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Aura looked up from the floor at the shout, one hand resting on the frame to the entrance of the courtyard. Apparently she wasn't alone any more. Any other time she would of approached. But also any other time, she wasn't drenched in someone else's blood. Aura practically looked like she had just stepped from a massacre. She did recognize the voice though. That of Ryo. With two others, of course one would be Dagan, the other she had no clue. She leaned back against the wall, using a shadow being cast to hide most of her form, but it also made her eyes change. She'd have to trade one for the other. "Ryo...been a while my friend..."

"I'm fine really I am. It's just blood. Nothings the matter." Aura pushed herself off the wall, no sense in trying to hide her blood soaked state, even if it did make a bad first impression. She smiled, giving herself a rather disturbing appearance, such a warm sweet smile to such a sinister looking state. "I was merely training myself and well things got out of hand, that's all. I would of cleaned up faster had I known I was going to have company let alone," She gestured to Elizabeth, "going to meet someone I don't know." Half hearted lies would suffice. Though she slammed up a block in her mind. She didn't need Dagan in there calling her bluffs.

"Yes...well you know I have quite a temper."Smile still in place, she played off the excuse that Ryo had given. It was easy to manipulate to her liking. Aura raised an eyebrow at both of them, arguing back and forth between themselves. Clearly these two didn't see eye to eye at all. "Ryo not getting along with someone..that's fairly new." , Aura whispered the sentence, noting the personal observation. She coughed loudly, an attempt to stop the yelling that was threatening to give her a headache.

Aura raised an eyebrow at Elizabeth, tilting her head to the side slightly. "Well aren't you a rude one?" She then shifted her eyes to more personable faces. "You think we could tone down the yelling? Stone manor as you know, terrible echo at times." She momentarily looked down at the pool of blood gathering where she stood then flicking a piece of blood soaked hair from her eyes looked back up to the group. "Just...the tiniest bit. Besides, others are trying to sleep." She gave a nod and turned from the group, her features falling back to the emotionless state that was present oh her face before as she stepped out into the courtyard, leaving only a puddle of blood where she had stood.

((Forced exit, blah, xp ))

How long had it been now? Aura sat on the sandy bottom of the lake in the courtyard, letting the water soak her and wash and carry away the blood on her. And the water would give away no evidence to the amount of said blood, it would merely disperse it and leave Aura lacking evidence of the cruel actions she'd been committing. She looked around as she sat there, it was so quiet under water, pity she couldn't stay there much longer. Just long enough to let blood slip off and until her breath ran out. Which was now. Aura broke the lake's surface, taking a much welcomed breath of air and made her way out of the lake. Very few traces of blood remained. She wrung out as much still red water from her hair and clothes as she could then made her way back inside where in the kitchen a bucket filled with hot water, and a rag became her best friends. Thus she commenced cleaning up other evidence, the blood she had trailed the smears she had made on the wall and such. Walls and floors clean in a short hour later, Aura emptied the bucket, refilled it and then left her sais and the rag she had used in it to soak.

Aura stiffened, clenched a fist and turned, still sopping wet herself to Azaireal. Try as she might, she couldn't give a smile to him. She was more of experiencing a mini guilt trip. "Evening Azaireal." She leaned back against the counter slightly, fingers of one hand raising to push wet hair from her eyes.

She glanced over her shoulder at the two gold sais in the bucket, then back to Azaireal. Aura simply gave him a nod in response not really knowing how to respond to the angel. What do you say to an angel about such things? Perhaps this was the part about angels that unsettled her, they knew so much, could pick out something horrific from your past even and some were harsh on judgment. If she could of backed up more, she probably would have.

Aura stood there, stupid look on her face for a moment. One, Azaireal saying what she was thinking, which of course wasn't out of the ordinary but he was oddly specific, and the fact that she had never touched angel feathers before. She shook her read and reached back, grabbing the sais and the rag, running the rag over the weapons, so not too much blood would be transfered. Aura didn't want Khai's blood getting on the archangel, that just seemed too wrong. She then held the ancient gold out to Azaireal.