Lauren’s hand closed around hers, and Aedrianna held on.

Her eyes frantically searched for Noelle, but what they found was the blood she could see trailing from Lauren’s side. Noelle’s torn kimono, Yume’s limp tumble, Yumi’s broken weapon and battered body. The man that had been blasted apart like sand. The strangely blue grey man shouting up at them, and now coughing up blue blood. Aedrianna’s throat tightened as the strange curtain swallowed them and the violent pull vanished. The fall became slow. Dreamlike. Almost merciful.

“I’m sorry,” she breathed, though the words were nearly lost in the vastness below.

Then she squeezed Lauren’s hand tighter and shut her eyes. A slow breath filled her lungs.

Then another.

The panic that had gripped her earlier gradually loosened its hold as she forced herself to focus. Soft golden light began gathering around her fingers where they remained wrapped around Lauren's hand. The glow spread gradually outward, flowing across her skin like warm sunlight through water. Pale blue and gold mana drifted away from her in gentle ribbons, carried through the air toward the wounded figures nearby.

The light sought Lauren first.

Then Noelle.

Then Yume and Yumi.

Michael.

Shael.

Anyone she could reach.

A faint hum escaped her lips. Barely audible, more instinct than song.The mana answered.

The light spread outward through the cavern as healing laurora blossomed around the drifting group, gentle and steady where her earlier magic had been wild and uncontrolled.


[b]Actions:[/b]
1. Take Laurens Hand
2. [Healing Light] - [Magic] C, [Affinity: Light] F, [Magic AoE] D, [Healing] C - Character hums a hymn that spreads light up to 500 feet around them and casts healing magic on anything within the light. (Grade C, 3 Post Cool Down)