Echo watched Marri walk into the bathroom and then turned to Momona once the door closed. "Did she feed on you?"

Momona touched the bandage patch on her neck and sighed. "I made the dumb choice of waking her up without food and got bit for it. She didn't even wake up for it if you could believe it."

"And you're okay?! Her being asleep while feeding is far more dangerous!" Echo pulled a green potion out of her trench coat and offered it to Momona.

Momona pushed the potion back at Echo and sat next to Marri's angel. "She woke before I lost too much blood and used clotting gel to stop me from bleeding out."

Echo glanced at the angel with a bit of confusion before turning back to Momona. "What happened after that?"

"She looked ready to break down, so I told that it sucked." Momona snickered at the flat expression Echo gave her.

"She broke down laughing, so I say she gave it a pass. That aside, she calmed down enough to get the replenishment potion in my desk and give it to me." Momona scriched under the angel's chin, eliciting purrs from them.

Echo groaned at how unserious the bunari in front of her was being. "She almost killed you. Could you please be at least a little serious? We have no idea how dangerous she'll be if she breaks, and accidentally killing someone who helped her would do wonders for that."

"Listen, being serious around her is the last thing she needs. She might have run away if I got mad at her, and I wasn't even mad at her anyway." Momona let out a deep sigh and leaned against the angel. She thought about helpless the first moments felt when Marri grappled her to the ground.

"It was so strange..." Momona murmured to herself as her thoughts drifted.

"What was?" Echo stared down at Momona with a new kind of concern.

"The moment she bit my throat, I could feel her emotions. It knocked out any motivation I had to stop her." Momona shivered at the thought of it. It's probably why she has so much fear about losing herself to them.

Echo was shocked at Momona's words. That wasn't a thing for vampires, and they both knew that. "What? That's crazy. How did you know it was her emotions, though?"

"Because when she woke up, it turned from extreme calm and relief to dread and worry."

Echo paused and felt like this should be the end of this topic. "So, was there anything you wanted to talk about? I did get distracted by your bite."

"Yeah, where should we go to? I want to introduce her Kelk and take her to the park. Any ideas from you?" Momona pulled her phone out and double-checked where everything she wanted to show Marri was.

Echo mulled over a few different ideas before snapping her fingers as a good one came to mind. "What about a vamp pub?"

Momona hummed a bit at the suggestion, thinking about it. "Why that instead of my restaurant?"

"I'm not sure how much food will help her with at least some part of her being vampire." Echo noticed the discarded clothes Marri was wearing during the last stretch of her time in the fracture.

"She ate what I gave her just fine, but you might be right. Let's show her both and see how things go." Momona glanced at Marri's angel, who let out a low whine.

They both looked at the angel confused, and the angel got up and plodded over to the bathroom door.

The angel struggled with the door for several seconds before just biting the doorknob and turning her head to open it.

She went in, and several sounds of surprise and frustration came from within.

Momona smiled and walked up to the partially open door, knocking against it softly. "Marri, do you need help?"

After a long moment of silence, a weak and embarrassed Marri replied. "Yeah."

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Momona walked in to see Marri almost fully dressed, but she was tangled up in the hoodie, her head stuck, and couldn't get any of her limbs out.

"Stay still for a bit." Momona held back a laugh shifted the clothing around and yanked her head through the top hole, the arms shortly after.

Marri stretched, getting used to her new clothes, and sighed. "Thank you. I got tangled up, and I really didn't want to rip it."

With Marri actually being clean and well dressed, she looked like a beautiful girl with soft features and soft red hair that went a little past her neck. Her eyes felt less vicious when she wasn't covered in blood and glaring at everything out of suspicion.

Echo squinted at Marri in disbelief and laughed. "How did someone so good at killing fractals mess up putting on a hoodie?"

Marri blushed at the teasing and crossed her arms, annoyed. "The fighting was instinctual... Putting on clothes wasn't."

"Alright, alright. How about we go somewhere nice as an apology?" Echo offered even though they were going to go there anyway.

Marri dropped her arms and glanced over to Elpis for a moment. "And where's that?"

"A place to eat. We're going to two places I have in mind." Echo pulled out her spare phone and showed her photos of 2 places. One was a rustic bar that Marri recognized as the place where she killed the crocorpion, and the other was a goths paradise with dark and grim lighting and ridiculous decorations out of a haunted house.

Marri glanced at Momona and went back to Echo. "Sure, I could eat."

"Was I not enough?" Momona joked as she scooped up the dirty clothes Marri and put them

"I... not really. I'm sitting at 63 percent, and it's getting higher." Marri admitted as her angel shoved herself into Marri as a sign of affection.

"Alright, let's get going then!" Echo went to grab Marri's wrist to pull her along but stopped when she realized that she wouldn't like that and gestured her to follow instead.

Marri hesitated and glanced at the big cat at her feet. "What about my angel?"

Echo turned to her a bit confused. "Well, all you need to do is not be tapped into Yggdrasil and, well, you should know that since you restarted your channeling."

Marri wasn't sure what Echo was talking about, and it showed on her face. "Channeling? I never did that?"

Echo's mouth hung open, and she struggled to form the right sentence. "Wait, you were Channeling... you were asleep... do you not have a... have you been channeling this entire time?!"

Marri flinched at Echo's outburst and backed away from Echo. "I don't know what you're talking about."

Echo realized she scared Marri and raised her hands. "I'm sorry! it's just that someone's first time shouldn't be longer than 2 hours."

Marri rubbed her face as she calmed down and spoke to Echo with a bit of annoyance. "Could you just tell me what you're talking about?"

"Sure! When someone turns into a saint, they need to use Yggdrasil's sap to both use their powers and maintain. Hold on, I think I have a demonstration still on my phone from when I taught pulse." Echo lowered her hands and pulled up a small projection of a tree on her phone with golden sap flowing through it.

"So when we transition into a saint, Yggdrasil directly gives us their sap in a process we call tapping." A tube popped out of the tree and into a figure and dropped a single drop of the sap into them.

"The first time Yggdrasil gives us sap, it changes us to be able to use the sap with something fundamental as an outlet for power. We call this channeling." The drop of sap spread throughout the figure, and music erupted from them, killing the fractals that jumped at them.

The figure cheered at power before the sap condensed into their heart and caused them to collapse. "But as you would expect with such sudden power and unfathomable power as the sap from Yggdrasil, the cost on our bodies is heavy at first. When we can't control the sap anymore, it gathers in the heart and becomes unusable until we recover."

Marri groaned as the information settled in her and went over what that meant. "So every saint has a time limit on how long they can stay a saint?"

"Yes! Although there's a huge difference between how long each saints time limit. The main way to improve the limits is to simply stay as a saint for as long you can to help yourself become attuned to the sap."

Echo snapped her phone shut and put it away in her trench coat. "Okay, I think that's enough learning for today! Just imagine pulling something to your heart and say, 'for even the world needs rest.' If you can save me some trouble, can you also internalize us as friends so we don't have to struggle with the amnesia effect."

Marri did as Echo said and imagined pulling her strength towards her heart. "For even the world needs rest."

Light enveloped Marri and slowly faded with seemingly no difference in appearance. "I feel... weaker?"

Echo didn't recognize Marri for a few seconds before her logic told her who was in front of her. Her head ached from the process and mumbled to herself. "Or you could just not do it."

Momona, on the other hand, didn't need to figure out who Marri was and instead was interested in what happened to Marri's angel.

Everyone turned to the black cat with red eyes sitting on the floor. She looked around before jumping on Marri's shoulder.

"You look so cute now!" Marri gushed as she scratched the cat angel's chin.

"Well, that's another thing to add to the unusual pile. She should have dismissed into your mind until you tap in again." Echo said as she rubbed the side of her head.

"What about Elpis?" Marri asked while staring down at the tub.

"They'll be fine. I set something to tell me if they wake up." Momona left the bedroom and gathered a few things from her desk, putting them in a large purse.

Echo followed Momona, and soon enough, they both were ready to leave. "Alright, let's show you the city!"