She dodged the incoming attack without much difficulty. However, when she straightened up to look at it again, to continue with her survival and attempt to kill her target. When she turned to look though, she was met with a claw to the face. She was thrown to the side, colliding with a building shockingly hard. Some dust and the like fell around her, and she found herself quite happy to be in a dead part of the city. No one would notice any of this, which was good. The last thing that she needed was questions.

As she got to her feet, her movements a little janky from that impact. She hurt, and her head was spinning, but she shoved that aside. Her target that glared at her, growling.

"I've been tasked to kill you. Don't kid yourself, I will win." She stated simply, meeting its gaze, determination in every part of her, along with possibly some cockiness.

Sure enough, an hour later, she was standing above the twitching form she'd been aiming to deal with, before whipping her sword to the side, the blood snapping off of it.

"You should have made this easier." she muttered before pausing, bringing a hand up to her head.

"Oh.... oh fuck." She muttered as she staggered a couple paces back, her blade dropping from her hand. She didn't know what it was that she was supposed to do here, but she did know she was in a bit of a pickle.

She carefully pulled a piece of quartz out of her pocket, about to use her mana to contact her cousin... however, that didn't happen.

She dropped, the quartz dropping as well, both hitting the rocky ground below.

♫You taste the silver, Sara! You taste the crown. | You thirst for blood from the roses in hand.♫

She was completely silent for a moment, before trying to do something, anything. It wasn't easy, but as he grabbed her hand to try and give her a chance to respond in some way, and repeated his question, she barely managed to grasp his hand, tightening the grip of her own. She could barely see him, her vision was blurry, dark, and seemed to be inverted possibly, but she was able to identify at least that it was a male, and that he looked possibly relieved.

"Thank God, it's not too late!" he exclaimed, although she barely heard him. She could pick up on the surprise and relief in his voice, but that was about it. The sounds of her heart pounding in her ears was too loud to hear much else.

She was still conscious though, even if just barely.

♫You taste the silver, Sara! You taste the crown. | You thirst for blood from the roses in hand.♫

Were she not sure of being an inch from dead, she probably would have screamed.

She couldn't muster up the strength that would be required for such an act. However, she did tense up as it was happening, even if it wasn't to ane xtreme degree.

Somehow, she managed to stay conscious until he was done. Barely, though.

It took about half an hour, and it was a half of an hour of pure and unadulterated hell.

When he finished, she was awake, and alive. She was barely awake, the pain very nearly knocked her out, but she really wasn't one to give in to something like that.... even if it was the worst that she'd ever felt before.

♫You taste the silver, Sara! You taste the crown. | You thirst for blood from the roses in hand.♫

She was silent before carefully getting to her fet and stretching. She was a bit unsteady, but it wasn't too surprising overall.

She took a seat where she'd been again before sighing lightly and grabbing the bottle. She paused, taking a look at it before sighing, again. He'd just saved her life, after all.

But what the hell was that mana? She knew she'd just have to wait for him to return before she could ask. Until then, she'd sit there and just try and get her head back together properly. Things weren't entirely .... well, connected, so to speak.

What she did know was that she still hurt like hell, however, she at least was alive and not dead. So that was definitely something.

♫You taste the silver, Sara! You taste the crown. | You thirst for blood from the roses in hand.♫

"Ah, thank you." She responded in reference to the quartz before sighing.

"And yes. Yes I do." She answered.

"The fact that I'm alive at all is quite an acehivement." She added.

"Thank you."

♫You taste the silver, Sara! You taste the crown. | You thirst for blood from the roses in hand.♫

She just sighed, heavily.

"I wasn't told that's what it was." She told him honestly.

"I was told that it was a Spider Tiger." She continued. "Which, yes, has rather harsh venom... but not.... that bad."

"Which is fun." She muttered.

♫You taste the silver, Sara! You taste the crown. | You thirst for blood from the roses in hand.♫

She was silent before looking around.

"...." She was completely silent as she did so.

"Right." She said after a few seconds.

"All right, explain the blood." She stated simply. There was... something to her voice, a warning tone.

♫You taste the silver, Sara! You taste the crown. | You thirst for blood from the roses in hand.♫

She just crossed her arms, meeting his gaze.

"Not a chance." She she said simply.

"Defend yourself from what?" she asked.

"And why is your mana red?" Followed.

"You're not fire. From what I can tell, you're water. Yet the water was red."

♫You taste the silver, Sara! You taste the crown. | You thirst for blood from the roses in hand.♫

She was completely silent for a few seconds, watching what he showed, before meeting his gaze.

"I heard your comment about this place being empty, meaning you could stay here." She said, seeming to jump topics a bit.

".... People don't like you, do they?"

♫You taste the silver, Sara! You taste the crown. | You thirst for blood from the roses in hand.♫

".... I'd ask what kind of bad stuff, but I think I can guess." She said with a heavy sigh.

"They wouldn't be nice and chase you out of town. Probably want to string you up, strip you of your mana, and--" She continued, going into some pretty dark detail about some things that could very well happen. Her tone implied that she expected it had happened to him in the past.

And... what was that to her voice and behind her expression.... had she honestly witnessed something like that before?

♫You taste the silver, Sara! You taste the crown. | You thirst for blood from the roses in hand.♫