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''I'll admit to being hesitant,'' Sieglinde commented, her thick, deadly tail almost curled into a spiral. ''I want to embrace your optimism; having more eyes on our souls will be a boon. Privacy is overrated anyway.''
''You always want us all in the same bed.'' A teasing grin rested on Elina's fair face when Sieglinde glared at her. ''I can only applaud your consistency, princess.''
''Is that so?'' Keldan commented, pinching his thin beard with a teasing grin.
''My sleeping... patterns are irrelevant!''
Despite the girls slowly but surely kindling hope into their hearts, Hao oozed poignant negativity. Her feelings were too guarded for you to identify accurately. Your tongue remained still as she ashamedly snuck glances your way.
''Wait on your decision. There's another option.'' The lady crow interrupted. ''...one that provoked no end of arguments.''
''Yeah. No gentle way to breach that topic, so...'' Ama sighed, then slipped a pair of black-purple pearls out of the pouch attached to her belt.
''What in all the Red Hell are you doing with that!?'' Elina nearly embraced Focus; her outburst caused a jet of water from a very irritated Undyne to almost splash into her.
''Zerase stash of pearls was far too big for my shard to purify all at once. I missed a few... and Deru agreed to loan them today.''
Sieglinde knew. Her calm demeanor held no surprise and anger, yet her displeased glare made the little blond witch sweat. ''Continue.'' She was careful to hide the venom in her voice, but there was no hiding the sizzling coal emanating into your links.
''I don't need your permission...'' Ama huffed and palmed the pearls to hold them comfortably in her small hand. ''Zerase spell has inflicted you with a nature of death and, because of your Whitening, it snuck into your soul instead of only afflicting your body...Which saved your life. Normally the spells would have rotted your internal organs.'' She says, looking at Hao. ''The constant pain you're feeling and transferring into Arawn is because you've become a surviving paradox, a mixture of life and death dwelling inside a body that cannot contain two aspects of magic.''
''<span class="mu-r">I can change that with these pearls by turning you into a -new- undead.</span>''
Only the constant heated agony pulsing throughout your body stopped the girls from throwing nasty words. Turning Hao into an undead...?
''Undeads are very peculiar entities.'' Keldan sensed the mood and spoke calmly. ''They've always been susceptibles to a Demon Lord's peculiar brand of Corruption, resulting in all kinds of mutations and truly unique -if predatory- survival methods, but few were truly ''dead''. Monsters they've always been, nearly all of them carried a spark of life alongside their affinity for necromancy. Like we carry a primary connection to the Red, theirs is an affinity to a dark, cold forest, another major branch of our World Tree.''
