And Acererak returns soon enough, the girl in her arms - asleep, apparently uninjured, but also appearing to be having nightmares, her expression twisted in fear.

"She looks like she's having a good time already."

"Perhaps she'll even be glad to see us."

"Anything's possible. I was thinking we could leave her in the cage to wake up-" she prods at her creation. It creaks and shudders like it could fall apart at any moment. "-And see how long it takes her to get out. And what her face looks like when she realizes she's still magically tethered."

She giggles. "And with us hidden... Give her a bit of hope."

"Just so."

Kiss. "I like it."

Eliese smirks smugly.

"Lightning Collar Hidden in Cloud Leashed to Earth," she commands, tapping the unconscious girl's forehead then pointing at the ground in the middle of the cage. A bright spark traces around her neck then leaps to the spot indicated before fading away.

"A pretty technique," she says, laying the girl inside the cage.

"It'll activate when she gets about ten feet away. Shock her right down to her knees."

"That'll be quite fun to watch."

"It always is."

She kisses Eliese - and turns them both invisible to outside eyes. "We're hidden, now," she murmurs. "I can wake her up whenever."

She kisses back. "Let her dream a bit longer..."

A deeper kiss, then.

Mm, that's good.

Acererak is perfectly content to make out until the girl stirs on her own (quite a little bit; the nightmare spell was strong).

This suits Eliese fine.

She pulls back a bit when she notices the girl waking up.

Acererak keeps an arm around Eliese, but also turns her attention to their new toy - who stirs and freezes, eyes snapping open, chest heaving, breath shaking. Her skin's slick with a cold sweat, pale and likely clammy. Her gaze darts around, taking in the cage - and the clearly deserted beach. The girl whines, then scrambles to her feet, immediately going to work on trying to break out of the cage - by undoing the corner joins when brute force doesn't work.

It takes a little bit of work to get of from the inside, but not very much really. Though the panic probably muddles the perspective.

Acererak giggles silently as the girl breaks through, looks around - and then runs toward the trees.

And Eliese laughs aloud as the lightning collar flares back into existence.

The girl shrieks, collapsing to the sand - the sound barely covering Eliese's (and Acererak's) laughter.

She lets her squeal for a bit longer before going over to drag her back by the hair.

The girl flails at the apparently invisible hand pulling her back. Acererak paces around her, footsteps intentionally audible. The girl's chest heaves as she cries, struggling, gaze rolling around in terror.