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Raven just scoffs as she watches Will move over to Pentre and give him permission to speak, sitting down and folding her arms. She was grateful, though, that Will had commanded him to not speak about anything that would surely hurt anybody else. She would sit there, pondering this for a moment before being snapped out of her thoughts as a hand went to touch her on her shoulder. She would shudder as she looked over to see Will standing there next to her, and whisper into her ear. She sighs and shakes her head, her eyes turning black so that Crow would be able to speak to him as well.

"We have time now...just get it out of the way..."

"What is this about? If this is about my husband-"

"Crow, not now. Don't just go jumping to conclusions..."

"What ELSE would it be about Raven?!"

"I don't know! But you don't know that it is about him! Do you?!"

Crow would go silent after a moment, knowing full well that Raven was right. Raven would be relieved that Crow was actually listening to her for a change, but would look up to stare at Will with her pitch black eyes, a seriousness in her voice that said she wasn't playing around. She would pat the spot next to her, urging Will to take a seat.

"Let's talk now so were not left in suspense and worry about what it is you want to talk about..."

Will nodded and walked over, grabbing his blade, which was next to the now dead fire, then walked back over to Raven and sat down next to her. "I know you're pissed at me Crow, I know the expression like the back of my hand. Before he head out, I need to shed the truth about what happened to William." Will told her in a sorry yet serious tone.

Raven would look at Will seriously for a moment, before closing her eyes and letting out a long breath. A black smoke would surround Raven, and when it dissipated Crow's form would be sitting down next to her. She had thought they could avoid the topic altogether when he ordered Pentre to never speak of it, but apparently he was able to sense that she was mad at him, and she looks away, unable to meet his gaze before she speaks to him, a sadness and rage in her voice.

"You want the truth? Because the truth of the matter is that after my husband went to war to fight for Camelot, he ended up dying, betrayed by his own soldiers and left for dead after being mauled by wolves. I found his body lying next to the river, and I gained the power to revive him in exchange for a life of helping people, while it slowly dwindled away at my own life. Then that...that...SNAKE....found out he was alive, and sent back to kill him a second time, shot by arrows and slaughtered like an animal. I gave up what was left of my life to revive him, and now I'm stuck in limbo, inside the body of another girl. What more truth do I possibly need to hear?!"

She says trying not to get upset, but obviously failing to maintain her composure.

Will sighed and unsheathed his sword, the blade ringing as it left the sheath. "This blade was forged by your husband Crow. It was his greatest creation and he named it after you, Crow's Talon. And there's something you need to see to believe, but first I need you and Raven to Clear your heads." Will told her, turning his body towards her.

With all the commotion, Lilim barely had to use her mother's song as an alarm, nor would Elesa, whom was a light sleeper as well and when she heard Crow's hostile growling tone, woke up quickly and moved out of the nest to hide. Lilim would wake up to hear this conversation in tune with her mother's concert, and thought the tone of it rather fitting, so she'd reach out her magic to both Will and Raven/Crow so they could both hear the music in their heads as well, the topic going hand in hand with the mood of the music as Lilim understood it. "Sorry to interrupt guys... Please, carry on. And if you don't like the song, please feel free to wave the share off... I'll take it back and listen to mom's singing myself. Hmm... Or maybe I'll share it with ol' wormy over there. He looks like he might enjoy opera." she says as she points to Pentre, honestly curious if he's ever heard Lilith's singing or not.

Crow would instinctively scoot away from him as he unsheathed his sword, immediately getting into a defensive position, but once the moment between them passed and his body language showed that he didn't mean her any harm, she relaxed a bit, but still would keep her guard up. She would eye him as he turned his body towards her, but then her eyes would travel the blade. She would examine it from where she sat, before Raven would speak up.

"Crow, maybe we should listen to him."

"Raven..."

"He named that sword after you. Aren't you curious as to what he wants to show us?? Show you? Because this is more about you than it is me...I'm just the host body..."

"Fine..."

Crow says before closing her eyes and taking a deep breath, letting it out slowly. She would continue to breathe deeply to calm herself down and clear her head. After a little while, Crow's mind would be clear, and so would Raven's. She would open her eyes and look at will, skeptical but calm and clear minded. Though that wouldn't last long before her head was filled with an opera-like music, and she would quickly turn around to see Lilim staring at the both of them. If she was honest, she found this song to perfectly describe her mood, and Raven found it to be quite relaxing. Crow nodded her thanks to Lilim before turning back to face Will.

"What is it you're wanting to show me.."

Will took a deep breath and sigh, closing his eyes and putting a hand on the side of Crow's head. After a moment, Crow wouldn't see Will or the area they were in. All she would see was black, then she would hear the sounds of war before she would see a horrific scene.

As those she was looking through the eyes of this person, that being Will from the sound of his voice and grunts, she would see Will struggling as a pack of larger than average wolves, all with metal teeth, were mauling him. His right arm was bloodied and pieces of scale and muscles gone, revealing the bone. Also they chewed at his other arm and legs and chest, a few ribs showing and blood shooting from Will's mouth. She was watching a memory of Will's.

Then his head turned and between the wolves legs, a few feet away was Crow's husband, bravely fighting as more men began to surround him. Her ears would be filled with Will telling him to run and save himself, and him doing that as some Basalisk Soldiers came to stop most of the men, a few getting through. After that, everything went black for a few seconds before another scene showed, this one entirely different.

It show Will on his knees, sobbing as he held the bodies of a ginger woman and a small child resembling a younger Elesa with golden blonde hair. After a few seconds, everything disappeared and went back to the normal world.

What she would see, as well as Lilim, is Will with a very l
Pained expression on his face, his eyes watery and tears rolling down his cheeks. After a few seconds, Will quickly stood up and walked behind some bushes a bit away, crouching behind them so no one would see him as he silently cried.

Crow's eyes followed his hand as he placed it on the side of her head, and suddenly her vision became black before it disappeared and she was in a place she was unfamiliar with. She watched as the wage of war surrounded her, and watched as a man, Will Stone, was being torn to shreds by a pack of wolves. She stared in horror, unable to do anything to help, before she heard a voice almost seemingly long forgotten. She turns slowly to see her husband standing before her, fighting off a bunch of soldiers. He wouldn't be able to see her or hear her, but Crow's eyes instantly filled with tears as she was seeing her husbands face for the first time in decades. Her husband had been reduced to a mere memory at this point, so to be face to face with her husband was....something.

She would reach out to touch him, before her vision swirled and another scene played, as she watched Will holding onto a woman and a child, before the world would return to normal. Tears were streaming down her face, and she watched as Will went behind the bush to cry, before standing up and glaring at him from above, choking on her words as she spoke down to him.

"What the hell was that....what was the point in showing me that?!"

"Crow-"

"Don't you tell me to calm down Raven! I just watched my husband fight off the same men that would probably end up setting the wolves on him that killed him! DO NOT TELL ME TO BE CALM! WILL! What was the point in that?! ARE YOU TRYING TO UPSET ME?! To make me relive the pains of my past?! "

Maybe shouting at Will wasn't the best idea Crow could do at this time as Will's skin turned to scale and his eyes glowed crimson red as he stood and turned towards her.

"I thought maybe knowing what happened your husband would give you a bit of peace or at least somdthing like that. You seem to blame me for his death, but there was nothing I can do about it while dying. Hell, you even know the darkest secret I have and this is how Im repaid for showing you the truth!?" Will said before yelling and taking his anger out on a tree, swiping at it with his claws and taking four chucks of the tree with him from the swipe.

"CROW!!!"

Lilim shouts to get her attention, glaring at the ghost with her eyes burning red again. Lilim had moved to Elesa, and Crow would see that Elesa was literally digging her tiny fingers into Lilim's waist, shaking like a leaf and clinging to her tightly, crying her eyes out as Crow was crying and shouting and even Will had left because he had started to cry due to reliving what surely were pained memories of the past Will surely wished he too could put behind him.

Lilim was about to slap the dog shit out of Crow if she didn't calm down, because quite frankly, Crow was scaring Elesa and Lilim was not fond of Elesa's fear induced sobs. Lilim's glare would say everything Lilim wanted to say, Calm down and stop acting like Pentre. Apologize to Elesa and speak more forgivingly to Will because it's just as painful for him to remember those events as it is for you to see them, ya self centered ghost.

Crow stares on at Will, not having thought about it that way. She didn't really take a minute to register what it was that she was seeing, and seeing him swipe the tree she just sighs, sitting down and pulling her knees to her chest as she buries her head in them. She can't stop herself from crying. She didn't mean to upset Will, but seeing her husband after all this time came as quite a shock to her.

"I-I'm sorry...I didn't think of it that way...but that didn't give me peace...all it did was clear your name..."

She says crying even more as she keeps to a corner by herself, before looking up and glaring at Pentre. She blamed him for Williams death, and she just SO wanted to put her fist through his stomach, but she would refrain for now out of respect for Elesa, not wanting to scare her. She sighs as she sobs into her knees even more, hugging them closer to her.

"I-I'm sorry about your secret...and I'm sorry for scaring you Elesa..."

The black smoke envelops her once more, and Raven takes Crow's place. She sighs and scrunches her face in aggravation before standing up, looking between Lilim and Will. She had upset both of them enough, and figured that they needed their space. So without saying anything, she walks off back towards the river, sitting down at the rivers edge and placing her feet inside.

"Crow, what is your problem...he was just trying to help!! He feels bad about what happened!! When they both calm down, you need to apologize to both of them PROPERLY!! I know how you feel, I do! But your not alone in this! I would have thought 18 years of being stuck together would have taught you that!"

Lilim blinked and calmed her eyes, moving to slowly pry Elesa's fingers out of her hips. Something Lilim was glad no one could see was that the child's constant pressure was starting to draw blood, "Ouch, ouch, ouch, owey, ow, ow, ow eep!" Lilim whispers as she slowly pulls Elesa's nails out of her flesh, kneeling to her and drying her eyes a bit, "Elesa... Elesa... Hey... Calm down sweet heart, everything's ok... It's alright. Big Sis is right here... Ssshhhhhh... Ssshhhhh... Elesa... Look at me... I need your help. Can you help me out?" Lilim begs Elesa, trying to get her to stop crying and listen to her.

Elesa would be clinging to Lilim tightly, so tightly in fact that her fingers were starting to feel as warm as her cheeks. As Lilim pried Elesa's fingers free she'd start to cry worse up until Lilim knelt to her and started cleaning her face of her tears and comforting her with soothing shushes and saying her name. Elesa would stop crying enough to listen to Lilim, sniffling but giving her a nod. Elesa liked to help Lilim with things, so she would calm herself as she listened to Lilim explain what she needed.

Lilim would pet Elesa softly to calm her further, "Elesa... I know this is gonna be scary... But I need you to go to Will for me ok?... I have a feeling that he needs you right now. Chances are you're one of the only beings here that Will wont hurt if you follow him. Please Elesa... Can you try to calm him down for me?" she asks in a calm tone.

Elesa would sniffle again but moved her arm to her eyes and finished drying her tears, looking back at Lilim and nodding her head, agreeing to the task she was given. Lilim would smile to her and give her one more hug for confidence before sending her off to the task. Elesa would take off in the direction Will went, trying to find him before it got too dark to see, "Mister Will?... Mister Will?!..." she calls out, trying to alert him as to whom was calling out to him.

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Meanwhile, Lilim would follow Raven. Seeing her close to the river, Lilim would get a plan. She'd have some fun with Raven and probably tick her off, but it was just a little harmless fun that Raven surely needed in this situation. Lilim would make a wide circle around Raven to let her believe she was alone, getting into the river at a further point and using her siphon magic to tap into the magic of the water. Cleverly she'd use this to focus a reverse ripple effect right in front of Raven and uses this focused point to spray Raven right between the horns, targeting her forehead for a reason.

Surely Raven would react with a flinch or a frenzy of claws in some way, and Lilim would tease Raven as she uses more of the water for more small streams to spray her on the forehead or on her cheeks again and again, bringing herself closer and giggles at what surely was Raven lashing out at the water and acting like she was really being hurt. "Hehehehehe, oh come on Raven, it's just a little water. It's not killing you and I'm not aiming for your eyes or mouth. C'mon, have a splash fight with me. We both need to calm down a bit after what just happened. You have any pent up aggression, girlfriend, now's the time to let it out. And I'm not letting you say no. I'm just gonna keep splashing you until you lash out at me. C'mon, give me your best shot." Lilim says provocatively. Her words nor actions would be as infuriating as Pentre's, and plus they were alone, and Lilim was squirting her with small streams of water, if anything else, Lilim was playing with Raven, and trying to get her to play back.

Sally moved to intercept Pentre not 20 paces after he found Haldor and Robin, though considering they were on opposite sides of the brush she wondered exactly why Pentre had found them together when Lilim had left them hidden in 2 separate bushes on 2 separate sides of the camp. "Going somewhere?" she asks as she puts herself right in Pentre's path, not about to let him walk by and leave. If he shifted to move passed her, so to did she shift to stay in his way, "Momma Kitty not amused. Bad spirit go back to where master leave you." Sally says in a calm tone. Sure, Pentre didn't have to take orders from her, but then again, she didn't have to let him live if he got physical with her either. She wasn't about to let him cast her aside, and if he tried to, she really had no problems with slicing off his hands. Pentre wasn't about to sneak away while Will and Lilim weren't looking, because it wasn't just them that Pentre had to worry about. And Sally was going to make sure he knew that.

Raven would be sitting in the waters edge, watching as the waves of the water flowed gently, and it was serene....until water sprayed her in the head out of nowhere. She would flinch at the water and look around, before sighing and easing up a bit, only for the water to continue spraying her on her forehead and cheeks. She was starting to get agitated and was even trying to swat the water away to no avail, until she heard a giggling come from her side. She would stare at Lilim confused, after she had just yelled at her, she was now toying with her with water and challenging her to let go of some of her pent up aggression.

Normally she would say no, but Lilim wasn't taking no for an answer, and she was just going to continue hitting Raven with water until she played along. She lets out a long exhale before she stands up and cracks her neck. If Lilim wanted a water fight, she was going to get one. She would move her arms in such a way that would give her control of the water, before she would run towards Lilim and have the water slam down on her at rapid speed, giving her no time to react to it. Raven would smirk a bit, as she had to admit it felt good to get some of this pent up aggression out of her. She fully anticipated for Lilim to come back at her even harsher, but it was a water fight, hence the word fight. And after being enslaved to the humans for some time, she took most if not all of her fights seriously and never stepped down from a challenge.

Sally would follow Pentre alright, if only to make sure she could grab him and warp him back to where Will and Lilim would be waiting when she sensed their fury for his disappearance. She'd also take into consideration that Pentre would be bullying others out of their food and drink, a feat that her mistress would not be taking kindly to. Sally would be silent and followed Pentre back to the camp, caring little for his satisfied smirk.

Once he was seated again, Sally would move off to Merry and her group, quickly relaying in feral speak what Pentre had done so that someone else in the group knew that there was now a new issue that needed fixing. Sally would move back to her place and curl up to wait lazily for Will's return. Sure, Sally was a tattle tail in this regard, but she wasn't about to let a bully walk free, even if she didn't have permission to take his soul to the Tartarus where he belonged just yet.

Lilim would be drenched from Raven's attack, the pressure even forcing her down into the river and leaving her soaking wet. Opening her eyes into a glare, "Well... That was a little overkill... Ask a girl to play and get slammed face first into the river... It's on." Lilim thinks to herself before emerging from the water and returning the favor to Raven's attack, channeling a pair of streams into hands to grab Raven around the waist and yank her closer, taking her into the water as well just to drown Raven like she had just drowned Lilim.

Then Raven would get a bit more than that, as Lilim channeled the water around Raven into a bubble and sent it up into the sky, clearing the canopy a short distance and letting the water fall back down only to catch it again with her magic and try to put it harmlessly back in the river at a fair pace that wouldn't disturb much of nature. Whether Raven called her wings and took to the air or rode the water back down into the river to end up on her rump in the middle of the stream, Lilim had turned the steaming witch into a drowned rat, and would be giggling cutely at Raven's soaking wet figure.

Raven would be standing on the waters edge, smirking at Lilim until she felt a pair of wet hands slowly wrap around her waist. She raises an eyebrow as she looks down to see arms made of water getting a tight grip on her waist, before pulling her closer to Lilim and yanking her in the water, keeping her submerged as she stared at Lilim. Though it would appear she wasn't done. Lilim had started channeling the water to form a bubble around her, before lifting her high up in the air, all the while Raven remained trapped in the bubble, thinking to herself as she held her breath.

"Geez, she asked me to lash out at her and give it my best shot and she traps me in a water bubble..."

She says before shes gently floated down towards the river. Once she was closer to the ground and the bubble dispersed, she would fall but a short distance into the stream, landing on her rump as she worked to move the soaking wet hair at her face, to stare at a giggling Lilim. Raven literally looked like a drowned rat, and she would shake her head as she grabbed Lilim's leg and yanked on it, sending Lilim flying onto her back to be under the water as well, which in turn would cause Raven to giggle as well before it turned into full blown laughter.

Lilim yelped as she was grabbed by the ankle and brought into the water with a sound splash. She'd lay there for several seconds and listen to Raven laughing, which would make her smile, "Finally." she says, sitting up in the river, "It's about time you cracked a smile ya brat! Glad I was able to get you to let it out." she says as she channels a small plume of water into an orb the size of a softball and throws it at Raven, hitting her in the chest with it just to cover her in more water.

Considerably a much lighter blow than prior, but perhaps enough to provoke Raven into a lighter retaliation?

Raven would wipe a happy tear from her eye as she see's Lilim lay there for a moment before sitting up. She turns to look at Lilim curiously as she mentioned that it was about time she smiled, and seemed to be happy that she managed to get it out of Raven. She pretends to pout, turning away from Lilim so her back was facing Lilim's face, and crossing her arms. If Lilim moved to be in front of her, she would be getting all teary eyed, though it was just a facade.

"Who you calling a brat..."

She says before turning back to her and noticing the softball size orb of water floating in the air, aiming itself so that it would splash against Raven's chest. She considered this an act of war, and would chuckle before standing up and turning to Lilim. Slowly the water would rise, forming a giant wave behind Raven, and it would grow to be so tall that it even loomed over the trees. She would wait to see Lilim's expression, taking in the look on her face that said that this was overkill for such a light splash of water. Though the wave wouldn't be fired at Lilim. Oh no. A basketball sized orb would slowly emerge from the giant wave and hover over Lilim's head, before plummeting down on top of Lilim, soaking her even more in the head. The giant wave would recede back into it's natural flowing river like state, as it returned to normal and Raven couldn't help but laugh even more as she held onto her sides at the look on Lilim's face.

Lilim's smile would be replaced with a frown and her expression would get a little fearful as Raven held the water looming over Lilim's head, only to drop a water ball of her own on Lilim and let the rest return safely to the stream. Lilim would close her eyes as the water splashed over her head and kept her eyes closed as her bangs draped into her eyes. She'd sigh and move to hug Raven, done with their splash fight at last.

She felt it had gotten out of hand and she was ready to stop, so she'd give Raven a hug in an attempt to call it off, "I'm glad you're feeling better now, Raven... Don't stay here too long, ok? The rest of us need you." she says in a half sorrowful tone before moving away from Raven and hovering almost back to the side of the river. Holding her hands up in front of her chest, she'd channel what was left of the water energy she had absorbed and commanded the water to leave her body and clothing, dispersing it back into the stream to not only have her dry and comfortable, but now clean as well. "I'mma go check on the others, ok? We kinda left them all alone with our favorite armored worm." she says sarcastically as she refers to Pentre. She had yet to bother learning his name and honestly didn't really care to know it. Calling him by lesser nicknames worked just fine for her.

Lilim would return to find Haldor and Robin up and about for some reason, though they both should have still been asleep and both still looked exhausted, sending a glare to Pentre before moving off to talk to Rabin and Haldor, one by one if needed, and if such was the case she'd address Robin first, "Hey... You feeling ok? I have my doubts you're fully recovered after last night. You should get some more rest, Robin. If you push yourself too much, you'll work yourself into an early grave." she says considerately.