Courtyard (North)

[shining_lights]

She nodded, sitting down next to the wisp, looking at the other half of her. "It's crazy isn't it? To think about it all...I'm mean...I'm dead...but not. I'm really only half dead...and Liz is only half alive. I don't know how we're going to fix this...but I think the fact that Liz and I are on e in the same will be the key..."

Lily said to Darius as she looked at the wisp. "If that takes alot of energy you don't have to...I mean...I have to learn to deal with it sometime right?" She said to him, a sad smile on her face as she did so.  

[TaiBaiWong]

"It doesn't take too much energy Lily," he began with a smile, gently placing a hand around her neck, "I've learned to control it a little better, that's why the real me can still move arround, he can't speak, but he can at least stay out of a coma for once."

He chuckled at that and sighed.

"It is wierd though," he began a little bit more serriously, "The fact that the two of you are like this does leave us with a perdicament about time. It might have to be a race against the clock..."  

[shining_lights]

Lily nodded. "Seems you've learned alot more about your power. I'm really impressed with you Darius. You've come so far...and look at me. I'm farther back than when I started." She said as she leaned against the wisp. Even if it wasn't the real Darius, it was close enough for now. She needed someone to lean on.

"I think it is a race...it's like solving a puzzle with a time limit. Everything is just so...scary. I mean...what if something goes wrong?"  

[TaiBaiWong]

Darius just shook his head, "We can't think about that Lily. Only think on the positive. We can plan what we are going to do later once Liz wakes up."

He looked back down at Liz, "She was really worried about you Lily."  

[Eternally Gone]

Returning from the dining hall, Yoshikuni Asuka decided that it would be best if she didn't train for the moment. It was better if she let her food digest a bit more, that way she didn't end up sick. That was the worst thing that could ever happen to her. As a child she had rarely been sick, and if she had, it was gone the next day. Nothing ever stayed long with her.

Sitting beneath a tree in the shade, she closed her eyes and relaxed. Yoshikuni Asuka hadn't slept the whole way here. She'd been too frustrated with her mother, her half-brother, and step father, whom she considered to be a third rank samurai. Before she knew it, she was asleep. It was relaxing, and something her body apparently needed.  

[shining_lights]

Lily nodded. "Yeah, we should plan. Plans are good to have...even though we never seem to stick to one." She said with a little smirk. Knowing full well it seemed they always ditched the plan and improvised...but it was good to have something to start with.

So then looked at Liz and shook her head. "I know. I could sense it...I should have left a note...or explained a little or something...but I was kind of in distress mode and I didn't know what else to do..." She said softly as she looked at her sister and shook her head a little.  

[TaiBaiWong]

"Well I guess I can start by locating your body," Darius began, "Then we can go and follow the area from where I get the signal and then we can work from there. How does that sound?"  

[shining_lights]

Lily smiled. "Yeah..finding my body might be good..." She said softly, looking down a little, when she realized she wasn't wearing her necklace.

"Darius...my necklace...it...it isn't on my...spirit body...why do you spose that is?" Lily asked curiously as she looked to Darius for any idea or explination for what was happening with her necklace.  

[TaiBaiWong]

Darius blinked and suddenly noticed that it was indeed missing, an idea came to his head.

"Perhaps it's on your real body and maybe that's what's keeping Liz alive!" he said in almost an exited shout, that possiblity although it may have flaws in it, was still possible.  

[shining_lights]

At the sound Liz jumped awake. "What? Oh I'm sorry...I must've dozed off..." She said a little sleepily before she smiled at Lily. "Hey...how are you? I mean...how are you handling it..."

Lily shrugged. "Umm...it's kind of hard to admit...but I think I can handle it...we're focusing on saving you...we think it has something to do with my necklace..." She said to Liz before smiling at Darius.

"That was a perfect idea Darius. Good thinking..."  

[TaiBaiWong]

"Well it's only a theory right now," he began slightly nervous, "We have to go and find her first. I'm able to do that but it'll take a lot of work."

His whisp gave Lily a kiss on the cheek one last time and then returned to his body giving Darius a little bit more coloour to his cheeks.

"But we might need some help in doing this," he suggested, loosly hinting as to who might do the trick.  

[shining_lights]

Lily nodded as smiled a little as the wisp kissed her, before going back to Darius and Liz smiled. "Good idea Darius. The hard part will be finding Lily...I mean...who knows where she died." Liz said before looking to Lily.

"Don't take that the wrong way..." Lily shook her head. "It's alright. We've got to talk about it sometime." Lily said with a shrug before turning to Darius.

"Who are you suggesting?" She asking, although she was pretty sure she already knew.  

[TaiBaiWong]

"Well," Darius began with a smile, "I think we'll need to inlist a couple of old friends of your's. If they are up to it that is."

He stood up streaching his entire body as if he had been sleeping and was just waking up. He then turned around to face the girls, a wide grin on his face.

"Shall we see the girls?" he asked apprasingly.  

[shining_lights]

Lily smiled and nodded. "Yeah let's go! I haven't seen the girls in forever..." She said with a little clap of joy.

Liz however, looked less than excited. She just shrugged. "Yeah, we can do see if there are there. I don't know what they will think...considering...well they can't see you Lily." She said softly.

Lily nodded. "Well...you'll have to make them believe I'm there then..."  

[TaiBaiWong]

"Yeah that's true," Darius nodded sighing slightly, "If only that golem had worked. Oh well, there's nothing that we can do for that one so I guess we'll be heading off soon."

He looked up to the sky and smiled, "We don't really need anything do we?"