On the ground of the dead

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Jiyu had been taking a pretty decent amount of care to avoid interacting with people since she had went to the Gardens with Leila and no that did not mean her friend had done anything. In fact? It wasn’t other people she was frightened of anymore, when she first transformed into her demon state she had been terrified of other people, but now she was frightened of herself, considering she barely remember most of the time they had spent in that realm. A good portion of the time spent fighting through that world? Was a blur as if something was actively trying to block her memories of it, as if there was something bad feeding off things that had taken place there and she could do nothing to stop it. Such a thing? Terrified her, she had control ripped from her so many times in life, just when she thought everything was under wraps it all started going mad again, and go mad it did. Shortly after she had returned to Black Rose things went haywire, lights would flicker or break in the same room as her, things would fly off shelves and general bad karma would take control of whatever area she was in. Clearly at first the mage had told herself that it was just freak accidents but as time went on she could not deny the bad things going on around her had to be linked to her, for they only happened in her presence, it terrified the wind mage. The only way to avoid hurting the people she loved? Was to stay away from them, but today that became impossible at least avoiding her best friend became impossible, Jiyu could not stop working just because something was very wrong with her magic or something.

     The time setting was less than optimal but the girl had asked her job partner’s to meet up at night in order to avoid getting innocent people caught up in what one could call the bad karma following her around. Quickly after it had started? It had spread from just breaking things that she had touched to causing mayhem all over the place and it was the reason she was rarely seen from anymore. If she did not hide herself away? Than she was going to get someone hurt, maybe even killed and the thought terrified her. It also helped that the darkness was strongest during this hour, which meant they were more likely to encounter their foe. Jiyu was scared as she walked forward though, because the bad things that happened around her seemed to increase in frequency after the sun went down, as if the darkness drew from the pitch black of night. “Leila.”

      After speaking she almost reached out to touch but she remembered she didn’t know if her bad luck as of late was contagious by touch. Due to that? She stopped short and stood a few feet behind Leila, looking sheepishly away, dressed normally expect for the cloak she had taken back to wearing so less people would recognize and approach her. The last thing Jiyu wanted was for anyone to get hurt, even if she might not be the cause of the flickering lights or breaking plates. “How are you?” she had been worrying about Leila since they left the gardens and sure she had written letters but she had no way to know if they got through because she stopped picking up her own mail, since the last time she went to pick it up all the mailboxes flew open and everything scattered to the floor.

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Since she had round about tried to briefly explain why she was isolating herself in the last letter she sent before the mail room went haywire? Jiyu did not expect Leila to rush straight forward and hug her, the Eden Mage should know it would make Jiyu far happier if she just kept herself safe from the jinx supreme taking over the dog's life! Yet Leila did not do that, instead she tried her damn best to convince the half breed that she was not alone. Briefly the hound felt sick to her stomach, and than the branch of a nearby tree fell to the ground with a loud thud. She had just arrived and already thing's were starting to go haywire and her best friend was pressing herself right up against what Jiyu deemed to be the source of everything bad going on right now. Indeed it was quiet a way to make a point on where someone stood, but it was also the quickest way to give the demoness a heart attack, so if Leila was trying to kill her best friend today, she had accomplished her goal.

Once Jiyu learned to control it, the ability to cause chaos around her could be quiet useful, but for the moment it just killed her heart beat. "Yeah my problem has seemed to have gotten worse." her words were shortly followed by a bird being crushed by a falling piece of fence. "If I had any control over whatever this is, I'd visit." but the last thing she needed to do was wreck Golden Phoenix and maybe even hurt Izayuki's husband and Leila, simply by coming for a friendly visit. "You didn't tell her about this did you Leila, you know she's just going to come after us when she realize's your gone right? That or scold you when she finds out we went on a job together." she smiled briefly, aware it was no longer her that Yuki disliked, but whatever was dwelling within her, likely the cause of this bad karma infecting the area around her.

"Sorry I would ask Maka to light the way for us, but I left her with Izayuki." she did not want to endanger her surrogate child by making the kitsune accompany her while simply being in the same area as the wind mage could become dangerous. Clearly none of this was some sort of forever solution, but it worked out well for while she struggled to gain control over whatever monster was lurking beneath her skin. Some night's? She could almost see the beast that Yuki had almost seen in the Garden's, but always she would be pulled from sleep just in time to miss it. Honestly Jiyu did not know if she was grateful or upset at the fact, while her brain was clearly trying to protect her from something, the mage was incapable of fighting she didn't know anything about. Hopefully she could find some way to discover what was going on after this mission, she didn't know how much longer she could live like this.