"Only one," Silence answered, still trying to open the door. It's obvious that she's trying her hardest to open the door through force, but she's not very physically strong. 

"Yeah. Be careful to not completely break the (censor) out of it." 

 

The lock broke, and the door swung open hard enough to hit the wall. 

Echo was standing in the middle of the room, her back facing towards the two. Her shoulders were hunched over a bit, her head in her hands, covering her face. She was talking to herself, each word incoherent. 

"Coward," Silence commented to Time, entering the room. Even in a situation like this, she still finds a way to be condescending. 

She headed towards Echo, reaching out towards her sister.

"Echo, are-" 

"Shut up." Echo cut Silence off. 

"Ec-" 

"I said shut up." 

Echo's tone was cold and hard, very unlike her usual soft voice that didn't mean harm. Echo didn't turn around nor did she raise her head from her hands. 

Laughter. Laughter came forth from the girl before them, slowly her head rising from her hands. 

"Awww, are my acting skills not good enough? I tried so very hard~" 

She turned her head slightly, revealing a harsh glare within the blackened sclera and grey blue iris. 

"Huh? What's with your faces? A silly grin and a big ol' frown!" 

Silence gritted her teeth and growled, "It's been a long time, Octave." 

"Hmm hm hmm~! It really has!" 
 

"What?!" Silence looked a mix of shocked and angry. She most definitely didn't know about that. Echo must have kept it a secret. 

"Yep! But it's been so long since I've seen you, Silence! Hmm hm hmmmm~ Echo doesn't say a lot, does she? She's so nice and quiet, such a wonderful person! Oh, but she's also unwise. Unwise indeed." 

Oh gods, is Octave going to actually monologue? 

"It's not safe here, I've decided! So I must clean this place up!" Octave grinned. "There's so many mean rodents who can't get along with each other! Echo gets so sad seeing her big sister be so mean to her friend! She gets so sad from her friend being so apathetic and mean to her! So, why not get rid of both? It won't be hard, Echo has given up!" 

Yep, she monologued and is now very slowly heading towards the two. 

"Yep! She's so tired! Tired of this word and of the cruelty! Of all the bad things that make her sad! I will make it better! Starting with gifting her a new set of red paint!" 

 

"Oh, really? She loves painting, so I think it's perfect!"

Octave moved to attack Time first, running foward with some sharp object in hand. She was being reckless, not taking her time to calculate or plan.

Octave flew back and painfully hit the wall, but she quickly was back on her feet. The sharp object fell from her hand, revealing to be one of Silence's throwing knifes.

She scooped the knife up from the ground and ran towards Silence.

"From your own blade, die!"

Silence held her pinkie finger up, blocking the knife calmly. Upon closer inspection, the knife blade had hit the long fingernail. The fingernail that was once painted black now shined a translucent silver.

Octave pulled back and tried again, but Silence continued blocking, yawning.

"Echo can even fight better than this. You would think you would have at least equal skill to her, but you act as a mewling brat."

"Shut up! You know nothing!" Octave screamed. "You can't even realize why I have to do this! You don't even realize what burdens you are to her! So stupid!"

She casted some kind of dark mass towards them. It was like some kind of thick, black liquid.

The liquid fell to the floor, Time's shield being successful. The rug sizzled and burnt, deteriorating very quickly. The liquid was some kind of strong acid.

"HOW DARE YOU! I AM THE REASON SHE'S STILL ALIVE! WITHOUT ME, SHE WOULD BE DEAD!"

Octave continued throwing the dark acid, trying to break the shield. She added in some sharp pulses of air, screaming at Time and Silence.

"YOU TWO MAKE HEE FEEL UNSAFE AND UNHAPPY! YOU DON'T DESERVE HER! YOU'RE USELESS!"

"I'm doing my best to cast a spell, (beep)!" Silence growled back. "It's hard to dodge and focus on a large spell at once!"

Looking closer at Silence, her hands are dimly glowing a gold colour. If anything, the spell is definitely draining Silence's energy.

Octave put her hand foward, palm facing the object. When it got an inch away from her skin, it evaporated from the air, a little bit of thin particles falling to the ground.

Silence rolled her eyes.

Octave put up a force field to protect herself.

Time will probably start to feel lightheaded, and will probably notice a lack of air. Unless if he doesn't need to breathe, of course. Anyway, Octave is now draining the air from the area around Silence and Time. Fun.

Silence tried to ignore this, still working on her spell, but the mix between the spell's side effects and the lack of air is making it hard for her to continue. She's trying to move away from that area, but some unknown force is holding her feet down. She's struggling.