As the door opens, Diana tries to slide under Alexei towards Bride, failing in the end. "Leave me through! Leave me through! I want to see her!!!" she shouts, trying to push Alexei, again, failing. With tears in her eyes and a scared pose, remains behind, taking a seat on one of the chair. Pulling out a purple-ish rock out of her pockets, she toys with it between her fingers, and watches carefuly at it, periodically trying to make visual contact with Bride. She silently whispers to herself: ...I wish you were here...if only I had the strenght to help...if only- if only I could..." and crying in the background.
"Oh... Oh thank goodness..." Mark says relieved that his Girlfriend won't need another body. He goes to hug her, but stops himself due to what she just went through. Anger starts to build in his chest and tears start welling up on his face. "Bride... What the hell is wrong with you? Why did you do... THAT!?" He says, pointing at where they found her. "Do you have any idea how much you scared me? Don't do that again... Please." Seline collapses to her knees. "Oh thank God... Jesus woman, Don't make my heart do that ever again..." She says, out of breath.
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"I'm sorry, everyone.. It's just.. that ever since the whole incident with that Devourer guy.. I've felt like a drag on everyone, making things worse.. I just.. It's just that.. when he shut me off.. I.. I couldn't deal with the overflowing anger.. sadness.. depression... I.." She says, feeling Mark hug her. "I'm sorry Mark... I won't... I... I love you.. Don't hate me for this.. please." she says, holding him tight, sobbing madly into his clothing.
Alexei looks to Nodoka, noticing bride's voice. "Is she okay?" he asks. "Yes.. Who was that you were arguing with earlier?" Nodoka asks. "Aaliyah, she's late, but here." Alexei answers.
Nodoka leans over to see Diana. "She's alive and conscious, but I want to give her some breathing room - give me a moment to let her collect herself and you can see her." Nodoka says to Diana.
"Phew...oh god...its good to hear." she says after standing up, and looking at Nodoka.
Diana whispers at Nodoka's ear, afraid that no one else would hear, not to panic Bride. There is something off. Here,
and in the Omicrons. Too quiet." . She then takes distance from Nodoka slowly, taking a seat on the chair again, with wide scared yes, still holding her head on , as she seemed to have a massive headache.
He holds her gently, trying his best not to hurt her. "Hey, hey... It's ok... Who said you've been dragging us huh? trust me babe, me, Seline, Alberts, Noel... hell even Birdie values you Bride..." He talks to her softly, he sighs, as the adrenaline wears off he starts to feel exhausted. "I'm not gonna say I'm not angry with you... 'cause after that, yeah I'm a little mad... But I still love you Bride, that's not going to change. Next time you feel anywhere near like this... Just... Talk with us, ok? We're here for you."
Birdie has been walking to where everyone is, terrified of what she might see, but she continues nonetheless, she has to see for herself what just happened. once she reaches the group she goes to talk with Alexei "Um... Is Bride... Ok? I mean... Please don't be dead..."
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"Even birdbrain..?" Bride says to Mark, joking a little about Birdie.
Alexei turns to Birdie and nods, kneeling down slightly to her. "She's okay from the looks of it, Babushka." He turns his head to the doorway, seeing Mark talking to her. "If you wish, you can see her. Just give her breathing room, da?" He then turns around to face Diana. "Give her a bit to breathe and you can see her as well, I think everyone needs to talk to her for a moment, get her head on right."
Honya proceeds to grasp her "sister" tightly, hugging her. "Please don't do that again.. I love you, Bride-nee-chan.. I don't want you to die.." she sobs into her shoulder,
Nodoka steps aside for a moment to speak with Diana. She takes her aside into a small room on the other side of the lobby. "What do you have to report?" She says to her, curious about what she encountered in the deeper Omicrons.
Diana follows Nodoka into the smaller room, trying to smile as much as possible, but the current situation was too challenging.
You might be angry but...I visited Omicron Iota. A nomad I knew very well led to a weird station, I did not dock or something. I just watched from afar, and then ran away horrified by what I have seen." she says, speaking with a very concerned voice. Grabbing Nodoka's hand gently, watching her with piercing eyes. I have seen a station, build by humans, covered in rocks...with drydocks! But those had huge ships, Marduks...and gunboats.
And then...I saw it. The Ish'Tar. The very same one. All slowly glowing...- I am scared, Noddy.. Just as she finishes the sentence, the massive headache returns, accompained by dizziness; something was clearly wrong, but she tried to ignore the symptoms, however unable to keep her focus on Nodoka's eyes and started looking left and right for a few seconds. ...Ehh...lets focus on Bride's condition.
She's more important. Brought a few chips along the way, they're in my ship. she says, trying to smile while leaning her eyes towards the window in the vague, odd space, where the a small portion seems rather distorted, but hardly noticeable.
Mark places his back to the wall, and places a hand to his forehead because of a slowly forming headache from the stress. "Yeah babe, even Birdie..." As he's saying this Birdie comes into the room with clenched fists. "Song... Do something like this again and I'll have Cassiopeia replace Mercury with you on the Erlanger! Got that? Don't... Just..." She starts crying and goes to join Honya in hugging Bride, but is stopped by Mark. "Ok short stuff, let's not crowd the drowning victim ok? Trust me, I get it... But that's not really the brightest idea Birdie."
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Bride shakes her head and lightly pushes Honya aside. "No Mark.. I'm fine. She needs it as much as I do - to let the past die.. I need to learn to better appreciate those around me, as well as what they think of me... as well as keep my emotions under control.. Come here, Birdbrain." She says to birdie, holding her arms out to her.
"Ish'tar..... Was that the gigantic capital-type I saw back in October?" Nodoka asks, only to then notice Diana's weakness. "Di.. Do you need to get to the infirmary?" She looks away to Bride to a second, and back to Diana. "Bride seems to be okay - I can tell them to get you some attention."
"Yes, THAT one. I don't like it.
It looked slightly different, but the emotions of hate remained..." . She looks leans towards the window, looking at the void of the space with sadness. "You know...I heard stories on Manhattan about the Omicrons...but never thought about the unforgiving life, how tough it is to survive here. I really want to help, but when I look in the void, when I look at people I could help...but I am just as useless as a pile of garbage. Even at this time, I flinch on my legs only for a headache that may or not be because of being too close to the mass of Marduks., but when I look at Bride...should I consider myself lucky? Or cursed?" she says, grabbing the purple-ish shard from her pocket as it starts glowing in a multitude of colors, and then having a slight smile as she mobes it around her fingers. "Give this to Bride if you can, its nothing infectious, its just a shard that reacts to the envrimomental conditions. I use it as an entertaintment toy but I guess Bride could use something to relax with..." she says while giving the shard to Nodoka, gently handing it on her hand.
Diana loses her balance for a second, and then uses the wall to coordinate, crouching in the end near a metalic box using her hands as pillows."I need some rest...its been a long,
long day...-" . Diana didn't finish her phrase well, and simply lets her head fall on her arms, slowly getting a blank stare, reducing her breathing rate almost to none, like in some deep sleeping or stasis.