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"W-where am I?" The girl's head jerked in an unnatural way as she took in her surroundings. She felt a strong pain coming from her arm and noticed Raja was still holding her hand. The woman kept the strong grip on the child as she dragged her closer to the warriors from earlier. Everything in Mouse's body screamed for blood and freedom, but she didn't listen. There was something stronger taking hold of her body and it was stopping all forms of movement. 'Why can't I move?' Mouse stared blankly at Raja as the group of undead creatures surrounded them.

Their hands stretched out towards the girl and latched onto both legs. 'Not now. I can't deal with this right now.' Another sharp pain erupted from the tips of her fingers and slowly burned its way through her body. A distant voice whispered soothing words into Mouse's ears and took away the pain she felt inside. 'Rest now. I'll take over from here.' She sensed there was something strange about the voice, but her body was already slipping away. Far from her control. 'That's it child, rest.' Mouse shook her head weakly and tried to speak. Her mouth opened and a broken sob left the open cavern. It was strong and caused the warriors to stop moving and look back at her. Mouse knew what would happen next and just allowed the overwhelming force to take over. 'I need to sleep. This place is hurting me.'

Her head grew heavy, too heavy, and hung low to the ground. The tips of oily black hair brushed against the ground like a broom. The pale mouth began moving, too fast for words, but too slow to stop them from coming out. "About time that girl left! It's been a while since I've had time to play." The voice that left the open mouth sounded far too deep for the little girl. Slowly the head rose and hair shifted, popping sounds from her neck grew louder. It snapped up suddenly with a twisted smile and half-lidded eyes painted in place. She looked on either side of her and yanked the captive limbs out of the warriors hands. "You could at least buy me a drink first."

The girl jumped back onto her feet and looked around with a fresh pair of eyes. A tiny nose twitched with all the new smells and eyes darted at every slight movement. "Nice place." She glanced in Raja's direction and slung over to the woman with a grim expression. "I think I owe you one from earlier." The sword maker's eyes grew wide as she watched a hand stretch towards are face curved in the shape of a claw.