[12:59 PM]innsjo (glass🎸+ darcy🖋+ npcs❄):

Glass paused outside the hospital, where two corpse warriors were standing guard.

"Hey, you!" She shouted at them. "We need to talk to your God!" @sketti | Eben 🕶 + Isi 🍁

[1:01 PM]sketti | Eben 🕶 + Isi 🍁:

Eben stood beside Glass, his hands were in his pockets but one of them was degloved, just in case.

"We have to talk to Yeonaixho."

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[1:02 PM]innsjo (glass🎸+ darcy🖋+ npcs❄):

The corpse warriors mechanically shifted away from the door. One of them gestured towards it, letting Glass and Eben through.

Glass gave Eben one last supportive glance, then entered the hospital. @sketti | Eben 🕶 + Isi 🍁

[1:03 PM]sketti | Eben 🕶 + Isi 🍁:

Eben only nodded at Glass, walking inside with her. He was uneasy, this was a textbook definition trap, but it's fine.

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[1:05 PM]innsjo (glass🎸+ darcy🖋+ npcs❄):

When Glass and Eben entered the hospital, Yeonaixho was waiting for them. He was checking the stock of the shelves, but his attention was clearly elsewhere. Without facing the two, he asked, "I hear you two wanted to speak with me?"

"Uh, yeah." Glass nodded. She looked to Eben for support. @sketti | Eben 🕶 + Isi 🍁

[1:35 PM]sketti | Eben 🕶 + Isi 🍁:

"We know that you have been taking away and storing powers, and we are offering ours" Eben told him simply, side-eyeing Glass. No backing out now.

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[1:37 PM]innsjo (glass🎸+ darcy🖋+ npcs❄):

"Oh?" Yeonaixho shifted to face them. "Interesting. Tell me more."

Glass visibly tensed. "We aren't joining your cause or anything. We just want our powers gone."

"Oh, I wouldn't ask you to." Yeonaixho shrugged, voice calm and smooth. "Of course, I'd be willing to do that for you. It is a permanent process, though. Are you sure?"

"Yes." Glass answered immediately. @sketti | Eben 🕶 + Isi 🍁

[3:10 PM]sketti | Eben 🕶 + Isi 🍁:

Yeonaixhos change in demeanor made Eben a bit more uncomfortable.

"What's the catch? Do you gain any sort of control over us in this process that will last after it's over?" He didn't ask in an accusatory way, he's covering his bases.

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[3:12 PM]innsjo (glass🎸+ darcy🖋+ npcs❄):

"Of course not- all I'm doing is removing something." Yeonaixho smiled. "You'll be completely fine." @sketti | Eben 🕶 + Isi 🍁

[3:20 PM]sketti | Eben 🕶 + Isi 🍁:

Oh Jesus fucking Christ

Eben believed this statement to be perfectly reasonable, and wants to get this shit done.

"Alright." He relented.

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[3:21 PM]innsjo (glass🎸+ darcy🖋+ npcs❄):

"Wonderful." Yeonaixho smiled. "So, which of you wants to go first?"

Glass looked to Eben. "Uhh... you can go first, if you'd like..." @sketti | Eben 🕶 + Isi 🍁

[3:23 PM]sketti | Eben 🕶 + Isi 🍁:

Eben nodded, clearly tense. "I will."

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[3:25 PM]innsjo (glass🎸+ darcy🖋+ npcs❄):

"Perfect. Follow me."

Yeonaixho led Eben over to one of the beds, and gestured for him to lay down in it. "This should only take a few minutes." @sketti | Eben 🕶 + Isi 🍁

[3:27 PM]sketti | Eben 🕶 + Isi 🍁:

Eben did as requested, laying down on the bed. He seemed to be intentionally distancing himself from the situation, gazing up at the ceiling.

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[3:35 PM]innsjo (glass🎸+ darcy🖋+ npcs❄):

As Eben laid down, Yeonaixho placed one hand over their heart, another over their forehead. Slowly, he began to drain away Eben's powers... @sketti | Eben 🕶 + Isi 🍁

[3:42 PM]sketti | Eben 🕶 + Isi 🍁:

For a moment, it may feel as if Yeonaixho's palm was slightly numb. Eben shut his eyes and visibly strained himself, and the feeling went away, with Eben straining himself less and less as the process went on, as his powers left.

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[3:46 PM]innsjo (glass🎸+ darcy🖋+ npcs❄):

Once Eben's powers were fully drained, Yeonaixho pocketed the gray-green crystal that now held them. He sat up, and inspected his own hands.

"So, how are you feeling?" @sketti | Eben 🕶 + Isi 🍁

[3:53 PM]sketti | Eben 🕶 + Isi 🍁:

Eben sat up, not responding immediately. Instead, he looked at the lily sitting on the table next to him, picking it up by the stem, gently, with his non-stone, degloved hand.

Nothing happened.

Nothing happened.

He stared at the fully intact lily in wonder, gently placing it back in the vase.

"Better. Thank you."

[3:53 PM]sketti | Eben 🕶 + Isi 🍁:

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[3:54 PM]innsjo (glass🎸+ darcy🖋+ npcs❄):

"Of course." Yeonaixho smiled. "I did notice that parts of your body remained stone- I could fix that for you, too, if you'd like." @sketti | Eben 🕶 + Isi 🍁

[3:58 PM]sketti | Eben 🕶 + Isi 🍁:

"No, that's alright. It does have its purposes" He closed his stone hand into a fist briefly, examining it, it still functioned normally. He stood up, looking at Glass.

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[4:08 PM]innsjo (glass🎸+ darcy🖋+ npcs❄):

"Suit yourself." Yeonaixho shrugged, then turned to Glass. He gestured to the bed. "Your turn."

Glass hesitantly nodded. Eben seemed fine now that his powers had been taken away. She would, too. She laid down on the bed, closed her eyes and balled her hands into fists, and tried not to flinch away when Yeonaixho put his hands over her heart and head.

Glass's powers drained away with burning, aching pain- from the inside-out, she transformed from glass to flesh, her body continuously breaking itself apart and reforming. It was , quite literally, a bloody mess- her transparent form revealed all the gruesome detail of her reformation. It lasted only minutes, but it could've been an eternity for glass. She screamed as her powers were taken away- a shrill, pained sound that pierced through the bustle of the hospital.

The last to transform was her skin- pale and pallid, under a paper-thin layer, bubble-like of crystal glass. Yeonaixho moved his hand away, and that final layer shattered over the bed, scathing Glass's skin.

When all was done, Glass put her hands to her arms, her chest, her face, measuring just how soft and malleable her skin was now. "Oh- oh my god. Oh my god." @sketti | Eben 🕶 + Isi 🍁

[4:24 PM]sketti | Eben 🕶 + Isi 🍁:

(writing his Ebens transformation felt because I rushed the last response)

The actual draining had felt no more painful than a blood draw, and afterwards, a lightness. His blood was flowing again, he could feel hungry again. The only parts of him that were fully stone now was half the skin of his face, his arm, and a few layers of half of his torso, the rest had been still organic enough to begin rebuilding after the petrification was gone. His eyes were green.

But with that rebuilding came a slowly forming ache all through his body, and a fatigue he did his best not to show. He was also breathing quicker and more often, as if he'd forgotten how.

(Back to our regularly scheduled horror)

Eben did not glance away for one second as Glass transformed. He did not flinch when she screamed, he only stared. As she sat up and examined herself, Eben echoed her "oh my god".

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[4:27 PM]innsjo (glass🎸+ darcy🖋+ npcs❄):

Yeonaixho pocketed the glassy, blue and orange crystal that now held Glass's powers.

"Oh my god- you really fixed me!" She grabbed onto Yeonaixho's arms, as if to prove to herself this was really real, and ran a hand through her hair. "Oh my god- Eben, he fixed me!" She was beaming even as she struggled to get off the hospital bed. @sketti | Eben 🕶 + Isi 🍁

[4:32 PM]sketti | Eben 🕶 + Isi 🍁:

Eben smiled at her, even as she struggled.

"Careful-"

He offered his hand to help her up, hesitantly, but he did. Seems he still didn't know whether to believe it, but wanted to try anyway.

He did not fail to notice Yeonaixho pocketing the crystals, but said nothing.

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[4:35 PM]innsjo (glass🎸+ darcy🖋+ npcs❄):

Glass gratefully took Eben's hand, still beaming. "The first thing I wanna do is eat a really big breakfast." She said to Eben, then to Yeonaixho. "Thank you! You're still weird, but thank you!"

"Of course, it's my pleasure." Yeonaixho stood, and walked off. Man has better things to do than this. @sketti | Eben 🕶 + Isi 🍁

[4:39 PM]sketti | Eben 🕶 + Isi 🍁:

Seems like a fair trade, they help save his dead wife he saves their lives, why not.

When Glass took his hand he smiled more, because there was no strain, no pain, no nothing. It was all fine.

Eben shared Glass's sentiment. "It has been ages since I've been able to eat much."

When Yeonaixho left, Eben looked around, then at Glass. "Let's leave."

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[4:41 PM]innsjo (glass🎸+ darcy🖋+ npcs❄):

"Yess.... Let's go. To the dining hall." Glass nodded, and left towards the hospital doors... @sketti | Eben 🕶 + Isi 🍁

[4:43 PM]sketti | Eben 🕶 + Isi 🍁:

Eben was right behind her, he did not want to spend another minute here now that they were done. "I..can't believe we just did that" he mumbled, as they left to the ⁠dining-hall .

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