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Now Maya couldn’t hear anything, but with her great (minimal) lip reading skills she could tell that Trevor said her name and she guessed he was happy that she was perfectly alive and fine. She was a bit put out that he didn’t actually run to her but she could see the look on Meifeng’s face from over here and she totally understood. She could feel a phantom sting on her cheek at the thought of crossing her. She suppressed a shudder as she dusted herself off a bit, patting her ears a couple of times as if it would stop the loud ringing. She stood still as Antheia floated over to her to patch up her injuries, which while minimal were painful and she was grateful for that.

Once that was done she walked over to the group and stopped a little bit too close to Trevor, smiling brightly. Not enough to actually touch him, not in front of his boss, but she was definitely in his personal space. She was half tempted to use exhaustion from the fight as an excuse to lean on him but… no, not right now. She’d just been healed up too so she looked obviously fine.

Instead she settled from standing incredibly close, head tilted as she pretended to listen to conversation she couldn’t hear. Lyss didn’t look so good but Maximilian was helping her (when had they got so close?) which she was glad for. Loathe as she was to admit it she was beginning to get attached to the other coven members and she’d hate for them to die. More people were gathering as well and almost everyone seemed to be there and safe. 

[i]“...our relationship, as it stands, is tenuous... at best.”[/i]

Maya raised an eyebrow as her hearing came back, folding her arms as she began to [i]actually[/i] listen to what was being said. Her eyes widened further when Meifeng did the unexpected and apologised. To Lyss, mostly, which was good because she sure as shit wasn’t going to accept an apology. She had to bite her lip from saying something scathing in response. 

[quote=Cindy]"Don't mind him. He's stupid." [/quote]

“Hey, he’s not stupid, he’s-” Maya cut herself off from vehemently defending her crush when the creepy eye creating guy looked towards the Ferris Wheel. She followed his gaze and felt her heart drop at what she saw, even though she didn’t know why. She inhaled sharply as her breathing quickened slightly and she automatically grabbed Trevor’s arm, squeezing it. So that was the Hound… she only vaguely remembered what she’d been told about it before, but she knew it was bad.

From what Meifeng said, it meant someone was dead. 

“Shit,” Maya hissed, trying to push down the unexpected horror she felt at the thought. Now wasn’t the time. She quickly went over a tally of who was there and who wasn’t before realising she didn’t have a good grip of who was still part of the Coven. She turned to Trevor and looked up at him with (slightly forced) wide eyes, still holding onto his arm. 

“I want to go look,” she said, completely ignoring that it had been an order from Meifeng (to her actual subordinates she hoped) and pretending it was something she just wanted to do. If she was honest, she didn’t want some DENS grunt to find one of the girls like that and most of the coven wasn’t in a state to help look. “But I don’t want to go alone, after everything that’s happened, will you come with me?” 

She gave him her cutest, most begging look. However she didn’t actually wait for an answer, swapping from holding his arm to grabbing his hand and physically dragging him towards where the door to the building had once been (roughly). She was fairly confident that no one was left in the building so it was either Vashti that had died when blasted out… or someone who’d tried to escape before. She bit her lip, hard, as she tried to ignore the sick feeling in her stomach. 

She didn’t know what she was hoping for by looking, but she figured near a previous exit was her best chance of finding someone.