Oh boy, it has been a while. I have some explaining to do, don't I? I'll try to keep it short, but know that I have not forgotten about you guys. Not a day went by where I wasn't thinking about at least one of my stories, and how could I forget my most popular one?

While I can use the excuse that I have been focusing on completing one of my other stories, Destiny Fated Black. I will not say "Oh, I wanted to finish this story, so I ignored the others. My bad." The reason for my absence is far more simple, and complicated, depending on certain perspectives. I needed a bit of a break, and an eye-opener came to me while I was having this break. No need to get into the itty bitty and gritty details into that, but I sort of needed to "Re-charge". Because I wasn't writing for the love of it for quite some time. I was writing because I felt like I had a duty to you all. I mean, this story has a recorded 576 followers so far, almost 200k views, and who knows how many guests there are reading this as well. So I continued because I felt like I had to, even though most of the time for the past twenty chapters or more, I just went on autopilot. I don't want to burn myself out and treat this like a chore instead of a passion or hobby. When I write, I want to love it, or at least have fun with it. That's when I become the best writer I can be. I enjoyed writing DFB, and it was close to ending, so I wanted to finish it. I did earlier last week, and I felt happy about it, and the reviews were awesome as always, but then I was filled with this lingering thought. "Now what? What's next? Back to Blind Huntsman or Detective Grimm now, I guess." That was what I was afraid of, excluding my personal problems, these passion projects of mine nearly became chores, and what do most young men do when chores are given to them? They ignore them. Plain and simple. So, I took a bit of a break.

Work is a thing, but I'm not working full time anymore and with this whole quarantine starting, college has shut down as well. Save for scheduled tests and some assignments of course. Which has given me many, many more hours of free time all of a sudden? Like really, was this fate pushing me to become a writer again or does God really want us to die already like the memes foretell? Whatever it may be, I found myself crawling back to writing fanfiction once more.

My mind should be more clear and unburdened now, so I will be back with the usual one chapter a week at least. And now that I only have 3 stories to worry about, well, 2 since Two Heroes is on hiatus, I will have plenty more time to plan and recharge.

I am sorry for the long note, I know most people skip them but for those who are actually interested in hearing what's up in my life, thanks for reading!

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The Blind Huntsman

Chapter 72

Volume 2, Episode 13

The darkness was a familiar abode. The silence, the void, the nothing that was the one thing that his eyes allowed him to see was a familiarity. However, this time there was something different about it. He could barely feel his limbs, his skin felt scalded, forever hot but somehow cold at the same time. He tried to move, but all he mustered up was quietly groaning in pain as his body refused the orders of his mind. Almost immediately, unconsciousness proved victorious over any other status, and forced him back into a different kind of darkness. One where he would have no control over, and one that would continue to haunt him until his duty was finished.

"I protected them," Kai told his mind. "Just as I said I would. I don't care if I burned my own body with my own flames. They're safe."

"That is what you believe," His own voice scolded him. "But not what you know."

He could have done more. He made so many mistakes during the battle. Rushing in by himself, overusing the power of his eyes, not accounting for the physical conditions of the rest of his teammates. The list went on and on, in the end. It was Ruby who had to pick up his slack. While he felt proud that his fellow silver-eyed warrior was able to achieve so much, he also loathed himself for allowing his anger and hatred to get the better of him. Perhaps if he controlled himself and relied more on teamwork, he might have been able to save his own skin. Literally, in this sense. Even asleep, he could feel the burning pain that scoured in patches all around and up and down his arms, back, chest, and upper legs. But no, people had to have died because of his actions. Innocent people, strong huntsmen and huntresses. It may have not been directly caused by his actions or rather his inactions, but it doesn't change that fact that he rushed and charged through a tide of Grimm that any normal soldier or student or huntsman would have had trouble with. If it weren't for the power of the silver eyes…

"No," Kai thought as he forced the painful thoughts back down. "I did what I had to do, I'm just one guy and in the end I did destroy the Grimm and plug that breach. I did what I could. I can't possibly save and protect everyone. I won't torture myself like this."

For a moment, his mind thought to agree. But the vision changed, or the void rather. The black was still dark, but slowly gave way to the color silver. Or at least, that was what he guessed the color silver to look like. His mind was back under his control, but he could tell that he was still trapped in a state of sleep. In a dream. His brain was playing tricks on him, he suspected. It made sense. After the events of the breach, some amount of psychological trauma was bound to occur. It wouldn't surprise him if he and some of his friends were a little damaged over what happened. Most of them had never even seen a dead body before. To go from a normal student of Beacon to an active hunter in a desperate battle against the Grimm would have sent a shock into anyone. Even him, despite not being able to see any of the dirt and grime of the battle, he was able to sense all of the chaos and everything that the people around him endured.

Except this wasn't just a simple dream. He felt bound. Trapped. Caged in. His natural human instincts started to make him panic. But he stopped at the sound of a voice.

"This isn't what I wanted for you," The silver spoke to him. "All this fighting, death, pain, and strain. This is the exact opposite of what I fought for in your stead. A teenage boy has no place in a war of ancient evil and ancient good."

In any other situation, Kai would have agreed. But now, all Kai could do was disagree and listen to the silver with shock and awe in his system. That was all that the silver said. Simply scolding him for doing what he thought was right, what he felt like he had to do. He didn't ask to be forced into the war between Ozpin, Cinder, and Salem. A war that was ignited by the Gods themselves. But he was, and he intended to finish it so that others wouldn't have to worry about it. Because if he didn't fight, who would? Ruby would, and with her, he would have to fight anyway. But along with them, the others wouldn't just sit back and let them do their thing. Yang wasn't going to sit back and let her little sister fight a war for her, which would drag her team into it if the other three didn't already agree with her. And the Violets wouldn't ever dare to separate from each other. They would all join the battle and fight.

At least if he was by himself, he'd be able to keep it to just himself. His friends wouldn't have to fight, die, and feel the pain and strain that came with the concept of war. They would be safe.

The silver faded away and became black again, either through disappointment or out of necessity. Once again, he felt himself wake up, and his eyes saw nothing but the dilapidated darkness that has proceeded to be all he's ever seen since birth excluding moments he bothered to use the power of his eyes. There was a soft humming sound, the whirring of a machine, and slow quiet beeps that slowly quickened in pace as his body continued to wake up. This time when he tried to move, he was able to feel his arm drag against the soft cushion of the mattress he was lying on, as well as the blanket that covered him. There was also bandages wrapped around that entire arm, and upon thinking that he went on to move his other limbs. He felt his wounds ache as the bandages tightly rubbed into them and helped them heal. His head had this strange light and wavy feel to it as he tried to crane his neck up. His senses were all thrown off their balance, rendering him completely blind and helpless. Giving up on trying to gauge where he was, he figured that he was in Beacon's infirmary.

Then the pain hit all at once. He groaned loudly and instinctively as the burns on his arms, back, and chest all started to ache at once. He gripped the mattress tightly and grit his teeth, trying not to bite his tongue, but letting his body make noise, like a cry for help, so that someone would come to his side and make the pain stop.

It took a couple of minutes before one of the nurses of Beacon's infirmary actually heard him, and realized that he was awake and in pain. He gasped for air as his lungs struggled to breathe air into them, but he heard what the nurse had to say.

"Alert the headmaster and get a doctor! Matsuoka is awake!" The nurse shouted. The familiar sound and vibrations of feet running in different directions seemed to echoe around the room. "Here," The nurse grabbed his arm and moved part of the bandages to expose his skin and the bulging vein underneath. "This will help with the pain. I don't know if you can hear me, but you need to stay awake. Try to nod if you understand."

Kai pushed his head deeper into the pillow before flicking his chin forward just a few inches. Mimicking the motion of a nod the best that he could.

"Good," A sharp pain, pathetic in comparison to the pain on the rest of his body, flared up as a needle entered the vein on his left arm. He felt the drug get injected into his body, and felt the cool liquid enter his bloodstream and enter other veins and arteries until it got to his heart and then up to his brain. A silent hiss came out of his mouth as the pain began to slowly subside, and his heartbeat harder and just a little faster. "Stay awake Matsuoka, in order for your aura to recharge most efficiently the mind needs to be awake and the body active. You can't exactly get out of bed at the moment, so you need to stay awake. Can you speak?"

"Ha-... Ack…" He hacked and coughed. His throat felt dry and burned.

"Damn it, they were right." The nurse huffed. "Don't try to speak anymore. Once the headmaster is notified your family and teammates will be next. Just try to stay awake, the doctor will be here soon."

Kai did what the medical expert said and forced himself to stay awake no matter what. The nurse helped by continuing a one-sided conversation with him, laughing and telling jokes, telling him her name, which was Angelica, and how she had a son that was his age. He paid attention the best he could. His body desperately wanted to fall asleep again, that much he could tell easily by the aches and heavy feeling behind his eyes. But slowly he felt his aura begin to recharge and heal his wounds. He knew it would take a lot to fully recover, and he doesn't know how long he was passed out for. The nurse did well to distract him from thinking about it, and did so long enough for the doctor to arrive.

"Hello Mister Matsuoka, remember me? It's your professor." It was Oobleck. Kai recognized his voice. He couldn't stay anything, but he managed to nod his head to show that he heard him. "Good, I am just going to run some tests on you and see what the condition your body is in at the moment. As the nurse is sure to have told you earlier, do try your best to stay awake. If necessary, I will inject you with a known compound that will help you recover faster. Nod your head if you understand."

"Good," Doctor Oobleck said as he felt the blanket on his body get pulled off. "Now, what I am going to do might hurt a little bit, especially since your skin is so sensitive at the moment. But I must ask that you endure it. At worst, I may have the nurse hold you down. At best, you may just feel a tickle."

Kai endured it the best he could. The doctor had to remove his bandages in order to continue his assessment. Instead of being held down, whenever Kai felt himself begin to struggle he gripped the fabric of the mattress and stifled down his groans of pain. His skin was very sensitive, just as the doctor said. Every little touch and graze hurt and stung. His muscles clenched and tensed with each motion, and it was the worst when he was told that he had to try and roll onto his front so that the doctor could take a look at his back. Once it was done, he was helped roll back onto his front, and Oobleck injected him with that aura booster that he mentioned earlier. The moment the chemical was injected into his system, he felt his aura flare and shine and immediately the pain began to subside.

"You will need weeks of bed rest and recovery before you will be able to move on your own again. Perhaps months." Oobleck whispered to him after telling the nurse to leave the room once she replaced all of his bandages. The doctor took a seat beside him. "But the chemical I just injected into you is something conjured up by the best scientists in Atlas who all have great understandings of aura and the soul. By order of the headmaster, I have given you this experimental injection. However, I am bound by my oath as a medical and psychological doctor to inform you that this experimental injection has never been tested on a human or faunus before. I do hold it in high regards however, so I do not believe that it will cause you any harm. The headmaster wouldn't allow anything unknown to be injected into if it was potentially harmful. Especially his star pupil." He chuckled. "That much is certain. I just wanted to let you know." The doctor stood up and made his way toward the exit. "If it works, you should be able to move again tomorrow morning. Until then, I will personally make sure that your family and teammates know of your awakening."

The doctor left and Kai felt the experimental injection work its way into his mind and body. It wasn't a painful process, and in fact, it seemed to be that the doctor was right. Within a few hours, his aura was completely recovered and was actually going beyond its limits. It was an uncomfortable feeling sensing his wounds and burns mend themselves back together, but it will surely scar. If he was able to feel it heal, that means that it was healing to quickly. The cells of his body wouldn't be able to keep up with the power of his aura. Hours and hours passed, and he wasn't going to be able to fall asleep even if he did his very best. The healing process was going to last a long time, he quickly realized. Even if a full day and nights worth of hours was really not that long, it was when you were in pain and stuck in bed with nothing else to do besides heal. He groaned and moaned, but not because of pain. It was a strangely good feeling, but still uncomfortable. He didn't know what to make of it.

He didn't know how many hours had passed before someone entered his room again, but it was a nice distraction, knowing that his little sister was by his side and holding his hand. She was relieved to see him still alive, and he was relieved to have her there by his side as his body healed. His mother sat on his other side, holding his other hand and they stayed there all night with him. He wasn't able to fall asleep, but it was nice having his sister providing the warmth from her own body, making the entire healing process easier to get through with her by his side. Morning cracked at dawn, and his aura flared and sparked. His mother was startled by it, but she knew what was happening. It may have been morning, but it was only about four in the morning to his best guess. His mother said some warm things to him, and his sister continued to stay by his side even as Marron kissed their heads and left the room, cursing about something as she stomped away. She came back some hours later, her eyes rimmed with dark spots and her face with a different kind of expression on her face. She continued to sit with him, resting her head beside his as his aura accelerated his recovery by many tens of times.

The clock struck eleven in the morning when he was finally able to fall asleep again. He didn't know what happened, but when he was able to wake up again his sister was in a different position on a chair beside his bed, and his mother was absent once more. There was another person in the room, however, and around his neck, he felt some kind of necklace whose sideways cross ornament rested on his chest.

This time, he was able to move while awake as he was. His bones creaked and shifted and his muscles ached. But for the most part, the pain was gone. There was still some stings and iotas of pain under his bandages, but compared to the moment he woke up first it was nothing. He pushed himself up to a sitting position in the bed, exhausted and tired, but awake. He pushed his senses outward again and this time they replied. It was a relief being able to sense again, and he tried to speak to announce his own awakening, trying to call out to his partner who was currently sat near a window staring out of it.

"Bla-ack." His voice hacked. His throat was still weak and damaged, but his voice was still able to come out. His partner snapped her head toward him and her amber eyes widened at the sight of him awake.

"Kai!" Blake exclaimed as she rushed to his side, sitting on the edge of his bed and wrapping her arms around his head and hugged him to her chest. "You're awake! Oh my god, I thought you were going to be out for weeks!"

"How… long?" Kai rasped as he let himself get engulfed in Blake's heat.

"Its been three days since the breach," Blake told him as she pulled away. "I don't understand, how were you able to wake up so soon? It's amazing but… unnatural. You were so… No, you're strong." She hugged him again. "I am glad you are okay."

"Heh…" Kai rested against his partner. "I'm glad you are too… what about-"

"Ruby and Orchid are in the next room," Blake told him. "Ruby woke up yesterday, but she wasn't nearly as injured as you were. She more exhausted her body and aura, but she's okay. Orchid had a few bruises and cuts, but she's fine. As you can probably tell, I'm more than okay myself. As for the others, Rick and Brick are in the same boat as Ruby, but mostly everyone suffered from just minor injuries."

"That's good," Kai gasped, unable to use his voice without hurting himself, he opted to whisper instead. "What about Vernal?"

"Vernal…? Oh, right." Blake huffed through her nose. "That girl that came out of nowhere and blasted away half of the Grimm. Everyone was looking for her after the battle, but Yang says that Raven came back and took her before anyone else could get her help."

She's okay then, Kai laughed in his mind. He didn't expect Raven to come and help like she did, and she didn't even get directly involved. But it was a pleasant surprise and he wasn't going to make any trouble of it anytime soon. The only real concern he had about that was Yang, who has to have some thoughts of her mother suddenly returning again.

"What about you?" Blake asked, turning his chin so that his face and eyes were facing hers. "You looked like death when you were done using those flames and after you covered the breach with your semblance. What happened?"

"I…" Kai wondered how to explain it. Surely, telling her about the experimental injection wasn' a good idea if it means getting on Ozpins bad side. However suspect he may act, he still saved him potentially weeks or months of recovery time. He owed him here. "I don't know, I remember everything about the breach, especially the pain. But after that…" He apologized to her mentally. "I just woke up here with my family and then you."

"Hm," Blake didn't sound like she fully bought it, but she didn't call him out on anything. "Very well, I am just glad that you are awake."

A gasp from the other side of the bed sounded out as Malienna woke up from her next nap.

"And from the looks of it, she is going to let you know how happy she is as well," Blake said with a chuckle as she backed away from the hospital bed. "I'll tell the others about you, don't worry." She added when Malienna jumped into Kai's lap and proceeded to cry into his shoulder and explain to him just how worried she was about him and just how happy she was to see him awake like this. Kai hugged her back and listened to it all with a patient smile on his face.

Liar.

Blake didn't think her partner would ever resort to it. But here he was, lying to them.

Something was wrong. Blake cared for her partner as much as everyone else did, but that didn't mean that she'd blindly abide by whatever he says or whatever happens to him and his body. After all the wounds he suffered? He should have been in that bed in a coma for months. She's seen people who were less injured than him take months to recover, especially from burn wounds. Yet in just a mere three days, he is not only recovered, but able to speak and has all of his memories? Something wasn't just wrong, but something else was happening in the background. It didn't matter if he was some silver-eyed warrior, even Ruby bled and had to spend some time in the infirmary getting better but even she was going to be in there for several more days.

No, this was something that she couldn't ignore. She was happy that he was better, but angry that he would lie about how he got better and felt that he'd need to. And he'd only need to if he was trying to protect something. Or more likely, someone. Either himself or some other person. Either way, she was going to get to the bottom of it. Out of respect for her partner, she let herself out to try and find answers instead of demanding them from him after he'd just woken up from a desperate battle for Vale.

The headmaster was the first on her list, but he was too cunning. Too smart and too powerful. He had a position of power over her, and if she tried to get anything out of him, especially sensitive information, he'd simply close himself off and tell her to leave, or worse, get him to agree with whatever he did to Kai. He was just that charismatic. A man who worked himself up the chain to become Beacon's headmaster was no man to trifle with.

Which leads to the second person. Ruby's uncle, Qrow Branwen. He was there with Kai before she was, and he even left behind something for him. That sideway's cross necklace that he was famous for wearing all the time. He was not only close to Kai, but his family as well. This meant that he had an emotional connection in which Blake could exploit to get some answers out of him. It was a dirty tactic, but one that needed to be used. Because obviously, there was more beneath the surface than she originally thought.

Thankfully, she memorized where Marron's room was, but stopped before she knocked on the door. She heard an argument raging on from the other side, but before she could even think about listening to it, all she heard was the tail end of a screaming match.

"He is MY SON!" Marron screamed as the door to her room swung open and slammed against the wall. "I can't believe that the concept to you is so confusing! Of course, I wouldn't have consented to something so cruel! My son is a teenage boy, not some kind of tool or weapon. Now run off to Ozpin and tell him that I am demanding an explanation that won't make me take my son and daughter and leave."

"Marron," Qrow said brokenly. "I wouldn't have consented to it either, I want the answer just as much as you do. But he is healed and-"

"I DON'T CARE!" Marron screamed at him. "He's healed, which is great! But what do you think he is going to do once he gets out of bed? Huh?" Silence. Qrow knew the answer, but he couldn't bring himself to say it. "Exactly."

"Marron-"

"Leave."

"But-"

"LEAVE!"

Dejected, Qrow walked passed her and into the hallway. Blake had nowhere to hide and wouldn't have even if there was one. Luckily for Qrow, this was during a period of class time and she was the only student to have heard all that. Marron didn't seem to care once she noticed her, but Qrow sneered at her the moment he noticed her. Before he could say anything Marron slammed the door shut behind her and stomped away, not even acknowledging Blake as she walked past her, assumingly back to Kai's room. When she and Qrow became the only ones left in the hallway, Qrow crossed his arms and leaned against the wall, shutting his eyes and crossing his arms and refusing to look at her.

"Heard all that, didn't ya?" Qrow asked in his deep, scratchy voice.

"Only the end part," Blake said. "But I heard enough."

"Then you should know that kind of information wasn't meant for your ears to hear," Qrow said.

"To you, maybe." Blake narrowed her eyes. "What was injected into Kai?"

"What injection?" Qrow sarcastically lied and rolled his eyes. "I don't think Marron and I even mentioned one in our little screaming contest."

"Don't get coy with me. Aren't you supposed to be a huntsman?" Blake asked with a raised brow, crossing her arms as she scowled at the man. "Aren't you also supposed to be Kai's potential step-father in the future? Even if he doesn't acknowledge that, it doesn't change what may be."

"Look, kid," Qrow sneered at her. Blake smirked internally, she'd struck a nerve there. "It's none of your business. Kai is better now, right? That's something for you to be happy about, not suspicious of."

"Yet here I am."

"Yet here you are." Qrow sighed. "The betrayer of the White Fang in the flesh, trying to chase down the truth again. How scared I am, woe is me." At the sound of Blake's growl, Qrow chuckled. "What, you think I forgot how you and that chameleon girl tried to gang up on me and kill me?"

"No, I just didn't think you'd bring that up. Times have changed, and so have I."

"I'm not discounting that, you definitely proved yourself more than a few times," Qrow said. "I'm just giving you a chance to not bud your head into something beyond your understanding."

"Tell me something," Blake barked out. "Anything, I'm sick of being left in the dark. I've seen Kai come back in the middle of the night covered in all kinds of wounds, he trains harder than I've ever seen anyone train, and now he is getting personal favor from the headmaster himself. He can't just simply be a star pupil, he has to be something more."

"He has silver eyes-"

"Even more than that." Blake cut him off and continued. "There has to be more than what we are being allowed to know. And I won't stop until I get some answers."

"What are you going to do, force it out of me?" Qrow laughed. "I'm sure you know that I am way out of your league girl. Give it ten years and catch me with my pants down and you might just stand a chance."

"I know I can't beat you, and I wouldn't presume I could force it out of you."

"Smart."

"But I still can't let this pass. I will tell my teammates about this, and when Ruby finds out, who do you think she is going to go to demand answers from?" Blake took special satisfaction in the way Qrow winced at the very thought of an angry Ruby coming up to him and demanding answers about such a sensitive subject. He knew he wouldn't be able to say no to her, she was his precious niece, and may the Gods forbid Yang coming with her as well.

Qrow let out an explosive sigh and shook his head. "Ugh, damn women. You're all so ruthless. Fine, I'll tell you something. But in return, I'll tell the girls myself. I'd rather it come out of my mouth than yours."

"Deal." Blake uncrossed her arms and waited.

Qrow beckoned her to follow and so Blake did. They had said enough in public where someone could listen in to what they were saying and spread some kind of rumor around. Qrow lead her outside and to a dark shadow behind the dorm building. He came to a stop and rested against the wall, crossing his arms and looking back at her with those piercing red eyes of his.

"What I am going to say doesn't make it to the public, understand?"

Blake nodded her head and leaned against the wall beside him.

Ruby was dreaming. She knew it the moment she opened her eyes. Everything was so bright, white, and silver in places. It was an everlasting void and yet, she wasn't afraid of it whatsoever. She embraced it, and the silver embraced her in return. A warm feeling flowed up and down throughout her entire body, and further proceeded to help mend her wounds and lessen the pain incited by those earlier injuries. She wasn't as injured as a lot of other people were, but she carried the weight of their pain on her shoulders. Knowing that everyone was safe and sound thanks to Kai and his awesome willpower and strength took that weight off her shoulders, however. She successfully carved a path through Grimm in order to get him close to the breach, and he saved them all. Just like they promised they would.

So why did it feel like there was something missing? The silver-white paradise of a void embraced her and helped heal her body, which then gave her a million and a half more questions about the power of these eyes of hers, but something felt out of place. There should have been more, but in its place, she felt guilt. A sense of failure and dejection that pushed its way to the forefront of her mind.

The battle was won but the war was not over just yet. She welcomed the silver's warm embrace, but she also couldn't accept it.

"Not yet," she thought as she turned her back on the silver. "I still have things to do, I am healed now, so I can go back to helping people. Back to him."

Far from disappointed, she was encouraged to go forward. And so Ruby did. With a warm smile on her face, she made her way out of her dream-like state and with a groan, woke up in the middle of the night. Right as she started to move, the sore pains from her healing body made itself known to her once again. She opted not to make any risky movements, so instead, she looked around the hospital room she saw when she had woken up earlier. Orchid was still there, sleeping with her head resting on the mattress with a thin line of drool pooling into the sheets, and the moon was once again casting light into her room.

Just as she wished, she was awake again, but sadly she couldn't move. She was fine, really, her dumb stupid body just didn't want to listen to her! She knew that Kai was next door, and she knew that miraculously, he had woken up days earlier than what was originally predicted by Doctor Oobleck. She hated it, and a pout wasn't the only thing that appeared on her face as she let her body win the battle of wills and make her lie back down in the bed.

Dang it. Right when she told that strange white-silver area to let her wake up too. She failed to account for the fact that yeah, her body was pretty tired after what happened and that it was possibly time for it to tell her to stop being stupid and rest for once.

How could she rest, knowing that her best friend nearly burned himself to death and pushed himself past limits he didn't even know he had in order to save them all? No, she had to get out of that bed as soon as possible, make sure he was okay, and then demand that he train with the team more so that they could all catch up to him in terms of physical condition. She may be able to beat him in a fight thanks to her speed, but that doesn't mean that she could last as long as he could. That showed in the breach battle, he was outpacing all of them until his eyes backfired on him. If she didn't stop him when she did, he might have gotten too far ahead of them.

If that happened, she didn't even want to think about what might have occurred as a consequence.

That, and this weird and confusing feeling she was getting in her head right behind the eyes. It was like a pulling sensation. Or like an invisible warm wind telling her to keep going until she met up with her friend. She swallowed down the feeling, suppressing it in favor of taking care of her own body. Weird sensations aside, she was just happy that everyone was okay.

The breach was plugged, her friends were alive, and while lives were lost even more lives were saved. Knowing that, she was easily able to let herself lying in bed until she grew tired enough to fall asleep again.

Here we are, back to our regular pace. The next chapter will continue this little string that we have going on here. I will try and get that next chapter out later this week after a chapter of Detective Grimm, think of it as like a part two to this chapter. Or maybe just… another chapter… yeah.

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