The next morning, Nano awoke only to find no Lalna. She had only just started worrying when there was a loud clang from downstairs. Nano sighed and headed down to the reactor room.

As soon as she landed in the reactor floor, she stomped over towards the scientist, but as soon as she saw him she stopped and couldn't help but smile. He had his arms crossed under his head, a screwdriver held loosely in his right. There were a bunch of wires and a bunch of other parts scattered across the table and floor around him.

"Lalna?" she asked, lightly shaking his shoulder. "Lalna, you shouldn't sleep here" she shook his shoulder a little harder but all he did was turn his head slightly.

"Come on Lalna" but still nothing. Nano threw her arms up in defeat, accidently knocking a large portion of the machine he was working on to the floor with a loud clang. That did it.

Lalna jerked awake and jumped to his feet, stumbling on something, pointing his screwdriver towards Nano like it was a sword. His eyes were wide and his hands were shaking. After a moment, his hands began to shake so wildly he dropped the tool. He took a shuddering breath, almost smiling to himself.

"So-sorry Nano…" he said, ruffling up his hair. "Just been a little jumpy lately… It- it's nothing serious"

Lalna looked up at her shyly. She smiled and hugged him reassuringly. Lalna knelt slightly and hugged her back, grateful for someone like her. He opened his eyes for a moment, he jumped back, startling Nano, but when he looked again it was gone.

He jogged forward, searching for the thing he saw, but no matter how hard he looked, there was no sign that anything was ever there in the first place.

"Lalna? Lalna, what's wrong?" Nano asked from across the room.

"Didn't you see it?! It was right here!"

"What was right there?"

"A Creeper! There was a Creeper right here! I saw it, I swear I did. Didn't you see it?" Lalna was pacing around, hands on the back of his head, slowly rubbing his linked hands up and down his already messy blonde hair.

"Lalna, there was no Creeper there" Nano stated, frowning with a concerned look about her.

"But, But I swear- I swear I saw it. It was right here!" He shouted exasperated.

"Lalna, calm down!"

"What's wrong with me? Ever since you cursed Trott I haven't felt the same"

Nano froze. "Oh no…"

"Oh no what?"

"Oh no I dropped the blood! Oh no I must've cursed you and not Trott!" Nano exclaimed, tears rimming her eyes.

Lalna was staring at her in shock. "You… you what?"

"I gave you the curse of insanity, Lalna, alright?" Nano wiped her eyes with the back of her hand before continuing. "But I can fix it. There's always a way to remove a curse but the book says it can make it worse before it actually gets rid of it"

She could see her mentor processing what she was saying. "So… so you're sure you can fix it?" he asked, slightly calmer than before. Even as he flinched at something supposedly next to Nano, he seemed relieved to know that he wasn't actually going crazy as of yet.

"So… I'll um… get on that. Right. I'll be at my hut if you… well ya' know…" She said awkwardly, quickly exiting upstairs.

Lalna watched her jog away before turning back to his work. The computer was in pieces, he had had to pull it apart to get the Yellorium so he could restart the reactor, and it had taken half of the night. (Because Nano wouldn't let him out of bed he had to sneak away while she was asleep.)

He sighed and picked up a spanner, sitting himself on the floor and rebuilding his mess. Maybe he would make a few modifications… Like an inbuilt crafting station? Yea, that sounds good. After a few hours, Lalna decided it best not to look away from his work. He learnt that if he ignored the feeling that someone was watching him, or that something was breathing down his neck, he would have a lot less scares and could get on with his work. Even Livid had grown bored of taunting for now. Lack of response must've done it.

"Finally" Lalna moaned, stretching the kinks in his back. It was late afternoon when he finished hooking up the computer and making sure that everything still worked, even with his new modification. And as if on cue, Nano's voice came loud and clear, beckoning him to come upstairs.

"Coming!" he yelled back, taking the steps two at a time. When Lalna reached the top of the stairs, he was lucky he didn't almost fall back down them with the fright he got, not that there was actually anything there. Nano smiled at him nervously as he recomposed himself with a few steading breaths.

"I've got all the stuff ready, I've got enough for five tries. If we don't cure it by then… well, it'll be pretty bad for you. Ready?"

Lalna smiled and nodded, extending his hand for Nano to take, which she did, swinging it happily making Lalna chuckle.

When the pair reached the circle, Lalna noticed that the chalk had changed colour and all the ingredients were in a horseshoe shape around the heart glyph. Nano reached into her pocket and pulled out a few small jars and a needle. Lalna rolled his eyes, extended his arm and looked away. Nano muttered a shy "Thanks" before he felt an uncomfortable prick in his arm several times.

"Alright, I'm ready. Just… just stand back- yea there's good" Nano walked forward and placed a vile of blood with the various other ingredients, holding her hand over the glyph, ready to activate it. "Oh! The book says if you hear a roar it didn't work and the curse will get worse. If you hear a sort of tinkling sound -like a triangle- it means the curse is lifted. There might also be a beam of light only the person who is cursed can see. Don't freak out if you see it, 'kay?"

Lalna nodded, trying not to look around too much.

Don't worry, I'm sure it won't work at all~

"Shut up…"

"Hmm?" Nano asked, looking up.

"Oh, no, not you Nano…"

"Ah. Okay, then we ready?"

"Yep, ready"

Nano pressed her hand to the glyph and quickly ran out of the circle to stand near Lalna, but not too close. Lalna gulped as the things in the circle began to systematically disappear in puffs of smoke. Lalna waited, but nothing happened. He looked to Nano, who was looking at him, waiting for an answer. He was about to say nothing happened when he heard it. He covered his ears it was so loud, not even close to how loud it was in the Nightmare, but still loud.

Lalna removed his hands from his ears and shook his head. Nano nodded and hurried to put more ingredients back in the circle. She activated it again and the same thing happened. Puffs of smoke, then a loud roar. After the third try, Lalna had resorted to closing his eyes until Nano said she was ready to try again, there were too many monsters that kept appearing and disappearing.

"This is all I have left, Lalna. If it doesn't work this time…"

"It will. Now let's just get this over with, there're everywhere now" Lalna opened his eyes and kept them focused of Nano, then the circle, ignoring the monster taunting him in the corners of his vision.

The ingredients –for the fifth time- disappeared in puffs of smoke and nothing happened. Lalna was ready to break down and cry, but rather unexpectedly, he heard a tinkling sound. He looked up again at the circle. It was sparking from all corners, then they shot out of their respective corners and met in the middle.

Lalnas eyes widened when the beam shot directly towards him. He barely hand time to pull an arm up to shield his face before it hit him and he was thrown off his feet and thrown back a few meters. He heard Nano scream as he lay there dazed. There were sparks at the sides of his vision. He blinked but they wouldn't go away. Sitting up, he shook his head, blinking more and holding his head with one hand. He looked around and laughed.

"Lalna! Lalna, Lalna are you alright?" Nano asked checking him over for injuries.

"I'm better then ok Nano! It worked! You did it, Nano, you lifted the curse!" Lalna exclaimed, standing and scooping Nano up in his arms and kissing her forehead, making her blush like a tomato. He laughed again and put her down, spinning in circles at his new found freedom. He hadn't felt this good since she had cursed 'Trott'. Even Nano was now laughing at his antics.

"I don't think it worked at all Lalna! You're insane!" They both laughed and Lalna waltzed back over and took his apprentices hand in his, still smiling like a drunken idiot.

"Come on you, I think that ritual made you drunk" Nano rolled her eyes and began dragging Lalna back to the house with her. Lalna just laughed again and followed.

What the hell is wrong with you! Why are you so happy? I think liked you better cursed… Honestly! ~

"At least I know you do care" Lalna muttered quietly so Nano couldn't hear, grinning when Livid groaned in annoyance.

Oh Herobrine, that Nano girl is right. You ARE drunk…~