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[Henrietta has been feeling a bit stressed lately, and so, to relieve that stress, she has created an obstacle course with her Angelic Powers of Making Things. There are climbing walls, nets to crawl under, things to swing across--all of the cliches of military training movies, with one exception; the consequences for failing these obstacles is a touch more dangerous than falling in the mud. The swing rope goes over a pit of spikes; as she climbs the wall, the slats fall down behind her. With each obstacle the consequences for failure become a bit more severe, until the last one has her rolling out of the way of a crushing block of stone and across the finish line.

She scrambles to her feet, looks back, and goes to check her pulse--only to realize for the first time that she's not breathing.]

...w...what?!

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No it's not.

If you're just training? It is. No reason to get yourself hurt warming up.

No it's not. It's absolutely not.

Why not?

Because you have to treat training like missions.

It's alright to start out slow if you haven't done it in a while. This whole thing... it's overkill.

[mrrt] But I need to stay ready for when I go back.

Then work up to it. You're just putting yourself in danger if you start off full-blast like this.

But I'm going to go home when the experiment is over. I don't know when that will be. I have to be ready.

... and what if you get hurt and have to go home then?

Then they'll repair me.

[:\] But you don't need to risk it.

But I do! [Presses her face into her hands] What if I'm way behind the others? What if I go back and I can't keep up? I need to practice more. I need to be good enough for when I go home again. [Of course, avoiding the issue of what triggered this spate of X-TREME TRAINING!!!! in the first place]

... Henrietta. I didn't say you shouldn't train. I'm just saying you shouldn't do too much too fast or you could to more harm than good.

[He realizes something is probably up, but he won't ask. For now.]

[Wipes at her eyes. She looks nigh-on exhausted.] What should I do, then?

Take a break for now. Just a small one. Then... maybe some up with a different training routine before you come back to something like this.

[Of course, Chris is hoping whatever she comes up with will distract her long enough for him to come up with a spell to take out the really dangerous stuff if she doesn't do it herself. :|]

[She hugs herself] I miss Triela.

... Triela?

Triela. She's one of the cyborgs. [wiping at her eyes again] I miss her. I miss Rico. I really miss Signore Jose. I really, really.... [crying now]

H-hey... [fhsdkln CRYING. D: He kneels down.] Don't... You'll get to go back home, okay?

I w-wish the Twins would leave me alone. I'm just causing trouble like this. I liked it, at first, but then that angel came and signore Crowley had to make a deal and it's all my fault.

[Make a deal?] ... I know. But how is it your fault? You just said it yourself. The Twins did this.

But the angel came for me! And signore Crowley got knocked through the wall and now he can't make things any more.

[... oshi—] Came for you because the Twins changed you. You couldn't help that.

B...but I could have traded instead.