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[center][sub][i]From The Darkness[/i][/sub][/center]

The moment the metal dome sealed over Penny her energy blades deactivated and she collapsed. From an outside perspective it seemed that she was succumbing to her wounds as she wasn’t breathing.

 The truth was closer to the opposite however, as she had collapsed in relief. Being surrounded by her element reminded her of her lair and Elroy was moving away, the fight seemed to be winding down. So seeing as she was safe for the moment, not being concerned with the makeshift prison, she turned her attention inwards. 

The wound on her side looked bad, and it did hurt, was the first thing she focused on. Silent arcs of electricity slid across the wound leaving a lattice of thin metal in their wake as deep inside the wound the blood loss was staunched.  It still looked like horrific as she was covered in blood, and the lattice wasn’t easily visible, but the wound would heal clean.

Next she focused on her biggest concern the curse that had been placed on her. That took a more effort to figure out, and in truth she didn’t even break it so much as it wore off. Still she noted the bullet that had struck her and molded it in to her chassis, it wouldn’t add any benefit, but she wanted to hold on to the bullet as a memento. She had gotten reckless when fighting, this would serve as a reminder as to why she shouldn’t do so.

Finally she addressed the spear still lodged in her arm. Originally she had intended to tear it free and begin using it against Elroy, but now a different idea had come to her. One that would take a bit amount of time to accomplish, as the magic in the spear wasn’t hers. Methodically she began imprinting herself on the spear, removing Elroy’s magic and putting her own in its place.  Normally it would be an impossible feat for her, but with it still stuck in her she could use her own regeneration as an interface and workaround, slowly transforming the metal in to another part of her body.  It was also why she only allowed a patch job for her side; she couldn’t heal and imprint at the same time.

Because of her focus on the task of imprinting on the metal in her arm, she was only partial aware of metal sphere being torn open. Still the sudden light got her attention. She rolled on to her slide as she glanced at Alicia and Suwako, her eyes were glazed as she kept working on the imprinting and she was still covered in her own blood.

Penny was about to say something to them when she felt heat coming from Thalia, when she turned to look at her friend she felt her blood go cold when she saw how close they had been. She hadn’t realized Thalia had gotten stuck in the sphere as well. She had assumed that the fox girl had leapt out of the way when it rolled towards them or avoided it as she was skilled at doing. 

But Thalia had been in the dark with Penny, and Penny didn’t say anything. She felt terrible, a feeling that only got worse as she finally saw what the wound on her side looked like. She looked back just in time to see Thalia transform completely.

[color=9e0039][b][u] “T-thalia[/u][/b][/color]” Penny croaked out as she pushed herself to a stand, fighting past tears and the guilt she felt for the fear she had inflicted on her friend.  She took a wobbly step towards the large Kitsune, hoping that she would be able to calm her down despite her horrid appearance.


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