<span style="font-style: italic">Ko'Gisha - Ris</span><br/><br/>"Woo!" Rian cried, bringing them up high and dropping them into a free fall. He knew their feet were secured to the board and was confident in his ability to catch them again. The flyer was having a wonderful time. Halieu on the other hand was on the verge of having a heart attack. He had a death grip on Rian's shoulders and was currently<span style="font-style: italic">not</span>emotionally secure.<br/><br/>The skin under Halieu's fingernails split from the force of his clutching and the negative effect of his panicked state. Blood leaked freely from his hands and he felt light-headed. "Please... that's enough," he whispered to his friend, blood leaking from the corner of his mouth.<br/><br/>Rian took a glance back and immediately knew he overdid it. He slowed the rider to a stop and gradually lowered them to the ground. Halieu took a shaky step off the rider and was forced to sit down in the dirt. His breathing was a bit shaky and he was trying to calm down and keep from inhaling the blood leaking down his throat. Probably the more dangerous aspect of Mendel's Case was that once you relapsed, even just a little bit, your blood almost completely lost its ability to clot; you just kept bleeding.<br/><br/>Right now, one of the most important things for Halieu to do was to calm down and fall out of the relapse state. That way his body could start to repair itself again. Rian waited quietly, watching his friend for any bad signs. In about fifteen minutes, the bleeding was beginning to stop and Halieu rose back to his feet.<br/><br/>"I'm sorry," Rian said, rubbing the back of his head. "I should have listened to you. I guess I got carried away."<br/><br/>"Well... we didn't have a major disaster, so I suppose it's alright." He shook his head, "I'm just not ready for that sort of thing yet. And honestly, I expected you to get carried away from the start."<br/><br/>Halieu began walking away and for a moment Rian just stood there with a slightly offended look on his face. "Hey, wait up!" he called, catching up to his friend.<br/><br/>-----------<span style="font-style: italic">Ko'Gisha - Ris</span>-----------<br/><br/>Reina walked through the streets, clutching her stomach when it growled. "Hush you! You'll get fed in a moment. Stupid petty criminals," she muttered. "They take up my time and make me hungry but don't even offer a decent fight."<br/><br/>The warrior paused when she saw two people walking down the street. It looked like... a Burin Flyer and a Gala Caster. That was an extremely odd pair to see traveling together in this day and age. Reina just had to find out what was going on there. So she took a moment to ignore her complainant stomach and approach the odd pair.<br/><br/>"Hello there," he said, raising her hand in a slight wave. "I haven't seen a Burin and a Gala walking so close to each other, peacefully, in public in ages," she said idly. "What's the deal here?"<br/><br/>Halieu glanced at the girl who approached them. "No deal," he said. "We're friends. I don't see a problem walking down the street with my friend."<br/><br/>Rian nodded and threw his arm around Halieu's shoulders. "Yeah! 'Sides, this guy's nothing like the rest of the Gala scum."<br/><br/>Halieu looked to him, raising an eyebrow. "Gala scum?"<br/><br/>Rian rolled his eyes. "Oh jeez, relax. Don't go defending them after what they put you through." He seemed to become aware again that they had company. "Oh, sorry," he said shyly. "Did you need something else?"<br/><br/>Reina blushed when her stomach growled again. "No. Actually, I have business to take care of," she said and started marching off determinedly.<br/><br/>Halieu managed to catch her shoulder before she walked away. "The nearest tavern is in the other direction." This sparked another blush from the warrior girl.<br/><br/>"I, um... don't suppose you'd show me the way?" she said meekly, blushing and tapping her index fingers together.<br/><br/>Halieu gave a sigh. He was such a bleeding heart, in more ways than one. "Sure," he said. "We have no reason not to," he said when Rian gave him a look.<br/><br/>------------<span style="font-style: italic">Glissade - Outskirts of Mos</span>-------------<br/><br/>Sarah was not pleased when she came back to see Lelouch and Frahlah sitting in the middle of the floor playing cards. She crossed her arms and tapped her foot impatiently. Her whip was held threateningly in her hand. "You better have gotten some good information if you're taking a break," she said, her voice cold.<br/><br/>"I can't force a vision so many times in a row," Lelouch said calmly, drawing a card from Frahlah's hand. "I would die and be of even less use to you. However, within three days, more probably some time tonight, there's going to be some sort of meeting."<br/><br/>This seemed to catch the Beast Master's attention, hopefully in a good way. "Where? Who with?"<br/><br/>"It was probably somewhere in Ko'Gisha, based on the sheer number of people," he said. "And I don't know who. Like I said before, it was too blurry. But since I saw it, it had to be important."<br/><br/>Sarah's eyes narrowed. "You go back to work," she said to Lelouch. "Find out<span style="font-style: italic">where</span>in Ko'Gisha. As soon as you know, we're leaving."<br/><br/>"But I haven't--" Right then Frahlah threw down his hand. "I win!" he exclaimed.<br/><br/>Lelouch sighed. "Never mind."