[color=f49ac2][center][h3]Smudge Pixelby[/h3][/center][/color]

[color=f49ac2]"...Yeah, [i]now[/I] you ask,"[/color] mumbled Smudge, gulping around the lump in a throat that didn't lead anywhere. [color=f49ac2]"Whatever."[/color]

Smudge nodded to Nebulous. [color=f49ac2]"Thanks for... Fighting that demon."[/color] Her tone was still furious, but she clearly owed him that much. [color=f49ac2]"I'll be f-fine on my own. I don't need you."[/color]

With that, IA-920 adjusted its grip on the journal, took a step towards the edge of the road, realised it was facing nothing but thicket only to stagger defiantly into it anyway. It flinched around a spiderweb, extending nerves from its face to help it clamber past the branches.

[color=f49ac2][I]"And my name is Smudge!"[/I][/color] she yelled from somewhere behind the leaves, stomping deeper into the forest as if to spite her pretty shoes.

[@Overlord Thraka][@Lmpkio]