Deneve watched as her Friend Helen greedily crunched her coveted fruit by the gothic style window. She insisted on eating only raw apples since they first started playing sword art online. Deneve always thought that since food only made you feel not hungry while in the game, Helen figured that she could just eat nothing but apples and not screw up her health like in the real world. It was truly a wonder that she had not tired of them yet, and even more of a wonder that she still only ate apples even though Raki had previously maxed out his cooking skill not too long ago. She gazed across the dreary room and glanced at her other two companions. They were a strange pair, consisting of a giant guy who usually never shut up and a small blonde woman who could kick his ass. But the two were inseparable, which explains how they both got stuck in this stupid RPG together along with Helen and herself. She recalled the day when it had happened; Helen strutted through the door with that almost sinister smile holding a box with a few copies of SAO inside. She said she had won them in a contest but Deneve doubted that was true. Helen had also somehow picked up spare nerve gear for the four of them and immediately called up Clare to beg her to play SAO with her. After all Clare did teach swordsmanship in her spare time and Helen convinced her that she would be awesome to have around in a game like this, plus Raki asked her nicely and that always works. And now they were all stuck in a death game with no way out except for waiting on a bunch of geeks to get to the top floor. The future looked pretty bleak, especially with Miria not around, not that Deneve wanted for Miria to be trapped inside of an RPG but things would go a lot more smoothly if they had their leader around. They had all formed a guild at the beginning of the game and had pretty much just been lazy antisocial people ever since they had purchased a house on the nineteenth floor, easily the gloomiest place of all Aincrad, because nobody else wanted to live here. For a good reason too, this was laughing coffin's territory. But they had so far managed to avoid run-ins with the mysterious guild of murderers. Deneve's train of thought was interrupted by the sound of Raki's voice "I'm going to go hunting… or something." He started for the door when Clare stirred from her place against the wall "I'll go with you" she said softly and followed. It always went like this, even though Raki was a grown man now Clare still got all protective over him. Helen got up and stretched "God it's so boring around here, I need some shitheads to stab" she wined. Deneve sighed, pulled herself up and silently followed the rest of her guild.