Genesis wondered, yet again, what Satella was looking for behind him as she kneelt on the stairs of the dais, holding one of her newly charged jewels over Pandemonium's head. After taking the jewels out of her earrings and charging them – turning them into what he had recognized to be materia – she had called Korvin and confirmed that the woman on the dais was Pandemonium. All of them had been in agreement that it was best for Korvin to stay away. In the meantime, Genesis had to keep watch until Satella was done.

"Thought so ." Satella finally said, catching Genesis' attention.

"What?" He asked.

"There's only fragments of a consciousness in there... It's just barely enough to keep the Demons under control-"

Something about the way she stopped made Genesis turn around. Seeing her frozen and trembling he ran over and knelt down to get a better look at her. That was when he noticed Pandemonium's hand had grabbed her wrist in a bruising grip. Just as he was contemplating cutting the offending limb off it let go and Satella started gasping for air. Turning to him she reached out and grabbed onto his coat, clinging and trembling all over.

"Get me out of here." She ground out raggedly.


Genesis laid the passed out Satella down on the bed with a frown. She had fainted just before they exited the 'palace' and went into some kind of shock that – thankfully – had passed after only two or three minutes. Unfortunately she had remained unconscious and then became feverish. Now she was white as a sheet, trembling and sweating. There was something very wrong with her scent as well; it had turned so pungently sour that it was hard for him to not gag. Trying not to breath to much Genesis leaned over and checked to see if she still had a fever. She did and – if anything – it seemed to have gotten worse.

Remembering what Korvin had told them to do if they needed his help he thought very loudly at the quarter Demon. Korvin appeared a few seconds later with what looked like – and proved to be a few moments later – a medical bag. He checked Satella over as Genesis stood next to an open window, waiting for him to finish. At length Korvin put his equipment down and contemplated Satella for a long moment before turning to Genesis and asking him for the details of what had happened.

Genesis told him everything and Korvin – having moved over to the open window as well – came to the conclusion that Pandemonium had downloaded something into her. Their only option was to wait for her to wake up and find out if she knew anything about what Pandemonium had done to her.

Genesis was not happy.


Satella eventually woke up dizzy and disoriented. She tried to sit up, but couldn't seem to coordinate herself enough to manage it. A pair of strong hands helped her into a sitting position. Dizzily, she stared at the person's face for a full minute before realizing that it was Genesis and – even then – she kept starring. He had a very nice face that she liked to look at. Without realizing it she reached a trembling hand up to run her fingers across his cheek and said quietly, "You're so handsome."

Genesis, understanding that she wasn't entirely aware of what she was doing, made no comment. Besides, he was very used to hearing such comments.

An hour after that she seemed to be drunk. Then another hour later and it was like she was high. By the time they got around to hour three she was back to normal, didn't remember a thing. Genesis was worn out and Korvin chose then to return from across the boarder to check on her. Of course, the first thing he asked was, "Miss Harvenheit, why are you half naked?"

He eventually got an explanation of what had happened, but, first, he got a black eye from Satella for not looking away. Genesis thought it was funny and tried not to think about trembling fingers on his cheek and surprisingly spectacular kisses from a drunken, half naked woman.