After this whole trip to Baska, she felt so tired and something felt like poking her in a wrong way. Like someone pushed a dagger through her stomach and took it out and pushed it in again. Which had her worried and made her walk slower and had her focus on something else. It happened as she had set foot in Baska, as if it was Baska that had done something to her. She struggled to continue on but Hecate pushed her and Jupiter guided her and she couldn't sit down if the two of them were making up a plan. She had no idea where they would bring her but she followed. Something was wrong, very wrong, and she had no idea what she would do but than she noticed the big building and she felt like crying. She didn't want to go to a hospital, not after what happened in Hargeon and besides, it always made her believe something was wrong.

Finally they entered the gardens and Hecate pushed her shins but she couldn't continue anymore. There was an almost invisible trail of tears on her left cheek, as apparently she managed not to cry with her right and she needed to sit down on one of the benches that was around the pond. She sat down, leaned backward to look up at the gray sky, as if it was going to snow here as well! She had to calm down and calm her breathing otherwise the pain in her well stomach would get worse. Nothing could be seen about the red haired girl sitting on a bench, the only reason you could guess that something was wrong was because her companions were looking at her.

Hecate had her ears dropped as well as her tail and she stood close to Alice her left leg while Jupiter had his front paws on the bench as well and his head close to her to lick the tears away. For a grumpy little man, he was absolutely very worried about Alice all the time and the little peach. All three of them had no eye for anyone else in the area.

Someone showed up but Alice had no idea, she had her eyes closed, was not so alert as when she was a cat, which was a long story but Hecate immediately stood in front of Alice, trained well enough the two of them and it was that she opened her eyes when she heard a soft growl next to her and a voice that rang out to her. Her golden eyes stared at the girl in front of her. She looked at Jupiter who looked at the companion, she had once seen a creature like that before with eh.. what was the girl her name again? It didn't matter. She tried to sit up straight and not show how weak she felt because of this pain. No one should see her as weak as she felt. So she tried to smile and look at the girl with a raised eyebrow because she acted a little strange.

For a second Alice believed that the girl had been staring at her breast but she wasn't entirely sure but that blush was very strange. She looked at Jupiter who still had his eyes on the companion and not on her, yet his front paws were still on the bench. Strange circumstances as usu.. aw. She flinched, shutting her right eye to avoid showing much more pain. She heard the girl ask her if she was a hospital patient, "No, I am afraid I will be."

She shouldn't be so melodramatic, it was just a check up because of the pain right, so that's why she had said she might soon be. She should be far more positive, in Nanuq they had told her that she was fine. That's when she noticed the pale face of the girl, her expressions were far from boring and Alice found her interesting, until what she said. Which changed the lieutenant her cheeks into crimson red and she stared down and noticed she had not closed her jacket and the baby bump was easily seen in the thin sweater that she was wearing underneath. Which made her quickly close her jacket and look at Jupiter, they were not allowed to tell. What if the Knights would find out. She had to sit back in a house behind windows so no one would see. Jupiter growled only more while Hecate was too curious to notice as she was getting closer to the Growlithe to investigate what sort of thing that was, obviously a companion, Hecate knew but she was curious.

Even though she had been surprised and embarrassed, it was suddenly very funny and she started to laugh, her shoulders shaking and she held on to the little bump, how could someone be so worried, "Don't worry, I have four more months to go." It hurt a little more now that she was laughing but she also noticed less. She brushed away the tears on her cheeks from laughing like that and looked at the girl with an amused smile, she nodded slightly when she suggested the idea about a nurse but pushing it away, "I have been in a hospital far too long about two months ago. It had nothing to do with this little peach but still not a fan."

She nodded a little when she just wanted to assure that it was the same as her, she was a mage that didn't like to sit still indeed, that were going to be tough last months, "They told me last week that it's a girl, just like I thought." She said, for the first time calming down, not minding to talk about it or well last time she spoke about the baby with Kon and that made her happy as well, there was still a little bit of panic because what if the knights would hear, what would the Council do?

Alice was a bit lost in thoughts as well as the girl had said something about a husband. Did people immediately think that old fashioned? She had thought that it happened more often and that Kon was perhaps a bit exaggerating about needing to marry for honour and the like but suddenly she wasn't so sure if it was exaggerating at all. She looked back at the girl when she spoke about not being too active, which was a tough thing to do if you were a lieutenant but she wouldn't tell that, she had to protect herself against the Council. "You are right. Next time I take a train instead of walking all the way from Nanuq to Baska." She showed a sheepish smile and petted Jupiter who calmed down a little and hoped on the bench to look at the strangers, she would roll her eyes because of his stern look.

Hecate on the other hand joined in to play, something that didn't happen often and it was fun or so Alice thought when she looked at the Glaceon and she turned to look at the girl with a smile but noticed the pained expression on her face, "Please sit down." There was enough room next to her with Jupiter only on the right side of her and the edge of the bench. She stared with big eyes at the girl when she said something happened with a Lycan, she only knew Yami but there were far more she was aware of that. "A atta.." she caught herself, she shouldn't hop on to a conversation if this girl didn't want to tell anything, "Would you mind to tell me more?" She said and it was probably better to explain why she was so curious and as she had tried to hide it, there was always a reason to talk about it, "I work with the Rune Knights, apart from being curious, it is good to tell what happened so we could do something about it," she really felt like a pushy person at the moment.

When the conversation turned to the gender of her baby, she smiled because of the happiness of the girl next to her, she was excited about a girl as well, "Well I have her dad to work on that." But she felt flattered. That's when she realized that she had not introduced herself because she introduced herself as Esperia, with some fancy surname, "Alice, Alice Baskerville. Nice to meet you."

She didn't always plan to tell people that she worked for the Rune Knights, obviously not everyone was always happy to hear about it. With a risk to have such a reaction she told Esperia that she was a Rune Knight and that's why she wanted to know more about her recent attack. Esperia though answered happily and saying that it sounds amazing. Well yeah it did, she was doing a lot of good jobs but the Council and with that the knights weren't always her friends and she had just broken one of the rules that they had given her after her month in Hargeon Hospital. But maybe she had made up her mind and was she done with wondering about the.. she had been thinking too much to listen to Esperia but in that matter of seconds she caught the words Holy Knight. Which immediately brought her attention back, missing the fact that Esperia had a girlfriend and that the girlfriend didn't like knights.

Since Kon had invited her to think about joining the Holy Knights, she heard the word pop up everywhere. She nodded when Esperia spoke, she frowned though because the way Esperia said it made it past tense and that could only mean one thing, but Alice hoped she was being dramatic and her sister had simply left the Rune Knights. "That are very wise words." She didn't want to say more and see if Esperia wanted to talk more about it, she couldn't help but gasp when she was told that Esperia her family was murdered, five years ago including her sister. Again she kept her lips unmoved when she told Alice that her sister didn't say anything about such a relic or talk about her job in general, which was exactly what Kon did but she came to respect that. He told her as much as he could and so she only could nod to understand what Esperia meant.

She shivered a little when she listened about the encounter with the lycans and how she was hurt in her back and even though she had seen a lot of things, she was sensitive for such information. But she listened and looked up in surprise about the information about the curse, which was very interesting of course, "Lucky indeed." She replied when Esperia finished her story and she wondered what it meant, it could be really the herb, if it was her sister she would sprew something about the Divine and the like.

"Like wise Esperia." She felt a kick in her stomach and took a gasp, okay, now it was getting annoying. She turned to the girl and looked at Hecate and the Growlithe, how Hecate gave a little tick to the Growlithe to run away and run back, it seemed like a fun game. "I have never seen her so active and happy." which wasn't entirely true, she had been very happy back in Nanuq with the snow. Jupiter looked as if it offended him such childplay.

Alice couldn't help but giggle a bit about the way Esperia described Agni, "That sounds familiar in a way, I know someone that is very wary of everyone though, thinking they are always a threat to me." She turned her golden hues to the creature that sat next to her on the bench and he stared at her with his own eyes narrowed, "Admit it Jupiter." but the Jolteon looked away as if to avoid saying anything at all and she could only laugh a bit more, "He doesn't even like my fiance." She heard a growl coming from Jupiter and she tried to not giggle again but turned back to Esperia, "Hecate over there is a lot easier. She does a lot to stick with me but she seems to enjoy things more than the grumpy one over here."

"Oh?" she said surprised when she heard more about Esperia her companion, "You two seem already very close for as far as I noticed." She of course hadn't paid attention to it all the time, but the pain was now subdueing so she was doing better. She didn't know why but Agni reminded her off Ophelia, something that didn't happen much often anymore. "An evolution isn't always something bad, before I was lucky to get these two I had.." she sighed, "I had another companion a Cleffa called Ophelia, she was always with me and she seemed to be exicted to grow up and change into a Clefairy but I thought it would mean she would change and become something different so I was more or less afraid that it would happen, but once it did, it seemed that she was more excited and seemed to be able to do far more than when she was but a little cleffa, it is something that they want and once they are ready it would happen. So you don't rush him, it is his own decision." She wondered what she was now actually trying to say with this because it seemed like there was no message at all, "What I mean is, don't be afraid, when it happens, it had to happen." She still believed she was making no sense at all but sort of gave up and looked at Jupiter who intensely stared at Hecate.

For she had just avoided the tackle because she had noticed the pond and she made some sort of noise that she was snickering and stared happily at Alice and walked back to her, obviously the Glaceon hated to get wet.

Alice looked surprised up as well when she heard the sound of a splass, noticing Hecate strotting back as if she won the game and she could only raise her eyebrow. She shook her head slightly and turned to look at Esperia. "If I'm correct, he is a fire type right? Perhaps you could try to teach him into drying off himself with steam? Heating up his own body." she suggested, not that she would let Esperia sit here if she wanted to leave, she herself still had to get inside to get a check up after the pain from this afternoon or well from a mere few minutes ago. "I don't know if it is a possibility but I have seen Jupiter do something like that. He uses electricity and can coat his own fur with it to say it like that."

She didn't know what else to say but felt the pain surge through her body again and she didn't know how to stop it. She turned more pale than she usually was and tried to restrain herself from sitting and bending forward but she tried to protect her belly as she had done before, before she ended up in the hospital. She was totally gone from the world for a few seconds or maybe even longer. She could only hear the whiny sound that Jupiter made to get her attention, she didn't even feel his paw against her arm or his head against her shoulder. She had no idea that he was trying to push her to sit upright. What the heck was going on?

She didn't know what was happening, she felt also her magic activating in a way that her body became  hot but she noticed, so she could block it and wondered if a baby that wasn't even that much but a little peach would be able to use and control magic. Considering that the child maybe had taken away her requip magic, it made a lot of things possible and she tried to notice what was going on. Where was she, what had she just said? Something reached her in her cocoon of protection and she nodded, "That would be great, Esperia." Right she was outside the hospital, help was close.

Jupiter jumped off the bench, barked something to Hecate and hurried to follow Esperia the moment she walked away, as if the Jolteon didn't trust anyone, which was a close thing but Hecate was desperate as well and sat in front of Alice trying to get her attention, so when her golden eyes opened she stared in worried blue ones. It was no miracle that Hecate and Jupiter kept a close eye on her, everytime she seemed to walk into new trouble after all. She sighed and tried to sit up straight. Who knew, ony four more months.. which sounded like a damn long time.

Exit.