"--that entity, then." The one Raine hadn't been able to purify from her. Raine frowned fiercely, coming a little closer to look at Valdis from a nearer angle. "Let me help. But we can't release her if she's still possessed; who knows what something like that might do with control of her..."

It was Raine's turn to pause at Kratos's question; she had an arte mostly formed, and she finished setting the pattern into place, held it there with staff faintly glowing. "Hm? Yes, something like that." Several more things made sense at once. "She attacked you. Are you all right?" Valdis surely seemed to have the worst end of the bargain, but the Void... Raine knew some of what it was capable. "Heal." This directed at Valdis.