Hotaru nodded and mumbled good night to Larel before laying down and trying to get some sleep herself. Mera on the other hand was wide awake, taking in everything she'd heard that day. It was more than most people could deal with taking in, more than she had really cared to learn with a matter of hours but she found herself looking towards Alari's room as she picked up what was going on in his room. She frowned but she stayed where she was, she did however make a small plant pop up between the floorboards, one she'd used a few times for various kinds of pain, figuring coughing up blood meant he'd suffered at least some. She sighed, rubbing her eyes, looking towards the window, though it was over her head. It was almost weird for her now not to have her siblings around, but she had a building sense of worry. Something wasn't right...

Raina and Sola set their mother down in the opening of a seemingly empty cave and Eryn landed, gently setting Mary down. Alessea was starting to come around but Mary was still out cold, her mind beyond the point of exhaustion from how far she'd pushed herself. Eryn panted a little, glancing out  of the cave to see if the people pursuing them were still there. 
"It seems clear."
"I doubt it is," Sola muttered, on edge, "I have a feeling the one other person who has their ability is with them."
"What makes you say that?" Raina looked at her confused.
"How else would someone know just the right moment to strike? Right when we're dragging them with due to their lingering in the spirit world?" Sola looked at her as if it were obvious.
"But why would they come after us? What would be the point?"
"Maybe they don't have a choice," Eryn suggested, "If they were caught and their captors learned of their ability, they would definitely be manipulated to search out others like them."
"Can't they just...stop their minds or whatever in moments like that?"
"Raina," Alessea spoke and her daughter looked at her slowly, figuring she was about to basically be lectured, "Imagine being stuck in your own head, aware of what's going on around you but unable to do anything, and due to our kind's deal with The Goddess, unable to die without someone having pity on us and burning us, but most are too afraid that we'll experience every second of the pain, which we would," she said and Raina looked down, "Call us cowards if you will, but it's not death that we're giving ourselves or even freedom."
"I'm glad you understand, Alessea," The standing siblings jumped and turned towards the petite looking male standing in the cave entrance, black shackles around his wrists and he'd clearly been through a ringer of his own, dirty and bloody, "I tried to keep them away as long as I could while you and Marianne were in the other realm, but they realized I was wasting time..."    
"Ah, Wyn," Alessea stood up slowly, "You poor boy... I understand. And I hope you're going to understand what I'm going to have to do to you."
"I would actually be quite grateful for it, but I'm afraid we don't have time for that," Wyn mumbled as soldiers in black armor were walking up, drawing their weapons, "Please don't push yourselves harder. If you don't resist, they promised to not attack," he said, clearly hopeful that the murderous look in the sisters' eyes would relent.
Eryn picked up Mary and moved to get in front of Alessea, knowing Raina and Sola were not about to stand there and let these humans take them in.