Letting a sigh go, Duin rolled his shoulders as he stood there. Thankful that she respected his request and didn't push the matter. Maybe when they weren't in a dangerous place, he'd explain that request. Still though...he had to figure this out. Taking a deep breathe, he tried to stir that fire to release it. He could feel it in there....it was there.  IT WAS IN THERE!!! But as he tried once more, he only coughed and sputtered out smoke.

"AAAAH I DON'T GET IT!!! I CAN FEEL IT IN THERE!!!" Duin yelled furiously, grabbing his hair and pulling slightly.

The smoke rolled out of his mouth in his displeasure. He was getting there just needed more push.
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“They’re...they’re already up there...” Eldrin stammered out. “ I I don’t know which way they entered it from..”

The werewolf spell caster didn’t know what to do. Course he was soon going to get roped further into the mess.

“I understand it just...makes me uneasy..” John explained.

They had been given away? John tugged at his shirt collar, feeling a tightness in his chest as he stood there. Now they were lost?

“So they’re just.... gone now?” John asked with a nervous glance. “It was in the brown paper bag with what I was wearing when I was brought into hospital. I don’t...”

He paused before he let out a long sigh, glancing away.

“I don’t remember where they came from before that.” John added.

Greeting ready for dinner had been... nerve wrecking. His stomach growled but truthfully he didn’t know if anything was going to stay down for more than a hour. Letting the sigh go, he tried to not dwell on it.

The food looked nice, smelled nice as well. He felt worse due to his doubts on being able to really stomach it. He was trying not to show it as David decided to do a toast. Sitting there, he blinked in confusion. How was he so sure...that...that he was this Johnathan? What if he wasn’t and the real one was out there?!

A few blinks left him before he gripped his glass of water. Hand shaking as he struggled with his words. Did he stand? Did...was he suppose to do a toast back?

“I...” John stammered as he glanced to David, trying to force his nervousness away. “I j....just...”

He had to say something right? Right?! His grip on the glass increased as he held it up slightly.

CRACK!!!!

The sound hit everyone’s ears first followed by John feeling cold water rush down his hand as well as...what...was that? The glass shattered in his grasp, breaking into several pieces that clattered to the table closest to him. His face paled greatly as he sat there, a dull sense of pain in his hand; it was mostly drowned out by the pain of his stomach

“I...I didn’t...” John stammered before grabbing his napkin and started to pick up the shards of glass.

Slamming onto the ground, Sirus let out a growl as he started to get up but he felt the hand around his neck. Making him have to take in what air he could in rasps. Sirus grabbed at the hand around his throat, trying to pry it open with all his might. He also raised a foot to put it against the Captain's chest, trying to keep the man a little away from him as he saw that clawed hand raise. Then..she intervened once more.

A protective instict kicked in. Causing Sirus to forgo trying to get the captain's hand off his throat and do something else. With his claws extend and sharp, Sirus attempted to push himself up and tried to rake his claws at the Captain's eye. If he could hit him around there or even take out that eye, he'd be able to get lose and they could make a run for it.

“There’s...not much on Wolf. Woodsman knows him better, they were once friends.” Yohan explained. “As for mine, I made a deal with a demon and I failed my end. I was suppose to follow specific instructions for seven years but I broke...I couldn’t handle it anymore.”

Keeping his hands together, Yohan took a deep breath in and slowly released it.

“Let’s focus on Woodsman, Wolf, and you Rapenzul. I know we have ideas on how to help you and our friend in the dungeons. But you two are on a time crunch....I can handle having fits and put up with them.” Yohan adds as he glances to Rapunzel, his gaze returns to Rose. “Do you want to try to talk to Woodsman? Or should we go looking for Wolf?”

There was no way he was going to Red Ridinghood. So he wasn’t gonna mention her.

(I thought I uploaded the start of this here but clearly I didn't)
Day 1 here and we have wiltumil giving a friendly warm greeting in this cold month. A warlock half elf for The Mother of Winter Blessings; a deity I made up for the dndecember universe these characters are in

"Ah...i...i see." Goldstone replied, weakly smiling though he quickly lost that smile as he felt the pain register.

It took him a few minutes to realize what was said next, causing him to stir again. A few blinks left him as he tried to figure out the answer to her words.

"Medicine doesn't....feel like it's doing anything...hurts the most in one spot.." Goldstone answered. "P..probably due to....all the vital stuff in that area..maybe..I don't know.."

She was...great?

"Oh?" Kurt replied, tilting his head.

Kurt stayed quiet as Vex spoke of the fight, her feelings on it, how she described it, and how animated she became as she waved her hands about. Even seeming to do small reenactments of the fight; thankfully the parts that didn't involve throwing or destruction causing. His smile remained but it was more for Vex than the joy of getting the sample. It was rare to see her like this. So alive in the happy way, excited and eager. He had seem her get excited in a fight when the two of them were wrapped up in that mess that helped them become friends, but this was outside of a fight. These were her feelings that were still going strong. It was nice to see. It showed she was happy.

"Well I'm sure that the city will understand that stopping a out of control, virus controled supernatural is much more important than damage control." Kurt said with a nod."Vex, it's all good. I'm happy that you're still overjoyed, nothing is wrong with that."

Pondering for a moment, he shrugged when she mentioned the news. The news could blow it up or try to paint Vex in the negative, hard to say. The news did what it wanted for views or what they were paid to do; often those went hand in hand. Ignore the important issues....focus on the minuet things. Kurt chuckled as she gave him warnings on equipment he had used before.

"Thank you for the warnings." Kurt said, his smile growing. "Thank you for bringing it here, I promise it won't get turned into a weapon. HOpefully it can be turned into a cure for whatever is happening out there.

Kurt studied it with his eyes, keeping his hands away from it. Well, he didn't quite know how well this would go. The sample would have to last through several tests, hopefully they'd get answers. Even hints would be nice but real answers was much more desirable.

"Alright, well I should get to work on this as swiftly as I can. Plus I'm sure you still want to ride this energy high you got going." Kurt added, chuckling. "I just need to finish a few things and I'll be straight to work on this."

Kurt was planning on pulling a alnighter if he could. After all, this was more important...they needed to get answers and this was the chance. After all....what if he lost his friend to this? That wasn't what he wanted.

The day seemed to pass quickly, Kurt had kept to his desire. Working on this one thing for as much time as he could. Some tests would take all day to do, so he started those ones first. Letting the sample be whirled around in a solution that was trying to dissect it. The lab had shut down by now, a dark cold night was what everything looked on the outside. The main room that Kurt kept himself to was lit with a annoying bulb, it liked to flicker and at night, it was worse. He wasn't sure why that was. So hearing the fuzzy bzzzt ring out, he sighed and set his equipment down.

Removing his gloves, he tossed them in the biohazard wastebin and pulled out step ladder. Grabbing the oven mit he used to fix the bulb, he set to work on making sure the thing was fine. It's bzzzt stopped going off and he let out a sigh.

"Alright. Now I can keep working." Kurt muttered as he got down, returning the step ladder and mit to their place.