Don't Got a Title Either (Jiyu, Private)

Continuation of this thread

There had not been much of an answer to her last comment. Well, Samira could expect that since it wasn't a real important one given the circumstances, just a minor thought. Something was still off though in how the Assertive Jiyu was reacting, which was not reacting at all. There she was, hanging there with nothing to keep her from falling inside a deep hole that led to who knew where with the only thing keeping her up being the binding around both their wrists that they had created earlier. Surely the Inugami was feeling the same pain through her wrist as Samira was with her own, and even if she wasn't a better reaction had still been expected. "Are you all right up there?" Stupid question really what with the wails and moans of whatever was up there with Assertive Jiyu, but something had to be said. With where Samira was and her predicament seeing the Inugami completely zoned out was nearly impossible. "I guess not." Damn. They really did lose whatever cover they had, had. Thinking she should be getting up there rather than staying in that hole, Samira gave a harder kick to whatever had her legs to loosen the hold before trying to grab onto the edge of the floor with her other hand so that she could pull herself up. That tactic didn't work as well as she though.

She had grabbed onto the edge successfully but while pulling herself up she was latched onto again and tugged back down. At that point she was going to have to use magic to hopefully blow the thing away, which might end up drawing more attention their way. That wasn't even going into causing damage to the castle itself and having her fall all the way. She was a human; not some floating creature. Possibly going splat at the bottom was not on her list of things to do that day. Yet that seemed to change as soon as Jiyu snapped out of whatever state she had been in, shouting that Samira would have to tell her what happened later. Interesting. The Saint should have been asking her what happened all of a sudden instead. Before she could make much of a response Assertive had allowed herself to fall right into the hole with a wide eyed Samira. She knew staying above with the many creatures up there could have been disastrous for them, but to just fall in without warning? Something could have been said as a warning! The canine-girl had been the only thing keeping her up!

It seemed Jiyu had a plan, however. She had quickly fired magic shots at the hands that held the summoner, forcing them to release her, and as the two fell a giant feather appeared to catch them and slowly took them to the bottom of the hole they fell through. As soon as they reached the bottom the summoned feather vanished, dropping them both into a room filled with a pool of blood about a foot deep. Samira grimaced as she landed in it, parts of her clothes and skin now being covered in the bodily fluid. That was hardly hygienic. "I suppose it could be worse," she thought out loud to herself as she stood up, still expressing clear disgust at having landed right into it and being covered in the blood. And yet as cliche as ever that line seemed to make things worse than they were, and no, it wasn't her contracting some disease, but if her bloodline was normal then she probably would have been infected with something from the blood. There was luck in that regard since she was highly resistant to natural causes of disease and sickness. Assuming a whole pool of blood in a haunted castle could be classified as natural. Either way, skeletons within the room began to rise around them. If they remained the two women would get swarmed. As powerful as the two were in their own right, it wasn't wise to allow that to happen period. The stuff said about the library would have to be inquired about and explained later, no matter how random bringing it up right then seemed to be. "Right. Safety first." This also left no time to heal their wrists. Bearing the pain would have to do for now. Samira took off in the only exit that she could find. If that could even be called an exit at all. It was a straight shot all the way to the end with no turns. A sort of trap as the skeletons behind them followed and even more rose from the ground in front of them.

The shrieking of something deep within the castle continued, sounding as if it got closer and closer each time Samira heard it. If the skeletons did not end them then they would end up stalling them for whatever that was to catch up. There was one thing that made things not actually be as bad as they appeared. These were skeletons. Not some ghost of specter that she could not handle properly and lacked the magic and equipment to do so. Skeletons she could handle much better and that was where the castle made its mistake with its intended trap.

"Kali. Susano." Samira called the names of two of the spirits that had shown up earlier when Assertive Jiyu was taking over Mysterious, them two being the first on her mind to quickly cut down the skeletons that were in their way. As they each took some of her magic energy in order to be combative in her realm of existence, a flashy surge of energy radiated from their summoning portals and spread to hit many of the skeletons all around. This was followed by the two celestial spirits themselves going on ahead and cutting through the infinite forming skeleton army.

"Aw, hell. Samira next time try summoning me in an area that doesn't have its floor covered in blood that I have to run through!" The swordsman spirit shouted from up ahead.
"Next time summon me when there are enemies with flesh and blood." Skeletons were not an enemy that spirit enjoyed having to waste time with. It did not bring any satisfaction at all.
"Please be sure to send me your complaints after we are through this." Samira replied in her normal calm tone. Unlike the uncertainty that dealing with ghosts brought her there was nothing to worry about when it came to the current type of enemies. She had handled worse while in her guild.

Down the long corridor the rising skeletons started to be mixed with more fleshy looking zombies. The spirits could handle those too, but it got to the point where the two girls would be ahead of them and could see a much larger creature that was pieced together by random parts of flesh and rotting gore. Ew. Samira was not about to touch that in combat. There was one other issue too. Just like the hole opening that closed as they fell, the corridor also closed off as a wall materialized right behind the large sewn together creature. This would not deter Samira at all. It was just a wall. She had some abilities to get through them, but unfortunately she was unsure if it would spread to Jiyu as well. Now was not the time to test it. She would just have to use the power of Janus again. "Keep running and do not stop." Samira told the Inugami, almost commanding when before she had never used such a tone. The circumstances had changed though and she couldn't have her companion stop by thinking they'd run right into either that large creature or the wall itself. Granted Samira was sure Jiyu could fire shots at the thing just like she had shown earlier. Or something else from range. Just as long as she kept running Samira didn't care.

As they ran Samira's clothing shifted to replicate the clock-work mechanical design of the portal spirit used while outside the castle. The spirit himself was not going to show up even if summoned while combat was going on. His excuse always being that he was "an old spirit" and therefore too old for combative situations. A silly excuse, but one she respected, especially given that she could just use his powers for herself. The summoner then did something no summoner would normally ever do; she unhooked her keyring and threw it. Normally that would be a questionable move, but for her it was just another method of attack. All of they keys slid off the ring as it hovered in the air and then formed a circle. In that position each key fired off a mini beam that created a larger and more powerful one that headed straight for the stitched up zombie monstrosity. Whether alone or with Jiyu's help with her own attack the creature would be hit and explode into smaller pieces of rotting nastiness that would make many gag to be near let alone be touched by. Once they reached the wall a quick portal was made for the girls to go through it. Samira grabbed onto Assertive Jiyu's hand to make the stronger connection like before and ran through it. On the other side she force closed the portal before even checking her surroundings. Anything there was going to be better than where they had just come from. Kali and Susano, having gotten the telepathic word that Samira was out of that corridor, returned to their realm. The keys and keyring also appeared in the summoner's grasp as she let go of Jiyu's hand.

Samira looked around while trying to catch her breath from all that running and magic usage. It looked clear enough. They were surrounded by stone walls and cages but for the most part clear. It was to be expected since they had fallen onto a lower floor. Magically being right at the library would have been silly. "It looks clear," she stated, also noting that the shrieking had changed a bit. It was still angry but sounded different. It had most likely lost track of them because of that small trick of going through the wall. Somehow she doubted it would last for long, but hopefully long enough for them to catch their breaths and for her to find out what was going on. "So, you mentioned a library. That requires a bit of an explanation."

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They were running, but the small woman was slipping back into her own head again, struggling to remember, fighting not to forget. An item like the clue she had witnessed? Tended to try protecting itself by affecting the mind of those who viewed it in an attempt to remain mostly invisible, but it could not work fully against something like her. Yet, the thing held by the doll was able to wither its energy around inside of her head, trashing things more than she had trashed them herself. Considering how screwed up her mind had been recently? That was one damn large accomplishment, she felt like slamming her head into the nearest wall, barely able to control this impulse. She needed to get it out of her head but if she did than she may forget what she'd seen! Jiyu couldn't see anyway to win this and wasn't paying attention to the masses of skeletons around them whatsoever. Right now, this place was most dangerous to her because she couldn't get back with it.

Samira ran and it the contract took its effect to make sure she stayed with the other woman, following her even if she didn't notice anything going on. Unfocused mismatched optics would water slightly, her running so clumsy that Samira was almost yanking her down the hallway, blood leaking from places she had contacted the wall or an attack had struck her. Seconds ticked by, focus unable to come to the wind user as her body sustained greater injuries during their fleeing that she was unaware they were even preforming. Jiyu's blood added to the pool they splashed up as they fled through it, towards the end of the section. Most times, she would be ready to battle so large of an opponent, but she didn't even see the beast. Heck, the wind user was lucky she felt the solid grip of Samira's hand, considering the condition of her wrist from having been yanked around so much with her frail body.

When the summoner turned around to ask about the explanation for her companions insistence on the library? Damage sustained between the doll room and now would be painfully clear. The entire side which the mage had fallen onto was black and blue, her entire hand covered in blood from her wrist and various extremely harsh scrapes still leaking blood covered her form from cheeks to feet. Jiyu hadn't even been hovering, her foot prints leaving bloody prints, though at the moment it was near impossible to tell if she had damaged her bare feet or the blood was from that puddle in the room. Not a single one of the injuries sustained seemed to bother her, hazy appearance to her mismatched eyes, teeth gritted in pain as she felt it wriggling about inside of her brain, trying to cause actual damage since mentally pushing her had not worked thus so far. The Inugami was unable to tell how long she'd be able to fight for her memory.

"The Library." she parroted herself, free hand raising to cover one of her eyes, showing the throbbing within her head, a small bit of blood leaking from her ear and the side of her mouth. "It's trying to make me forget so we can't find it, it's in the library." she coughed slightly, hand littered in blood drops from covering the action, fangs digging into her lower lip to take her focus of the energy swirling around inside of her fragile body. "The Doll, It Doesn't Want Anyone Knowing." her head shook violently back and forth, hair moving with it as she growled, taking her own claws across her forehead with a seething breath. "Move, Move, The Library." body shaking she growled again, seething out another breath, having regained herself a slight bit with the pain from her self inflicted damage being more jarring due to the energy swirled around her claws.

"That is very vague." The Saint replied while cringing inwardly and with twitching eyebrows from the mention of the doll. Of course a doll had to be behind it all for they were evil things that pretended to be cute and innocent so it came as no surprise. The explanation was still insufficient though. Just what were they supposed to find in the library? That is what she wanted to know!

Samira then noticed that assertive Jiyu had several injuries and blood was starting to come from them, the prime one being the wrist that had a lot of blood around it from being tugged around and pulled. The canine-girl was even coughing up blood! That made her feel terrible considering she had been partly responsible. The only thing on her mind was to escape that hoard of undead. It was a simple thing and for her it came without any harm coming to her. The magic from her spirits had a constant barrier around her that protected her from being injured, and because of that the only wound she had was on her wrist, caused from the binding that had tightened and pulled on her skin when she fell into that hole. Even then it was ridiculously minor when compared to Jiyu's. She had completely forgotten many others did not have that automatic protection and because of that she pulled the Inugami along without thinking or considering the harm.

"We are not going anywhere until you are healed." Samira told her, her voice shifting from the calm passive one to a more authoritative and commanding tone. Letting Jiyu carry on like that would be unreasonable and she wasn't about to drag her around in that state or worse. Sure Jiyu may have been tougher than Samira was giving her credit for but she didn't care, and with how the Inugami was talking and inflicting damage on herself there were doubts about how well even mentally she currently was anyway. Looking around, Samira spotted a stone bench against a nearby wall. Perfect. "Come on." The instruction was followed by the summoner walking over towards the bench with slow steps and gently tugging her wrist to pull Jiyu along.

Once they reached the bench, Samira would turn the Inugami around and place her hands on her shoulders while giving her a gentle push down towards the bench. It would have been a bit more easily done without their wrists still being tied together but it was what it was. "Now sit here. Do not argue." There was another angry shriek that made Samira turn her gaze to look in the direction it came from but that only lasted a few seconds. If that thing was going to find them it could wait to do what it wanted until after she was done healing Jiyu. For now, it was best to get it done in peace while also remaining calm and not rush into a panic. Samira removed her hands and took a seat on the bench as well. If Jiyu had refused to sit or remain seated, well, it wasn't as if they were going anywhere with Samira refusing to move.

Samira then went to focus on calling a spirit to take care of the healing, of which she possessed only two. Healing others wasn't exactly her specialty, and so a very minor part of her magic was dedicated to it. "He Bo, would you mind?" Once again the Saint looked as if she were talking to an invisible friend as she had asked vocally for all to hear instead of keeping the communication with her unsummoned spirits mental.

'You do not want to try it yourself?' A simple question that was silent to all but Samira. She could heal to an even lesser degree, but being able to do that came with powers that she was inexperienced with using. Surely Jiyu was more deserving of a better healer than being used as test subject for a novice.
"No. You are better at it than me. I also think there is more to this than a few scrapes." Samira was, of course, referring to the strange way Assertive had suddenly started speaking and acting.
'Dagda is more suited for ailments of the mind if that is what causes her to suffer so. I will do what I can for the ailments of the body.'
Samira nodded while giving the canine-girl an apologetic look. Whether it was that room that probably should have been ignored or the rush to escape that undead army Samira felt responsible for Jiyu's current condition. It was going to be most unfortunate if she could not do anything to actually fix it. "Very well."

With that agreement, the spirit claimed some of Samira's magic energy for himself and opened his own portal. What exited that mystical swirl of moving magic particles was not like the others that had been summoned previously. Sparkling water poured from the portal instead and flowed around in the air just as easily as it would have if it were on the ground. That was what the spirit was at its core, just magical living water. "Do try and hold still for a bit," Samira instructed Assertive further with her assuming Assertive could still be able to comprehend what was going on instead of continuing to speak about the library or the doll. "It should not hurt." And it was true for many people. He Bo, while a bit cool to the touch was comprised of healing waters. If there had been no refusal from the Inugami then the water spirit would flow over her body, touching each physical wound and healing them near instantly. One other benefit was that she would remain dry through the process and after the task was complete. He couldn't very well have people getting sick if he just soaked them entirely each and every time he healed them, after all!

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While Samira may try to take some blame for the canines injuries? The wounds were actually more connected to a very important detail that Jiyu had forgotten to mention earlier. Assertive never really had any notion she'd have reason to mention that their body was not so strong due to past trauma and the way it was formed. While most high rank mages barely got scratches on them from any mission? The wind user would often have to make a new body or rest for days when her job was complete because her body had been damaged so extensively. Honestly, the way she dealt with her poor psychical form was dependent on her mood for that current time. At the moment? She wasn't even in the mood to deal with it at all, unless it was dispatching her body entirely for the true state of an Inugami, not that she understood things that far.

She couldn't focus, her eyes unable to remove the haze and distance from them, even as they responded to the stimulus around. The comments from the summoner proved pointless, it didn't seem that Assertive was even capable of responding to her, breaths heavy and teeth gritted in pain. Her body was healed fairly easily, detecting what the water was offering and soaking it in, transferring it around to even serve the function of healing any internal injuries she had sustained. Even if her body was weakened? It was excellent at repairing itself considering how often she made a new one. However, it wasn't long before what could be done ran out, because the problem's source was not within her body. Instead? Something much more basic than some physical form was being affected the damn thing was squirming around in the very core of her energy trying to make any tears it could.

"It's not in my body." the words were choked out as she felt the energy from the doll nearing something very dangerous within her. The two sides? Had an agreement about those abilities, which was why they were kept contained. "Think." she could barely speak, all of her attention had to go towards keeping that thing away from the locks within her energy, pushing it around to keep it from squirming closer to that area. "Everything in this place is edible." to her at least, but there had to be a reason for that and she hoped Samira was smart enough to figure out it was because she was made from negative energies just like them. Sure, the wind user had some differences, considering she was abnormal for her kind, but at the center she was still that blackened fog given solid form by its strength. "I can't grab it myself." please, the other girl just had to be smart enough to realize that there was only one reason she wouldn't be able to grab at something in here! That reason being that it had stashed itself within her own energy, and she was capable of damaging herself if she tried to reach for it.

As she tried to convey things to Samira, the energy snuck past her, touching at the section she had roped off for a section. The very second that area was stimulated within her energy? A mostly transparent black fog engulfed Jiyu's body and the leg of the bench holding them up snapped in half despite being stone. "SHIT! GET AWAY FROM THAT!" she hadn't even realized she talked out loud, forcing it back and slumping against the other girl panting with once more gritted teeth. If that aura got to emerge fully here? She had no way of knowing what could or would happen. Since the Inugami had never learned to control what their own negative energy did, when it was allowed to take its solid aura form, they had no control over what happened around them. All that was certain in those cases? Was that everything started going bad, light bulbs shattered, glass broke, pictures flew off walls, tree branches fell, anything that could go wrong, would and did. They didn't need that especially not here.

"Get it out." she couldn't breath, not with that thing worming around inside of her energy. "The contract, you may be able to-" she cut off again, slamming her head against the wall to bring herself back when that stupid doll energy touched something else dangerous that nearly let it take her.

The physical wounds had been healed easily enough, but even before Jiyu had made the comment that what was truly wrong was not in her body Samira could tell that something was still wrong. Many of the side effects were still present. They could at least also check off an ailment of the mind being the issue. Her second spirit would not be needed, after all. There was one issue though. Clues had been given to narrow it down even further, not that there were many options left either way. That being the rare ailment of the soul, or in Assertive Jiyu's case, the energy she was without a body. Something must had gotten inside and tried fusing with the Inugami's energy and soul or something similar. Now wasn't the time to poke at theories or conclusions though. Samira kept listening for any other clues on how she was supposed to help with it. Thus far, she had been told that Jiyu could not grab it herself. Well that sucked.

"He Bo-"
"You do not have any spirits capable of energy manipulation. At least, not in a harmless way." The flowing water cut her off as it hovered in the air in front of the two girls. Jiyu would have been better off pulling out the energy invader herself if Samira really tried using her destructive spirits for that. It was starting to look as if Jiyu would have to remain that way and they'd need to try escaping to find her someone that could help.

As the water and summoner were trying to come up with how to handle the situation, a black fog covered the Inugami and she shouted just as the leg of the bench they sat on snapped. The aura around Jiyu was so far harmless to her as she found out when the other girl slumped against her, but there was no telling how long that would last and what else it was capable of. Samira doubted it was another specter within the castle playing games with that trick. The timing was too convenient. This also meant the situation how to be taken care of right then and not later. It would be too dangerous, and Samira had already seen too many times what happens when a person or even energy goes out of control.

"Stop it!" Samira shouted when Jiyu slammed her head against the wall. On second thought it needed to be removed before the Inugami did too much damage to herself to combat the thing inside her. Before then though she did catch the words that brought up the contract. It took He Bo to make much sense of it though since Samira was too focused on holding Jiyu in place to keep her from slamming her head on anything else.

"The contract you made with her. That may allow you to do more than you originally would not. Maybe even guide you. I suggest using the powers of Chiron for further assistance."

Well it was better than nothing. Samira gave a nod in agreement as she looked at the spirit and then went back to facing Jiyu, even releasing her from the hold. She was going to have to use those new powers anyway apparently despite not really wanting to. Using aspects of her spirits that nearly made her become them was actually very uncomfortable. At the very least she didn't need to do it full force and only required one part of Chiron, who was the representation of her version of Sagittarius. With a small sigh to prep herself, Samira closed her eyes and focused. Her own aura activated, the summoner being surrounded by tiny sparkling stars to represent the Zodiac's power as a being based around a constellation. For her, it gave her more magical power and healing abilities. A sort that was much like He Bo's usually at her low level of experience with it, but with the contract between herself and Jiyu perhaps it would also be able to manipulate the energy and remove it.

Her free hand was placed on Jiyu's abdomen as if that was going to help get closer to the thing inside her. Who know? The touch itself would begin the healing process regardless. For some time Samira remained there, quiet and focused with those same closed eyes. She could sense something was abnormal. An evil presence that was similar to one she felt whenever one of her more powerful spirits took over quite some time ago. That had to be the energy that was not supposed to be there. It kept moving away, but Samira kept trying to latch onto it and pull it out with her own energy. What was she going to do with the black swirling energy that started to come out and attach itself to her hand and aura? Psh, not like she knew. No way was it edible for her.

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Apparently it seemed as if He-Bo and Samira could communicate in someway without speaking, considering how swiftly the water blob cut its summoner off. Jiyu couldn't really ponder the details when someone accounted the thing squirming around inside of her causing her to feel like she was being ripped to shreds from the inside out. Simply to fight the energy in the slightest, she needed everything that she had within her! Thus the agonized Inugami remained largely unaware of everything else that transpired from that moment on, vaguely even able to detect Samira attempting to stop her from causing further damage to herself. Quickly as seconds ticked by and the energy got its way within her, agony became the only thing she could feel. While Jiyu doubted this thing was capable of killing something like her, if this persisted she was going to lose this body relatively soon, her psychical form only able to endure so much pain.

The attempt to extract the energy from within her own by Samira would prove successful after several minutes of trying. What had been black swirls developed into a purple wraith like figure that quickly attempted to fly off when it was completely separated from the Inugami it had been tormented. "Oh No You Don't!" as it's glowing form attempted to escape the jaws of the canine clamped around one of it's shapeless limbs pulling it down and snatching it between herself and Samira with her claws. After what that blob of energy had done to her? Jiyu wasn't just going to let it get away with it's actions! There would be vengeance dealt out, revenge of the consumption variety considering the internal battle had made her hungry. "You don't get away with that." she snarled slightly, pinning the figure to the narrow space on the floor between her and samira, digging her jaws into it once more. Something was different about this energy compared to the energy she had been eating the rest of the time, this one squirmed as if in pain when she chomped down. "Nothing is going to make it any easier or stop me bastard." she chortled the comment when it seemed to try reaching for one of the broken stones, her winds carrying it just out of reach as she consumed more of the blob. For the sake of her contracted she had been restraining from eating the living negative energy instead eating the static or already deceased energy, but this one was an expectation.

After nearly fifteen minutes? Assertive leaned her body against the remains of the bench, the specter entirely gone. "Eating it isn't the same as it being inside of my energy core." she briefly explained, encase Samira needed that provided to her. Jiyu was just happy that was over.

(Reminder to self: Solo from this point on.

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After several minutes of attempting to remove the cursed presence from within her ghost hunt companion it finally succeeded. Surprising, but the fact that it worked brought some relief to the summoners and the spirits that bothered to even care. They needed the Inugami to safely travel through the Haunted Castle and find a quick exit, but then again they could probably manage without her if it came down to it. Those type of spirits that believed that did have a tendency to be cocky and overestimate their own abilities. There was just the matter of Samira being physically linked by the wrist with Jiyu. They had kind of overdid it, and already it had become a problem. They couldn't be separated easily, but that also meant when one got into trouble then so did the other. That or when one decided to stop for fifteen minutes to eat then the other had to remain there as well... awkwardly.

The invasive wraith left Jiyu's body and had begun to make its great escape. Unfortunately for it, the wraith would have to endure its punishment and fate. The strange girl that had her more assertive side in control was quick to catch the thing and pin it down to make a meal out of it. Samira didn't really take too much issue with her eating something like that or the other negative energy they had run into thus far, but it made her feel a little uneasy nonetheless. Technically it was a living type of energy instead of some that came from the curtains like earlier. She probably could have made herself feel more comfortable if she could leave the room or busy herself with something else. With them being connected though she could not and had to remain there for the entire time. Her gaze could look away, but the sounds and knowledge of what was happening was right there beside her was hard to ignore. The point of her tuning into spirit radio had been reached, and she demanded mentally that they all entertain her with their normal ridiculous behavior until Assertive Jiyu was done turning the wraith into kibble.

The voice of her companion interrupted whatever madness she was listening to in her head and brought her back to reality. Her green eyes blinked, and then she turned her gaze to see that the wraith was gone, having been entirely consumed by the Inugami. "I see." That was her only response to what had been said. The Black Rose mage really was a complicated being. Seeing as the massive force of super natural energy and the loud wailing had been going on every now and then for a straight fifteen minutes, it was probably best not to have a full conversation right there. They were safe for a time, correct. That was the case. What they had run and got away from had yet to find them for one reason or another. "We should move on now that you have been healed and you have taken care of that creature. I do not expect this safety zone to last for much longer." As she spoke, Samira rose from her seat on the bench and stood up fully. She looked around to think of their next course of action, which would be escaping the room or even finding something that could help them in the future. That possibly could have been done during that fifteen minutes where she remained idle in order to save time, but it would have been hard to concentrate. Surely a couple of more minutes could be spared before it was too late.

There didn't seem to be anything of interest that stood out within the dungeon cages. Mainly skeletons and beds that had worn out overtime. All of them were also closed and likely locked, but the bars looked weak enough that it probably would have been easy to break in if anything interesting was there, like some hole that connected to another room that instantly led to the library. That would have been very useful. Alas, Samira was left with walking towards one of the walls and dragging the Inugami with her. There didn't seem to be much of an exit at all. Considering they entered the room by going through the wall on the other side with one of her spells that meant there had been no entrance either. Well, that was odd. She placed her hand on one of the stone blocks that made the wall and thought about it for a moment. Maybe there was some trick to it like in a mystery novel, or even some of the ruins she had been inside of. Eh, not that it matted. She could just use the same spell to exit that was used to enter.

"I do not know what is on the other side, if anything," Samira told Assertive Jiyu as she stepped away from the wall and looked at her. Not knowing what was on the other side and going through anyway was not a very smart move, but they couldn't very well go back the way they came either. Since the canine-girl never put up much of a fuss with the decisions made thus far, Samira had no expectations that there would be any disagreements about it. She went through regardless of the response, using the same spell as before to make herself and Jiyu capable of passing through the solid wall. That was all Samira could remember. What happened after that she could not recall. The next thing she knew was waking up in one of the dungeon cells, although it was a different room. No. As Samira sat up on the bed and got a better look it was the same room, but instead of dark, old, and long abandoned the room looked the opposite. Either she had traveled back in time to way long ago or it was another illusion. Her bet was on the latter since it had already proven to be a common trick with the ghostly beings that haunted the castle.

Samira then had another thought as her mind began to function more fully. "Where is she?" The canine-girl was not there. Not physically attached by the wrist with the magic chain and cloth they had used to keep the hauntings from separating them. Not anywhere in the cell. Not anywhere in the room. Samira was beginning to wonder if Jiyu was even in the castle at all anymore. She took hold of her keyring and looked at all the keys on it. Her spirits were still intact, but that was not what she was looking for. "It is gone too." The key that Jiyu had given her to use in case they got separated was also gone. So much for that backup safety measure.

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