Melsara's gift

Chapter 2

"No! No! Get it off me! Let me out!" the blonde screamed yanking at her restraints. Her screams bounced off the granite walls of the dimly lit room they had been teleported into.

"Calm down. Calm down!" Renska grabbed her face and forcibly turned her head towards him, "Somva, calm down. Please there is a latch. Let me get the latch."

Somva was too overcome by panic to hear his instructions. Luckily, he noticed this and quickly tried to unlock her restraints on her behalf. However, this task became more arduous than it should have been as Somva kept violently yanking at her chains repeatedly and she kept thrashing around. Despite this hurdle, Renska managed to tug on the release latch before Somva hurt herself or before she could accidentally strike him.

As her handcuffs clicked open, she was pulled backward by her inertia and fell to the stone-tiled ground. Just as her bottom had hit the ground, she immediately looked over her shoulder to find a woman dressed in black robes wearing an animal skull with protruding golden antlers. The black-robed woman was standing only a few feet away from her alongside two people wearing ominous-looking gas masks which covered the bottom half of their faces.

As soon as her brain began making sense of what she saw, she immediately screamed at the top of her lungs while charging for the opposite side of the room. By the time she had reached the wall furthest from the eerie trio, Radlig, Renska, and Nomli were able to get out of their handcuffs. The gallant blonde and the gentle brunette both rushed to help the manic girl. The ex-crook on the other hand chose to loiter while enjoying the chaos unfolding.

Sadly Radlig's and Renksa's efforts to try and calm Somva down only backfired. Her panic attack only worsened by the two of them huddling around her. Renska didn't take long to catch on to this escalation in terror and instantly changed his tactics by backing away, keeping his distance, and by calmly calling out to her.

Radlig chose the opposite approach by further closing the gap between them and which resulted in him cornering her even more. In her hysteria, Somva just kept pushing against the wall behind her while clawing the air between them.

"Everyone! Please back away from her now! Please back away unless you wish to worsen her condition!" One of the black-robed woman's companions, a green-haired woman dressed in blue scrubs quickly rushed in to stop the others from crowding around Somva. She kept one of her hands over her gas mask as she ran, making sure that it doesn't accidentally slip off. Her heavy backpack bounced loudly as she charged toward her patient.

As Renska backed away from Somva as per the nurse's instructions, he noticed a four-leaf clover stitched onto the nurse's backpack. "Guys, just back away and give the nurse lady room to work, okay?" Renska began helping the nurse by keeping everyone huddled around the wooden pole they had been shackled to. Radlig was the only one who didn't comply with the nurse's instructions or with Renska's request. He chose to continue his futile efforts of reaching out to Somva on his own.

"Young man, please head back with the rest of the group. You are only making her condition worse." The nurse's first priority was to get Radlig away from Somva so that she could safely treat her panic attack.

"And why should I believe any of you? As far as I know, your black magic has turned her mad!" Radlig defied her orders and was on the brink of retaliating violently.

In response to his aggression, the nurse inhaled deeply before removing her gas mask and exhaled a green mist from her mouth onto Radlig's face. She then began speaking to him in a soft soothing voice "I understand how this isn't the sort of afterlife any of you had been expecting. I understand how frustrated and uncertain you all are feeling and that you feel like you are being played with. But I need you to calm down and understand that I can't help your friend unless you back away and give me some room to work."