Ana looked over at Eli, tears in her eyes once more. "Eli…" She had completely forgotten about the whole ghost thing. Eli grinned at her. "What? It already happened to Ella, it was bound to happen to me." She sighed, shaking her head (which was still aching). "I don't know if I should hug you or slap you for making such a dramatic exit when you knew you would come back."

(can I bring Ella back in?)

(yeah sure)

Ella materialized. She registered her blood-covered friends and Eli's ghost. She glided over to them. "Looks like I missed a lot?"

Alice shook herself out of her stupor. "You kids," she took a step forward. "What kind of stupid trick is this?"

"Dunno. Maybe you're going crazy." Eli replied, shrugging. "It was bound to happen sometime, Alice."

Alice's stony expression faltered for a moment, giving way to fear. But it quickly returned. "Very true. You know, this confidence suits you."

"Thank you. This is how I prefer it." Eli crossed his arms.

Alice narrowed her eyes. She took a discreet step back.

Ana turned back to Alice and Eli smirked. "Scared?"

She shrugged and smiled. "Not especially." Her gaze flitted to the knife she had thrown at Leo a couple minutes ago, that was now lying on the floor. Her hand crept to her back where she had another pair of smaller knives.

Griffin leapt forward, tackling her to the ground.

😭

Alice reached up and, grabbing his collar, threw him off of her. She jumped back to her feet and sighed. "Kids these days are so pretentious…"

Griffin grabbed one of her knives from its sheath and leapt up, holding it to her throat from behind.

Her shoulder sank. "Sh*t."

“Stay where you are and put your hands where we can see them, slowly.”, he growled.

(Should she escape?)

Eli crossed his arms, grinning proudly at Griffin.

Alice obeyed with a childish pout.

(Yeah is agree with you)

Griffin took away her other knives but…

Alice twisted out of his grasp, kicked him and the stomach and took off running.
(I have to go, control Leo and Alice while I'm off)

Ana jumped and ran after Alice. Eli disappeared and reappeared next to her. "We can't let her get away!"