While relieved at the woman’s answer, Akira was nevertheless concerned at the fact that she needed medical help. After that disastrous portal jump, Aki wasn’t about to attempt another and worsen the woman’s injuries; besides, she knew nothing about this new world. She would have to trust the knight on this. Anyway, it looked like they did know each other. Aki’s eyes lingered on the smoldering wreck that used to be the gate where she, and the demons, came from, before following the woman’s lead. Still too shaken by what had just happened, it hadn’t yet occurred to her to answer the woman’s question, trudging behind her while silently nursing the many bruises and aches all over her body that adrenaline had previously not let her feel. Plus, there was that migraine. At least she wasn’t bleeding out of her nose anymore.<br/><br/>Hugging herself and trying to breathe slowly, she took in the rubble around them, the destruction the blast and the demons caused. There were a few other people around following them, and she assumed they must be either with the knight or with the unconscious woman, based on their gear. Too many questions were crowding around her head. “Hey,” she said, looking up at the tall woman. She was imposing, not just because of the armor, which, just moments ago, had formed part of her large sword. Did she have the same powers Aki did with metal? “Are you two really Paladins? What is this place? And those demons, what—” She stopped herself before she could ramble on, knowing there was no way the stranger was going to answer all of them.<br/><br/>Clearing her throat, she caught up with the soldier, seeing as her comparatively smaller stature made her take smaller steps. “My name’s Akira, and—oww.” Having breathed too fast, she felt a sharp pain with her next intake of breath. Okay, maybe she wasn’t as all right as she thought she was. Doubling over, she did her best not to expand her lungs too much, but the sharp pains were already there. She couldn’t have broken a rib, could she? “Uh, y-yeah, maybe I need some help, too.”