Reiku laughs when she hears Akains apology "Dont worry about it, i was just playing around. Its that or be really freaked out by all this, huh?" she slows her pace with him, listening to his story. When he finishes she beams up at Arkain. "That sounds like quite the item, and curse, hehe." she looks ahead, still talking. "Its good you are learned in healing magicks, i can imagin it will be very useful here. Magick has always been my weak point. I cant perform many spells without aids like my scrolls necklace or cloak. I even needed my sword enchanted my magick is so weak" she sighs saddly. "I've just never had the time to seriously study it, my work takes me all over" She grins at Arkain "Thanks, im glad my fashion sense isnt unapreciated" She slows down with Arkain and steps up beside him, keeping her eyes focused on him as he explains about the latex creature. "Dont get upset, we can find him after we find our friends" She winks at him "It sounds like your a fan of all the latex here, you'll need to tell me about it somet..." Her voice catches in her throat as Arkain takes her head in his hand. "O..o...okay" she stammers leaving his hand there. She feels her cheeks start to burn, and is thankful her fur covered her blushing, still, she was worried her whiskers would ignite. the humerous thought snapped her out of her stupor. She smiles at Arkain happily. "Yes, that would be very nice, this whole experience has robbed me of a holliday anyway, and intimate is something my life sorely lacks" She steps into the room at the end of the hallway, her attention instantly grabbed by the large pulsing machine. "Im getting a really bad feeling about this room" She follows Arkain to the ventilation shaft and stares up it. "I can get us up there, dont worry" She gets directly under the shaft and crouches down. "Give me a moment please" she takes hold of hercloak and wraps it loosely around herself till shes totally covered. Nothing happens for about fifteen seconds but then her form seems to soften and sink downwards, her cloak spreading out over the floor. It keeps spreading out, Reiku's body ceaces to be as her cloak becomes a pool of darkness on the floor. The pool of shadowy matter quickly dissipates. In the shaft above a small puddle of the same substance starts to spread, rising off the floor of the shaft like smoke and forms in a small lump. Nothing happens for a moment, but then the seams of a cloak slowly appear over it and Reiku pokes her head out and starts coughing, flecks of blood splatting on the shafts walls. She regains her composure and shuffles to the shafts opening and looks down at Arkain. "Give me a moment to catch my breath" she says weakly. She sits down and hugs her knees in the shaft, her breath ragged while she gets her strength back.