In response to NoctisTalem's review:

Hope I can give you a good one too! And don't worry, I don't plan on quitting anytime soon.

Enjoy this extra-short chapter, because work has me face down in my bed when I get home.

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Eclipsen sat quietly in his bed, a hand laid over his eye.

His reckless drinking the night before had caught up with him, and the Frenzy Virus provided no resistance to hangovers.

The Hunter glanced at the window, watching as the sunrise grew brighter by the minute.

Eclipsen groaned before falling back into a deep sleep.

-Transition-

Hether sat quietly at her usual table near the canteen, her forehead meeting surface of the table.

Beside her, a small cup of alcohol sat half-empty.

Rebecca sat at a table nearby, staring at her fellow Handler with worried eyes.

Brad, Rebecca's partner and A-Lister known for being a little too loud at times, took a seat next to Rebecca and quickly deduced the situation.

"Hey, why don't you go talk to her? Looks like she needs it."

Brad said, looking between his partner and Hether, who continued to lie face first on the table.

"I probably should, but I don't want to interfere in anything between her and Eclipsen."

Brad nodded in understanding, having been the one to get in between a couple more than once.

After a few minutes of waiting, Rebecca stood and moved to go sit with Hether.

"Good luck!"

Brad whispered to his partner, who gave him a determined nod and confident smile.

Rebecca sat down with the elegance of a feather touching the ground. Hether barely noticed her fellow Handler touch the seat until Rebecca tapped her shoulder.

Hether peeked out from under her arms, her eyes slightly bloodshot from both crying and the alcohol in her system.

"Hey. What's up?"

She said with a tired voice. Rebecca leaned onto the table, her worry nearly peaked.

"Hether, what's wrong?"

The distraught Handler sunk her head back down onto the table with a small whimper.

The two sat in silence for a bit before Hether spoke.

"I screwed things up with Pard. I really screwed it up. I don't even know how to fix it."

Hether choked, nearly letting the tears flow before stopping herself. Rebecca felt her heart give a disagreeing ache.

Seeing Hether, Astera's ray of sunshine, almost cry made Rebecca feel obligated to help. It was the least she could do, right?

Rebecca reached out and set her hand on Hether's shoulder, catching the other Handler's attention.

"Well, if me and Brad never had fights, where would we be? First, you need to talk to him. Work things out. If anybody understands, it's him."

The statement was fairly true, as Eclipsen had been the one to feed the Plunderers in the Rotten Vale after they attacked him for fresh meat.

Hether let the advice turn over in her head. She was scared to even knock on his door, so how would she talk to the Hunter?

"I know what you're thinking. You think you can't do it. You think you can't do it because you are scared to. You have to push past that fear to fix it. That's the first step."

Rebecca spoke out of experience. She remembered when Brad had accidentally done something to anger her, and she locked herself in her room.

Rebecca didn't even recall the reason they had fought that night, but it was resolved by Brad's youthful confidence. He had knocked on her door after gathering a bouquet of flowers, and promptly apologised with the grace of a Rajang on tranquilizers.

Rebecca accepted both the apology and the flowers because by then she had realised the reason they had fought was incredibly ridiculous.

"But how do I say sorry?"

Hether asked, breaking Rebecca from her memory.

"That's actually easier than you think. Get him something he would like. Knowing your partner, he would probably want something for his next hunt."

Hether nodded. Eclipsen would like something that he could use in battle. Maybe she could get him a set of potions.

"Okay. I think I can do this. I need some time though."

Hether muttered before putting her head back onto the table and passing out.

Rebecca had to stop herself from facepalming. How could she have forgotten that Hether was the heaviest drinker out of all of them?

She had probably drank more than three people's worth of alcohol. Rebecca sighed before moving back over to her table.

-Transition-

Eclipsen silently cursed his poor decision making skills as he made his way out of his bed.

He stumbled over to his desk, sitting down and opening the compartment to the side of the desk.

He pulled a small glass vial from the compartment. Inside the vial, a sparkling blue liquid swirled.

"Yay."

The Hunter said groggily before uncorking the vial and downing the liquid.

Eclipsen grimaced as the enhanced antidote made it's way into his stomach.

He always kept some super-enhanced antidotes on hand in case he got too hungover and needed to go on a hunt. It was more of nuisance that they tasted horrible.

Eclipsen set the vial back into the compartment before making his way back into bed.

"I'll talk to her later."

He mumbled face-first into his pillow.