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Aura sat up in her bed, hair haphazardly tousled, only one eye open. Rubbing at her eyes she dragged herself out of bed and dressed, then brushed and braided her hair quickly to keep it out of her way. The task finished she lazily made her way from her room. She used the wall for support as she walked, still feeling the effects of fatigue from the previous day's battle.

And Aura barely made it to the kitchen, slumping down into a chair at the table. She honestly didn't expect to feel this bad. Perhaps it was the intensity of magic she had used combined with the physical strain of the battle that was just draining her. Perhaps it was a side effect to being phased by Khenu...that had definitely been something out of the ordinary. Aura crossed her arms on the table, and leaned her head on her arms, staring at the far wall.

Eclipse popped up off the floor as Saradin had entered and followed him to the kitchen, actually pressing past him to enter first. He sat on the floor between where Aurahkah sat, and where Saradin would enter, watching between the two. Was he really the only one who wasn't tired? He made a general bark as if asking the question.

Aura made an annoyed sound and waved a hand at him in a 'hush you're mouth I'm tired gesture'. "Not everyone can be as chipper as you all the time..." The words were mumbled, almost incoherent as he recrossed her arms.

Aura turned her head to look at Saradin and sat up in hr chair, covering her mouth with a hand as she yawned. "Hello Saradin...I see you're having just as much fun as I am...can I get you anything?" She brushed her bangs out of her eyes and leaned back in her chair.

The wolf laid down in the middle of the floor, letting his wings slack as he did so, just idly watching the two at the table, his tail swishing back and forth.

Aura laughed a little. "It always feels good to feel something like that for the first time." She rolled her shoulders back, hearing them crack and she sighed, following Saradin's lead, tiliting her head back to stare at the ceiling. She couldn't agree with him on the drain thing, she felt like she had been hit by a ton of bricks. She raised an eyebrow at the ceiling. "Want some coffee?"

"Thank you." She sipped at the coffee then set the mug back down on the table, looking to Saradin, trying to give him the best smile she could muster in her weary state. To someone else the 'we' in his sentence might have thrown them. But she had spent several nights up with Saradin just talking with him before he left, so it was nothing new to her. "No need for formalities Saradin...what do you wish of me?"

Aura watched Saradin for a long moment before her gaze slipped down to the sword on the table. A symbol of the manor? She had never really thought of it before, and the true owners had never had a real insignia to the place, there was nothing official, so it would be up to her to decide. But the decision had to be made carefully if they intended to carry it upon Soulforge. She looked to Eclipse a moment as if consulting him then back to the sword. Aura thought hard about the meaning her home had come to bear, it had brought about so many changes in anyone who had stepped through it's doors. Everyone staying here had come in with something horrible, but now were changed. Her mind ran through possibilities, then she smiled as it stopped on one. "A pheonix..." She mumbled it more to herself than to Saradin. Aura then looked up to Saradin."A pheonix..." She didn't know if it was the right thing or not but in her mind it made sense. "For everyone who has come here, has risen from something horrible to live happier than they were...'from the ashes something new shall rise', the meaning of a pheonix...I think it fits rather well..." She gave him a smile that was in itself asking if that seemed right.