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Mac smiled knowing that Allen was alright. He knew Aria was slightly eased as well. "Do you want to see him? They said he's sleeping, but if you want to be able to see him yourself, then go ahead" he told her with care.

Mike made his way back up the hill to his home. It was surrounded by forest in the back, and the front had a nice view of the town and ocean. He opened the door and walked in, closing the door behind him. His house was and always will be secure, and he knew his haven was there if anything would happen. He walked into his bedroom and opened a cabinet with shelves of potions and other items. He pocketed about 5 small healing potion vials that held no more than a tea spoon worth of liquid each. He also pocketed 3 crystals that held power in them. Upon leaving, he also took 2 pendants with small vials of special water in them, "I need this in case we go places with no phones" he said quietly to himself. Mike had prepared a little for anything that comes his way. He then proceeded to rush out of the door and proceed to the Hospital.

((OOC: DO EET. PEER PRESSURE. XP Fear not, Lucky, you made a spectacular choice.))

Tianara glanced back at him, a little bit surprised. "Well, I...sure. I mean, I don't see why not," she said softly, looking uncertain. "I...well. Yes. Come on, it's this way."

She sank into reverie as she led him confidently through the caverns. If Joshua were feeling observant, however, he might notice that ever since he'd asked to see the home caverns, Tianara had gotten slightly tense - not obvious, but noticeably through her body.

As she moved through the twists and turns, she often stopped briefly to speak to another of the merfolk - there were several of them moving through. Some shot Joshua glances before moving on. Finally, they stopped in front of a cavern entrance that looked no different from all the ones Tianara had so casually passed by.

"This one," she said, "is the entrance to ours."

She listened, as though hoping she would hear something. Or maybe...not hear something.

Apparently satisfied, she turned to smile at Joshua. "Come in."

Tianara glanced back at him. "No, it should be--"

"Tianara? Odieana trasin cua dimle?" came a voice from inside. Tianara flinched back and shifted as though to block Joshua. A merman, looking to be about Nezik's age, came barreling out of the cavern. He seemed at least tolerant at first, but his expression shifted and became stony when he noticed Joshua. "Tianara," he said flatly. "What are you doing?"

Tianara, nervous as she evidently was, stumbled a bit over the introduction. "Mrian, this is Joshua, he..."

"I know what he is," the male cut her off flatly, turning that dark stare on Joshua. "How could you think to bring him here, Tianara? After what's just happened, and you bring a human amongst our own - I know you are young, but even you must know better."

Tianara took these words with her head down and her gaze on the ocean floor. She looked like a puppy that has stopped even trying to understand why its masters are beating it. "Mrian..." she pleaded softly. "What's happened was an accident. He--"

"Tianara," snapped Mrian. "Hush." As the girl fell silent, Mrian glanced back at Joshua, and a sort of cool disgust was in his expression. "Take your human out of here. He doesn't belong in our caverns." Not waiting to see if the girl did as told or not, the merman swept past them and vanished down the hall.

Tianara merely looked away, shivering a little bit - again, something like a kicked puppy. After a moment of uncomfortable silence, she said softly, "It isn't you, Joshua. He would have been like that no matter who I'd brought. Mrian..." She fell silent again briefly, then made herself finish the sentence. "Mrian is my mother's son, and he doesn't like humans very much at all. He particularly dislikes Kiro and I...I suppose because we're humans he had to live with every day."

She looked tentatively over her shoulder the way that the merman had gone. "I don't think he'll be coming back for a while," she said softly. "Come on, I'll show you around. And we can be gone before he gets back." It was obvious that she was terrified of the merman who had just left them.

Gesturing, she went inside, not without a quick final look over her shoulder as she made sure Mrian wasn't returning. What she didn't have the heart to tell Joshua was that she had four merfolk brothers, and all of them were pretty much like Mrian - only Kistad was kind, and then only when he was in a good mood.

With merfolk like that, the sort who would jump at a war, Tianara was even more afraid that trying to prevent it wouldn't work.

Tianara glanced back at him and managed a weak smile. She was trying to concentrate on blocking Mrian's anger out of her mind and instead focusing on Joshua's questions. "You look like you're about to burst," she said softly, trying to find the carefree feeling she'd had before they'd come to the caverns. Before the run-in with Mrian and the knowledge of what had happened to Adamantia.

"What do you want to know?"

She was looking around herself. The cavern might have looked just like any other from the outside, but inside it was entirely different, made warm and rather homelike by the addition of bright shells and stones and multicoloured objects. There didn't appear to be anything like beds, although there was a pile of kelp-like stuff in the corner that looked like it might have once served as somewhere to sleep. Otherwise, there were only some protrusions of rock.

Tianara smiled a little bit, looking around. Mrian's behaviour aside, and her bad memories of same, this was her home. She was happy to see it again.