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She sped, as a blur, out of the cave, and came to a stop right before Lumina. Her hair wasn't as immaculate as it was before. Dust collected along the shoulders of her jacket. Soot was on her pants and boots.

Katherine stood before her as though she was made of stone, but the hardness of her gaze and the slight glistening shine to her eyes was the only tell she wasn't as invincible as she wanted to posture herself as. Her eyes remained dark, blood pooling around them, with veins popping beneath the skin. They eventually vanished; the vampire retreated as the woman Katherine was returned, features smooth and eyes are dark as they'd been previously.

With her lower arm slick and dripping with blood, she held the heart in the palm of her hand. The heart was red and unmoving in her tight grip.

"Here's your heart to save your little bird," she said, tone a lot more sharper than she had intended for it to be.

As soon as Katherine vanished into the cave, Lumina regretted not agreeing to go with her. Yet she didn't follow, instead pacing slowly back and forth outside of the entrance, her arms swinging, her attention vaguely attuned to any sounds that might give her some idea of what was going on.

She didn't like feeling this indecisive, usually she just did whatever struck her at any given time. Worrying about it though, that was...not new, exactly, but not something she was used to either. She didn't like it, but she knew she couldn't go in after her. Even if she thought she probably should.

Ugh.

After a minute or two of silence, she stopped right in front of the cave, frowning into the darkness, and then looked over at her two lounging guard dogs. "Go help her." She said, pointing into the cave, and the two beasts exchanged a look before hauling themselves onto their paws and loping into the darkness.

There. She had done something, at least...

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Lumina had gone back to pacing when Katherine reemerged, and she hopped half-a-step back in surprise when the woman was suddenly there, her blue eyes focused on the bloody heart. Well yuck.

Still, after a few seconds she reached out with her gloved hand to take it, carefully and reluctantly, only to stop at the last moment. Instead she fished a black bag off her belt and held it out, open, for the woman to deposit the magical organ inside.

"...Thanks."

Katherine wasn't shaken, but she wasn't content to linger outside of the cave for very long. Something about the kitsune had unnerved her, burrowed so deep beneath her skin she doubted she could tear into herself and heal it away.

She watched Lumina with a tense expression on her face, jaw clenched and her eyes slightly wide. Her hand remained palm-up in front of her even after she had taken the heart.

Closing her fingers into a fist, Katherine's tone was clipped with only a sliver of a note of desperation, "Get us out of here."

The tenseness in Katherine's face actually surprised Lumina, but she knew she wasn't on much better footing herself, or else she'd have said something as snarky as usual.

Instead, after a couple seconds she just nodded, switching the heart-bag into her bare hand and then reaching out to take Katherine's wrist with her gloved one.

With a swirl of magic, they vanished.

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