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*Iris sighs and gets up to get something to eat*


*Merg's still standing outside, ding some sword practice*


*Calluna shivers in her sleep but seems more peaceful now*

*Athan stiffens up in anticipation of a fight. A squirrel leaps from the underbrush and looks at him quizzically*

Athan: ...... feth.....

*Exhales slowly as the two continue to lock eyes*

*Marilania stirs at noise having fallen asleep reading and blinks still half asleep*

What...mor... I...
*looks round slowly and yawns*
Hello Iris.../whoever in kitchen if present.
I assume is morning?

...

*Marla holds on to Dira who may have fell asleep or not and sighs as feels bad that she having to face all this minus her parents and brother and Gharn*
*considers carrying her away from Scatty but decides not to wake her*

...

*Maria heads up and watches the figure walk ito the woods in its shining armour from the sun*

Be careful out there.
This planet has a fair few monsters.

...

*Furia stays with Morgan watching surroundings not quite understanding his ability to know but trusting its accurate. *

*Mergoux frowns at Athan and the squirrel.*
Mergoux: Little jumpy are we?
*She crosses her heavily tattooed arms and frowns. The wind blows, jangling the vast number of ear piercings she has in her long Elven ears*


*Iris shrugs tiredly*
Iris: I think so...


*Dria eventually falls into a exhausted emotionally drained sleep*
*Scatty sits up silently on the sofa, she neither breaths nor does her hear beat, but she looks at Marla silently*

*Marilania stretches and goes to grab a coffee and some food*

Il call it breakfast regardless...

*notices she probably looks like not slept and hands a second coffee over*
Might be needing that. Sleep badly?

...

*Marla holds it together to not wake Dira but internally thinking what the feth and places a arm protectively round Dira and another hand on her pistol grips*

*gives a confused look as she should be dead and
*very quietly not to wake Dira*
Who are you... What are you.

*Scatty silently cocks her head, staring blankly at Marla*
Scatty: Ssss...
*She hisses slightly but doesn't make any other moves*


*Iris nods*
Iris: Not really...

*slowly gets to feet holding Dira and backing up slightly keeping her secure with one arm and other free and trying not to wake her*

*keeps hand near pistol as has no idea what going on and not about to let get Dira get hurt oh her watch*

*quietly*
You ain't hurting the kid...

Now we are leaving.

...

*Marilania*
Coffee helps... worried about folks I guess.
I think everyone is missing or worried for someone out in the wilderness.

*Scatty hisses again and goes to block the door*
Scatty: Sssss...
*She bares her fangs*
*Marla might notice that her pupils are pinpoints, not reacting to the light at all*


*Iris nods*
Iris: Yes... At least the Imperium's coffee is good!

*Marla notices and also notices her skin likely gives tell tale signs of zero life by most logic*

*Marla relises and thinks of something but it makes no sense yet some and keeps self between Dira and Scatty much as possible*

*puts hand fully on pistol and keeps protective of Dira as she blood or no blood not letting her get hurt without trying to stop it*

Scatty.... You in there at all... Anything?
This is your family member...

*more firmly*
Move aside... Dira been through enough seeing you die.
I ain't putting her though this.

...

*Marilania*
I ain't gonna call this natural coffee but it definitely works.

*smiles slightly*
The universe might be ... Less than friendly but small things that are good eh.

*Scatty slowly stalks towards Marla*
Scatty: Ssssscatty?
*Her fangs glint menacingly in the light*

*Dria whimpers in her sleep and stirs slightly*


*Iris nods*
Iris: Still, it's good so long as it isn't poisoned!
*She pauses to frown and looks down at her mug then shakes her head*
Iris: Nahhhh....

*Marla holds Dira close remains clam for her*
Relax hon... You just rest.

*thinks undead Scatty is deffo what she does not need in her state*

Yes. That was your name. Scatty... Dira is your cousin.
Morri, cal,...

Try to remember who you are.

*raises pistol slightly and clicks the hidden safety off*
If I have to I will. You ain't touching the kid. Not on my watch.

...

*Marinalia drinks her first *
No poison.. People been drinking this stuff for a while.

Unless you hid stuff in places I don,t wanna ask I don,t think we got any natural coffee from the room...

*Scatty cocks her head*
Scatty: Sss....Ssscatty... hungreeeee...
*Advances again, cautiously.*



*Iris laughs*
Iris: No! That wouldn't be fit for consumption by now. Not with everything that's happened.

*Marla*

Find your food somewhere else.
Scatty... What food... What's you eat.
*also plays for time abit*

Come on... You more than this.
*looks round room for a safe spot to put down Dira in case and keeps pistol ready*

I will not let you hurt the kid..

...

*Marinalia laughs*
No! That might be a tad gone off!

Though I miss the swimming pool more than the coffee.
*looks round at base*
Place ain't the same.

*Scatty doesn't even glance at Dria once*
Scatty: Ssss... you...feeeeed....
*Takes another step closer and stasis bomb*

*Dria stirs again*
Dria: Wzgoinon?


*Iris nods*
Iris: It's not. Either we need to secure the planet and rebuild or go somewhere else... We can't stay here forever, I doubt the Assassin's would appreciate that.

*Hanna has been sitting in her room drinking from a water bottle and thinking about what to do*

*Marla sighs and looks at Dira as getting harder to hide anything going on*

I don,t know... Something is badly wrong hon.. Just stay with me safe ok. Keep close..
*keeps pistol ready and tries to lower Dira if she wants *

*looks up at scatty switching to a more firm tone*
Feed... What.. Blood. Life. Emotions ?

...

*stasis bomb strikes*

...

*Marinalia*
Aye...I'm sure they want there guests gone soon as possible.

I can fly... But its where. There's nothing to fly to now!
*sighs and explains she can legaly fly a shuttle among other light aircraft but not certified on heavy or high speed*

*Dria looks around blearily and gasps*
Dria: S-Scatty!? You're alive!
*She tries to get out of Marla's grip to hug Scatty*
*Scatty cocks her head and hisses*



*Iris nods*
Iris: Oh really? Well... Perhaps we can exchange something with the Imperials here for a ship or something...

*Marilania*

Yeah.. I'm current in civilian class light shuttles, cargo and personnel.. I was gonna learn light gunship at some point.

*smiles*
I mostly flew my own uses. Never got asked by anyone.

...

*marla watches nervously and tries to keep in arms lengh, and keep weapon ready so she might be able to sneak out *
Be careful... It ain't scatty...

She ... She not herself. Its scatty in body but not mind.

*Athan continues to wander aimlessly through the quiet woods. The soldier stops to rest beneath an old maple tree.*

*Dria awkwardly half-turns to look at Marla*
Dria: Wha-grk!
*She gasps as Scatty grabs her by the throat and casually tosses her aside*
*Dria crashes into a wall and slumps to the floor, stunned*
*Scatty hisses and takes a low creeping stance then darts at Marla, sweeping left and right to making aiming and whatnot harder so that Marla's likely to miss if she shoots


*Iris nods*
Iris: Well Horus can pilot a little, and Ra is very good at it. But if they're not available or the driving area is too small then you'll have to take the lead!

*Marla holsters pistol as no shot n not wanting to hit Dira and draws a combat blade on hip and tries to swing at her with blade and punch but has advantage of armour to give her some strength advantage and resilience *

Now that has pissed me off!

...

*Marinalia*
Aye.. Well if its up to a valk.. Maybe...
*smiles at iris at fact she trusts her to fly*

I ain't confident in much more powerful than that. No heavies, fighters or such. But Il fly if you need me to!

I may have kinda terrified Gharn once... But I did drop a shuttle from high orbit in a high mach dive and melt half my front leading edge...

...

*Maria watches the warrior vanish into woods but not quite trust ernough yet to follow*
Hmmm... Inwonder what brings such a stranger here...

*Scatty easily evades the first strike but is grazed by the follow-through.*
*A tiny nick is opened on her arm which bleeds black ooze*
*She snarls and grabs Marla's wrist with inhuman strength, while she does that her other arm reaches towards Marla's face, thumb aimed to crush on of her eyes*
*Dria still out of it*


*Iris laughs*
Iris: Oh? When was that? I might've missed it

*Athan twists and turns softly as the nightmares take him*

Athan: It's the next ridge over; 100 yards until the battery position. Steel yourselves men.

*The distant thundering of artillery permeates the restless dreams of the old Astartes*

*Marla immediately dials armour to full strength boost and relises danger tries to kick out and protect face trying to counter with armour boosted strengh*

*stops holding back at all realising there's no scatty left*

*shouts out for help if anyone can hear*

...

*Marinalia*
Umm... Well.
*explains the nigh on emergancy dive as they got attacked by CSO and had to just do a crash dive to surface to escape*

It was... Not a good day... I had a broken leg still, not a easy bit of flying...

*Athan stirs as visions of carnage flash in his mind's eye*

Athan: So much blood.... Just a few more yards and we'll be upon them.

*The clang and clatter of battle intensifies as the warrior's ornate chainsword whirs to life, decades in the past*

*Scatty get's kicked and slams into a wall*
*Dria screams at the fight*
Dria: What;s happening!?
*Scatty gets up again and charges again, leaping to land ontop of Marla. When she does she grabs Marla by the hair and smashes her head into the floor, not enough to do any real damage, but enough to give her a concussion at least*


*Iris frowns worriedly*
Iris: So you're saying we couldn't even escape via spacecraft?

*Marla staggers back and shakes head pretty thrown off and shaken by head impact and spits out some blood*

Bitch!

*looks to Dira*
She ... This ain't scatty. Something... Ain't right.
If I lose. Just run Dira!

*shakes head and draws a sword with a slight wobble on feet*

*Scatty snarls and tries to pin Marla's sword arm with one foot*
Scatty: Sssss... HUNGREEE!
*Dria screams in fear as Scatty laps at the blood on Marla's mouth and chin then tries to sink her fangs into Marla's throat, biting and scrabbling frantically*

*Jason walks up to Aetare's room, and knocks.*
*He is flanked by two Vanus agents, who stand silently next to him.*

---
*Jake goes off to find Denny, having a bad feeling in his gut.*

---
*The red robbed figure finally stops after finding what he has been searching for.*
*He looks at the Thinny, and a strange wheezing laughter escapes from his throat.*
Rf: About.. time..
*Figure lifts his hand, and another bolt of red lightning falls from the sky hitting the center of the Thinny. Then a huge crashing sound erupts from the Thinny, and a huge portal cracks into existence. Hordes of monsters of many shapes, and types pour out from the portal. Strange mixture of winged creatures, and archaic looking ships scatter into the skies spreading in all directions.*
*Robbed figure watches it all.*

---
*Scatty's craziness is noted.*
*Emma comes out of her stasis pod.*
*Her hub displays Scatty, then in bold red EXECUTE TARGET.*
*She laughs insanely, and runs to her objective.*

*Marla tries to break scatty block on arm and hit with sword pommel *

*screams as she does bite into neck but muscle not a key vein or airway and tries to fend her off punching and kicking much as can getting rather angry seeing Dira so scared*

Damn you!
*fights hard as she can*