Running Silver

Shades of a Secret
"Get away..." In the large, group bedroom, the young Mina was still sleeping. Unlike before, she she simply slept, the girl was technically unconscious; she hadn't since awoken from when she fainted at the sight of something in the depths of the Akatsuki. "me....help me..." The child was mumbling in her sleep, tossing and turning, obviously distressed.

Just outside the door, Olivia sat, agitated. Biting her nails, she kept glancing inside the room, and the sight of Mina sleeping so violently made her heart ache vigorously. She wanted to help her, but nothing was making her wake up.

"Hey kid, something wrong?" As if willed into existence, Scylla appeared out of thin air before Olivia, making her gasp.

"S-Scylla!" She clutched her chest, her large breasts bouncing as her chest heaved due to heavy breathing. "Why did you do that!?"

"Because it's really fun!" The black-haired girl replied, smiling brightly as she couldn't help but laugh. "Trust me, I immensely enjoy being this small. So tell me...what's wrong?" She closed in, her eyes piercing through Olivia's own. "Are you worried about the child in there?"

"Y-yes..." Olivia shifted her eyes back towards the room, both to check on Mina as well as avoid the sharp stare of Scylla. "She hasn't woken up since we found her unconscious. I'm starting to wonder if something serious happened to her."

"I suppose it's only natural to be worried." Scylla nodded sagely, and walked into the room, casting her eyes on Mina's sleeping form. "I don't think you have anything to worry about, however. She's speaking, so I highly doubt she's in a coma. And I would be able to detect if she was dying; I don't sense any change like that in the phase of her magical energies. The shock was simply too much; she'll wake up when she fully recovers from it."

"That's good..." Olivia breathed a sigh of relief; this girl was her precious charge, after all, she couldn't let anything happen to her.

"While we're on the subject of new arrivals, where's the eggplant child?" Scylla asked, craning her neck to look at the busty blonde woman. "The one that came in with the woman with the glasses?"

"Eggpla...oh, you mean Tsuruko!" Olivia had been momentarily confused, before realising Scylla was associating Tsuruko by her hair colour due to a lack of knowledge on her name. "Since Giselle and Jason ran away together, she's been avoiding us. She's still so shy around us. However, I think she holed herself up in the higher floors of the guild."

"Thanks for the information." Scylla replied, slipping right by Olivia with ease, and vanishing down a corridor.

"...What does she want with Tsuruko?" Olivia blinked in confusion.

It didn't take Scylla very long to climb to the higher floors of the Akatsuki building. She was greatly intrigued by Tsuruko. After all, Mr. E had taken quite the interest in her awhile back, but Tsuruko had her own way of doing things, her own opinions that differed from E's drastically; the two were incompatible. However, this Tsuruko seemed different. Innocent even.

"Perhaps she's as impressionable as a child..." Scylla murmured to herself. "If I can convince her to speak with E, in her own innocent state, perhaps she can be manipulated...a few extra allies wouldn't hurt, even with the LaHote boy and his merry band behind our cause."

The upper floors were about as spacious as the lower areas, and these seemed to have several additional bedrooms, some of which were occupied; her eyes noticed names like 'Alaskiel' as door markers. Now where was Tsuruko?