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The pain seemed to have stopped, which was overall stranger than Aleecia expected. Lengthy headaches had become her norm, the ever constant reminder that she had messed up all those years ago. Now that the pain was gone, Aleecia wished her eyesight may be fixed too. With a sigh, Aleecia opened one eye, only for the bright light of the POD room to sting into her retinas. She quickly closed her eye again. It was the same as before, she could see light and almost even colors, but there was nothing else. Closing her eyes again, she was embraced by the coming darkness and shifted. 

Aleecia... wasn’t in the most normal position. Something arm like was holding her back up with her head resting against, a neck? There was a leg shaped piece of metal underneath her knees and long locks of what could have been hair swept against the back of her neck. Aleecia reached out to touch what could have been a person if its temperature had resembled anything warm. She followed the hair so that she touched the robot’s cheek, [color=lightblue]“Nariko?”[/color]

[b]”Y-yes, it's just me.”[/b] Aleecia could hear the fan whirring in the back of Nariko's head. That was the one thing that made her different than all the other carnage sisters. [b]”I guess father ended up sending you back here after all. Oh, this is so embarrassing. Everyone's going to call me a baby for this. Even the patients will point and laugh at me.”[/b] With a metallic click, her eyes shut. [b]”B-but I'm so torn. You might have been safer if you never came back. Oh, regardless of where you go, I'll always be filled with worry.”[/b]

As Aleecia listened to what Nariko had to say, she gave the robot a sweet smile, [color=lightblue]“It’s fine Nariko. At the very least, I get to spend more time with you and the others. Oh! And my head doesn’t hurt anymore either! That has to count for something, right?”[/color] She maneuvered her hand so that she could pull the synthetic hair away from the Carnage Sister’s face and behind her ear. [color=lightblue]“Now, don’t worry too much, I don’t want you to get in trouble for fussing over me.”[/color]

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The next sound Aleecia and Nariko could hear was the doors to the POD room being pushed open with force. Of the two new people in the room, one of them cried out a pun as a greeting, making it known that it was none other than Krista and a friend that had joined them. [color=6c9b8f]“Ice and I wanted to see you! How are you do—”[/color] The sight of Nariko curled up into Aleecia’s side stopped Krista from speaking any further, mostly from confusion (and [i]slightly[/i] from hurt, though Krista would never admit that out loud!) [color=6c9b8f]“How are you doing?”[/color] After a few awkward moments of silence, Krista finally finished the question she wanted to ask the newly returned dice master.

Ice had been quite feverish to get over to the POD room, kicking the door open like that. Ice took a moment to take in the scene while Krista’s voice filtered out. The Pod Aleecia had been in was open and turned off, with Aleecia resting on top of Nariko’s lap. After the sound of the door opening, Aleecia had turned around to face them, but her hand was still resting on Nariko’s ear. Ice swiftly moved over to where the two of them were on the ground and grabbed onto Aleecia’s hand, [color=orange]“Hey, you feeling better? Let’s get you off the ground.”[/color] While his words might have been pleasant sounding, his face was completely opposite. His eyes shot daggers at the robotic sister, and after asking if Aleecia was ok, his jaw worked with rage. The carnage sister only looked away from ice as a response.

With the sound of the two barging in, Aleecia had jumped in Nariko’s lap. She turned her head to look over where the sound was coming from, since she didn’t actually know the layout of the room very well. Aleecia instinctively snuggled closer to the robot, but relaxed a little hearing Krista’s pun. Krista Muller, the Infinite Violinist, she had been there when they gave her the board game and note. The girl’s voice trailed off to Aleecia’s confusion, but she didn’t have much time to answer before Ice was there. 

Her fingers curled around Ice’s as she smiled up at him, [color=lightblue]“I’m completely fine, no harm done, I feel even better than before actually...”[/color] She cocked her head to the side, [color=lightblue]“It’s no trouble being down here really, it’s rather comfortable.”[/color] Aleecia lowered her hand to pat Nariko’s arm.

[b]”This is so embarrassing. I'm so... hopelessly embarrassed by this.”[/b] her eyes remained shut. The robot did not move from her spot on the ground. [b]”It's okay, you should probably go someplace warm. I know you’re just trying to be polite..”[/b]

With his eyes still trained on the robot, Ice pulled Aleecia up, letting her lean on him. He patted her head and felt around for any bumps, [color=orange]“You sure you’re okay?”[/color] The Dice Master batted Ice’s hands away gently with a nod and a pout.

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Sitting in the doorway watching everything unfold, Rika slowly creeped into the room on her hands like some kind of animal, she stalked up behind of Ice poking him in the side with her fingers before seeing Aleecia, she quickly stopped what she was doing to focus on her blind friend. She didn’t hesitate on doing what she came here for grabbing Aleecia’s hands with her own very cold hands. 

Her scarred hands met her soft palms, she pressed her hands onto her face, so the blind girl could feel her face so she could get an idea of what she looked like, no talking or explaining why she did it, she just forced the cold hands onto her face and endured the frosty hands and moved them around her face for Aleecia. 

Ice’s entire body went rigid as he felt someone else poke him in the side, he released Aleecia and backed away, his fists up, only to see it was a girl that looked somewhat familiar. He couldn’t quite place who she was, considering he had only ever seen her in bandages, but finally he figured out it was Rika based on her bloodied cloak. While he may have not seen how the blood had gotten there, he remembered it from, was it only a week ago? Ice had been too full of despair himself to see the death of the former Infinite Quill. [color=orange]“You cur!”[/color]

Aleecia shivered for a second as cold hands met with her own. She had been very cold over the last few times she had awoken, so this was quite strange for her. As her palms met the other girl’s she felt around them with her fingers. She felt the scars, but couldn’t even properly react before they were placed onto someone’s face. As she felt around, trying to make a mental image of what she was seeing, she tilted her head, [color=lightblue]“Rika?”[/color]

A small grin grew on the young woman’s face as Aleecia guessed correctly, she grabbed the infinite’s wrist and moved them to her scarred neck before silently nodded in agreement, then realizing that she was blind again, she pulled her recorder from her cloak and depressed the play button with her thumb.”[color=Firebrick] Correct.[/color]” the tape spoke in a mixture tone of garbled and processed. 

Ice gripped onto Rika’s hand and pulled it away from Aleecia’s [color=orange]“Let her alone, will ya? She probably needs some space having been locked up in a POD for so long.”[/color] His right eyebrow started to [url=https://imgur.com/a/oojxB]twitch,[/url] [color=orange]“You do know poking someone’s side is rude, you should be more polite to your elders, snert.”[/color] He bent over so that the two of them were eye to eye. [color=orange]“Are you okay? You don’t have your bandages on.”[/color]

The former mummy stared at the bandaged boy as he berated her, she just responded with silence before acting, she poked the tip of Ice’s nose with her scarred finger and dragged it across his bandaged covered cheek, her mouth went agape before a groaning sound escaped from her lips, the sound she made as she spoke? Sounded something similar to a frog croaking and zombie’s moan, it wasn’t anything that sounded close to human, she then moved her finger to his forehead then simply plucked him in the head and hugged onto Aleecia. 

Aleecia was taken aback by the hug, but quickly moved to put her arms around her friend, [color=lightblue]“Um... I think you might have said something wrong...”[/color] She stammered, petting Rika’s hair. Ice on the other hand had backed up a lot, his right hand to his face as he felt at his face. Obviously no one had touched his face in a long time and he was thinking with the sound Rika made, she wanted to do more harm to him then good. [color=orange]“Geez! You didn’t have to do anything foolhardy!”[/color]

Rika patted Aleecia’s back as the blind girl petted her messy hair. Once Ice had backed off Rika let go of her friend and cornered Ice, she grabbed the front of her cloak and raised it so he could see her body and only him before putting it back down to cover her scarred body, the act wasn’t anything to her, she knew what her body looked like and how most would react to it, him being freaked out by it wouldn’t make her feel embarrassed or bashful after flashing Ice. 

[b]”Hng!”[/b] Nariko sprung off of the ground and rushed to Rika's side. Even if Rika was clad again, the carnage sister had taken off her nurse's outfit and wrapped it around Rika. Nariko wasn't wearing much underneath. Just normal undergarments. Though her breasts appeared to be literal blood bags held in place by her bra.Her body did look even less well made under her outfit. The seams in her body weren’t as well hidden, and there were obvious rivets lining the panels of her body. [b]”That was indecent, like my entire existence.”[/b] The robot shuttered. [b]”I wasn’t fast enough.”[/b]

Of course, Ice’s eyes immediately moved towards the motion of Rika’s cloak, traumatizing him forever. The man may have been close to thirty, yet he had never had any kind of romantic encounters. When he had seen nudity from afar in his mobster days, he had quickly looked away, but Rika was standing so close and was to near for him to look away in time. Ice quickly brought his hand up over his eyes, a line of crimson coming from his nose. [color=orange]“A rella who seems to be the living end...”[/color] He muttered under his breath and turned away. [color=orange]“Aleecia, I’m souped to see that you’re okay. I’ll... be in the dining hall.”[/color] Ice moved to make a swift exit, heading towards the path he spoke of.