Riverside 19

[Gullara]

[The Lotus Gardens - Approaching]

Wenomir responds with a frown of his own. It doesn't look quite so menacing in Anika's body but he does what he can.

"...fine. Just take her to what's left of the city's leadership. She is the only prisoner we have."

If Archera follows, Wenomir will also contact Electra again.

"The battle is over. The demons withdrew, taking the Malechenar castle with them, and AMEN decided not to take any territory in the city but capture a woman named Ilpholin."

[The Lotus Gardens - Approaching]

Well, as they seemed to prefer to stand around talking waiting for the other one to do something, someone else had to take initiative around here.

The bear will attempt to first gently nudge Archera's hand with its snout and then take the cage in its jaws so it could carry it to Jezebel.

Lotus Gardens

Those looking to turn a prisoner over will find a short woman wearing a suit and black mask organizing people as they leave the Chapel. Her suit is ragged and she's gotten several cuts on her face where it is exposed, but Anna the Receptionist is very much acting in-charge at the moment. Her left arms ends in a large single daemonic claw, but it seems to be slowly reverting back into a hand.

[Lotus Gardens]

Upon arriving, Archera decides to put the first foot forward. She steps out in front of the others and addresses Anna. "Are you with the Eastside government in some way? We have a prisoner. One of the invaders."

Riverside Hospital - Pre-Invasion

What's supposed to be happening now?

Was... oh, god, that hurts.

Nigel winces, eyes curled in pain.

A boring lecture on organic chemistry - Nigel's barely paying attention, looking into a sale on phones on his tablet. Occasionally he tabs back to a mostly empty word document to type out a few notes before flicking back. Now he's arms deep in a security officer's torso, quickly and messily hacking away at the bones while a horrible worm squirms around beneath the rib-cage. An engineer and another doctor lie slumped against the wall next to him, up next to have the parasites cut out of their torso, while a maintenance worker welds the vents shut behind him. He's in a complicated lab, looking bleary eyed at a pair of rats as he administers a couple drops of liquid into their feeders. This should cure them if his theory's correct. Dragging a bloody body backwards into the medbay while franticly dosing them with medicine, throwing them quickly into a cryostasis tube and hoping he made it in time. Scolding an engineer as he stitches up his face after he got into a fight over the best way to maintain the engines. Blankly digging bullets out of what is clearly a corpse, hidden in a dark closet while gunfire sounds from outside. Looking with intense focus at a beaker suspended over a bunsen burner, watching for the slightest change in colour. Sitting in a library rereading the same page for a third time in a row. Closing a leg back up after a successful surgery. Typing up some notes on the design for a prosthetic arm. Carefully distributing the contents of a sealed beaker into six different syringes. Sprinting at a dead heat through a corridor as he rubs ointment into his scorched shoulder. Sighing as the same scientist came back for burn meds for the third time in a row. And on, and on, and on.

Riverside Hospital - Pre-Invasion

Zhareen simply watches, she did seem to have fetched a first aid kit from somewhere though (this was a hospital after all) just in case Nigel needed some help. Not that she doubted her wives expertise, Nigel might just be unusually sensitive considering that he hadn't been exposed to a lot of magic yet!

[Riverside Hospital - Pre-Invasion]

As quickly as it came the pressure begins to subside. It's only moments before it's gone completely. With his next exhale a plume of smoke comes from his mouth, and then everything is normal again. Though he might have a more normal headache after all that. "I believe that was satisfactory. You appear to be capable enough." Vax concludes. If she knows exactly what went on in Nigel's head, she doesn't seem to show it.