought him back for their own purposes. They're selfish like that--but that is beside the point. Salem didn't want to live without Ozpin, so she tried to kill herself over and over."
Pyrrha had been told this in brief by the team, and hearing it again made her grimace.
"When that failed, she assembled an army to fight the gods," Shine said. "She saw they were fallible, from what Oscar told me. The attack failed, the gods couldn't be beaten with magic, magic is from them, you can never beat something with the power it gives you. Then the god of darkness wiped out the entire world--or at least, he claimed. I don't buy it, but at least, all of what Salem could find. And they left her there, alone. With only the curse that they'd put on her before: As long as the earth turns, you shall walk its face, until you learn the meaning of life and death, and only then you may rest."
Watts and Cinder exchanged a glance like did you know this?
No they hadn't.
"Are you sure of this?" Watts asked.
"Yes," Shine said, firmly. "As sure as I am that it is impossible for her to do. And she didn't try. She roamed the world, until she got the brilliant idea that maybe the god of darkness' grimm pond would end her, since it was the pool of life that keeps her alive...but all things do as they are intended to do--and they do more also. The god of light's power is greater, so the grimm's powers did not kill her--but it did kill the humanity inside her--not all at once--but over time. I'm told she once looked less grotesque than she did now...she's rotted more as it poisoned her more."
All of them grimaced at that.
"It gave her a hunger for destruction that is insatiable," Shine added. "However, it didn't consume her, yet. When Ozpin and her met up, she was still capable of love. And life...and for a short time, she kept that up-- but that grimm was always eating away at her, and she might have loved him, and their children, but she hated everyone else. She pushed them to fight each other. Finally, Ozpin told her his mission from the god. She didn't want to help him--and I can't say I blame her for that, it's a foolish mission--but they had a falling out. And they killed their children, and Salem killed him. But he always comes back. Overtime, she apparently learned how to control the grimm herself, as she has magic and grimm powers both. As Cinder of all people knows."
Cinder put a hand on the arm stub.
"Therefore, whatever she has told you, all she has ever wanted is death," Shine said. "Even if she wants the rest of the world to go with her. And now we come to the point. If all the relics are assembled, as she wishes, they will summon the gods back, and they will judge the world. If it's not unified, as you two have been working so hard to make sure of, it will be destroyed. At least, if the gods have their way. Salem is hoping they will destroy her also. She has no wish to rule the world anymore, that ship has sailed."
"How do you know that?" Watts interrupted her. "Did she tell you this?"
"I know it the same way someone as smart as you should have known it ages ago," Shine said with complete scorn. "Look outside Arthur, this is what Salem is capable of. Do you think for one second she could not wipe out the entire world if she wanted to, now?"
Watts looked out, then back at Shine.
"She doesn't need those stupid relics to do it," Shine said. "She has an endless supply of grimm from those ponds, that you've seen for yourself. And big ones. If she wanted to smash the kingdoms, she could. But why do that herself, if she can do it more creatively. And destroying them wouldn't get her the relics, it would just keep Ozpin from her. So she took the long approach. She wants the gods to see that they failed, and then to kill her. I highly doubt it will work. But it's the only hope now. She cannot die. She can't rest, and she can't experience happiness as she is. So spite is all she has left. I suppose that's why she attracts people like you two."
They frowned at Shine again.
"That cannot be true," Cinder said.
"If you think I'm lying," Shine said. "Then tell me why Salem hasn't just wiped out the kingdoms already?"
Silence.
Pyrrha was stunned that no one had pointed this out...and how long had Shine realized this?
"We can thank you for her not getting the passwords to all of the relics," Shine looked at Cinder. "For now. But if she gets all 4, best case scenario, they won't activate without the passwords, and she just waits 100 years. She can handle that, she has before. Worst case scenario, she won't even need to do that, and this ends within a matter of weeks, if that long. However," she paused. "I am not sure that will destroy the world. But if we can stop them... I can't expect you to believe in us like that though. You're not of our God, and would that please you even if He was to step in? Who's to say? But I assure you, if Salem gets those Relics, we are not leaving. I intend to confront those gods in person, and if we can persuade them-- then Salem will be destroyed, and we will prevail. If not, you will be destroyed and so will everyone else. My point to you is that neither of these options will end well for you. However, you may disagree. If so, you want to take the relic."
Cinder was silent.
"What's the other option?" Watts was stroking his mustache.
"You give it to me," Shine said. "Or one of us, anyway. And we will use it as we see fit to stay one step ahead of Salem. I will, in turn, promise that we will not use them on you and I will let you go, as I offered to do. You can then do as you wish. Or you can crawl back to Salem and hope she'll give you another chance, or you can go into hiding and hope she won't find you..not likely in Cinder's case. Or you can stay with us, and try to prevent this thing. If we save the world, you're free to live your lives as you please, evil or good--but for the time you would be on our side because it's our common interest. You won't use the relic however. No one will. We have the Summer relic also. At least it's at our disposal. Then I will play this game as I see fit, and as the team agrees with me, and try to do this ourselves. But I can work with it if you take it. So, I will leave it to you."
"You wouldn't offer this unless you were confident you'd win," Watts mused. "Why are you so sure?"
Shine leaned on one of the tables. "I've faced god-like things before, Arthur," she said calmly. "I am not strong. But I serve a God who is. And with him, I can do anything I need to do and I always have. I made Tyrian turn tail yesterday by merely speaking. I've caused earthquakes, and undone magic spells, and most impressive of all, actually led people to change their lives, all by the power of God, none of it is me. So if I have any task that he gives me to do, we will do, with his help, that is enough for me. It is that simple. And the Word says that everything lines up for his purpose. You may think I'm foolish for thinking so...but I don't care. It's not up to you. And please realize this is why I told you this to begin with. I didn't have to. I'm giving you a chance to choose life or death. But I will promise you one thing--we will win either way, but you will not. You have only one way to live. Serve Salem, and you will die. Maybe not by us, maybe not by her, but you will. Sooner rather than later perhaps. But it's not too late yet for you to make the wise choice."
She tilted her head. "I often employ what most people would call villains, but I don't usually tell them as much I just told you. Use it wisely."
Another silence.
"You think about it," Shine said. "We have to get it out first. You have a little time--but not much."
She got up.
"Are you...just going to allow that?" Watts looked at Pyrrha.
Pyrrha was looking from Shine to them, then she nodded. "Actually, yes...I think I understand now."
She smiled. "I didn't before, I should have...I think you should make the choice. Cinder is the Fall Maiden...she has to act like it. And the Fall relic represents choice...in a way, this is fitting."
She put a hand on Shine's shoulder. "But, the others will not agree with me Shine...if they take it, you know what happens."
"I will take that risk, Pyrrha," Shine said somberly. "And hope they forgive me for it later. But I did say I would give Cinder and Watts a fair chance to take the relic...if they assumed that meant something different, do not blame me."
Pyrrha sighed. "I don't think that everyone realizes how literal you are...I know I didn't... this shouldn't astonish me that much, I should have seen it before...I just wonder if Ozpin..."
"I worry about him also," Shine said. "Oscar is doing well, but Ozpin's struggling inside him, deep down...if he starts up again this could get uglier...we must be on guard."
She looked at Pyrrha sadly. "And I need to ask you something. Oscar and Ozpin are fighting us, now, in a way they can't help it...but their resistance to you natives of the world doesn't seem to be as strong...if something happens to Oscar and he won't allow me to get closer, can you help him?"
"Me?" Pyrrha said.
"He might be able to listen to you where we'd been too blinding for him," Shine said. "Sometimes familiarity is helpful even in magic, because the fear is less. Fear is a staple of curses. Oscar trusts you. And you inspire confidence...you might be able to get close to him, and you care about him, which is the best thing of all."
Pyrrha nodded slowly. "I promise that if I can help, I will," she said. "But I'm not that good at knowing what to do here."
"You know what to do, if you listen to love and not fear," Shine put a hand on her shoulder. "Just be sure you're listening to love, that's all. Don't worry about it. You'll know."
"Do you think Cinder will give up the relic," Pyrrha asked.
"I don't know Pyrrha," Shine said. "Cinder is not a wise woman. Her one instinct is self preservation...if I convinced her that this will help her, she might--but she is power hungry. I don't always know what will happen you know, every time you're banking on someone changing their minds, it's a gamble, not something I can predict. I analyze patterns, breaking them is always new."
"I see," Pyrrha said. "Well...for what it's worth, that would have convinced me...but we're not that much like."
Shine hugged her suddenly. "You didn't have to come with us, but, I'm kind of glad you did. You and Oscar always remind me that people here are fighting with us, even if it feels like we're hitting our heads on something the rest of the time."
Pyrrha hugged her back. "Of course...we'll fight with you to the end, Shine, believe that. I owe you two everything--and the person who sent you. And so does Oscar...I just want everyone to be okay."
"Me too," Shine looked out the window. "I hope they are--oh crud, I need to check with them at Haven. Is your scroll working?"
"Yes, I had some missed calls but no one answered when I tried calling back," Pyrrha said. "I'm worried that meant there's more attacks over there."
"Better try again," Shine said.
***
In fact, the group outside Mistral was still making their way to it, in the cold.
Winter was struggling to go that far, and was still shivering.
Vara tried to warm them up with her powers, but the strain was getting to her.
Unfortunately, when they were still at least 8 miles off from Mistral, the strange thing with Ozpin happened again.
It was so short that it almost wouldn't have been noticeable if Vara hadn't fallen out of the air and grabbed her chest.
Winter felt as if the magic inside her was shoving too hard again and she lurched forward.
Qrow, not ready, turned into a bird again.
Luckily hardly anyone saw him, they were all looking at Vara.
"Are you all right, lady?" One said.
"Don't touch me!" Vara pulled her cloak around herself. "Oh! it's freezing!"
"Geez," Mercury said. "She's really temperamental."
"That looked like what happened before..." Emerald was the smart one.
The feeling passed so soon that Winter wondered if it was even a full attack on Oscar's end.
She pushed herself up.
Qrow, sitting on the snow as a bird, reverted so suddenly that he fell forward after it and hit her in the head.
"Qrow!" Winter said.
"Sorry, I didn't know it would just go off," Qrow caught himself. "Why does that keep happening?"
"Can you just get off?" Winter said.
Qrow got up.
"Love on the battlefield," Mercury snickered at them.
Emerald hit him in the arm. Then she helped Vara up. "Maybe you should walk for a while."
"You're too close," Vara complained. "Don't touch me."
Qrow helped Winter to her feet.
She brushed herself off. "Where did all the grimm go?" she looked up.
"That's the weirdest thing about this," Qrow said. "It's like they're attacking in waves now, all of them. Like they're getting orders from her...I don't like it, because it feels like this is leading to something really bad."
"Did you...hear from Shine or Wally?" Winter finally dared to ask.
"No...did you?" Qrow said.
"No," Winter shook her head. "Their plane went down...who was with them?"
"It went down?" Qrow said, with a horrified look.
"Yeah," Emerald looked back. "But it wasn't that many people right? Cinder, Watts--"
"No" Qrow said. "Yang, the blue haired kid, and Arkos and Polendina went with them, and Tai."
"They do amazing things..." Winter said.
"We haven't heard from them, that's not a good sign," Qrow said.
"Services is spotty out here even with the CTT up," Emerald said. "With the weather and stuff getting in the way, maybe the call didn't go through."
"She's not wrong," Winter said.
"Yeah or they went down," Qrow said.
"I can't believe they'd die so easily," Winter said.
"I can," Qrow said. "If that's what gets them in the end, just our luck."
Winter shoved him hard. "If that wasn't a joke, I'm going to kill you."
"Maybe not exactly," Qrow said. "But Salem would attack them if she attacked us."
"If Cinder died, someone else would have gotten those powers," Winter said.
"And no one who would is here," Qrow said.
"Well geez, Emerald is right here," Mercury said.
"She doesn't care about me," Emerald frowned. "Ruby is more likely--"
Winter gave her a look.
"What?" she said.
"Ruby...can't get them," Qrow said dully. "Silver eyes..."
"Huh?" Emerald said.
Winter explained briefly.
"Oh...well, that would've been nice to know before," Emerald said.
"I guess that's why Salem never worried about her getting the powers," Emerald said. "Weird. That's kinda sick."
"What do you expect?" Mercury asked.
"We cannot jump to these conclusions," Winter said. "No news is good news."
"Not in cases like this," Qrow said.
"Qrow, perhaps you could have a little faith," Winter said. "We've been wrong before. We cannot just give up."
To his surprise, she put a hand on his shoulder with more comfort than her tone would have suggested. "I'm worried also but, they would want us to be optimistic. If we go back to Mistral, we may be able to contact them."
Mercury and Emerald exchanged a look.
Qrow looked down.
"Fine," he said finally. "We'll suspend judgment for now. But if we don't hear from them...we're going to have to rethink our plan."
"One thing at a time," Winter straightened and looked slightly embarrassed that she'd just done that. "Well, let's go!" She motioned harshly at the kids. "The elderly passengers are moving faster than you two."
"You know, I did just get runover by a train, lady," Mercury muttered, beginning to pick up the pace.
"I knew they had a thing," he said to Emerald once they had some distance between them.
"You and everyone else," Emerald said. "I just hope they don't start being lovey dovey in front of us, I might throw up for real."
"Yeah, bad enough that Arc and Nikos are like that already," Mercury said.
"I remember when you used to make crappy jokes about that all the time," Emerald said. "I guess you lost your taste for it."
"Well, as you get older, your tastes change " Mercury said. "All that stuff is bullcrap anyway."
"Sure," Emerald said. "You had a total turnabout, I buy it."
"You of all people would," Mercury said.
Emerald snorted.
* * *
"How long have they been gone?" Raven asked, back at the house.
"I'm sure they're fine," Sun said. "And look, most of the bug things are gone outside. The storm did it."
Blake was trying to scrape more of the sludge off the windows, using Gambol Shroud.
She'd figured out that you have to kill them by cutting off or squashing the bug heads that stuck up, which were hard to see, but once you go the hang of it, it wasn't that hard to do a lot in one swoop.
The goo then dissipated like any other grimm would have.
It was taking ages to do one window at a time, and it was all over the walls and doors too. Even with Nora and Ren helping her.
"We should have gone with the others," Nora commented.
"We would have crashed," Ren said. "I hope they're alive."
Suddenly, he jumped. His scroll was ringing.
He answered it.
"Pyrrha?" he said. "You're alive!"
He put her on speaker.
"We're all okay," Pyrrha said. "There's been a problem here that's all, I'm sorry we didn't call sooner, we tried, but things kept happening...Listen is there another attack on Haven?"
"Yeah, we had these gnat things," Nora said.
"We saw those also," Pyrrha said. "But we left them in Mistral...we're in Vale now."
"So you made it," Ren said, relieved.
"There's another attack, Pyrrha said. "Grimm spores of some kind. Are there any grimm dropping things in Haven?"
"No, none of that," Blake looked up. "The Midges only just stopped coming. We think they went after the Maidens, so far we haven't heard if they're okay or not. Qrow, Weiss, and Kip went out to look for them. But there was a train crash, so..."
"Uh oh," Pyrrha said.
"Eh, they're perfectly fine," Sun said.
"Did the gnats do any permanent damage?" Pyrrha asked.
"Well, some people almost got blinded," Sun said. "But it's all good, someone figured out how to pry the head off the little suckers and then they were okay, just might be irritated for a few days according to Klein."
"We were very fortunate that it wasn't worse," Klein commented, he was helping clear the steps.
"This is so vile," Whitley was handing him new brushes once the one he was using got too damaged--because Whitley wouldn't have done anything so base as killing bugs on his own.
Libby was cheerfully sweeping the step a little further head.
"So did you get the thing yet?" Nora asked.
"No...we're going to soon, the others are clearing up this plague" Pyrrha said. "Just watch out for anything odd flying this way, get inside--and don't shoot any pods if you see them. I should probably go. I'm standing guard...Glad you're all okay."
"It's not too weird being at Beacon is it?" Blake asked.
A pause.
"It's different," Pyrrhsa said somberly. "But, it's still here...I suppose I identify with that in a way. It does make me think that nothing really stays the same. But maybe that's a good thing. Who knows what will happen?"
Typical Pyrrha, finding something deep to say about a disaster.
Blake wished she had that more.
"Well, just watch Fall," Sun said. "And Watts."
"Right...I'll see you soon," Pyrrha hung up.
[AMV by Thuskinglyshescatters, to Pompeii by Bastille.]