Just drop it!’ I shouted and then walked out of his room. ‘No!’ he called after me. As I walked through the lounge I saw everyone turn and stare... at me. ‘I need to know.’ ‘No you don’t,’ I called back to him as I reached the door. ‘Please, Edie. Talk to me.’ ‘I’m sorry,’ I said softly, turning to look at him once more before leaving. ‘Trouble in paradise?’ I heard Jack tease as I closed the door. ‘Shut the fuck up,’ Spencer snapped just before the door clicked shut. The night was cold and very. We made small, but flirty talk waiting for the line to move she was ahead of me, and had a hand full of checks to cash, She was done quickly and left the bank giving me a wink as she passed on the way out. I just shrugged it off as I did not think I would ever see or meet her again. I took a while in the bank and got everything straightened out that I needed to and left.I did not see her at first as she was over near the corner of the building. But there she was when I left the bank . “I can’t believe it. You shouldn’t be here though. I’m not alone.”“I don’t care. I need to be here.”He moved forward, closer to her. They stood face to face. He leaned in and pressed his lips against hers. Before she had a chance to resist, he wrapped his arms around her and pressed their bodies together. She tried to resist, but he wouldn’t let go. Their lips pressed together harder, more urgent; their passion building. Her lips parted allowing his tongue to slip into her mouth. . “Frustrating but not entirely unexpected. I am suffering less because of my higher level. You are still at 20 mana after all this, we’re doing OK” Axel said.“I can deal with this as long as it doesn’t get any worse,” Rayner said.Axel didn’t see any kind of debuff indicator and he heard from Barny it existed. Meaning this was a result of the effort they expended fighting the effects of the miasma, not the direct cause of the miasma. The difference being they didn’t have a problem they couldn’t.