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".....I see." Lex responded.

"Well, I-" he started to say, before there was a knock on the door, and they heard it open.

"YO!" a male voice called in.

"Den!" Lex responded.

A few seconds later, Rene stepped into the room, and froze when he saw the two of them.

"Good lord, what happened to you two!?" he exclaimed.

Lex looked over at Lilim as she said what she did, and sent the text.

"...hm." he muttered.

"I dunno, we might be kinda even." he said.

"Maybe." he mumbled.

"My face and chest hurt, and I can't move my leg..." he started to say, before pausing.

"...maybe I DID get it worse..."['/b] he admitted.

[b]"Are you okay, though?" he then asked her.

"......" Ryker was silent, concerned about the darkness surrounding Eke, before his last comment caught him off guard.

He couldn't help it. He laughed out loud at it.

"HAH!" he finally said.

"Ok, yeah." he went on.

"That WAS good exercise." he admitted.

"Yeah, it wasn't all bad back then, was it?" he asked nostalgically.

Lex was silent as he dug his phone out... and was silent as he looked at it.

"...nope. Can't see straight. Vision's all blurry." he mumbled.

He then lowered his hand, and the phone slipped out of it.

"Dr. Calder." he told her.

"Rene. In contacts." he went on.

"You need help as well." he said further.

"You're hurt, too." he added, feeling a little woozy all of a sudden.

Lex nodded in response.

"Yeah." he said.

"Let's go. Quick." he told her.

"That won't hold for long, but it should buy us enough time to get to safety." he went on.

He was then silent, before coughing up a little blood.

"Urgh." he groaned.

"That hurt." he mumbled.

"......." Lex was silent as he saw this, before gritting his teeth.

'I hate that the trigger needs to be that...' he thought, getting over the colour of what he saw.

He then finished using his blood to draw what he needed to draw... and various runes spread out towards Francis and Lilim.

However, only one of them was affected.

Lilim saw this, as Francis appeared to be paralysed, and he seemed to sink into the floor a bit, up to his knees.

"......." he was silent and still, though Lilim could see his the pupils of his eyes flitting about rapidly, thrashing within their confines. He was aware of what was happening, but was powerless to stop it.

At least, currently.

At the same time, Lilim started to feel his influence start to drain from her. Rapidly.

"...did it." was all Lex said.

"Hm." Ryker muttered.

"I suppose it did." he agreed.

"However, at least you don't have to worry about where you're going to sleep every night." he went on.

"The camping and sleeping outdoors was fun and all, but it sucked in cold weather." he continued.

"And you know it."

"...always." Francis replied.

"Ever since I was sent to that wretched realm." he told her candidly.

"But I am denied it. What makes me feel alive. What makes me feel joy." he continued.

"And now? Now that I have the chance to feel that earthly elation again? Yes." he said.

"Yes. I want to play." he confirmed, now practically standing over her.

"AND I WILL PLAY!" he bellowed, before practically pouncing on her like a carnivore.

Francis recoiled in pain and surprise, grasping at his wrist.

"AGH! YOU LITTLE...!" he exclaimed, before he forcefully grabbed her own wrist. With that, he yanked. Hard. Almost to the point where Lilim's shoulder hurt. He threw her off to one side, with her landing in a heap.

"All right, enough playing." he said.

"It's time we get down to the point of this." he went on.

He then started to walk towards her, only for his ankle to be grabbed by Lex, who had scrambled over on his stomach, to try and stop him.

"......" the dark elf was silent, before kicking the human in the face, and continuing towards Lilim.

As he did so, Lex just gritted his teeth, wiped the blood on his face with his finger, and started to scrawl something on the floor.

She continued to walk, with Lex giving her directions... until they rounded a corner.

And saw Francis there.

"Bonjour." he greeted them mockingly.

"No..." Lex said quietly.

DROP HIM! LEAVE HIM! the voice in her head screamed.

LEAVE HIM! SACRIFICE YOURSELF! it then yelled, contradicting itself in the same command.

ESCAPE! FIGHT! RUN! LEAVE HIM! ATTACK! IT'S USELESS! and other such things bombarded her brain.

Francis just smirked, obviously knowing what was happening inside her mind.

Lex just coughed again, before getting to his hands and knees. He then pushed himself onto his legs... barely... and started to attempt to get onto her back.

"I'm sorry." he apologised.

"I'm such dead weight right now." he said.

He really is... echoed in her mind.

"We... might be near one of the exits, actually." Lex then told her.

But can you make it there in time? something in her mind asked her.

Or do you dare try and throw him to the whims of pure chaos? it asked further.

Lex fell to the floor in a heap, and was gasping for air, before looking around.

"...west... wing." he said.

"Sculptures." he said further.

That did help Lilim, but it confirmed something.

Something that she did not like.

They were still in the museum.

Francis just smiled at her.

"Heh." he chuckled.

"Just like my daughter..." he said, leaning in close to apparently kiss her.

Lex, however, managed to finagle himself in such a way, that he was able to launch himself off of Lilim's back, and crashed into Francis, sending them both collapsing to the floor.

"Oops." Lex said.

"Sorry about that. Bad leg and all." he told Francis.

The dark elf simply growled, before kicking him in the chest... hard.

Francis was now only a few feet away from them, and he gently grasped at Lilim's chin.

"Be a good girl." he said.

"Follow along." he told her, before Lex slapped his hand away.

"Back off, creep." the necromancer hissed.

"....." Francis was silent, a livid expression on his face, before he just laughed.

"Spunk." he said.

"The same kind that my daughter had so long ago..." he said, almost wistfully and nostalgically.