"You shut up!" Nyoko burst out back at Blake. "I'm not a child. And I'm not meeting this dirty bastard for the first time." She sheathed her blade. For now, the most important thing was to get both Blake and Haruki out of there... She was bluffing, and couldn't truly do much more than her brother, but playing for time paid off. She grabbed both of them, entwining her arms around their chests, and held them up, despite both of them being a whole lot taller.<br/><br/>It all happened very fast - faster than what Nyoko presented herself as till now would suggest. Sure, she was lazy, egoistic, vain, careless and self-centered, but Haruki was her brother, and Blake was a special chapter. She didn't have the time or the heart to risk both of them for quarrels... Both of them live were better than dead. And so, she grabbed them, and putting all her strengths into her escape, she ran. She ran like hell, faster than she ever has before (or she would have, if not for both of them in her arms), and it seemed to be fast enough to escape... For some time.<br/><br/>She really wanted to believe that she can take them both somewhere far...