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@❛ yu kione. ( i'm sorry for a very late reply ;; i hope you forgive me)

seele was still unconscious as her fluids cleaning the substance of the cactus she just drank, the mercenaries dragged her to their camp for interrogation. they wrapped her with ropes and tightens it while they put her to a big iron cage. right now, seele's mind is on the ocean, missing the sound of waters there and the fishes she used to interact with.

but as soon as the substance dissolved inside her, she starts to wake up but still in her human form. "a-ahh..." her head still hurts from the hallucinogenic substance from the cactus water, then she slowly realizes that she's bound with ropes and she was stripped of her equipment with only her adventure clothes remain, "did passed out in the middle of the dessert?" she asked before starting to call someone. "hello?! anyone here?!"

@❛ seele. "Boss,"

Music to Yuki's ears.

"What is it?" Yuki said, turning her eyes away from the engrossing task of intimidating the newbies in the company by hovering over their training sessions, she looks into the eyes of the man she trusts the most, after the spirit of her father.

"We found someone near our territory, unconscious. We are proceeding with caution." Sega says with a straight face, speaking matter-of-factly with his hands behind his back. He towered Yuki easily, yet he kept an air of respect that. one could only have for those that they felt were years above them in terms of age, strength, and wisdom. Yuki couldn't say if that was a true feeling to have, she didn't mind, of course, her ego wanting her to run in the direction of leading their troupe with utmost productivity. "We believe she may be with the enemy."

Yuki hummed. "Take me to her. Perhaps we can take her captive and find just who she works for." Sega nodded, turning on his heel as he led the way. Yuki would have to pester her subordinates for their weak stance another day.

As the YU Mercenary Company grew in size, their enemies grew even larger. They were a group for hire, without any sort of loyalty to a particular group. Yuki could demolish men in the hundreds for one client and then work alongside those men the next turn. It was always malicious in practice, but the more she grew to work coldly and without empathy, even more than her already snow-cold father, they would always run into those who had a bad mouth towards only the company, not the client. It could be their personal enemies, or maybe the word of the company working for their current client, a stubborn head of a militia that needed a few extra men for his coup, and they were dealing with spies who were trying to take down the coup before it started.

Either way, Yuki hated the dessert. The cold is where she thrived the best, but she dressed as appropriately as she could, trudging through slippery sand before she caught up with her men that circled around a woman covered in sand. Yuki had no idea who she was or her affiliation. "Bring her into the camp, and make sure to properly restrain her." Yuki said, only taking a moment to look at the situation. "I have a bad feeling about this."

@❛ yu kione. Just as she set foot into the grainy sand, she felt the need to bring more water with her. She could the wave of sands around her as she ventures her way to her next destination, Aurum. She gets her map and looks at the compass with it as she tries to check if elemental is on the right track, when she get the right direction, she smiled and starts moving her feet through the sands.

It was hot as day, Seele's water starts to evaporate from her body and she could not hold of her human form any longer, she felt her legs getting wobbly every ten minutes of walking. She starts to think her form is about to evaporate when she saw a cactus not far from her, Seele's eyes blink as she starts to remember her adventure buddy from her past adventures that he drank cactus to survive the thirst. She smiled and starts running over her it, she made her hand turned into liquid and touched the cactus, she starts to sip through the water of the cactus but slowly she felt dizzy and lightheaded, then she starts to feel ticklish and starts holding her body as she starts giggling. She doesn't know why she's like this, maybe because she had absorb something from the cactus before she starts hallucinating, her surrounding starts to became underwater.

With the hallucinations, she starts to think that Aurum is near and she starts running to it and yelling, "Aurum! Here I come!" Then she squeals before tripping into a trap and fell on the ground, because of the effect of the cactus, she fell unconscious.