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Meanwhile, Ryker and Aly were waiting outside the room, with Aly fretting.

"...will he be okay?" she asked Ryker.

"He'll be fine." Ryker responded.

"He just wants to surprise you." he said further.

"Have some faith in him." he added.

Aly was silent for a moment afterwards, before smiling and nodding in response.

"Yeah, I see." Lex replied.

"Thanks to Uriel." he said.

"Seriously, I'm pretty sure I would have lost you had he not shown up when he did." he commented.

"Was a stroke of divine intervention." he added with a light chuckle.

"But all that matters is that we all seem to be okay." he then said.

"Seriously. All is well, I think. I hope." he added.

Lex's first instinct was to check up on Madison, and when he saw that she was asleep, and appeared to be stable, he made his way downstairs, smelling something as he got close to the kitchen.

"Eh?" he mumbled.

"Uriel?" he wondered, stepping into the room.

"Oh, Aimee!" he said upon seeing his sister.

"Didn't know you were awake." he commented.

"...how are you feeling?" he asked her, sniffing the air again.

"And what's cooking?"

"Ah, that." Uriel replied.

"It's a blessed pitcher." he told her.

"Yes, it's a thing. It's... well, it's a relic that doesn't really have much use, admittedly." he went on.

"When water is placed in it, it... well, it was said to have become 'holy water', but that's not technically true." he went on. "What it does is infuse the water with pure alignment, I suppose." he explained.

"Does nothing for mortals, or people with NO alignment, hurts those with tainted alignment, heals and invigorates those with pure alignment." he continued.

"In short, water for you, to bring you back from being so drained and hurt, essentially."

"A while still, I think." Uriel replied.

"From what I was told by Gregory, she'd be out for about 20 hours after the maturation was complete." he told her.

"Yeah, it was THAT strong." he muttered.

"But she'll be fine, Lex'll be fine, and now YOU'LL be fine." he then assured her.

"So yeah, good on you." he said.

"You two really managed to save her."

Uriel just smiled slightly.

"No worries." he said.

"I'm just glad I got here in time." he told her.

"Also, next time you see Gregory, thank HIM." he then said further.

"He was the one that told me you were dying." he revealed.

"Without him, you probably WOULD have died."

Uriel was silent for a moment, before sighing quietly.

"Well, as I mentioned, Madison is a tainted necromancer. You're a pure necromancer." he said. "You're on polar opposite ends of the alignment bar, and... they don't get along well." he continued.

"As such, the tainted mana effectively was attacking you, and killing you." he went on.

"I had to override it and quash it inside you... though it DID fight back... surprisingly strongly." he admitted further.

"That, and the fact that Madison is strong." he said.

"Strong as all hell. Stronger than... well... probably any other necromancer in recent mage history."

Uriel sat down beside her, and sighed.

"She's fine." he said.

"She's recovering, and she should be fine." he told her.

"Lex will be, too." he then added.

"YOU got the worst of this." he continued.

"Because of the conflicting alignment between you and Madison, you almost died on this couch." he explained.

"You probably would have, had I not gotten here just in time."

As she took a drink of the water, she did feel a bit of a surge of energy in her, but she also felt something more... permanent. She felt like a little bit of her stamina had been regained, and her mana was a bit stronger now.

"...a lot." Uriel responded.

"Long story short, the boss gave me some emergency time off to make sure you three were doing okay." he told her.

"A bit MORE info, you almost died." he continued.

"So. Care to take this to the den so we can talk about it?" he asked.

As she entered the kitchen, she noticed that Uriel was there, and he seemed to be filling some water bottles with water from a pitcher she'd not seen before. He seemed to sense that she was there, and looked over to where she was.

"Ah, hello." he greeted her.

"Figured you'd be the first to wake up." he commented.

"I'd ask how you're feeling, but your face says it all." he went on.

He then went to the fridge and grabbed a bottle of water for her, bringing it over.

"Here. Drink this." he told her. "Should really help with your energy."

"A-Aimee?" Lex stammered.

"Uriel, what-" he started to ask, before Uriel just sighed.

"I'll explain more fully, later." he told him.

"For now, just know that it was, effectively, a bad reaction between pure necromantic mana, and tainted necromantic mana." he said.

"I... I see..." Lex mumbled.

"For now, I'm going to get Aimee to bed, and you as well." Uriel then said.

"And I will stand guard here, making sure the three of you are safe, and all right." he quickly added.

"...thanks." was all Lex replied with.

"Aimee!?" he exclaimed, growing more and more concerned.

"Aimee! Please!" he said, before Uriel suddenly appeared before them.

"Yuri!" Alex addressed him, surprised by his sudden appearance.

"Aimee's-" he started to say, before Yuri held a hand up.

"I know." the archangel replied.

He then made his way to Aimee, and placed a palm on her chest. Once he did, he started to concentrate, and white mana pulsed from his hand, into the woman.

Gregory opened his mouth to say something, but paused suddenly.

"....ah... hm." he mumbled.

"Actually, on that note, be right back." he told her, before disappearing from where he was.

Meanwhile, Alex sighed, as he looked at his sister.

"Hey, Aimee?" he said.

"Aimee, come on, wake up." he told her, nudging her slightly.

"Aimee?" he asked.

"C'mon, both of us can't sleep now." he went on.

Gregory just laughed when she said that last part.

"Hah, true." he said.

"You'll be out for another 20 hours or so." he told her.

"Yeah, it hit you hard." he went on.

"Most necromancers are out for 9 hours or so." he continued.

"And you'll be HUNGRY when you wake." he chuckled.