-[@Prima Luce]-

Pirila swiftly ducks to avoid the wooden cube thrown back at her head. She had not expected the attacker to be able to react this quickly. The telepathic shout did little to faze her though, as she'd already heard similar things before.

As she stands up again to throw something else, Pirila notices that the assailant has vanished in a bright light.

Then, Mili's crying brings Pirila's attention to her. Dropping what she was holding, she rushes over to calm down Mili. Giving her a hug, she holds the girl close until the crying dies down a bit. Mili was clearly upset. Did the attacker do something to her mind as well?

It doesn't take long however for Pirila to spot the burns on her neck. She had no idea what caused it, but it was the likely source of Mili's pain. Dragging a small box out from underneath Mili's bed and opening it up, Pirila takes out a bandage and bandages the wound while trying to calm down the girl further.

Eventually, Mili's crying turns into sniffling as Pirila manages to calm her down. "Are you alright?" She asks, and Mili shakes her head.

"what happened?" Mili manages to ask as she cautiously touches the bandage on the burns, only for Pirila to bat her hand away.

"Don't touch that, let it heal." Pirila says, sighing. "I think we need to replace the bandages again."

"...did something attack again?" Mili asks as she slowly sits up, cautiously reaching up to touch the bandages around her eye.

"Something like that." Pirila says. She wasn't going to share the details with Mili, best not to worry her. Nothing had attacked [i]her[/i] in her sleep before, only others. Sighing, she pulls a smaller box out from underneath Mili's bed and sets it down next to Mili.

"you're going to replace them now? what about the people downstairs?" Mili asks as Pirila opens the box and pulls out a bunch of bandages. These had been blessed by a passing mage a while ago, and Pirila had taken the opportunity to store a bunch for later use.

"Yeah. They might get nightmares but that's not a big deal if it means no more attacks, right?" Pirila responds as she removes the bandages from Mili's head, unveiling the pitch-black eye that had hidden beneath it. Pirila shudders as a chill goes down her spine - a feeling everyone else in the building gets to feel as well as they too get cursed with terrible nightmares for a week by the temporarily-uncovered eye - before starting to reapply the bandages.

"Don't you think we should've had it removed when [i]she[/i] offered to remove it?" Mili says as she tries to stop herself from trembling as Pirila reapplied the bandages. She was scared of the blessed bandages even though she knew they wouldn't harm her, and the pain coming from her neck wasn't helping her in the slightest.

Pirila groans as Mili mentions removing her eye. A while ago a girl had showed up offering to safely remove Mili's eye, but Pirila passed on the offer because it was suspicious. How did the girl know Mili's eye was causing trouble, and why was she so willing to take an item that could summon terrible creatures?

"We're not letting someone take your eye, Mili. If we're having it removed, we're letting it get removed by someone who will destroy it, not someone who will take it with them for dubious purposes." Pirila says, to which Mili responds simply by sighing.

Soon, Pirila finishes applying the bandages. Smiling faintly, she pats the younger girl on the head. "There, that should help!" She says as she pulls Mili out of her bed. "Let's go eat something, we'll see about doing something about that burn afterwards, can't really do anything right now."