Aidan hits the floor, hard. He shakes his head, clearing all the feelings he felt just a moment ago. No more was the room a lovely romantic place. It was a dark and eerie room. Blood covered the walls and bones littered the floor. The couches that looked so comfortable moments ago, were actually torture devices. How could he have been such a fool...

Then he sees Val laying on the floor. He slowly begins to remember what happened just moments after he snapped out of the illusion. They got attacked and... and Val took the hit! He picks himself up and hurries towards her. He drops himself on his knees, gliding the last centimeters before halting next to her body. He immediately checks her pulse and eyes. Good, pulse was still there. Eyes looked... weird. Her normally starry blue eyes had faded to almost pale white. Was she poisoned?

He quickly grabs his weapons from the floor and sheaths them away. He needed to get her to the Invictus. He didn't care for this damnable tower anymore. He would bring her back and then she would personall push the button to drop the Deepcore charges. Yes, that was how it was going to happen, and no way else.

Aidan picks Val her body up and sets his foot on the first stair. He scans the now illusion free room one more time. How close they had come to perishing...