"I think we have enough data."

"Okay. Just."

"...I need to be alone."

Deep breath. A bit shaky.

She gathers up her notes and her Naruto, and they take their leave.

The door slides shut behind them.

She turns into a tiger, first, because it's harder to injure herself, and paces, agitated, quickly, breathing fast.

(A storm of Essence builds up in her, rattling through her Exaltation - the stress circuit now looks like it was supposed to be a release valve and instead it's redirecting everything back in on itself, causing the machine as a whole to spasm.)

Wyld snarls, throws herself against the door hard enough to injure herself. Shakes her head. Backs off.

Paces some more.

The Essence storm keeps building.

(She's trying to regulate it herself. Succeeding a good bit, actually.)

Wyld starts running, as much and as far as she can, back and forth - turns into a house cat so she can get more steps in and so she can bounce off the walls a bit better.

The walls soften enough that she won't hurt herself bouncing off them.

That actually seems to frustrate her some. Still, the movement's helping.

She runs around until she exhausts herself (which takes quite a while), then collapses and turns back to human.

A stack of books appears nearby.

"Thanks," she mutters, curling in on herself briefly, then going to investigate the books.

They're all things her alts have enjoyed in the past.

She intersperses reading with pacing, the occasional small self-injury... Mostly giving herself light bruises.

It's going to take a while, for this episode to end. (To those who can sense it, the Essence storm is building, cresting, changing. It doesn't seem to be getting significantly worse, though, at least not with her isolated.)

It's still very interesting, even at this remove. They might have a few ideas to try out by the time it's over with.

She sleeps, eventually. (Her Exaltation continues seizing, waking her up frequently.)

It's the next morning before she tells Ellayania she's feeling better. She seems wrung out, but her Exaltation has relaxed, the storm over.

She's let out without fuss.

She goes to find Luc'.

Luc' is also going to find her. Hug time!

Hugs!!!

"Wanna spend today just. Relaxing," she murmurs into Luc's shoulder.

"Good plan. Let's find somewhere comfortable."

Kiss!

Their bedroom had been pretty cozy, and had a good start for a proper nest of blankets and pillows... Needs more, of course.

Additional bedding can be acquired.

The cost must be paid in kisses.

Of course. A rather good economy, that.

It's her own personal design.

It's important for every Queen to mint new coins in her name, after all.

She won't go quite that far yet. Keep this test case just between the two of them.

Awww. Wyld would like coins she could trade in for kisses...