“Who said I was trying to help, Mr Astra?” Patrick said with a wide grin, pulling Ferrin to his feet, “although I was taught never to kick a man when he’s down, I never could quite get the hang of my mouth” 

He chuckled, “As for your condition, why, you must take it up with Sasha, and I wish you luck. Better you then me. She’s such a stubborn little thing” He said, glancing over to Sasha, “This is more her expedition then my own, and she’s as much Fairy Tail as you, even if she’s never been apart of it”He warned, before shrugging, “Good luck to you”

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Penny looked up as someone laid a hand on her shoulder, and sighed bitterly when it wasn’t anyone she wanted. She looked away, “Well, right now it feels like all my “Family” hates me. All I’ve done is just disappoint everyone.” She looked through the skylight, to her sister and her partner, “She doesn’t need me to complicate things. She’s happy, and that’s all that matters to me. She doesn’t need me making things difficult”

She looked to the rest of the guild that she could see, and shook her head, “None of them has ventured out to see if I am okay. Not that it matters” She bowed her head, the blue-white flames flickering about her, sorrow still filling her, seeming to want to engulf her completely. 

“Everytime I try to do the right thing, it seems to go wrong… “ She’d taken Ariel with her, to kill her father, and look how well that had turned out. All she’d succeeded in doing was just making Ariel’s life harder. She’d wanted to help Jasmine.. The girl didn’t seem to resent her for her absence, at least, but she hadn’t help her find any sort of peace… Sasha had grown into a fine young woman, thankfully, over the last few months… Penny had always needed her, not the other way around… 

She sighed and dropped her head into her hands. 

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Sasha watched Shujin go, before looking to Lazarus once more, watching him for a few moments, shifting so she could lean against him a moment, “You were scared to tell me” She said, with a bit of amusement, “I’m not scary, am I?” While she knew that they should probably get moving soon, it would take time to gather those that were coming, so she thought that they could take a few moments. 

[@YipeeXD][@Crimson Raven]