Reiku scoweled when she heard the familiar voice in her head, but her moment of anger passed quickly after it left its taunting message. Deep down she had always knows Arkain would be here, she just hoped he briught Umi and more. She knew the latex was near invincible, but from first hand experience that even it had its weaknesses. She sat up and hopped to her feet, beaching up and taking her sword down from its mantle, fastening it to her back and walking out of her room. As she walked, theshadows cast around the room faded momentarily and creeped towards her, erupting in a bollow of blask mist round her feet and rising, forming a very solid, pitch black cloak around her, marked with blood red runes. She tightened the hood around her head, so just the tip of her ponytail stuck from the shadowed cloak, one of the few powers she still controled. She paced her corridor anxiously, not wanting to involve Arkain in her affairs, for his own safety, unlless it was unavoidable. "Arkain...go away. I'm not worth it..." She whispered to herself, willing it to happen.