Slower, but safer

She put up a wind barrier around the bed and sighed, looking at her handiwork.

It almost looked like Helen was asleep there, minus the hair. "Well, I'll have to risk the hair." Aria muttered and went out of the room.

She walked down the stairs and towards what appeared to be the main meeting room on the first floor. Aria walked with slow and deliberate steps, looking like she was out for an early morning walk throughout the house. She paused at a window and stared out, at the sun breaking out from the surrounding trees. It was finally dawn. Night warriors passing her looked at the spectacle with strange expressions.

This girl stood here as though she owned the place, who would believe she had been brought here after being kidnapped. But none of the men or women dared to approach her. Aria seemed weirdly untouchable at this moment, as though she was not from this world, but an angel descended down to look after the world's affairs.

Aria sighed as the sun fully came out. She walked onto the first floor and stopped just outside the door, deliberating whether to knock or not. But she stopped upon catching voices from inside.

"I just don't like it. Traces of her bending are all around the house. I feel suffocated." Aria recognized the voice of the man she had head-butted.

"Cut her some slack Vincent. She's just a kid with a lot of raw talent. She doesn't know how to reign in her affinity with the elements." Edmond calmly replied.

Aria almost snorted upon hearing this. Doesn't know how to hide her affinity? She had been perfectly doing that for the past eight years. No one had been able to guess her affinity to fire until now. Her self important thoughts were disrupted by a woman's voice. "I like having her around. Her bending brings over a calm all over me. It's like an ethereal mist. There, but not quite there." she said.

"Oh shut up Meg!! No one wants your philosophy class now." Vincent snapped.

Aria focused on Helen as Vincent and Meg began to argue.

Great! It was good. She was safely out of the reach any of these people would think to search. She had also made a perfect earth armor and was moving around smoothly. A little slow that what wind would have offered, but safer.

She was brought back to the night warriors hideout by Edmond's voice. "Please stop arguing both of you. You don't want our guests to see you behaving so childishly. One of whom, I suspect, is just outside the door."

Aria opened the door as if on cue and walked in. She looked around at the many people in the room. A woman who she assumed to be Meg looking strangely happy, a man she assumed to be Vincent scowling at her, Edmond staring straight into her eyes with a smile, and many other people with different kinds of expressions.

She was still analyzing the expressions of the various people, all of whom seemed to be important to the night warriors, when Edmond spoke, "How is Helen?"

Aria focused on him and spoke, "She was quite a bit shaken up. But she's fine now. I got her to finally fall asleep."