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Lalita tapped her foot against the tile of her comrades floor, but she was suddenly tired of waiting. She wasn't an impatient person, but she was so curious that she simply turned silently and slipped away. She walked down the hallway, not hearing anything. It seemed everyone had settled.

She walked into Nike's chambers without knocking. She heard the closing of the elevator doors, but decided to dismiss it. Though she felt quite rude, she decided she must see what's going on. The only people in the room where Nike, a servant, and herself. Her high heels clanked against the floor, but instead of being comforted, she was disturbed. The sound was loud and broke the silence.

She looked at the servant who looked so panicked and then at Nike who looked like she was about to break down. It was a look that Lalita had seen reflected in the mirror many times throughout her childhood. She knows the creases that are simply in place to keep tears inside. The tears that would only come from feeling utterly alone. "Nike, are you okay?" Lalita, asked.

Lalita herself hated that question, but just barging in with advice for Mother Nature was stupid. Mother Nature knew everything and Lalita knew barely anything at all. She was only human. She wanted to help because she didn't want anyone to feel the way she had felt after her parents death.

"Can I help?" She asked, more to the room then to Nike. The silence was disturbing and she felt like her heart was going to break again. She suddenly wished that she had waited for the other two descendants to join her before she had made her way to Nike.

As for Delaney, she silently followed the other Cruzzola's as the walked out of the elevator and back into the New York air.