<span style="font-style: italic">Collab post<br/><span style="color: #40FFFF">Snakeoffestival</span><br/>RPGkitten</span><br/><br/>Havoc noticed that Auxana was looking off in the distance when she began to speak, he would have thought it odd if her voice wasn't so distracting. The people around turned to look at her as she spoke in a way that sounded powerful and unearthly but it also exemplified herself. It was all the beauty of her voice mixed with the beauty of her personality, and something more making it beyond amazing. But Havoc's heart leapt in fear, everyone was looking at them again, but there was also something else. That clawing down his spine was back, he wanted to kill everyone there, that way no one would be staring at them.<span style="color: #40FF00">"Did you hear that!? That was amazing, Auxana is full of surprises, you’re lucky to have her in your life Havoc. So focus on her, fight to stay sane because you'll really upset her if you fall off the edge."</span>Mallory had appeared before them, he was so glad to see her back, and this made Havoc be able to think a little clearer. He took a deep breath, smiled lightly, then took Auxana's hand and continued.<br/><br/>Havoc smiled as Auxana kissed him on the cheek, thinking of all the beauty and mystery that was in this one wonderful girl. He was glad to see her dancing with others, she really did fit in well here. A thought momentarily plagued him, she was happier in this place than with him, she wanted to go though, but was that his fault? But even if he wanted to stay here, he had already had trouble staying sane here twice. He hated it, he didn't even know why it happened, what about this place made him like that? Was it that the Academy had him so well trained to hate things like this? No, that couldn't be it, he wished he could talk it out with Mallory, but he didn't want to stand out by trying to have his voice be heard by an invisible person. So he tried to think it over himself, what was the commonality between the two events. Well, they both spoke a language he didn't know. Could that be it, did have a problem not being able to understand someone? No, he's heard foreign languages before without a problem, besides it was hardly a big deal to him, he only wished he could speak to Auxana.<br/><br/>Havoc watched Auxana dance while thinking, she was very talented. He loved everything about her really, everything except her ability to get the attention of the people around her. She was amazing and everyone could tell, not only could that lead to problems with people trying to take advantage of her, but also being singled out was something that really messed with him. He just wanted to blend into the crowd and be like everyone else. Which is what he did now, he joined some others in getting some refreshments at a booth nearby. He smiled and sighed to see Auxana essentially be the queen of the dance floor, he thought it was funny that she couldn't speak English, was from a place where he assumed socializing wasn't much of a possibility, and yet he was the one who freaked out from being in the spotlight. Havoc just enjoyed the music and the show, he had absolutely no desire to participate except in maybe pumping his fist if he had to, Auxana could have everyone's love, he was fine with just one person's admiration.<br/><br/>When she landed in front of him, he got himself to smile at her even though his heart was pounding from eyes now being on them both. But when she grabbed him and took him into the sky, terror overcame him. Their eyes pierced into him as they did several tricks in the air. Tears began to fall down his cheeks, he didn't like it here anymore, he wanted desperately to be out on the road away from everyone and everything. The anxiety and the depression worked off of each other, he was feeling miserable about being so weak as to not be able to handle this. The soothing air wasn't helping much, not until she buried her face in his chest. Hearing that she was happy brought a slight smile to his face, he then focused on her and tried his best to ignore everyone else. With her and the comforting air, he was able to enjoy this moment, at least a little. He was still glad when she landed, being away from everyone and then her singing, he felt much better. His hands were shaking a little, and the anxiety and depressive episode had made him exhausted. He let her sing for a little while but eventually said. "I think I should get to that Inn they were talking about. I understand if you'd like to stay at the party, it seems safe enough with this many people, and you have my ring." He got up to leave.<br/><br/>Right after Havoc spoke, Auxana heard Meena's voice. "He's here! You have to stop him Auxana, head up to the second story of the temple, and be careful."<br/><br/><span style="color: #40FFFF">Auxana grabbed his hand as he attempted to leave, she looked a bit apprehensive. She was only really able to be free of fear because of Havoc, though it would not matter shortly as she would be leaving the party. She pulled herself up and put her hand on Havoc’s cheek. She wanted to feel his warmth one last time as she had no idea if she was going to return. She probably would be, there was nothing that could kill her up to this point and Havoc’s ring made her feel much safer, but there was always the chance. She moved to kiss him, slowly as if to give him the option to push her away.</span><br/><br/>Havoc stopped as she grabbed his hand. Did she want him to stay, would he have to keep fighting the anxiety? He wasn’t sure he was up for it. When she put her hand on his cheek, worry hit his heart, he wasn’t sure why. Was she worried about something? She moved to kiss him, he moved the rest of the way and kissed her as passionately as he could, his best kiss yet. He was now worried too, was he to dismissive with this being a safe place? Why did I even think of leaving her side? He thought as panic was filling his heart. If nothing else he should be here just so she didn’t have to worry.<span style="color: #40FF00">Mallory spoke up, “Havoc, you’re really stressed, you need to rest. She was probably just worried about you. You’re a wreck, and you know that you need breaks and to rest when stuff like this happens.”</span>Havoc calmed himself down, she was right, he did need to rest. He wanted her to come with him, but if she wanted to stay, then she should. After the kiss was broken off he said. “Stay safe, just stay with everyone in the party and if you need help, use the ring, and remember, I love you.”<br/><br/><span style="color: #40FFFF">Auxana nodded tensely “I love you too.” She didn’t really like lying to him… but she had no idea how to tell him what was going on, in fact she really couldn’t tell him at all. She smiled and looked at white talking in her native tongue again “I’m glad i have you like Havoc has… well whatever thing that helps him think.” She crouched and snapped her fingers before launching into the air. Havoc would know that the amount of energy used was much higher than any that she had done at the party. Also the fact that she bolted straight towards the second story of the temple may have been slightly telling.</span><br/><br/>Havoc questioned why she was tense, something was wrong. When she bolted to the second story, that was it, he went ran back into the temple, but he never made it to Auxana.<span style="color: #FFFFBF">White floated behind Auxana, “He’s got Mallory, I don’t trust her, though she can help, there are times.... It feels like she has her own goals in things. Which I know is silly cuz she’s just in his head, but she freaks me out.”</span>Once Auxana was in the second story of the temple, she saw that this part had several beams specifically designed for someone to cling to, there were also some beds on the ground. This was where many of the Fluff-fluffs slept, it was now empty. At one of the walls, there was an open door, this door looked like it would have been hidden before. There was no one in the room and there was an open chest on a pedestal. There was also a ladder leading to the next story. Meena sounded somewhat panicked, “He’s got it already, he’s heading to the roof. You have to get to him before he takes off, and make sure to knock the amulet from his hand so he can’t use it on you.”<br/><br/><span style="color: #40FFFF">Auxana grit her teeth “Sorry about the temple.” She flew straight upwards extending her hand. Havoc’s ring  turned into a battering ram and she blasted through the remaining floors directly up to the roof. This was definitely the fastest way and Auxana couldn’t bare to hear Meena Panicked. She did fear that she might be using too much energy and she was also weary of the amulet. She was gathering magical energy in her off hand, formulating as much plans as she could before assessing the situation.</span><br/><br/>Auxana burst through to the roof, passing the other floors, no one was there. After a moment about a 3.5 foot Tesman, came out of the hole she made. He had dark skin and had a head to that like a Raven’s, he also had black wings on his back. He ruffled his feathers, not seeming overly concerned about her being there. He had a bag strapped to be right below his wings, he also had the amulet in his hands. “Well, looks like Meena has someone specific guarding the amulet after all. I’m surprised considering how unfun it must be, then again, you are late. Sadly with power like that, I can’t compete, here.” He tossed the amulet down on the ground. “Take the prize, I’ll just go and we’ll call it even.” He turned and took off, starting to head off.<span style="color: #FFFFBF">But White squinted at the amulet, she then suddenly spoke angrily. “That one doesn’t have any magic in it at all! But in his bag something is oozing power!”</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #40FFFF">Auxana was livid, she had never met someone that insulted her like that. Who was he to think that she’d fall for that? To be fair without White it may have bought him some time. First the bag. Auxana’s precharge had payed off and in the instant that he turned she thrust out her hand trying to rip the bag from him using wind magic. She visualized a greatsword intending for the ring to become it. To her dismay it became a simple longsword but it would do. Her wings flapped hard as she charged him.</span><br/><br/>The bag flew from his back, as it did it also ripped open and it’s contents spilled across the floor. As the amulet flew it multiplied into 20 amulets being scattered everywhere. One went right through Auxana as it was just an illusion. The Tesman suddenly split into 8 of himself, they flew in different directions away from her attack, doubling back to go for an amulet. Illusions were one of his specialties. White was having trouble picking them out, as the illusions were magic and she could sense them as such and had never had to pick illusions out before. But the Amulet was obvious, it had so much magic in it that it was almost overwhelming, she had to stay away from it. All she could do was point at a section of the scattered amulets. “It’s over there!”<br/><span style="color: #40FFFF"><br/>Illusion magic was one of the magics that Auxana had a particular dislike for. Again she was glad for white’s assistance as she would probably have just hit all 8 of the Tesman’s at once. She dived at the amulet White was pointing to grabbing it, and instinctively putting it on to keep it safe.In retrospect she thought that it probably was not the best idea.</span><br/><br/>The amulet was a very decorative bat on a chain. In Auxana’s hand, she felt that there was a lot of power being held back inside this talisman. It wanted to be let out, and putting it on she felt a connection to it, only because she was a follower of Meena. The amulet was activated by saying certain words. ‘Auk Nem Sili’ Translated from god speak it means ‘This upsets me.’ It was designed to be carried without it being the weapon that it is. The Tesman’s illusions vanished, just as another Tesman slammed onto the roof. He was 7 foot tall with rippling muscles, having an eagle-like head. He had a large blade in each hand and wore gauntlets that emanated power of their own, and with seeing Auxana have the amulet, he looked scared. The small one spoke up. “About time you got here Brightan, she can’t know how to use the amulet. Just get her quickly!” Brightan got his resolve back and flew towards her, and three illusions of him now appeared. The little one also tried to stealthily grab one of the daggers that fell from his pack, it had jewels in it and looked expensive. He worked to get around to the side of Auxana, but this too was an illusion.<br/><br/><span style="color: #40FFFF">Auxana definitely had no idea how to use it, but for now she was just happy that it was safe. She even for the briefest of time considering just letting them go, but she also wanted to know exactly what was going on and bring these two to justice. So she gave the two Tesman’s a sort of “come at me look.” And took up her signature stance sword at her back in her left hand and right hand coiled and ready to strike. She generally just fought all out but something told her to be a bit more cautious. Something about the fact that they tried to steal from Meena made her think that they weren’t some small time  and easy to beat criminals. She examined their next move as close as she possibly could.<br/></span><br/>These two were on a mission from god, their god anyway. Though they hadn’t been directly spoken to by Tesmite like Meena talked to Auxana. They were just led to believe that he wanted to have control of powerful artifacts, and Meena’s was said to be a war-ender, though she never used it. The high temple of Tesmite also sent with them some lesser artifacts to get the job done. Brightan was an exceptionally skilled warrior, as he was trained by the elite front-liners of the Tesmite Fighter Flock. The gauntlets he wore made him all the deadlier as with them he was faster and stronger. He spoke in a deep powerful tone. “Must we kill her Tornie?” He and the three illusions Tornie made flew up to her in a blur. They surrounded her, each just a few steps away from striking distance, just waiting. Tornie appeared out of nowhere and threw the decorated dagger at her back. “Whatever it takes to get the Amulet Brightan, we’re on a mission we cannot fail, you know this.” The Brightans looked a little sad but each nodded before rushing her, one weapon poised to strike, the other prepared to defend against an attack of her own. The dagger Tornie threw was initially thrown off course, but it curved and even went around one of the Brightans to get at Auxana, when it got close it disappeared in a sparkle of small lights.<br/><br/><span style="color: #40FFFF">Auxana Crouched her legs, as if she were about to strike, but instead she jumped straight up, using her wings to propel her away. She made sure that she was slow enough for them to follow. She definitely wanted to fight them, maybe get information out of them… But not here, not where she could desecrate the sacred temple. She flew to a nearby clearing in the forest skidding to a halt and turning towards her pursuers readying her stance once again.<br/></span><br/>Tornie didn’t follow her, he was following the dagger that had seemingly disappeared.<span style="color: #FFFFBF">White flew by Auxana’s side, trying to find a way to be helpful.</span>Tornie looked to be following White, even though he couldn’t see her, as she was a part of the magical plane and not the physical one. Being connected with Auxana’s magic is what allowed her to interact with her. Tornie was confused, the dagger went into the magical plane, he had no idea why. He could see it as his magical energy was connected with it, but not its target. The blade was supposed to find and strike the weakness of an enemy, wherever it may be, and the weakness of a mother is their need to protect their children. As Brighten had crashed into the illusions in his rush to follow Auxana, the illusions were gone and it was just him.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FFFFBF">White landed next to Auxana, and turned just as she had, only she saw a dagger coming straight for her. She looked at it, puzzled for a moment, then her eyes went wide when she realized it was in the magical plane. She tried to dodge madly to the side, but it cut into her arm, she screamed, she had never felt pain before. The dagger had kept going and now whirled around. It had white energy dripping off of it, which allowed Auxana to see it.</span>Everyone felt the scream on a magical level, anyone not well connected with their magic just felt uneasy. Tornie, however, cackled quietly as he heard some invisible, possibly elemental being, scream in intense pain. He thought that said being was probably boosting Auxana’s magic and would weaken her. Due to White being a part of Havoc’s magic that was with Auxana, it would not affect her on a magical level, only on an emotional one. Brighton built up his speed and was charging straight for Auxana.<br/><br/><span style="color: #40FFFF">Auxana turned her back to Brighton, she seemed to erupt with magic, the forest bent towards Auxana as all the wind flew to her. The only thing on her mind was White. She embraced her using magic ‘Cling to my back, and take some magic from me if you can.’ She attempted to be calm but there was genuine fury in her tone. She was giving off an immense amount of energy and there was no way that it wouldn’t give any single person pause. As Brighton got to her she flip around in an instant and shoved her fist towards his solar plexus. She wanted him to feel pain, and in her recklessness did not even consider how that punch would affect her.</span><br/><br/>Brighton didn’t flinch and took the hit like a brick wall, he felt no pain and the gauntlets he wore glowed red for a moment. He immediately made a grab for the amulet, he didn’t want to hurt Auxana if he didn’t have to. “Just give us the amulet and you can go and live the rest of your life just fine.” Getting a closer look at the gauntlets, she could see his skin around it slightly decayed, which wasn’t the case before she punched him.<span style="color: #FFFFBF">White did as Auxana said, except she faded into Auxana’s magic, being completely surrounded by it rejuvenated her. However the dagger now aimed straight for Auxana, and it was still in the magical plane so it would cut into her magic while trying to get at White. White looked and saw her mistake, she didn’t know what that would do to Auxana, so she panicked afraid she put her mother in danger. She rushed out of Auxana’s magic and tried to float away, the dagger was bearing down on her, it was going to strike her square in the back.</span>Then time seemed to stop for Auxana, she heard Meena speak to her. “I give you the choice to either fight them like this or use the amulet and end it. It’s my fault you and White are in danger, I can’t have you be hurt by my mistakes. Auk Nem Sili, say these words and the weapon will activate, just think of who you want protected from it as you do. I’m glad you went away from everyone else, and this will show you why it was so important the amulet not fall into the wrong hands.” Time went back to normal and Auxana could act again.<br/><br/><span style="color: #40FFFF">Auxana actually didn’t want to use it, but White came first, she was going to tank the dagger hitting her, but White was too much of a good girl for that. “Auk Nem Sili.” She said in her angelic voice thinking desperately of White. Then she glared at Brighton while dodging his grab. Her eyes seemed both defiant and furious maybe even a bit intimidating. She side-stepped gaining a lot of distance and cracking the ground beneath her. Her sword became spikes that flew quickly at him, as she jumped away. She hoped for her life that the amulet would save White, because outside of that she had no options. .  </span><br/><br/>When Auxana said those three simple words, Brighton’s eyes filled with intense fear, he knew god speak when he heard it. Auxana felt the amulet pulse with intense power. Then even as she moved black smoky tendrils came from it thrashing around. Brighton tried to take to the air but one of the smoke streams latched onto his chest. White smoke came from him and went down the tendril back to Auxana. Tendrils started latching to every living creature around, bats, owls, even insects. Tornie had gone into hiding again and tried running off when she said the words, but the amulet got him too, only White was left alone. The ones hit by the tendrils were having all good emotions drained out of them, every will to fight, to run, to live was taken from them. They collapsed shaking, crying, feeling more miserable than they ever had in their entire lives. While all that energy went to Auxana, she felt similar to how Havoc did in extreme mania. She would have felt empowered like she could do anything and needed to in order to get all this energy out. That’s what the amulet did, it was an emotion vampire, taking from everything and giving that power to the wearer. The spikes she sent flew with incredible intensity, hitting Brighton’s husk of a body, the gauntlets didn’t work, he bled and he didn’t care. The dagger had fallen to the ground as it was connected to Tornie.<span style="color: #FFFFBF"> White was safe, scared, but safe, she went over to Auxana and hung on to her as she looked at the limp bodies all around. </span><br/><br/><span style="color: #40FFFF">Auxana staggered, she felt overwhelmed. It felt to her as if she was looking at herself in a broken mirror. It was oddly familiar yet everything was off. The world around her seemed to  spin, and then focus onto Tornie. She couldn’t control her emotions like she wished she could. Rage consumed her and in that instant all of her energy channeled through her rage attempted to rip Tornie into shreds with wind magic. Her mind was racing with how mad she was. Her expression was that of torture, her magic wanted him to feel pain before he died, and as it exploded out of her The broken mirror began to slowly fix itself. </span><br/><br/>Wind began to pick up around Tornie, it circled him and lifted him into the air. Then the wind began picking up rocks and pebbles, which struck Tornie over and over again, he screamed as his skin was being made raw by shear constant strikes, the wings on his back not only bent and broke in several directions, but the wind tore off his feathers. Just like the ones on his head, an extremely painful process. The wind just got more and more intense until it ripped him in several pieces, it continued. It tore the pieces into fine thin chunks, soon it was just a hurricane of gore. The wind then stopped and the remains of Tornie flew everywhere.<span style="color: #FFFFBF">White covered her head and shrieked as the gore flew at her, not that it affected her.<br/> </span><br/><span style="color: #40FFFF">With the energy gone came the fall. Auxana took a knee and tears began rolling down her face. ‘I’msorryi’msorryi’msorry.’ she repeated it over and over again. That wasn’t what she wanted… It was cruel, no one deserved that, and White had to see it Auxana felt horrible. The ring formed into a short sword and she held it out in front of her. She normally gave off the feeling of Aloof and intimidating, but as of now she looked like a wounded animal fighting for her life. Her eyes darted around as tears fell from them, she felt both sick and weak. “Seb…” She mumbled from the bottom of her heart. She just wanted to be with him, she hated being alone. Why did she even do this alone, why didn’t she take him with her. Her magic flickered back to life as she convinced herself that she was going to die. Her instincts intended to defy that notion by forcing every last bit of strength out of her that it could.</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #FFFFBF">White hugged Auxana trying to comfort her, she was glad she actually could with her when she normally couldn’t with Havoc. She wiped the tears from her eyes and focused on Auxana and not the massacre around her. “Daddy gets like this too, I’m not sure what to say, but Mallory always told him that this is just a bad moment, and you’ll get good moments if you fight through this bad one. To get to see Daddy again, we have to push on, this was bad, but it’s not always like this. Daddy isn’t always good, he can get like that, but it’s not him and he does his best to keep it controlled. That wasn’t you either, if it was, you wouldn’t be upset about it now. We can only move on, try our best to be right from now on. I don’t know much, but I’ve seen Havoc deal with this for a long time, you can too. And you’ll be able to understand him better now, you know what it feels like to lose control like how he can.” White didn’t feel confident enough in trying to comfort her mother. She hugged her really tight, which Auxana could actually feel. “You kissing Daddy seems to really help him, maybe we should go to him and try it for the other way around?” White touched the short sword and it turned back into energy, and then back into the ring. “I don’t think Daddy gave you that to hurt yourself, how would he feel if he found out you used it like that?”  </span><br/><br/><span style="color: #40FFFF">Auxana stopped trembling… ‘Thanks white... ‘ She felt a little shameful but she forced herself to get up. She walked over to Brighton and spoke english “Sorry.” She put her hand to his face and sucked all of the oxygen out of his lungs until he was unconscious. ‘I’ll let Meena deal with him… I just… I can’t kill right now.’ She needed to get back to havoc, so she shambled towards the inn. She looked awful, not physically hurt but for the first time she looked like an emotional wreck. <br/></span><br/>Meena immediately sent one of her priestesses to get Brighton, but by the time they got there, it was too late, he was lying there dead, his own blade thrust through his stomach.<span style="color: #FFFFBF">White walked meekly with Auxana, but something felt wrong to her. Now that she was no longer distracted by the fighting, she noticed this bad feeling at the base of her spine, similar to how she felt when Havoc was in mania, just more subtle. When they reached the inn, she noticed that she felt very distant from him and his magic. “M-mommy, I don’t think daddy was ever here...” White was worried, both for him and Auxana, she didn’t know how to help her other than trying to get her to Havoc.</span><br/><br/>Havoc had gone inside the temple looking for a way up to where Auxana had flown, he had to push through people in the crowd, panic was rising in his heart. It got progressively harder to get anywhere the deeper in the crowd he got. Soon he was stuck and fear gripped his heart so strongly that he would do anything to get to Auxana. Black energy started to flow around him, he took a deep breath and then created constructs that pushed the crowd back leaving a walkway for him. As he went forward everyone stared at him, his use of black magic caused everyone to stare and that terrified him. It was like being back at the academy again, the day he was banished. He saw it that they were all judging him, and some people did yell at him, only barely heard over the music. A feeling of anger rose in him, his eyes starting to swirl black, but then stopped, forced himself to calm down. He hated being singled out, but he hated the idea of not being there for Auxana even more.<br/><br/>As he got past the crowd, he was ready to rush up the stairs, but a pretty young woman stepped in front of him. There was something odd about her, there was this weird draw to her, something that was trying to entrance him. She spoke with a seductive voice, somehow being easily heard despite the noise. “That was quite a display of power, I could really use someone like you by my side.” She was pretty surprised when he refused her offer by shaking his head and saying. “I-i have to get to Auxana, she needs me, I w-won’t stop until she’s safe…. I can’t.” Havoc was shaky, from being stared at, the panic in his heart, and from the weird feeling this woman was causing him to have.<br/><br/>He was actually resisting this succubus’ charms amazingly well, either from not having a sexuality or his love for Auxana. She pushed harder to use her powers to control him. “You don’t need her to be with you, you’ve got me here. Come with me and everything will be okay, I promise.” Havoc now could tell something was horribly wrong, it was hard to identify but he felt like this woman was trying to control him. Free will was big to him and feeling someone try to actively take that away made him fight back, so anger filled his heart and dark energy surrounded him causing him to look dangerous, his eyes were mixed black and white. Despite himself he wasn’t as stable as he wanted to be. His voice was shaky, he was mad and it showed, but also scared. He had a lot of anxiety from being stared at and from his will being attacked, but he focused on what mattered to him. “A-auxana needs me, I will kill anyone who tries to keep me from helping her. Y-you are trying to stop me, but you can’t control me, I-” He was interrupted as she had worried he was going to fight her, so she pulled him close and kissed him passionately.<br/><br/>Havoc’s eyes instantly turned completely black, he struggled to fight her, black energy oozing off of him, but he couldn’t break free, he was paralysed. A succubus’ kiss gave the recipient a boost of testosterone, as it’s power was based off of it. There was also Incubi that could control off of estrogen, but either one could still kiss the wrong gender and introduce more of the needed chemical for control, or in this case someone who was neither gender. Havoc lost control completely and he wasn’t a part of his body anymore, he felt like he was chained inside his own mind, unable to do anything. He screamed and strained against his invisible bonds.<br/><br/>At first he had so much panic about being taken away from Auxana, but then hatred started to take over, and that feeling of something clawing at his spine was more prevalent than ever and slowly getting stronger. Havoc saw his body follow the women away from the party towards the outskirts of town. He screamed silent insults and death threats to the women, he was in mania and would continue to be for quite some time. Being controlled like this really messed with him, the kiss had especially hurt him, as kissing was something he took seriously. He only did it with Auxana because he loved her, wished they could be united, and she wanted to kiss him back, whether she understood what it meant to him or not.<br/><br/>This was all killing him inside, and it built up in his heart, so he retreated into mania and then rage to cope with it. The mania and anger made it hard to concentrate on what was going on. He was being taken to the edge of town, to a caravan, the one they had passed on the road, the succubus left him outside to go inside a carriage. He could now see that he was right before, there were cages on the carts. He saw a young dreadwolf man, he didn’t look to be in a good state. All the prisoners he could see here looked to have been treated poorly. One that caught his eye particularly was a little girl that reminded him of Mallory as a child. Everything he saw increased his anger, he hated slavery with a passion, he wanted to brutally murder every slaver here, but he was powerless and it ate at him. The leader, who he never got to see or hear, had called for the caravan to head out. Being powerless to do what he felt needed to be done like in Auxana’s dream made him lose his grip on sanity, and this was worse because he was failing both here and in being there for Auxana.<br/><br/>The succubus then came back out to him and told him that the ‘general,’ as she called them, was very pleased that he had come with her. Like he had a choice, he imagined strangling her with a spiked coil of his skeletal design. He kept himself busy for a while that way as he was forced to sit beside her on a cart, thinking of ways to kill her. Every now and then she’d give him a peck on the cheek or lips as if they were actually a couple. He attempted to scream in rage at her every time, but the thing that really clawed at him was how she had begin talking soothingly to him as if his reaction to it wasn’t just him under mind control. Havoc hadn’t noticed, but after a while she herself had changed a little as if no longer in a similar trance he was currently in. He thought that she had to know that when he regained control he would kill them all. No, not just kill, torture, at some point during this traveling he no longer saw that as going too far. Considering that his mania would not go away after being freed from her grasp, he would definitely do it without batting an eye.<br/><br/>As Havoc became more and more manic, Mallory was panicking, not because Havoc was in such pain, but because he was losing it. If this continued, he would be in state that if he did regain control, they would all need to start praying. She believed that there would be a point to where he would not recover quickly, if at all, and during that time, he could cause a lot of damage. She hoped he died first, what was happening to him was the one thing that could bring him over the edge, one she didn’t think he could ever come back from.<br/><br/>__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<br/><br/>As Norah spoke his features softened, he became more relaxed and lost the air of seriousness he had held. Everything was alright, Norah was fine and he was fine, actually he was better than fine, his senses were heightened, he felt stronger and sturdier than normal, and he still felt completely in control unlike when he had taken the potion. Torusk actually came up to them, bounding covering a fair amount of distance very quickly. “I heard you say you have an idea of where to go next. Good, you can help guide us, for now, rest a lot of us haven’t taken a break in a while. The vampires I know are doing a dreaming ritual, you both should join, it rejuvenates the body pretty well.” He looked like he was ready to run a hundred miles but he wasn’t going to push anyone else.<br/><br/>Kryban walked beside her to where he believed the ritual would be. Soon they came upon Carmichael preparing a circle of vampires around candles and incense, with markings etched along the ground. Once he saw the two of them come up he smiled and said. “I see you’re both feeling better, that’s good, but you both could still use some extra rest after all that happened today, so I would suggest you join us. It’s a good experience to have anyway, it really connects people.”<br/><br/>Kryban didn’t feel like arguing and it was nice to be able to dream. He hoped Norah would participate as well, though he guessed she didn’t know what it was so he explained. “Dreaming is kind of what it sounds like, but vampires and some other monsters don’t sleep, so we do this instead. It boosts our energy, working best with more than one person. We all dream the same dream, usually based off one person, it doesn’t take as long as sleeping and makes you feel better than if you had.” He then took a seat somewhere where Norah could sit next to him.