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The wolf leaned his head into Saradin's hand. He doubted that Saradin's double would chance to lay a hand on him. One wrong vibe and the wolf would have a grip that wouldn't be easily broken, even for someone who could fade into the shadows.

Aura pushed herself from her chair, approaching both wolf and man. "I, dear Saradin, am ready to defend my home and my family to the fullest extent of my abilities and weaponry. I'm not playing nice anymore."

'Nice won't solve everything...anything rarely...'

"Nice won't solve everything. Perhaps I've been blind to the situations of late due to it." Where had all the smiles and laughs gone? For the time she had locked them away, letting herself fall into an old persona, one of merciless killer and thief, not afraid to take something head on. She pointed to the bands that encircled Eclipse's legs. "And with the right tools...I welcome the challenge."

She flashed a brief smile to Saradin, before also threading her fingers into Eclipse's fur. "For the time being, said problem won't be getting the best of this place or the people here, not while I'm awake anyway. Speaking of which...any more visits from our un-welcome guest?"

Eclipse's ears flattened very slightly, almost an unseen movement, as he shifted his gaze to the girl he had spent a good four thousand and something odd years with. Her thinking was clouded with a presence that had no right to be there.

"Truly a problem then. Any idea you come up with, he knows about, any course of action you can think to take. Yet killing him won't work either." She thought for a moment, crossing her arms. "A stalemate indeed. Maybe somehow you can put up a block, perhaps?"

"Interesting notion...like cutting off it's life really." It was hard to believe, even for Aura, that the plane could be completely closed off. She looked from Saradin to Eclipse a moment then back to Saradin. "What about him? Ever see a copy of him there? Or does it not affect him as it does us?" The thought intrigued her. After all, Eclipse had never been truly one of dark thoughts and such.

She turned another glance to her wolf, nodding slightly. "Seems you're the safest out of us all then. You had little to deal with before, and even less now." Aura then turned her look to Saradin. "Anyway to use that to an advantage?"

Eclipse let his ears perk, listening to them both now seeing as they were speaking of him. So he had copies as well? He guessed that if one had any intelligence at all to know the feeling of negative emotions had one, or a few.

Aura titled her head slightly, another rather plain emotion playing across her face.

'You've done it before...why not?'

She closed her eyes for a second and shook her head. Aura would hear none of that. Eclipse was her constant, not some tool to be used as he had proved the moment he was 'born'. "You and I both know I would never do that to him...it was merely a question."

Aura shrugged the slightest bit and brushed a piece of hair from her eyes. "When an entire lifestyle I've come to know and be settled into is being threatened, I don't take the offense lightly. Also...facing yourself in a mirror and seeing what you are is one thing...facing yourself in the literal sense is another. Think about it Saradin. I've seen one copy of myself, one that was not too pleasant. I've seen worse in a mirror...I don't wish to meet one like that image as well." No one, not even Saradin, center of the situation, needed to know of he influence, they at least had to think she was sane. Tellign people you heard voices that are but aren't there wasn't sane behavior.

'Lesson one, see the worst in yourself and feed upon it, become it, embrace it.'

Eclipse shifted his weight uneasily. He couldn't pinpoint what she was getting at. Her past demeanor perhaps? But then why would she let herself succumb to the dark thoughts that brought on her current demeanor change? Because she knew he could pull her back to being the sweet Aurahkah that everyone here knew? He flattened one ear back, trying to dissect it all.