[She smiles just a little, thankful for the other woman's understanding. The situation is dire, though, and her expression just as quickly returns to a serious and thoughtful one. The horrifying shadow that dropped over her world, her friends, is still a sharp stab in her mind.

Mio sits back on her heels, a worried hand still hovering toward Huiwon as she coughs and struggles to regain her voice and breath. She looks completely unfamiliar, not only as an individual but in her nature. Mio cannot place her on Aionios at all.]

Everything became so dark...like it was all falling apart. Everyone else was frozen, even when i tried to reach out to them.

Then, I heard a voice... [It sounds mad, something that she only realizes now that she's saying it out loud. In some ways, it feels as if it happened in another lifetime; in others, the horrifying things she saw are embedded in her.] Apologizing.