(Go ahead and do your thing, Jon, Ult. Sai can wait till you're ready.)<br/>[Sai, Eric and Leila]<br/><br/>Sai hesitated at the sad, longing tone in Leila’s voice, even as she remembered that the Pokemon could indeed read her thoughts.<br/><br/>The anger and sense of horrible violation ran headlong into guilt and the very recent memory of a knife wound and a scar appearing on a different hand than it once belonged to. For once, the anger wasn’t winning.<br/><br/>And that Scared Sai. So she didn’t say anything when Leila left… she just ran upstairs, leaving Eric to keep Leila company for the moment.<br/>/Can’t feel sad! Can’t feel sorry for her! Stay Angry! It’s not your fault that she’s all alone! Stay Angry! Don’t feel horrible about running away! Stay Angry! Stay Focused! Stay Alive!/<br/><br/>Sai dove into the makeshift bed and hauled the covers over her head. /All alone. Just like me, and she’s all alone. I should’ve stayed. Should’ve been stronger. Coward. Coward./ Guilt and shame gave no reprieve to her anger, so Sai hid.<br/><br/>“Stay angry, stay focused, stay alive…”<br/><br/>She didn’t want to see anyone… but she knew she’d have to go to Leila later that night. Sai couldn’t stay like this. She had to face Leila, find out what the Lugia wanted… and face the demons in her own past as well.<br/>Sai dreaded that perhaps more than anything a legendary pokemon could do to her, but she owed it Leila and herself not to run away.<br/><br/>0000000000000000<br/><br/>[Andrea and Gooey]<br/><br/>Andrea began to REALLY panic as her air supply dwindled. She’d never been smothered before in her life, and she didn’t want to die! She didn’t waste any more air screaming, though her heart-rate shot up when she realized that She was slowly sinking into the gooey Goodra.<br/>Andrea Thrust her arms and legs in front of her, pushing them in to try and pry her upper body… or at least her head, away and out of the slimy flesh. She didn’t know if she’d get enough leverage to succeed, but it was her only chance!<br/><br/>Was it flesh or slime that held her? Andrea didn’t know. Perhaps it was both.<br/><br/>Maybe Andrea would succeed. She’d probably scream for mercy at if she did. If she didn’t… well, maybe Gooey would swallow her fast enough to save her. The deeper and more forceful intrusion of Andrea’s arms and legs might even be noticeable to the slimy Dragon pokemon.