"...Evelyn?" Gianna finally asked in anxious disbelief, as if she was scared I was about to disappear before her very eyes.
"Hi, Gianna," I replied with a loose smile, "How you feeling?"
She made a singular squeak of disbelief in return, involuntary tears streaming down her face from her red rimmed eyes.
"You're alive," Aurora mumbled simply, staring wide eyed like I was a ghost in human form.
Nodding I chuckled exhaustedly, "Last time I checked."
"B-but...The banshee...?" Mia stuttered, continuing to hold onto the tear-stricken Gianna. It dawned on me at that moment that the creature was still dangling from my partially concealed bow, so with a quick 'Oh!'-- I pulled it over my shoulder and dumped it down in front of me; it's now perpetually wet body landing on the laminated wood flo
