I'm just trying to exist.

Adria beamed at the warmth that always seemed to come from Fawna, snuggling back as best she could, “I know angel. But our hands are being forced. We should evacuate the city now. Before it becomes an emergency. Get everyone out before all Hell breaks loose around us.” She caught Fawna’s eye behind the glasses, “Including you. A war isn’t a place for you.”

“Is Aries the only one who can make a flame job like this? What about that young one,” She floundered for a name, “Alana or something. What about other memebers that have kept to themselves?” She took another puff of her cigarette.

“You’re really willing to raise a kid in this?”

“The ankle biter was going to have to do this eventually, Libs. Wether we like it or not. Poor or great timing. Just because it’s sooner rather than later and not how we might have wanted doesn’t mean we can’t make it work. Angel’s a tough little cookie,” she offered the cigarette to her comrade, “I couldn’t get a read. I was focused….on other things.”

“Well.. maybe you can make her listen to you. And not through going out and trying to fight the Shadow Society by yourself,” Bella said, walking over to her. “Have you ever told her how all of this makes you feel? The shutting you down, the not listening?”

Bella couldn’t tell what was going through the villain’s mind. Which was a little disheartening but hey, she’d made it out of tougher scrapes than this. She stayed quiet at first, figuring there wasn’t much more she could say that would change her mind. Then she added: “It’d be way more satisfying to try to kill each other at our full strength.” 

“Don’t worry you can trust me.” She said to the little girl softly, doing her best not to spook her. “Capturing somebody is just horrible, even worse when they do it to a child, it really makes my blood boil.” She said following her into the kitchen. “With keeping her secret?”

“No, I can’t say that it would be a nice thing for anything to be stuck in somebodies hair like that. Maybe I should lay off on the gel.” He replied patting his hair just a bit. “Well that’s a good thing to hear. Sorry I sounded a bit cranky, haven’t had coffee.”

Bella grimaced. This wasn’t how this was supposed to go. “Uh… I think you’re skipping a few steps there,” she said, hoping to persuade the young hero to not go quite that far so quickly. “Why not start with just talking to Liberty?”

If it was anyone else grabbing her by her throat, Bella would struggle to deny being attracted to them. She, however, wasn’t hard to deny at all. “That was barely a brawl - where’s the fun in killing me after something like that?” she reasoned. “We know there’s gonna be a big battle between the Heroes Union and the Shadow Society at some point, anyways. If we’re going to try to kill each other, let’s at least make it a spectacle.”

The blonde pursed her lips at the others words, it was indeed a thought to entertain and it was something that she did agree with “And yet, if I killed you now, that could start the fireworks into the greater spectacle?” she wondered, keeping her grip on the others throat. “But I suppose having others watch you die...” she mused.

Thana let out a sigh. “Maybe. I’m just…” Thana started to say. She was curled in on herself at this point, anxiety running rampant. “I think I’m gonna go to my room. I need materials. And some divine intervention. And maybe more candles than I know what to do with.” She said. 

Liberty offered a tight smile, since the panic was clear in her own eyes and yet there she was trying to tell Thana that everything was going to be okay and not to be worried about. “Maybe we are all just getting ahead of ourselves?” she tried, before looking down “Of course I can understand that, but as always you know that my door is open if you ever need or want to talk.”