Briggita held Mari in her arms for what felt like ages, "h'w long h's it been Mari?" she asked softly, running a hand through the other's hair that was full of dust, soot, and grimy sweat, showing for a while, she was trying to find a way out. Mari sniffled, starting to calm down now, "a-a century..i counted the days on that wall." She pointed to the tall wall that faced them, it went up a few stories up, much taller the Dane was herself. "h'wd you get th'm up th't high?" Briggita asked, slightly amused, and shocked. Mari shrugged, and motioned for her to follow her, "watch.. and please don't shine the lights on me they burn." It was true, her eyes were burning, and she didn't like it. The others nodded, and dimmed their flashlights, and watched as Mari started to jump up. She grabbed a crack in the wall, and hauled herself up, and continued to climb like that for a while before she reached a brick that was sticking out of the wall. She got on it, and balanced perfectly, before using one of her nails to scratch a marking into the wall. "easy." She said, and jumped down all the way down, and did a tuck and roll to keep from injuring herself.
Briggita stared at her sister. She was completely accumulated to living like a stray alley cat… "mari.. do you even want to go back home?" she heard Tina ask softly, and Mari nodded, her eyes brightly shinning in the dim light, "ja! I miss being out in the sun, I miss hearing birds chirp and seeing smiling faces… but my demons… they haunt me and won't let me leave." She said, and Lukas said something for the first time since they got there, "what? What demons?" he asked, and Mari sighed, and motioned for them to follow her. "okay see how this place is surrounded by water?" the others nodded, " well, the first week I was here I tried to swim back, but these things, dark little monsters that filled my mind, would tear at my skin, and make me ill, and almost dead." She said, and dove into the water, she ran right out the instant her head was submerged, and she lifted her arms to show chuncks of her skin were gone and instead replaced by black chunks. She started to shake, her eyes wavering violently, and she collapsed, shaking like a leave, and everyone watched in horror as mari's skin started to fall off, chunks at a time. Briggita and ina grabed mari nad hauled her far away from the sea, and her skin started to come back, and the shakig stopped. Mari gasped to breathe again, whimpering, "see... demons… and they're over here too, and they are watching us.." she said, her voice soft, and wavering before she burst out crying, "I can't leave! If I try to I'll be killed or possessed.".
the other Nordics watched as Briggita pulled her sister up, and put two firm hands on mari's shoulders, "you will g't out of h're alright?" Mari meekly nodded,"j-ja.. but what if-"
"no 'buts' and nej 'what if's . You WILL get out 'live." She said, her sea green eyes strong and boaring deep into sky blue ones. "you ar' Denmark, you have n'thing to fear, I will s've you and y'u will get off alive." She said to reassure her sister, who nodded simply.
