"In the den!" Madison called as she mute the TV. When he reached the room in question, he saw that she'd devoured both of the pizza's and was currently working through a bag of chips.

"Want some?" She asked, offering it over to him.

"If ya do, I'd recommend snatching some now." She then said. "Since I doubt they'll last long enough for a second offer."

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". . . cookies sound fantastic." Madison then said before pausing.

"As how I'm feeling... I'm ... all right?" She asked, pausing a moment.

"I feel... a bit weird and disconnected from myself and my mana, but that seems like it's something that will fix itself over time, as I feel a bit better now than when I first got up again." She added.

"Thanks, by the way. To both you and Aimee. Thanks for doing what you did. I ... heard... that it was rather trying."

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Madison was silent for a moment before shaking her head.

"Nahh, I'm good for the moment."

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Madison came into her mana, the upgrade, rather easily at that. It wasn't something that one was too surprised about, she was rather good at adapting to things and the like, after all.

She was walking home from the library one day, her hair tied back simply and effectively, and looking like the stereotypical french girl. She had a striped off the shoulder top, the right kind of hat, her hair was a mess, but stylish, black skirt and shoes... she looked the part, most certainly.

Perhaps that was, in part, what drew their attention to her, and why she woke suddenly to find herself hanging two fet off of the ground, with some of her mana being siphoned out of her.

The hell!? Echoed through her mind. She didn't know what to do, where she was, or what the hell had happened. What she did know, was that this wasn't good, and she had to get herself home, or die trying.

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"... nnn... What?' Madison asked, seeming to be having a hard time with this. That wasn't too hard to believe though, as she had just woken up, and this was... quite a thing to wake up to.

"The fuck are you guys even doing?!" She then exclaimed after a moment or two, as everything fell into place in her own head.

She tried to test the binds around her wrsits, seeming to not even be worried about the fact that she was a couple of fee off of the ground and tha tit would likely hurt to land.

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"Oh fuck you." Madison snapped, not stopping with the struggling, the fighting to get free. Se wasn't paying any attention to the whole mana thing. She wassn't worried about it, for the moment, she had to get free of what was holding her.

As she jerked around, trying to free herself, she managed to dislodge whatever had been attached to her in order to siphon her mana off. As whatever it was crashed to the floor, she felt her mana return in a rush.

But that rush was short lived. Before it had properly settled into position, she felt something sharp in her torso.

"Just sleep, and let us do what we're doing." She heard, and she tried to kick him.

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"Bitch." Madison growled before attempting to kick any others that came near her.

"Just wait. She's not going to cooperate for the moment." They stated before crossing their arms. Sure enough, whatever was given to Madison didn't take long to take effect.

It didn't take long at all before she was still, and as far as anyone could tell, she was out.

"Good, now get it all set up."

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As everything was set up and reattached, Madison was silent, seemingly deadl to the world.

Sometime later, the mana was almost completely siphoned off from her. They were all believing that if she woke, by this point it wouldn't matter. She wouldn't be able to do anything.

At least until there was a pulse of mana from her. One last, suprrisingly strong, pulse of mana from her. It caused the rune below her to be disrupted, but unbeknownst to anyone there, it wasn't canceled.

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Madison didn't say anything, didn't have anything to say. For that matter, she couldn't say anything.

The rune below her continued to grow and glow. It didn't take too long at all before it pulsed, and strongly. It blasted the bodies of those that had put her in that position away from the rune, broke a lot of the everything that was around it, and caused the binds holding her in place above the ground to shattered.

She dropped to the floor like a tone of bricks.

And the rune went brighter, changing to an ominous red, before all the colour vanished. Moments later, the mana hit her, hard enough to tear a scream from within her.

And that's where she stayed until the mana finished. The rune faded, and she was glowing for a moment before it took the form of chains and locks around her.

Shortly after that, she got to her feet, staggering due to the broken leg from the rather poor landing, and started to make her way out of the room, the building.

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Aimee cursed before resisting the urge to throw the crystal pendant across the room. Every time she tried to scry for Madison... she couldn't find her. It didn't matter what it was that she tried, she couldn't.

No matter where she tried, she couldnf' find her.

"Fuck!" She exclaimed in frustration as she just leaned forward onto the table, her hands on either side of a map of France.

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The necromancers, of course, had been trying more than just mortal means to locate her. Aimee had contacted Uriel while her brother had attempted to contact Cleo and Gregory.

None of the dead had been able to offer any sort insight. The best that the twins got, was that she wasn't dead.

No one could get a read on her, Which, in and of itself, was rather concerning.

As Alex was watching out the window, he saw a shadow move in the distance, across the road. It looked like a person, but... perhaps a deformed person. Their form and shape didn't look quite right

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