Maria's smiled only grew at Ari's whispered words, but unfortunately both their quiet dialogue and the smile was cut off by the encroachment of a mysterious fetid ooze crawling up their legs.<br/><br/>Maria frowned, cursing, her mind working overtime to come up with a proper spell for this. Normally when she had a problem she just fireball'd it to death, but now that problem was slithering up her distinctly non-fireproof legs. She had another start when she realized that it was eating, not her skin and flesh thank goodness, but her shoes were all but gone now, and her stockings and the hem of her dress were quickly being eaten away.<br/><br/><span style="color: #b30000">"Dammit..." </span>She muttered, making a split second decision. Either try and scrape off the goo with her hands or save her dress from being eaten entirely. Gritting her teeth, she bunched up her dress in both hands, lifting it up until all of it was gathered at her waist, showing off the long dark stockings running up her legs and giving Ari an excellent view of her round panty-clad rear.<br/><br/><span style="color: #b30000">"Does anyone have a solution to this?"</span>She grumbled as she tried in vain to kick the tickling ooze off her legs to little avail, only seeming to urge it on as it ate its way up her thighs.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>