Carol appears inside the seemingly empty sub or at least a room inside the sub. This room resembles a lounge with comfy sofas, couches, a few tables, and even a monitor. Carol places Vaila gently down on the sofa before running to find Nate who she crashes into directly outside the door to the room. Micheal is with him along with Lady Eva.

"NATE!" she shouts, staring at him with fear-stricken eyes.

"Woo" Nate says grabbing her shoulders to steady them both "W-What happened? Why do you seem so scared? You didn't go swimming did you!?"

"P-Please help" she says, pulling on Nate's sleeve, partially dragging him into the room.

"Help with what?" he asks then his eyes land on Vaila's unconscious form "Who is this?"

"Please Nate...help mom...please" she begs, tears falling down her face as her worries outweigh anything else.

Nate hesitates before he goes over to Vaila's side to kneel beside the sofa. As he gently and carefully touches her hand, Micheal asks "What happened to her?"

Carol stiffens "None of your..." she begins but Nate interrupts.

"No Carol! You need to tell me what happened if you expect me to provide the best care for her...please Carol...for her sake tell me what happened to her."

Carol hesitates and she almost tells him but at the last second simply says "Please...help her..."

Nate hesitates looking at Vaila before finally saying "I-It'll take me a while...I'm not very good at healing magic yet but I'll try to help her...on the condition that you go get some sleep" he raises a hand cutting off her protests "She'll be safe enough with me and you can sleep in my room...feel free to take one of my pills if you need to but go get some sleep"

She hesitates for a second longer but nods "You'll wake me if anything happens to her right?" she asks and Nate knows she won't leave the room to sleep in his room.

"I promise...now run along, grab my pills and you can take a nap on the couch over there" he waves her away. When she comes back, after getting his meds Lady Eva is arguing with Micheal while Nate is doing some pre checks on Vaila, trying to discern the best method to provide the best healing for her.

"We shouldn't trust them dear! We should throw them outside and let that monster have them for dinner!" Lady Eva reasons if anyone could call murder reasoning.

Micheal shakes his head "We're not sentencing two people to a death sentence simply because you don't like the number of women near me! They need our help and we're helping them...that's final Lady Eva. If you don't like it...I can always build a jail to put you in until we get out of here" he warns glaring her down before he sees Carol watching angrily from the doorway. "This topic is over, now leave the room" he growls at her.

Lady Eva glares angrily at Carol as she passes her and whispers so quietly that only Carol could hear her "Don't get uppity little girl...you and that woman will never take my darling away from me and soon that witch won't have her claws in him either."

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"I'll leave you three alone" Micheal says as he heads out the door.

Carol walks over and sits down on the couch, too worried to try to sleep "Y-You can help her right Nate?"

".....I don't know but I'll try" he answers before he comes over to her and points at the medicine bottle in her hands "Take one and get some sleep...I'll wake you when it's over, hopefully with good news." She nods and takes one of the pills, instantly falling asleep. Nate pulls the couch blanket over her before going back to the sofa and Vaila.

"Alright...Let's see what I can do for you" he whispers mostly to himself as Cthulhu's voice echoes in his head.

"You'll never be able to do anything for her~ You're not strong enough to help her unlike your father~ Even your mother is stronger than you are~" Cthulhu taunts him but this time Nate ignores his words and starts trying to heal her. It's slow going since he's not sure what type of healing she'd need but eventually, after reading a book he had appeared to him from the ancient library, he figures out what is wrong with her.

"All her symptoms point to the bonding of anti-magic to her...she's still alive so the bonding was successful but she's in pain...let's see here...healing when the bonding causes the bonded pain..." he stares horrified at the words on the page "T-This is a really high leveled healing spell...there's no way I can do this..." he looks toward the sleeping Carol and then back at the barely breathing Vaila. His eyes harden a little as he lightly growls "No! I will do this! I have to be strong enough to do this...for both of them..."

Hearing Cthulhu's voice once again say "You're too weak~ You're nothing like your parents and you never will be~"

Nate opens his eyes "You're right...I will never be like my parents but I don't have to be like them..." He begins, focusing every bit of strength and concentration he has into the healing, letting the warmth and soothing feel of healing, the water around the sub feels calming, full of health so Nate draws from it, letting that bountiful health flow through his body to assist him with this healing. After several long hours of healing Vaila, he finally stops, falling slightly onto his hands panting in exhaustion, having pushed himself too far already but his efforts paid off.

Vaila makes a small groaning noise as she barely whispers "Carol..."

Nate smiles before he starts laughing hysterically. Micheal comes in, having been coming to give Nate something to eat. "Are you...alright?" he asks concerned but Nate just keeps laughing hysterically as he points at Carol.

Micheal understands instantly what Nate wants and wakes her up "Nate wants you up..."

Carol rushes over to the hysterically laughing Nate "Nate?" she asks, staring at him worriedly before a familiar voice barely whispers.

"Carol..." Vaila whispers again, one eye is cracked open as her body is now healed up from the effects of the bonding.

"Mom!!" Carol says immediately hugging her before looking at Nate who managed to stand but is still laughing hysterically.

"Nate...I think you should get some rest" Micheal says a little fearfully but when Nate looks at him, his eyes have changed. They're full of insanity and chill Micheal to the bone. Nate goes to attack him, Micheal can feel his insides starting to twist a little as if Nate was trying to use his own blood against him. Micheal is terrified and Nate seems to sense that as he lets him go and heads for the door as if to seek a better target. Carol looks at Vaila unwilling to leave her side to try to stop this insane Nate. Micheal takes a deep breath, his blood feels like ice inside his veins and he's terrified beyond belief but he can't leave Nate like this. His hand touches Nate's medicine bottle and he stares at it.

"Nate falls asleep the minute he takes these...if I put him to sleep then call my brother maybe he can help guide Nate back to sanity" Micheal thinks as he gets one of the pills out. He then runs at Nate despite his fears, he manages to push them aside to help his nephew. He grabs Nate from behind and shoves the pill into his mouth covering it so he'd have no choice but to swallow the pill although Nate struggled for a bit before he had to swallow it and instantly passed out. "I....I didn't think that'd actually work" he admitted.