[center][h2][color=F0E68C]Asteria[/color][/h2][/center][hr][hr]
Asteria remained lying curled into herself on one side, trying to wait out the shaking and cramps. As the pixie cast some magic on her, she felt getting slightly stronger for a while, but the poison stubbornly persisted. [color=F0E68C]“That helps a bit,”[/color] she croaked to Oberon, then asked confusedly [color=F0E68C]“Open [i]what[/i]? Still poisoned if that’s what you mean,”[/color] she whispered, panting harshly for a while to regain strength after talking so much while in pain. Suddenly, a system message informed her of a level up. Asteria looked at the message blearily and suddenly shouted [color=F0E68C]“8 points to poison resistance!”[/color] She weakly waited to see what the effect was, though she didn’t believe that she’d be miraculously healed, but the poison might wear off after a while at least.

Jason was blathering on about something terribly inconsequential some distance away, while Edward had returned from his trip and poured some water on her acid burned stomach. Asteria groaned quietly in relief. [color=F0E68C]“Thanks, Ed,”[/color] she muttered, her voice still weak. She then lifted her gaze to the pixie in a request. [color=F0E68C]“Can you try the healing or whatever you used just at the burned area?”[/color]
 
Whether the new poison resistance skill would be helpful and in what way, she’d prefer to be fully healed. She also wanted to help the process along and so she breathed as calmly as she could, trying to relax from the way the pain managed to get her all tensed up and cramping. Then, when Oberon directed the healing and/or shield spell at her abdomen, she would focus on how it felt on her fur and skin and try to feel and draw his magic inside of her body. She wanted to try mixing his magic, which already obviously worked with some sort of intent with her so-far unshaped and uncontrollable energy. Maybe she could heal herself from the [i]inside[/i] that way. Though this process required intense concentration in the face of her current suffering, she persisted. She just had to survive and when she was rid of the poison, maybe she could rest for a few minutes. But now was the time to struggle and get through this.