Back in the real world, the empress kneeled and coughed blood as soon as she returned. An intense pain assaulted both her fragile mind before traveling through all of her body, but it momentarily stopped.
However, soon enough, the pain flared once more, and every muscle in the clone's body tensed up. Straining to keep standing, they waited for the pain to subside again, as it had previously done; unfortunately, it didn't stop, and panic slowly took over as, for a moment, a way out of this pain began to seem more and more unrealistic. The empress's clone took a moment to gather her thoughts, but even this proved a hassle and a pain as conflicting thoughts corrupted her mind.
