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Ikigai · 11-26-2021, 02:47 AM

Never in all of her days had Princess Ikigai felt such pain, nor imagined that such pain could exist. She was able to do little more than sob and hold onto her throbbing skull. It felt as though the crystals were already pushing back out of her body. She knew that she needed to move and Kotori urged her to do so, but she just couldn't move. Not yet. She was too weak. Her muscles were soft as leaves from being locked in place for so long. Kotori demanded that she get up, a little roughly, too. She wouldn't hold that against him. He was infected as well.

Ikigai tried to rise, planting snow dipped paws beneath her lithe frame. Her limbs quivered and shook and, in the end, she collapsed to the ground once more. As she did so, some of the broken crystals cut into the softer flesh of her forelegs, drawing a hiss from the young fae. The cuts instantly welled with rich magenta. Had her very blood turned into the putrid pink ooze? Ikigai turned red rimmed eyes up to the Fatalis boy and spoke, "Help me into the water, Kotori." It was a command just as much as he had commanded her. There was still a bit of royal strength within the girl, it seemed.

As Kotori came near, she leaned into him, allowing his much larger frame to hold her up as she limped her way into the running stream. Claret ran down her usually pristine white fur, muddying the waters and turning them just as pink. Thankfully the stream wasn't deep, for the princess's strength soon gave out and she collapsed onto her stomach in the water, pulling yet another gasp from her. The warmth of the water that flowed down from the hot springs seemed to be soothing her aching muscles, however. Though her head still throbbed, Iki slowly worked the water over her body, trying to rid it of as much as the clinging ooze as she could. Perhaps the sulfuric waters of the hot springs would do something about the growing crystals that pushed from her wounded flesh.

| "Tanuki" | "Ikigai" | "Willa" |

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