Demigods : Version 3.0 { Closed, Started }

[Lambi]

While the harpy elder had evaded her initial attack, it didn't mean that Freya was giving up any time soon. She kept swinging her fists towards her, since she wasn't about to have her get away with hurting her in such a vulnerable spot, even if she personally hadn't hurt her there.

"Stop backing away from me, you fucking *****! You're responsible for your whore of a daughter digging her claws in my arm, and I'm going to make sure that you pay! You will not escape the wrath of a daughter of Hades!" She was furious, and it could be seen even despite her black eyes. The harpy elder could see it, which is why she kept backing away. Just because she was angry towards Freya attacking her children like that, she wasn't about to get herself killed over it. However, while backing away from Freya, she didn't notice as Gabe tackled her down and began pummeling on her. Freya saw that Gabe had taken care of the last harpy offspring, which would have impressed her if she wasn't so focused on her anger towards the harpy elder.

When Gabe was kicked away by the harpy elder, Freya saw that she was left quite vulnerable. Her eyes still glowing black, she made her way towards her. "Now, you will pay!" The harpy elder looked around to try and find her, but couldn't due to being blinded by Gabe, so she didn't know where Freya was coming from.

Freya raised her arms like she'd done in her initial attack against the harpy elder, with one fist clenched inside the other one. "This is for interrupting my little prank!" She slammed her fists onto the harpy's head, making her hit her head on the ground, but still somewhat alive. "This is for the attack on my arm!" Again she raised her fists like the first time and slammed them onto the harpy's head. She was seriously messed up now, and just barely alive. "And this!" Freya was yelling even louder by this point. She raised her fists again, but this time she raised them just clenched beside each other. "Is for your whore race making my arm as vulnerable as it is!" With an angry yell at the end of her sentence, she slammed her fists so hard down onto the harpy's head, it made a small hole in the ground and left her head nothing more than a bloody mess of skin and brain along with other facial features.

After her eyes turned back to normal, Freya found that she was breathing heavily after all that, and not just because of how much strength she had to put into her attacks. She had been bleeding a fair amount from her back and right arm, and started to feel a little dizzy now that her adrenaline levels were decreasing. Hitting the harpy hard three times probably hadn't helped with the bleeding, either. It would be difficult for her to walk back, but she had to check up on Gabe first. With a little difficulty, she asked "Are you alright? We should head back to the camp." She needed to get to the infirmary as soon as they'd be back at the main camp site. She held her right arm with her left hand so it wouldn't bleed as much.

 

[Pm0n3y]

From his tangled position up in the tree, Gabe could only watch as Freya finished off the Harpy Mother, bashing in its face with her bare hands, quite obviously infuriated by the whole predicament. Her teeth were gritted, her eyes were black. At the end of it all, the Harpy's face was reduced to mush.

Soon, Freya rose to her feet, panting as she placed hands to her wounds. By the look of things, she was gonna need help getting back to the camp. "I feel like there's some cruel karma at play here..." Limping up to the tree Gabe seemed to be struck in, she called out to him in between breaths.

"Are you alright? We should head back to the camp." She asked. Gabe replied with a simple nod, conjuring a vine from one of the tree's branches. Reaching the ground safely, he yanked on the vine, pulling it out of the tree.

"Hold on." He told her, ripping the vine into smaller portions. Using the plant as a makeshift bandage, he managed to wrap some around her right arm while tending to some of the smaller scratches he also received. Once he decided he did all he could, he took a step ahead of her. "Get on my back. You're in no real position to walk." He said simply, even offering to carry her shield. Even if he didn't like her, the least he could do was respect and help her. He wanted it to be his turn to belittle her, tell her how the whole predicament was her fault in the first place. "I'll just wait until she's in a better shape to do all that."

 

[Lambi]

Freya bit her lip a little as Gabe tended to the wounds on her right arm. It hurt, but if she wasn't going to bleed much more while they got back to the camp, it needed to be done. Once he was done, he asked her to get on his back. "Bah, I don't...need to..." She was about to continue, but everything spun a little for her and she had to close her eyes and hold her hands against her head until it stopped. Once it did, she supposed that there wasn't much option for her. As much as she'd hate it, it was more important to her to get back to the camp than to act like a proud idiot.

The shield she'd carry, but in her right hand. She got onto Gabe's back and held with her left arm just under his neck to support herself so she wouldn't fall off, while she held her shield in her right hand down over his chest so that the shield wouldn't hurt either of them. She'd have to remember to clean it once they got back. "Not a damn word about me being weak like this, or I will have to hurt you." This certainly wasn't an ideal position for Freya to be in, especially since she hated the weak and if she ever was weak like right now. Either way, it was good that Gabe was there or who knows what would have happened to her. She allowed her head to rest against the back of his and closed her eyes. After a moment of silence, she said. "It's only fair that I give you my name after all this. Freya Glace. Daughter of Hades."

 

[NeoAC]

"So any way I can help you train today? I can't make things for you to beat up but I can help with anything involving speed."

Brandon thought for a second. Wasn't plannin' on workin' on speed or nothin'... A second was all he had though.

"I mean even if I can't help you train I can still watch and hang out with you...I mean I'd like that either way. I umm, well...I like spending time with you..."

At this point, he finally looked at Mitsuko, but he wasn't getting the same treatment. She was turned away, but it didn't hide the fact that her face was tomato red. Dang. I knew the girl had it bad after wassisname stopped comin' back, but didn't know it was like that. Shoot, I weren't lookin' for a crusher or that like...

Brandon's churning stage coach of thought was disrupted by a loud screeching noise coming out of the woods. It sounded like a death cry, and there was another that followed it. "Got dang it," he cursed. "You kiddin' me? Now who the heck is in there? Don't need to be pryin' no got dang corpses outta them trees today!"

 

[Lizmichi]

"We better go see what's going on then." Mitsuko said stashing her drawing book under her arm. "I don't want to find any dead campers today." she said looking at Brandon. While she wasn't happy the conversation was cut short she still would rather find out what was going on in the woods.

"I hope no one is hurt. We've had enough injuries to last a year today alone. I'll ran back to my cabin and drop off my drawing pad then grab the first aid kit I keep stashed away." Mitsuko said. Before Brandon could say anything she was off running. Her boots made it easy for her to run to her cabin in not time flat.

She put the book on her bed and dug around her footlocker for the first aid kit. After moving her countless games and books she found it hiding under her copy of The Hobbit. "Dammit, why can't I talk to him and why do things have to get in the way?" Mitsuko hissed to herself as she got up and ran off to meet Brandon at the place she left him.

 

[Pm0n3y]

Gabe grunted lightly as she mounted him. It was more of the shield's weight than her's that hindered him. Even so, he began to make his way back to camp, quickly taking steps out of the forest and into the much brighter sunlight. In a fit of urgency, Gabe tried his best to pick up his pace as he began to approach the lake, but the weight of Freya's shield (plus Freya herself) caused some difficulty. Freya did, however, try to uphold her honor as the two went along their merry way.

"Not a damn word about me being weak like this, or I will have to hurt you." She said to the pseudo-silent camper as he embarked on his trek, she finding rest on his shoulders. Gabe scoffed in return as the two eventually reached that small expanse of water.

"No promises." He replied plainly, in that trademark monotone voice of his. He began to ponder, maybe some humbleness would bring her down a few pegs. What really surprised him was the comment that followed soon after.

"It's only fair that I give you my name after all this. Freya Glace. Daughter of Hades." She told him sleepily. "Oh, so we're giving names now?" It was something Gabe wasn't expecting, but he appreciated nonetheless. He only felt it would've been right if he had introduced himself in the same fashion.

"Gabriel Aeckard. Child of the Harvest. Call me Gabe." He said, the two eventually making it back to the cabin area. Naturally, the sight of one person piggybacking the other would turn the heads of those unaware. Gabe didn't appreciate all the eyes that fell upon him, and decided to double his efforts in hopes to reach the infirmary. Once they actually did reach the establishment, did Gabe decide to slow the speed. He wasn't completely sure how the medical services worked around here. In compliance to his confusion, he sat Freya down in the nearest chair, before sitting down beside her. They both needed attention, it was only logical that he'd stay close. To explain things, at the least.

 

[NeoAC]

As Mitsuko dashed off, Brandon headed towards the entrance of the woods, but he didn't have to wait long. Someone emerged and beelined towards the Infirmary. It unfolded right in front of Brandon. As he finally caught up, he learned who was responsible for the ruckus in the woods, and while one person was not surprising, the other one was.

"Gabe?" he called out as he approached the two. "What the blind hell you doin' in there man?" Both combatants were in a beat up state, though at least Gabe looked to be awake. "Look, I know the Devil Girl is a pain in the ass, but ya can't just taker into tha woods for an old-fashioned shed-beatin'! At least not since a couple-a years ago! What were ya thinkin'?" He looked back towards the other cabins. Mitsuko said she was grabbing some bandages. It didn't look like they would be necessary, but still, backup proving that he had nothing to do with this would be nice. If Chiron comes askin', I ain't takin' no heat for this one. Blame it on Rosa. This is her sibling muckin' around like this.

 

[Pm0n3y]

As Gabe waited for any sort of assistance, a familiar face burst into the infirmary. Or in Gabe's case, the only familiar face. The one that introduced him to the camp in the first place. He seemed fairly concerned about the state his two fellow campers were in. Understandable, but Gabe thought all the panicked yelling was a little unnecessary. It also seemed that his grasp on the situation was entirely wrong.

"Brandon." He made his flat greeting. "It ain't even like that. I went into the woods out of curiosity. Little Miss Stalker followed. Sent skeletons at me for whatever reason. Got the attention of a Harpy family. We killed 'em. Got really messy." He did his best to explain the situation, the slightest tinge of emotion was emitted when he placed emphasis. He looked over to Freya, the girl fading in and out of consciousness.

"I only got some scratches on my stomach and legs. She needs more patchin' up than I do. When she comes to, maybe she'll explain why she was trailin' me in the first place." He added, thumbing in her direction with what might've resembled contempt (hard to tell when one wears such a blank expression).

 

[CounterAttack]

Royce gave a small chuckle at Mitsuko's blushing. Once the Japanese girl headed over to the Ares cabin, he made a wry comment to Jia. "You can always tell, can't you? Once they turn that shade of red, you know something's up. But anyways. I might go for a walk, see if there's anything interesting to kill in the woods." He hadn't had a fight that wasn't just training against his peers in a while. It would be good to face something that didn't telegraph its attacks.

"If you want to tag along, I wouldn't say no to company... though from the looks of you, you've probably gotten out of the arena recently," he noted with a small shrug, thinking that it was possible that Jia might not be interested. Didn't really matter either way, though: it was good to know that someone was watching your back in a place where a fight could break out at any moment.

[hr]

At the sound of voices in the infirmary, a nurse hurried out to investigate. Amanda Kensington, a daughter of Apollo who had since graduated from camp but stayed on as head of the infirmary, took in the scene as she got closer. "This is why you don't take your fighting to the woods: there could be an ambush waiting for you, or you could stumble across a nest like you said," she tutted as she hoisted the semi-conscious Freya out of her chair and deposited her, on her side, on one of the infirmary's beds.

"I'll get to you in a moment," she stated to Gabe as she drew curtains around the bed and set to work on Freya. The cuts in her back were easy enough: a small drop of Olympian nectar on each one closed it. The golden liquid was one of the divine foods of the gods: in small doses, nectar and ambrosia could heal demigods of most injuries, up to and including a broken limb, with time and patience. Amanda owned a supply of the stuff for medicinal purposes.

Next came the damage done to Freya's arm. Amanda shifted her patient onto her back, and removed the vine tourniquets from the arm before cleaning out the injuries and applying a dash more of the healing liquid. She then wrapped a length of bandage over the affected area and secured it with a clip. Another drop of nectar in Freya's slightly open mouth woke her up properly, and the child of Hades tried to get up.

"Don't move. You need to rest," Amanda immediately advised, placing a hand on Freya's shoulder and gently but forcefully pushing her back down. "Stay here until I say otherwise." With that, she pulled back the curtains and began work on Gabe's injuries... or she would have, had Dorofei not walked in with one arm encased in ice. She raised her eyebrows at the Russian, and directed him to another bed with a jerk of her head before she got to work on Gabe.

 

[Lefthandofgod]

The Child of Aphrodite rushed the girl with the broken nose inside, and Dorofei was left standing out by himself. The fight between the Hades and Athena girls ended a while ago, and he was running out of things to distract him from the pain in his arm. It was throbbing like mad in spite of the thick layer of ice coating it. The pain was starting to make him sick. Sighing heavily, he made his way over to the infirmary.
He kept his head down as he walked along the row of houses. He felt too sick to talk anyways. At the infirmary, he was greeted by the camper currently running the recovery room. She took one look at the large Russian arm and made a small yelp.

?What in blazes did you do to your arm?? she shrieked.

?Uhhh training injury. I was to walk off? Dorofei responded meekly.

?Why is your arm covered in ice??

?Not ice,? Dorofei added, ?Magic Ice. Is better. Won't melt and strong.?

?Why is your arm covered in magic ice?? She was getting red in the face now.

?Was hurting?

?THEN WHY DIDN?T YOU COME TO THE INFIRMARY??

?Was walking off? Dorofei started to sound like a little boy being scolded by his mother.

?If I could reach the top of your head, I?d smack you. Now, get rid of the magic ice so I can fix your arm.?
With a small gesture from his good arm, he waved the Magic Ice away, evaporating into vapor, then seemingly into nothing at all.

?Good boy. Now then.? She carefully measured a vile of healing liquid, and poured it onto Dorofei?s arm. ?You should be fine by tomorrow morning. For now, avoid doing anything strenuous?

Dorofei nodded over to Freya. ?What happened to Hades Child? Was fighting Athena girl. Did lose??
?Freya? No that?s not why she?s here. She was playing a prank on someone in the forest. Snuck up behind him with some of her skeletons and picked a fight. They woke a nest of harpies and had to fight them off. Nasty things, harpies.? She finished in an afterthought

Dorofei seemed confused for a moment, and when he spoke again, he spoke in Ancient Greek. ?Please forgive me, my English is not very good yet, and I believe I misunderstood you. Did you mean to tell me that she was dueling someone in the forest and disturbed a nest of harpies??
The nurse blinked for a second. Most people didn?t bother speaking Ancient Greek around the camp. His English must be really poor. ?No. She snuck up behind him and attacked with her skeletons. The sounds of their fighting awoke the harpies."

Out of the dark. Out of the forest. Teeth like swords. Skin like bronze. Running like the wind. Running away like a helpless animal. Cornered on the cliff. Father chasing it down. Fighting. Falling. The red snow. The silence.

"Fight like monster. Hunted like monster" He spoke through gritted teeth.

"Sorry, what was that? Are you ok?" The nurse looked up at Dorofei's face. It didn't seem like he was looking at anything in the room. He suddenly sprang forward, as though powered by an engine.
Dorofei was running out the door, red faced and cursing in Russian.
?Грязная шлюха бесполезны?

He marched outside of the infirmary and threw his celestial bronze shaft flat onto the ground.
?Come fight, Corpse-Fucker!? he screamed in Greek. ?Fight me, weakling child! See if you handle something stronger than birds! Fight me so that I can send you to your father!?

 

[Lambi]

Freya just kept her head down as Gabe walked with her to the infirmary. Once they were there, he put her down in a chair and she stayed there, not really sure what was going on. Someone yelled at them, it seemed, and she didn't hear much of what they said, although she could hear when Gabe explained what happened. If she'd been more conscious, she would have responded to it.

The nurse came and healed her, and when she wanted to go, the nurse pushed her down again, ordering her to stay. She blew some air through her nose in frustration and lied back down. I'm perfectly fine. She already healed me, why do I need to stay here? She knew that her arm needed time to heal properly, but she could do it in her own time, and not while lying down on a bed inside the infirmary.

And she got an excuse to not lie anymore, as someone seemed to be insulting her outside. She would have dismissed it if it wasn't for the fact that there wasn't just one, but two insults aimed towards her. She wouldn't stand for that and stood up off the bed, grabbing her shield that had been put by her bed, then headed outside. She found the one who seemed to be insulting her.

"How dare you call me those things? If you have any idea of what I'm capable of, you'd best take that back!" If there was any way to get Freya mad, calling her a necrophiliac and a weakling at the same time was one of the best ways. While she wasn't as mad as when she was up against the harpies just earlier, she was plenty mad towards this guy as she rushed towards him, left arm with her shield on it held in front of her.

 

[NeoAC]

Brandon sighed as Gabe told his side of the story too him, and it was an honest story from the sounds of it. "I shoulda figured she'd be going off doin' somethin' that stupid. Thought she'da learned herself better than that by now. I don't think there's nothin' she could be explainin' from the sounda that."

He looked off in the distance, not noticing the lumbering Russian behind him. "Well, least it ain't like you'd be tryin' to lie 'gainst an angel. Pretty sure Chiron's gonna know who started what stackin' you two side by side." The Russian lumbered back out as he tried to assure Gabe he was going to be fine in this instance.

Then there was yelling, lots of yelling. "What the hell?" He turned around and saw the Devil Girl leaping out from behidn the curtains towards the big foreigner standing outside like Mike Tyson. They both looked ready to fight, and fight hard "Fuckin'..." Brandon got to the doorway first, picking up the charging Hades camper with his left hand. "Hey! You want to do what you're got dang supposed to do for one damn second and lie your ass back in bed there? Some sumbitch counsellor Nicky is, can't even control his kin from doin' the stupidest fuckin' things I ever hear tell of. You don't need to be fightin' nothin' after the shit you got yourself into." He turned to Dorofei while still holding Freya. "An you! Fuck you doin' tryin' to pick fights in front of a got dang healin' center? Yeah, I fuckin' heard ya before, ya big idiot. Everyone fuckin' heard ya. Now get the fuck back to your cabin or I'll smash ya damn shins in 'n you can crawl your ass back to your cabin! Now both of ya quit actin' like damn five year olds, get ya heads outta your asses and shut the fuck up! Save it for the got dang arena! Not here!"

He walked back behind the curtains and tossed Freya back into her bed. "Amanda! You get a chance, you wanna toss me a couple of aspirin? I'm gettin' a got dang migraine dealin' with other cabin's problem children."

 

[Lizmichi]

Mitsuko passed the infirmary and blinked hearing some yelling, it sounded like Brandon and a few other campers. She ran in and stopped just in time to see Brandon fighting to hold on to Freya and the verb spat that started before that. "Oh god I don't want to know what happened. Anyway I brought my first aid kit but it seems it won't be needed now that we're in the infirmary. What the hell happened? What happened to Freya? Dammit, why do I even need to ask that question? What did she do now?" Mitsuko sighed and put her hand on her forehead.

"God maybe I should of taken a nap." she said as she dug out some aspirin and handed it to Brandon rubbing her own head. "Here I got some aspirin for you." Mitsuko looked at Dorofei and started yelling from inside. "What the hell is your problem? If you want to pick a fight take it to the ring but not here." at this point Mitsuko had lost some of her temper. She didn't like fighting and this had pushed her too fair.

 

[Lambi]

Freya wouldn't be smashing Dorofei's face in any time soon since Brandon, the Ares councilor, managed to grab her before she got far. He carried her back to her bed and tossed her onto it. "Djöfulsins skíthæll! Why did you stop me from smashing his face in?! That fuckface called me a corpse fucker and a weakling child!" She wasn't happy about it, but fine, she would stay in bed, if it meant not getting carried like a child. Dorofei would get what he deserved for calling her that when she got out of the infirmary. She lied onto her side, facing away from Brandon.

 

[Lefthandofgod]

Dorofei had everything prepared. Freya?s charge was lined up perfectly with the shaft of celestial bronze he had thrown on the floor. Then a cowboy had to pick Freya up and ruin everything. Typical Americans.

"An you! Fuck you doin' tryin' to pick fights in front of a got dang healin' center? Yeah, I fuckin' heard ya before, ya big idiot. Everyone fuckin' heard ya. Now get the fuck back to your cabin or I'll smash ya damn shins in 'n you can crawl your ass back to your cabin! Now both of ya quit actin' like damn five year olds, get ya heads outta your asses and shut the fuck up! Save it for the got dang arena! Not here!"

Dorofei spat on the ground. ?This not done now, cowboy. I show little girl what happens when you fight like monster.? He called out to the building. ?You won?t have cowboys or little shadow girls to carry you aways next time!?

He picked up his celestial bronze shaft and walked back to the cabins. There, in front of the Hades cabin, he set his new trap. He laid his enchanted shaft on the ground and covered it with a thin layer of Magic Ice. He grew the ice out further and further until he made a square, about a meter on each side. He laid it down opposite the front of the Hades Cabin?s door, far back enough to be away from foot traffic. From this angle, he would have line of sight and Freya would have only one way to run at him when he steps out to confront her. He then covered the patch in grass and waited nearby in the shadows, keeping the infirmary in his line of sight.

 

[NeoAC]

"Thanks Mitsuko," he said, taking the offered drugs. He quickly popped them into his mouth and forced them down his throat. "Didn't think I'd be dealin' with this kinda crap today."

"Djöfulsins skíthæll! Why did you stop me from smashing his face in?! That fuckface called me a corpse fucker and a weakling child!"

Brandon didn't know what the hell the first part of Devil girl's line of questioning was, but he'd sworn enough in Spanish to know it was probably a couple of choice curse words. "I stopped ya because this ain't no place to be wreckin' shit up. You wanna start fuckin' with people, you take that shit to the arena, or beach or somethin'. Some place that ain't here where other folks gotta pay for your shit, perra pendeja."

The Russian was still shouting outside until it died down and he appeared to take off. Good. Brandon turned to Gabe, "Right," he said quietly, "So just let Amanda get to ya and you'll be all right. Dependin' who comes across your work in the woods or how Manda's feelin', Chiron might be payin' ya a little visit. So just tell him what ya told me, and you should be fine."

He turned back to Mitsuko. "C'mon Mitsuko, let's git outta here." He turned to head out of the infirmary. All this BS was cutting into his training time.

 

[Lizmichi]

Mitsko was red in the face from yelling and took a deep breath. "Yea you're right. Let's get the hell out of here. Mitsuko was muttering Japanese under her breath. "Baka o tsuishimatsu." (Fucking idiots) "I swear to god sometimes the campers here make me want to keep even more away from every one.. well not everyone." she said shaking her head blushing softly but still in a huff.

"So where do you want to go Colt? Training or has this crap ruled that out for the moment?" she asked her first aid kit thumping against her tight, the content rattling inside. "I hope the pills help you." she said.

 

[blaze96]

Elizabeth was smiling as she responded to Jess, thankful for the attempt at a normal conversation.

"Same old same old Jess. Practice for the children of Hermes and trying to find out the power set of everyone else. Although I've made some progress with one of my campers, boy by the name of John. Haven't found out what he's best at but the boy likes swimming and training in the arena. I'm thinking he may be a child of Poseidon, but so far nothing particularly magical has manifested in him yet." She responded, thinking she may have bored Jess a little bit with what little she had said she was almost thankful to hear the shouting.

"And another normal day here at camp. Fighting and screaming, wouldn't be morning a normal day without it." She joked.

 

[Pm0n3y]

Ugh. Too much yelling. Gabe couldn't help but grimace at all the exasperated loudness. Tensions were high for absolutely no reason, and everyone was angry for petty reasons. And Gabe had the pleasure of being gently placed smack dab in the middle of things. He opted to just quietly take his leave, but by the way the nurse persisted, it seemed that he couldn't just do that. So he stayed seated, and sighed in annoyance.

It might've been the russian camper that baffled him the most. "W-what? Is he...mad at the Harpies? Is he mad at Freya for pulling that dumbass prank? Whatever, it must be something out of my jurisdiction..." He looked on quietly, a fairly oblivious look on his face as the scene unfolded. Russian guy storms in, then storms out, yelling. Freya hops up from bed, now she's yelling. Brandon's having none of that shit, and now he's yelling. And now, " Some Asian chick? Comes in out of the blue, and now she's yelling? The fuck's wrong with these people?" At least Brandon's yelling was justified in some way, everyone else was just raising their voices for the sake of it.

"Like spoiled kids, I swear..." Granted, the commotion died down as quick as it arose. The Asian girl prepared to leave-Mitsuko was her name, apparently-and after Brandon gave Gabe some words of confidence, he followed her out. He rose to his feet after awhile, and made his way to the resting area of the infirmary. Figured he'd save the time of having the nurse come out to fetch him. As anticipated, Freya laid on one of the beds, lying on her side, arms crossed, and fuming like a brat. Gabe sat on the nearest bed facing her.

"Don't know if I said it earlier, but thanks for the assist. I mean, it was assistance for a problem you caused, but still, thanks. I'll accept your apology whenever you're ready to deliver it." He told her.

 

[Lambi]

Freya mumbled after Brandon left, something about how she could take him on and that it was her business who she punched when and where and for what reason. She didn't much care for it when others got in her way, but for now, she'd have to wait until she could mess the Russian guy's face up.

For now, she had Gabe approach her. She didn't see him come due to facing away from the entrance, but she heard him walk in and stop somewhere close to her.

"Don't know if I said it earlier, but thanks for the assist. It was assistance for a problem you caused, but I still thank you. I'll accept your apology whenever you're ready to deliver it."

As if. She turned towards him, lying onto her other side, though careful because of her right shoulder and arm and saw that he sat on a bed near her.

"Why should I apologize? It was a small prank that escalated into a fight with harpies. Doesn't make it my fault that they appeared. I didn't summon them. However, I will say that...reluctantly...I'm glad you were there. As strong as I am...I couldn't have taken them on alone." It was hard for her to admit to needing help. "Don't think I'll make a habit out of saying things like that, though."