[X] A proper mistress's duty is to look after her servants! Pick up Vita and carry her in the direction she was taking you until you get somewhere safer.
You stand up and glare in the direction you think the shot came from. You see a few buildings that could have given the right height and angle of attack, and you sweep your gaze over them for a moment. Then you turn back to Vita, just as she glows red and her dress disappears, leaving her in a different brown outfit. You are somewhat upset by this, and extremely envious - it seems that everyone has some way of keeping their clothes in good condition except you. You make a note to yourself to find some way of getting magic clothes like them, so you don't have to keep getting new clothes.
That is not for now, though, but for the future. For now, your duty is to look after Vita - she is (or will be) your servant, after all, so you have to take care of her. You lean down again and start to hook your arm around her waist, but you can see the strange cylinders coming back. You narrow your eyes - someone is definitely coordinating things ... you pick her up and jump into the air. From what you saw, the cylinders don't have much in the way of flight ceiling, so if you fly higher than Vita did you should be safe! However, the cylinders put on a burst of speed, and one of them latches onto your ankle with a tentacle. You sigh.
Glancing down, you see that several of the cylinders have wrapped one tentacle around the cylinder grasping you, and a second tentacle around some piece of architecture - a post, an arch, a window - in an attempt to prevent your escape. They aren't firing, though ... maybe they want to take Vita captive? You fly up as high as you can, straining the cylinder's grip on you - then you kick it with your free foot, snapping the tentacle and launching you higher until you slow your ascent. The cylinders begin retreating then, and you see two cloaked figures, one tall and one small, before the building blocks them from your view. You disregard them - they aren't stopping you, so they must not be important.
You ascend to what you believe is a safe height, and as you travel outward your headache diminishes further - in fact, it's soon gone altogether, and you smile happily. You feel much better, you have someone who will soon be your servant, and she's already indebted to you! Maybe you can discharge that immediately by having her get you some of those clothes .... Your ruminations are disrupted by the arrival of several individuals in blue uniforms with metal breastplates. You consider stopping, perhaps to ask for directions, but the possibility of them being enemies is something you cannot discount. Their uniforms don't resemble Vita's, after all. You're about to close your parasol and sweep them from the sky when they peel off, and Signum streaks past you. She slows and pulls herself upright, and you shift your flight path to follow her.
"What happened to her?" You shrug; she does sound a little worried, at least, but she seems to be upset about something.
"Someone shot her," you say. "She was fighting those metal things, and then they ran away, and then someone else attacked her. I didn't see who, though." She frowns at you but doesn't say anything.
It's only a few minutes from that point to some sort of command center - you see several large metal carriages, and there are a lot of people. Signum lands in one fairly clear area near one carriage, and as you land you see a blonde woman in a white coat come hurrying toward you. Four individuals try to follow her, but are blocked by Signum - two older girls, a boy and a girl. Your eyes light up as they settle on the girl, and you gently lay Vita on the ground at the woman's urging without paying much attention, because hovering about the girl is a tiny white dragon! It must be just a hatchling, but if she has a dragon, that means she knows where more are, and that means you can fight dragons! You've only fought a couple dragons, and those weren't too strong, but maybe she knows where really strong ones are. You blink as the woman's words sink in.
"What? Why would she need to go to a hospital? And there's nothing wrong with me!"
"So we can make sure there isn't anything wrong with her," she says. "She seems to be fine, relatively speaking - we couldn't detect the attack that did this, but it must have been powerful - but I'd like to make sure, and it's impossible to tell if she's suffering any side effects of the imaginary space overlay. Similarly, while you seem to be fine, from my brief examination, you were in the same region, and you look like you were within the area of effect of whatever hit Vita as well. If nothing else, we can provide you with clothing and properly identify you so we can contact your family." You pout; you don't know what an "imaginary space overlay" is, but you did have that headache ....
You frown as you look around, trying to figure out what to do. You see a big man in a blue and white uniform arguing with a shorter woman wearing Vita's uniform - as a matter of fact, she and the doctor with you are the only other people wearing that uniform, so they must be part of Vita's company ... maybe you should help her?
What do you do?
[ ] Go with Vita to the hospital.
- [ ] Do you let them examine you?
[ ] Let them take Vita to the hospital, but don't go with them.
- [ ] Go see the other woman in brown.
- [ ] Ask the little girl if she knows where any dragons you can fight are.
- [ ] Go back to where Vita was attacked, see if you can find anything interesting.
[ ] Don't let them take Vita to the hospital.
- [ ] Where do you take her?
[ ] Ask Headless for advice.
