" - Uh if I get really stressed I get these violent outbursts. Like. Go insane for a solid day. I'm not. Super close? To that? But my stress doesn't really go down on its own, and..."

"...If it's something none of my alts do it might be the Exaltation causing it. And I also need to know that."

"That is far beyond the norm."

She makes an unhappy face. "Great."

"...I'd hope we could get enough info to - stop whatever - without having to intentionally trigger that..."

Deep breath. She squeezes Luc's hand.

"...It'd be worth going through it once more to get it to stop. Including - anything you guys would have to do to restrain me. And my stress goes way down once it clears up, anyways..."

"I can provide a sealed underground chamber."

"That should work? And - I'm a lot less violent when I'm not around people. Maybe I could just - read or something once Elieyha and Naruto get their data..."

"I can accommodate that as well."

Small smile. "Thanks."

She takes a deep breath and leans against her girlfriend. To Elieyha and Naruto: "Are you guys ready?"

"Mm." She finishes her tea. "Now's as good as ever."

Serious nod.

Then, to Luc', voice low: "Do you wanna go do something else while we experiment?"

"That might be a good idea."

Kiss. "I hear there's a library around here somewhere..."

"Yeah, I'll just- Come find me when you're done?"

"I will. Promise." More thorough kiss. 

Kiss.

"All right." She pulls herself away.

And Ellayania can direct the others to a tunnel below the basements.

She's uncomfortable, leery. Still, she gets settled in, and waits for Elieyha and Naruto to give her the go ahead before messing with any charms.

They can reuse most of the arrays they developed for Luc', so after borrowing some ink it doesn't take too long.

Turning off the charm tying her to Luc' is extremely unpleasant.

There's a backlash of Essence through her, that reverberates throughout her Exaltation - agitating the stress circuit. Several things shift, coiling around. It's just different enough from Luc's that even if they applied Luc's seals the stress circuit wouldn't really be shut down - the base Exaltation is an entirely different design philosophy, and the stress circuit interwoven more thoroughly, more subtly.

(Mentally, she feels like she's teetering on something.)

Well if it were easy it wouldn't be fun. Or something.

Perhaps they can isolate one end, turn it at itself or something else.

Hmmm...

Naruto plays around with the shapes of things - he thinks this seal, or something like it, painted on Wyld could help prevent the ratcheting, though it won't address undoing the damage yet...

She can keep toggling the charm to test seal changes, then.

Elieyha keeps half an eye out for uncontrollable berserk madness while they work.

She does seem to be getting agitated. Still, she's taking deep breaths. Staying in control.

And, when they're nearly done (the backlash through her Exaltation getting worse with each repetition; it's definitely hitting her mind, power washing along the same paths as the mind control charm; it's also getting stronger, in a way that throws off their calculations), voice tight: "I'm. Close." Deep breath. "Do you need to - keep going - "