Silver ice storm (Ami thread, Lime warning)

[Bean Bandit]

Ami hedges slightly, looking to the professor for help, unwilling to outright lie...but in a sense, she -was- gone, wasn't she? "She won't trouble you any more." Ami stalls, smiling a little uncomfortably.

[Anastasia]

"She's correct, MIss Nakahime," Professor Tomoe agrees with Ami, turning to get a mug of water as Viluy returns. Gently kneeling, he puts it to her lips, the parched woman drinking...but only in sips. "Not too much..." he murmurs to her.

Viluy goes next to Haruka silently, watching on..."She looks to be doing alright," she whispers hopefully to her signifigant other.

[Bean Bandit]

Ami falls quiet, inwardly chastising herself. Best to stay quiet, and chip in where needed... she decides, watching the prone woman drink with a small sense of relief at how she seems tob e recovering.

[Liddo-kun]

Haruka glances at Viluy, surprised that the girl wasn't blasting her with arctic chill, before nodding.  "I hope this means that everything is fine and dandy," she tells her, although...

I wonder if everything IS okay.

...was the worrying thought that gnaws away at her.

[Anastasia]

"So do I..." is her murmur back, as she watches on. "So worried...." Her voice is filled with just that - worry, though it's not dead set as it was before in front of his evidence.

Raising the cup away, she turns her eyes to the Professor. "Thank...thank the kami..." she says softly, a single tear trickling from her eye, and down her cheek. "I...what did I do? That mall....it was so cold there...."

[Liddo-kun]

"Celcia decided to take over and do some... redecorating," Haruka says in reply, then glances at Viluy wondering if she might help some in the explanation.

[Anastasia]

"It's been reversed, though," Viluy goes on, following Haruka's statement naturally. "You need not worry about it...it's over."

"....I did all that.....but it's gone," she asks again, sighing. "Good. Celcia...she was so....cold. All the way to her heart...she would have froze anything she got her grasp on..."

[Bean Bandit]

Ami nods slowly, shivering. She could definitely attest to that...

[Anastasia]

"She's gone now," Professor Tomoe reassures her, patting her arm.

"So cold...." she murmurs again, bunching up into herself as if to horde the warmth she does have. "I...I nearly let that loose onto Tokyo..." Softly, she closes her eyes, but it doesn't stop a flow of tears.

[Bean Bandit]

Ami hesitantly moves forward, resting her hand on the woman gently. "No one blames you for that, Nakahime-san." she offers softly. "You had no way of knowing what would happen."

[Anastasia]

Professor Tomoe shakes his head sadly, as Viluy purses her lips...

"But..." MIss Nakahime says quietly, tears gushing freely from her tightly clenched eyelids.

[Bean Bandit]

Ami shakes her head gently, bedside manner putting her on more certain ground. "Celcia took advantage of you. I might have done the same thing in your shoes." she assures the woman gently. "And she's contained now. The damage wasn't nearly as bad as it could have been. Tokyo is safe." Or what passes for safe until the next threat arises. A little voice in her head added dourly.

"You made a mistake, but you escaped with your life. That's something to be thankful for, isn't it?"

[Anastasia]

"I suppose," she manages after several seconds, but looks miserable. If anything, she just sinks into her bed. "I...

I'm sorry. You...Viluy," she turns her head, then eyes Haruka. "Both of you...you made it out okay? Thank the kami again....weren't you...with me...when..." frowns cross her face as she tries to remember...

[Liddo-kun]

"When you were taken by Celcia?" Haruka supplies for the woman.  "We were there and we're both okay," she says with a nod of her head.

[Anastasia]

"Good. I'm...I'm so sorry, Haruka. Because of me, you and so many other peopel were put into danger.

Just because...I was too afraid...."