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[i] ‘How little you know,’[/i] Darell though but resisted snapping back the comment to Helena.  Her outburst was unreasonable, purely because he suspected her pride got into the way and made her irked to his re-sharing of knowledge she should’ve recalled. He didn’t have the time to argue since they were under attack. The nitemare could return and ready to burst into the room at any moment. 

He watched the man approach Annabeth, as she introduced herself and then walked off to attend to the girl. 

Still sobbing, the girl looked up. Her eyes met the speaker trying to sooth her pain as she wiped away the tears. She sharply nodded and reached a hand for Annabeth to hoist her up. The girl was weak in the knees, as expected, causing her to stumble forward upon being lifted up and grip Annabeth’s arm for balance. When she finally gathered her balance once more, she introduced herself and began walking toward the group, “My name is Jessie. We were trying to find a way out, but S-” 

Her words cut off from the pain of trying to say the younger girl’s name, her breath inhaled to collect herself, “She said not to go this way and that she got a bad feeling. Drake didn’t listen. He felt he knew better despite what we were taught about the Nox.” 

Drake, still guilty about the whole incident, averted his gaze from Jessie. He focused on Helena instead as he listened to what she spoke about the thing possibly coming back causing him to pale in color. For a moment it looked like he was about to be sick, “Oh by the Gods. W-w-well… what are we waiting for? Lead the way out.”  

Before any of them could move, a low familiar rumble filled the tunnels. It was the starting of the maze shifting again causing Darell to shout at the others, “Get into the room and grab each other, quickly before we’re separated!” 

Meanwhile, if anyone had looked down the hallway then they would see a snorting, charging nitemare heading for those who had managed to edge into the hallway. Drake being among them. 

[center][h3]Uncovering Shadows[/h3][/center]
[u][color=pink]Lyn,[/color] Hysteria (Djarkel)[/u]
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Lyn leaned against the carriage interior as she thought over what Ssarak had said to her. Her arms were crossed over her middle while her head bumped with the jarring movement, letting the guilt fill her despite her best efforts to shrug it off. Their conversation had touched on something she hadn’t considered. This made her feel a mixture of an idiot and possible murder, thinking she might’ve risked the Naga’s last remaining numbers with her foolishness. She began to question why she thought she was ready for this trip. 

The hybrid sighed, then shifted her arm from her middle and rested her chin comfortably on. Coming into the city, her eyes drifted to the scenery and absorbing it until the carriage stopped abruptly. She hadn’t much time to dwell on the reason when suddenly she heard a loud thump above her. Her eyes to looked upward and she frowned.

Footsteps darted across the roof as she watched a man leap down from the carriage to the street. Lyn pushed her torso out to lean out the window as she spotted him dash down the street with something in hand. Her arms reached up to the upper frame of the window and pulled herself to the top, her head peeked over the roof’s edge to see the trunk was stolen. She cursed in her head as she pulled her feet out to drop to the ground just outside the carriage door. 

[i][color=f7941d]”Leith, stay and protect Lyn!”[/color][/i] Ssarak’s voice ripped through her head causing Lyn to frown, but didn’t stop her bolt into the thief’s wake. She wasn’t about to be left behind since she was nimble enough to join the chase now. Reaching a hand at her side, she pulled one of her non lethal ones and tossed it at the man’s legs. 

He jerked to the right, seeming to sense her attempts to pin him, as the dagger busted and entangled the wall it landed at. Unable to waste the time to pause and pick it up, she continued to follow the man’s wake.