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[Well it had been a lot of hard work but she finally managed to get this thing working even in her arms were basically pinned to the wall, so people were not getting much of a view. Minako didn't even know if she had it on voice or video or what really? But hey she was going to speak and see what happens.]

Hey so... There has been a bit of a situation and I may need a tiny bit of help.

[Considering the only view people are going to see was a brief glace at Minako and the fact she was pinned with something and unable to move too much and when t turns whatever was in front of her.]

So Vira kinda... killed those... giant creatures and this happened.

[Okay maybe that was not the best way to explain her situation. But as she moves to try and get out Vira in her beast form may be seen.]

So I need help getting out and also to knock sense back into Vira and hopefully get her back to normal. She won't hurt me, so please don't worry about that. I think she'd most likely try and hurt people trying to get me, but still... Help is very much needed.

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the head whipped, lips pulling back. There was a snarl at the mention of Minako's name. What about Minako? Was she here to take Minako away?!? She looked ready to lunge for all of a few seconds before suddenly stopping. No... This was Luz. Luz had been here before hadn't she? She was her friend. She wouldn't want to hurt...

There was a twitch and the lips receded again, the creature trying to clearly think its way through something. It was looking at its hands, flexing its fingers, before it pointed. Across the way, on the kitchen table, was a mason jar of something. It looked like glowing pink water, the light from the lunar orb filtering down on it.

No, Luz wasn't going to go and try to take Minako back. That was a one-way ticket to not being trusted, and anyway, Luz wanted her friend back too, thanks. She didn't love that Vira was barely able to keep herself cognizant and wanted to help her however she could.

Luz was trying to think of a plan when she saw that Vira seemed to be urging her toward a jar. She walked over to the jar and observed the pink water, watching it for a moment before gazing back up and corrupted Vira.

"Do you need this jar? Are you going to drink the water?"

The water, having been acquired when she and Iroh had bathed over at the salt lake, was uniquely useful right about now. After all, with the moon at full all of the month, it was potent the whole time. It might have been one of the only cures that could do the work of helping to heal her without involving the Lunarium, which was dangerous right about this moment.

Vira-Lorr glared balefully, seeming to think about what was being said. Luz was offering to get it. It was her property. That meant it was safe. These were things she could focus on. After a moment, the creature nodded its head, just once. If she would bring the jar over, it would drink. Maybe its head would clear a little, be able to think through this fog of confusion.

Luz watched the creature with curiosity. Was this what it was like when Luz had been corrupted? A creature that was creature but also somehow imbued with point where they were a fraction of themselves, and that fraction did its best to try and find help through all of the mess and the darkness? Luz still didn't know all the details of what happened that day,

But she did have nightmares about it.

That being the case, Luz reached over and carefully nabbed the mason jar, slowly taking it over to the creature and taking the top off. Now Luz was getting dangerously close to Vira Lorr's beast, edging closer and closer.

"All right. Take it slowly."

She hoped Vira understood.

It was drastically similar. There was some of Vira-Lorr in there, the part that specifically wanted to protect certain people, Minako being chief among them. Focusing on that was incredibly helpful in bringing the part out. The monstrous side was possessive and territorial, which melded cleanly and awfully in destructive fashion, but even in this state there was some part of her for now. She just had to be purified before it was too late.

The clawed hand looked ready to strike, but instead it managed to coldly reach out, clutching the jar and setting it down. Watching a xenomorph's second mouth shooting out into a mason jar to drink strange pink liquid was probably one of the stranger visuals that would haunt Vira-Lorr's dreams, but it happened all the same. After the first gulp, the only obvious change was that the tail's motion seemed to look almost more cat-like, waving back and forth lazily instead of angrily.

Luz watched quietly, her staff lax at her side. It hurt, if she were honest, to see friends she knew corrupted. It was the result of Trench's cruelty or someone in so much pain that they had no choice but to let that monster out, no thanks to the blood magic in this place. Luz recalled that Ms. Sodder had once seemed eager to help out Sleepers, who had done what they could to free her daughter.

In these moments, Luz wondered if there was ever not a moment of malice in their repayment and their choices.

But there was no point in thinking about that, not when her friends needed her help. She couldn't help but try and move Vira out of this state, to face the reality that Vira was, in her corrupted stare, a being that most would have run screaming from. This was a strange fate, but Luz knew there was nothing in Trench that guaranteed a coherent explanation.

So she watched her drink, and offered her a quiet thought.

Minkao will be waiting for you after this. I know you wanted to protect her. You care so much, Vira. You might not see that you're becoming oppressive, but that can happen to anyone. Just remember: your girl, she cares so much about you, and you'll hopefully see her soon.

In this case, it was a sort of perverse side effect of the focus on 'hope' that the agents of this particular Pthumerian had. In her paranoia to protect someone, she'd become the monster she was trying to protect from. But right now, her head lunged down, carefully taking one drink after another.

She got about halfway into it when her clawed hand started to shake and moved to press to the floor. there was a twisted, crackling sound. Her tail dropped, crackling and turning to nothing but black powder behind her, vile black powder. The talons broke off and she was panting, twisting as parts of her started to shift. It was visibly disturbing and she seemed to be waiting so as not to spill the rest of the fluid.

Oh. Oh no. She hadn't thought it was going to happen like this. Luz thought she might be sick, but she forced herself to stare on. Vira would need help recovering after all of this, and she imagined there had to be some pain behind it. Would Vira leave Luz somewhere to deal with her corruption by herself? No, she had visited Luz afterward.

So how could Luz look away?

She swallowed and moved closer, trying to offer Vira support even as her skin still felt cold at seeing this painful looking transition happening to Vira.

The good news of the process was that the pieces falling away were the bigger chitinous plates, the ones that stuck out. The rest? It started to shift, to mold a little. As the fingers gripped the floor, Vira-Lorr's arms resolved, and the plate fell away from her forehead, hair spilling out again. She was somewhere 'between, but fingers could shakily take the mason jar and bring it to her lips.

As she started to drink more quickly, the transformation was happening faster and, while she seemed distressed? She didn't seem in pain. The lake's water helped with that. But... uh... maybe run and grab her something to put on before she was finished. That seemed like a good idea, because her arms were very pale.

Luz was right by her side, despite the danger, hands ready to help her with the jar if it was going to fall from Vira's hands. It was at least starting to occur faster now that she had taken the concoction, but clearly Vira would need help.

Oh. OH. Luz was already quickly looking around, red in the face but determined not to feel like she was abandoning her friend. Luckily she didn't have to go far: she spotted a robe and made a grab for it before coming back to Vira and wrapping it around her.

She was grateful to pull it close as the last of those disturbing snakings of the inside mouth became her tongue, natural and red. She drank the last of it and completely covered her body with the cloak, closing her eyes and breathing heavily.

"Luz... I... need to rest a moment. Please, check to make sure Minako's alright, would you? I think she is, but I don't have a lot of strength right now."

(OOC: That part can be handwaved easily enough since 3-person threads can be difficult to keep up for everyone. Feel free to jump forward a little if you like.)

"To rest? Ok. I'll go run a check on Minako and free her if she's in restraints, but I'm coming for you afterward, ok?"

With that, Luz immediately left to find Minako and make sure she knew she could be free and move around again.

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Once some time had past, Luz had turned back to find Vira Lorr. She was sure her friend was suffering a bit and would need some assistance, and then she'd have to fill her in.

"Vira?"

By the time that she returned, the robe was affixed rather than simply draped. The chord was tied, and she was hovering over a mostly emptied mason jar of pink fluid, her eyes hooded and her body shaking a little. There were no visible signs of corruption, no wounds or cracks, but she looked exhausted.

"I ... didn't hurt you, did I Luz? She's alright, right? Please tell me you're both ok..."

Luz was already at Vira's side, slowly stroking her back.

"We're both fine, Vira. It's you that we need to worry about. You look so tired and weakened, like I was when I was corrupted. Let me help you to get some rest. Once Minako's up to it, I'll leave you to her care. Just take things slow."

She relaxed a little into the touches and sighed, as if losing a lot of strength in her limbs. She was just collapsing a bit onto the couch, into a state of exhaustion, which she really needed to do at this point. "I'm... glad you were able to talk me down. I'm just glad for that. I'm weak now, but I think it will be ok. I'm going to avoid those butterflies until they're gone. It's not safe for me."

"No, of course not. You should totally stay away from those things."

She let go of Vira so she could sink into the couch.

"Trust me, been there! It's going to take a while to recover. But I'll try and clean up for you before I go, and then Minako can look in on you, ok?"

"Well, I shouldn't even try to be the one rescuing or pulling people away. It seems that it breeds a paranoia that's a festering ground for corruption." She shook her head and sighed softly. "Inside, I won't be going crazy. You don't need to clean up, you know. I appreciate it, but you've already done so much for us."

"Vira, you were probably doing that all the time in Deerington. You probably couldn't help falling back into that role, and maybe with this new blood, it found a way to get distorted. We just need to find a way around it."

Luz scoffed. "And I'll do more, so don't worry about it. If it bothers you, just say that I'm paying you back the favor you did for ME."

"Mmmm, oh that's almost exactly what it is. And this situation is just ... not good for me. If they re-appear down the road, we'll have to play things carefully." A shake of her head and she smiled. "Mmmm, but cleaning up for me is payback? Heh... yes, I think I'll allow that. That seems a fitting punishment. To make me sit here and watch you do what I think I should be doing instead."

Because that kind of weird backwards punishment did feel oddly appropriate, especially since nobody was dead.

"I understand. We can talk about what happened, and what you remember so we'll have a better plan to tackle it later. I'm just glad you didn't go full hog and attack me."

Which meant that there was a certain degree of monster one could and could not be.

Now Luz was just going to give you a stare. "Vira, this is because I want to help you. You've been through enough today, I'm not having you clean up after something you couldn't help! Just wrap yourself in a blanket and recover with your girlfriend, ok?"

"Something that is probably best remembered for the future is that, as long as there's someone I want to protect? I will do just that, so the cautious approach seems best." Though she shuddered to think what might happen if she didn't have a person to protect.

She smiled over at her friend mildly, or as mildly as she could manage and nodded. "I know... I know... old habits die hard, Luz. Thank you... for everything," she said as she bundled herself more tightly.

"I know what you mean. Actually, Reaper was like that too, when he was corrupted. Unfortunately, he was also pretty vicious when he doesn't have any moral scruples, so I'm hoping that doesn't happen in the future."

In other words, both of them could be pretty dangerous without something to protect.

"Trust me Vira, I understand. You don't have thank me. I love both of you guys."

Luz was already sweeping and humming to herself, because that had been a pretty jarring situation and she sure was glad it was over!

"If you took any of his scruples away, he's exceptionally deadly," she admitted readily. The very idea was horrifying actually, and talking him down extremely hard to do. "Even with someone to protect."

She smiled at her, the blanket curling tight as she finally started to relax. Things weren't good, but they were safe now, and that was what mattered.

"I don't doubt that! He seems like one of the scariest people if you ever wanted to test him. It's why I don't!"

Also it was because Luz was not one to try an adult usually, but still.

"Do you need some tea, Vira?"

She smiled oh so knowingly. there were a few stories from the old days she wasn't sharing today. He'd moved past those times, after all. She'd let him do the telling if he was going to. The mention of tea made her lips smack and she nodded once.

"Tea... would be nice. Salt water is usually not good for making you less thirsty."

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