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"Erza!"
The said mage turned around, startled but relaxed as soon as she saw Lucy.
'This is bad.' Lucy thought. 'Why is she here?'
"I thought that something was wrong.."
"W-What?"
"Turns out I did walk into the wrong room!"
"Oh" Lucy breathed a sigh of relief. But it didn't last long.
She realised that she did not have her bandages on! And not to say the letter she was writing was lying open on the table, practically inviting any onlooker to come read it!
"I'm glad I came here though.."
"P-Pardon?"
Erza's usually sharp eyes softened and a small smile crept up her face as she looked at Lucy.
"I wanted to talk to you."
Under normal circumstances, the celestial mage would've happily obliged to do so, happy that the re-equip mage wanted to talk to her. But now, the only thoughts that seemed to plague her mind were that of how in the world was she going to hide her guild mark from the observant Titania.
Erza looked around in curiosity, before taking a seat on the chair by Lucy's study table. Lucy's heart skipped a beat when her hand brushed past the open letter, moving it a little from its prior position.
"You have a very nice room."
"T-Thanks.."
'Calm down Lucy! You'll figure out a way."
"Why are you so tensed?"
"H-Huh? Oh! You know..it's just..like this.." she finished off awkwardly, gesturing to herself.
At first the scarlet mage was confused, looking at Lucy in bafflement, when realisation dawned on her. She hurriedly looked away, her head hung low.
"A-Aah sorry! I didn't realize!"
After that, Lucy awkwardly tried to calm down a flustered and rambling Erza, which was clearly in vain.
"I mean, I don't even know why I did that, you-you just seemed so familiar and at the guild we girls don't really care about that a lot when with each other and I guess I just sort of got carried away-"
"E-Erza it's fine, really!"
"How can it be fine? I disrespected you! You should hit me for that! I'm so ashamed and-"
Lucy didn't question the sudden moment of silence, instead diving towards her drawers for the bandages. Wrapping them around her mark messily, she then moved over to the still Erza. If this was about the letter after all, she'd have to cook up one heck of a story.
"Erza?"
She did not move. Not even in the slightest. Lucy warily put a hand on her shoulders, hoping for some type of reaction. Any at all.
But none came.
Finally, she leaned forward herself, only to find Erza's gaze locked on the little key holder present that Natsu gave her.
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