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[There is a pause before the girl that was in a dozen pieces begins to speak. Her voice is quiet, free of the normal conviction and bravado that she would normally have in such a situation.]

Tell me where I'm needed.

[She has no right to call the shots when this is half her fault.]

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[She's silent for a moment or two, because the rush of relief at hearing Usagi alive, and her other friends, is only increased by hearing Hitsugaya's voice, however not okay he might be. She draws in a breath, to keep her voice only barely steady. Two can play this game, see?]

I noticed. So did they.

[Aelia said so, too. What did that even mean? -- don't think about it. Focus on something else. Something asinine. Other than the fact that you've just damned the entire city and your friends are, for whatever reason, still speaking to you -- ]

-- where are you?

[Seeing him is clearly not going to help at all, but it's something to ask.]

[He's not actually sure what she means when she first speaks, but he doesn't ask. More important things and all that.]

Northwest. Near the river. [Putting it to good use.]

[The river, good. He'll be safe there.]

What else is here besides Aelia and Ekpyrosis?

[Quietly. She's seen the creatures and the footage, but nothing actually concrete has been answered yet.]

Nothing in the northwestern quadrant. [Which is where he's been this whole time. But from the air, he can see...] I don't know what they are.

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They die pretty easily, whatever they are. Basic weapons should be enough to get rid of them -- but I don't know where they're coming from.

[This she can focus on. Simple. But she has yet to see the actual witches. Only the familiars.]

[x;y], [x;y], [x;y]

[Because, yeah. They're hard to miss when you're viewing the whole city from above.]

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[Why isn't he speaking? And an uncomfortable, sudden bolt of panic goes through her, because the entire world is falling apart and he stopped talking, but then she gets the coordinates -- and she stares down at them for a moment before she abruptly switches on the video.

Excuse your best friend. She's covered in blood.]

Toushirou, show me.

[Urgently -- and she's getting up to move toward a door, of where she is staying, to shove it open with a shoulder. Fire is outside, burning and constant, but she's not afraid of it, instead scanning the horizon in the direction of the nearest set of coordinates.]

[After a moment, he does so. It's much more difficult to see the individual figures scattered about in the chaos, but you'd have to be blind not to see the three huge, spherical bubbles of energy, barriers, each pulsing erratically. Whatever is inside those, he doubts it's nice.]

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[She stares at the scene through the PCD before she looks up, through the fire and soot, eyes narrowing slightly, to focus on that feeling. The darkness, the despair, the grief -- echoing from her own being into the darkness ahead of her -- and Mars sucks in a breath, her fingers clutching the doorframe as she forces herself to focus.

Falling apart and letting the guilt take her will not fix this. She needed to think -- and suddenly, something occurs to her, and she takes another step forward, fire bursting from her fingertips to create a barrier around her, to protect her from the falling gifts of Ekpyrosis.]

The three witches.

[Faintly, a quiet whisper -- Watanuki's vision come to life.

Focus. Focus. Focus. Focus. -- but no, she slams the door shut with a vicious hiss, before fire falls into the panic room that Castiel has put her in, to let herself have the tiniest amount of panic and fury, as she kicks over a stool on her way to the back of the room, toward another entrance.]

Damn it! Damn it --

[But as quick as her outburst is, it's gone in a heartbeat, as she forces herself to get a grip, and to shove down her panic and terror, because it has no place in a warzone.]

-- we need to kill whatever they are before this city tears itself apart. You said there were none in the northwestern quarter, right? So that's our new safezone.

[Or as good as it's going to get -- and she shoves open another door to a set of stairs. An old basement to a house that's long since gone.

There's one in her sector. Time to regroup and finish this before it starts.]

[He doesn't say anything about her outburst, and the video on his end is still depicting the landscape rather than himself.]

Of course.

[She stops, at the simple agreement, before the camera lowers to the ground, to show stone stairs, leading up to a trap-door. It stays there, for a few seconds, before she speaks quietly.]

Toushirou -- I didn't --

[And she stops herself, before she grits her teeth, trying to focus on what she wants to say. Apologies are shallow when spoken. There's little point in pointing out that this was a stupid thing to do. And even less point in pitying herself when there's work to be done. But she feels compelled to say something, and before she can think on what she actually wants to say -- ]

-- don't -- please don't die.

[It practically falls out of her mouth -- not with enough energy to be a command, but with enough quiet desperation to almost be a plead.]

[He's quiet for a moment, though unsurprised that she would say something like that. She usually does. It's the way she says it that's telling. He wouldn't be surprised if many people lost their lives during this, himself and Hino included. Hino had already done so. And yet here she was, already back on her feet.

His reply is simple and just as telling as her plea.]

That would be stupid.

[Every moment spent dead is a moment of lost progress.]

[It gets a small breath of laughter, but there's absolutely no mirth involved as she presses her hand against the floorboards above her, though the PCD camera is still focused on the ground. That would be stupid. Of course he would say something so stupid in response to her equally stupid demand.]

It would be stupid.

[A quiet agreement as she pushes outward into the fire, a quick burst of flame from her hand to create an orb around her, to protect her from the blaze.]

Good thing you don't do stupid things.

[After this, should the city survive, and everyone live, Hino Rei will never say a single word against him or anyone else again.]

[He would tell her the same, but. Instead he snorts. As much as he hates it, Hino Rei's abilities will be needed for this.]

You do what you have to.

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[She almost appreciates the lack of retort. She much prefers honesty over pretending nothing stupid happened. This is her fault. So she's going to fix it.]

I will. Stay safe.

-- and thank you.

[And, with another pause, as if she's going to say something else, she cuts the feed. She needs to hunt a witch.]

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