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"Im Sapphire" she said calmly, "Im fine, I just need a moment to recharge." She said simply, waving the offer to be helped home away. She didn't always feel so comfortable around her own kind, seeing as not only was she someone who hardly trusted her friends, but she didn't get along well with others unless she truly knew that they wouldn't turn on her. "I have never heard of this... Rail road thing before" she stated simply, stretching slightly and yawning. It was true though, she rarely did have any sort of connection with other Nightbanes, therefore she hardly even knew anything about the world she was apart of. Nehru hissed quietly at her feet, moving from her shadow to stand parallel to it. "Why would I want to?" She spoke quietly to the shadow, but it hissed again, "Nehru....I Dont think its a-" Another louder hiss that probably even the two other Nightbanes could hear was made by Nehru, "Fine." She stated angrily. Then turned towards Ciel, or at least where she though Ciel was. "I guess ill take you up on the place to stay offer." She said simply, not sure why Nehru was leading her in this direction. Sapphire pushed a bit of hair from her bright blue eyes and gave a small smile.

Ciel smiled at Sapphire ignoring the omnious hissing noise coming from what appeared to be her shadow. "The Underground Railroad is an organization founded to help Nightbanes to stay safe and master their abilities. You'll get three meals a day, a safe warm place to stay, as well as personalized lessons to train you on your powers. It's really wonderful. In fact, they even keep guards on duty from the resistance just in case. However, the whole thing is shrouded in mystery. Nearly no humans know of it, and even a good number of Nightbanes haven't heard of it. As far as its location, well, only those that work and live there know of it. The exception is the Resistance. It's very safe. You've made a wise decision." She turned her attention to Ivan. "Well, I can't give you details on the situation, but there's no need to worry about it. Just a communication error." she simply stated. It was forbidden to talk of Resistance matters with those outside of it. Even if they were Nightbanes. Spies were everywhere. "I haven't yet recieved your answer, nor your name sir. If you don't want to go, then that's fine, but I would like to at least know your name." she said.

When he returned to the Seeker base, he was called over to among one of the other researchers, and they began to haver an intense discussion about why the lay lines even existed. Considering most of it was merely theorys, and nothing concrete, Knoll ended the conversation faster than it would normally have been.

With a sigh and a slight yawn, Knoll continued his walking. He came across a few students, trying to figure out some work that a mage had assigned the,. He didn't do the work for them, he he showed them some runes that may come in handy. He nodded when they gave their thanks, and he continued. He loved it when little kids were eager to learn. It meant that this world havea better chanc, once they stopped the nightlords, and returned the workd to peace.

Knoll entered the library, and checked out a few books on chemistry, and began reading them intently

He stared curiously at Sapphire's shadow, wondering slightly about the strange hissing sound, and what it meant. Though he still heard her words, and understood her initial concern, he was surprised to find that she suddenly changed her mind. In difference to Sapphire, Ivan had spent a lot of time trying to gather information on the different societies that had been created since he discovered his extra form, and even though he knew very little, he knew enough.

Staying safe and mastering my abilities, Ivan thought to himself, sounds fair. Though he still didn't trust the problem she had referred to earlier to be as simple as a communication problem. When she asked for his name, he hesitated again. To join up with The Underground Railroad, though safe, still meant he had to get far more involved in all of this than he felt comfortable with. And if he regretted his choice - what was he then left with?

"Ivan," he said, at last. "My name is Ivan. I would consider it an honour to join your organization."

"Well, then. Follow me." said Ciel with a grin. "There are several ways to get to the Underground Railroad, but the closest is close to the outskirts of the city."

After about thirty minutes of walking, Ciel stopped in a alleyway scanning the surrounding area to make sure there weren't any witnesses. She stopped at what looked like an ordinary deadend, but it held a secret. She pushed a brick further into the wall, and whispered a passcode to a guard on the otherside. The guard, using his powers, moved the bricks aside to reveal a hidden tunnel leading somewhere underground. Ciel turned to Sapphire and Ivan. "Come on."

Ciel led the group down the winding and mysterious tunnel for a good while with a flashlight till finally the tunnel began to change. It started to branch off into crystalized tunnels, and further down it, the tunnel branched off into caverns. The whole base of operations was a huge secret underground cave system with natural air venting in and out. The largest natural cavern even had a one hundred foot waterfall with pure clean freshwater pouring in from the local river. The great thing was no one knew it existed, and with the combined powers of several Nightbanes, the whole place is shrouded with a barrier to protect it from detection. It was also very beautiful. The crytals as well as the stalagmites and stalagtites, all ranged in a huge variety of colors. Ciel absolutely adored the place. She did grow up here after all. She called over some attendants to help Sapphire and Ivan get settled. "Well, I'll come back to check on you guys later. Bye~" she said with a wave. "Now, to figure what's going on."

"You bastard!! I lost four good men because your information was unreliable!" Red Leader Jason Korvick shouted as he shoved the man in front of him into the wall and lifted him up by his off-white T-shirt. Jason was a rather intimidating man and an even more intimidating Nightbane. Now in his Facade he still towered above the intelligence officer at a staggering six feet five inches and his well toned and built body filled out his frame impressively. He wore his brown hair short in a military high and tight and he wore pitch black combat gear consisting of pants, vest strapped with grenades, combat knife, and ammo, and combat boots. He glared down at the man with piercing brown eyes while he looked up at Jason trembling with his own green ones.

"I-I'm sorry sir, I got the information from a reliable source!" the intel officer squeaked as Jason's grip tightened.

"Sorry! Sorry doesn't bring back the men I lost cause you told us there was a Night Prince there and we ended up getting our asses handed to us by an Avatar!"

The intel officer became visibly more shaken upon hearing this and continued to squirm in Jason's grip. He felt a hand on his shoulder and turned to look at Blue Leader Kyle Summers. "Come on Red, let him go. This was likely a set up. The informant probably didn't know he was giving bad info. Ruffing him up isn't going to bring back Grant and the others," Kyle said softly, but sternly. Kyle wasn't a big man by Jason's standards, but he was big enough at five ten and two hundred sixty-two pounds. He too was well built from years of fighting and was enhanced by his supernatural nature. His gear was similar to Jason's, but his face wasn't as stern with softer lines framing his face and light blue eyes complemented by blonde hair.

"Tch, fine," Jason growled dropping the intelligence officer and telling him to "beat it" before he changed his mind.

During the thirty minutes of walking, Ivan was given an ample opportunity to think this through. However, he decided not to dwell in his decision, mostly seeing as there was an unnerving feeling in the pit of his stomach that told him it may have been the wrong one to make. He was slightly confused as Ciel led them into an alleyway, and was honestly surprised when the hidden tunnel appeared, wondering how many of the same kind were hidden around.

Giving Ciel a polite nod as she left them, he turned his attention to admiring the place they found themselves within. A brief thought of 'would I even fit in here' passed his mind, but he turned it away. The answer was quite obvious, and he hoped he would be able to find an escape route when his time was up. For now, however, he stayed as calm as he could, casting nervous glances towards the blind girl every now and then, if only to make sure she was still there.

Ciel ran down one of the many Resistance Headquaters hallways looking for her leader. She desperately needed to know what was going on. She was very worried. Several of her friends went into that battle. She hoped everything went according to plan. She turned a corner, but didn't slow down quite enough and ran straight into someone. "Hey, be careful! You could-" she stopped mid-sentence. She stood up straight and saluted her leader. "Sir! I have come back to report!" she said to Blue Leader, Kyle Summers. She was blushing a little bit while trying to keep her calm. She had ran straight into him. It also didn't help that he was incredibly handsome. All the female soldiers talked about him. Although she would never admit it, Ciel too had a little crush on him. I mean, what's not to like? Handsome, nice, noble. What more could you ask for?

"Sir, i-if you don't mind me asking... I-I was wondering how the m-mission went...." she said kind of quietly.