[center][h3][color=8dc73f]Kryss[/color][/h3]
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Kryss wasn't sure if he actually believed her, she was just happy to see he was backing off the issue. Breathing a sigh of relief she took a the offered bandages and carefully lowered her hands until they were over her midsection. She tried to slow her racing heartbeat and manage the pain but both tasks proved very difficult.

[color=8dc73f]"Th-thank you. Gonna be fine. Just a scratch."[/color]

[i]Not a scratch at all, I hope he didn't hit anything serious. Teacher said I have a lot of blood vessels and delicate parts in my wings just like any bird. It feels like it's bleeding a lot, and it hurts so bad. Can I even wrap the wound up with simple bandages? But I just need to keep it hidden and not move it around. If I can just bear with it, we have to be close to the girl by now. Not much longer.[/i]

Just as she was getting used to the idea that she had everything under control, or at least well enough, the tall, older boy with a scary look on his face came right up to her and shattered that illusion. She felt her heart drop as he called her right out on both her wings and her wound. He claimed he didn't care but was that even true, or if it was would it stay true once they got back to the surface. Terrified of this boy and the fact that he also had seen Kryss fell back on hastily lying. She could think of no other way to protect herself.

[color=8dc73f]"But-but it was just an accident, and he [i]did[/i] just graze me. I'm totally fine! And just a girl! You m-must have gotten confused in the dark, you see I came down here on a leafy vine. That's what you must have thought were wings. See?"[/color] She put her arms out to her side and turned mostly around to show her back, unable to help but grimace at the pain again though she managed not to cry out this time. [color=8dc73f]"No wings! N-now, shouldn't we be hurrying? That girl needs help more than I do."[/color] She took the opportunity to call back to Rags in mock cheer when she called out, asking if everything was ok. [color=8dc73f]"Yes of course! Everything is fine![/color]

She forced a smile and looked into Sieg's eyes, trying to tell if her fabrication was being bought. She didn't think about how the faint, shifting light of the force field or the flickering fire might betray the shine in her eyes. She was distracted by what he had said about the predators targeting her. Ascending the Abyss years ago she had been incredibly lucky to not get seriously injured to the point of drawing undue attention from those creatures attuned to the smell of blood. They may only be on the first level now but she had already been attacked here once without bleeding all over the place. Now she might actually be putting them in danger, and when she started climbing back up again...

She didn't know what to do, all she knew was that she had to hide what she really was. There would be no going back if she didn't, it would be far too much risk.

[i]The only thing I could do would be... to go back. And I don't think I'd survive this time, not like this.[/i]