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Fleur Lhydderch

"I don't know why I'm living now, but I'll keep on living to protect my 'family,' no matter what it costs me."

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a character in “Code: Instincts of Survival 2”, originally authored by Jakuri-chan, as played by RolePlayGateway

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BASICS
“I don’t see how this matters, people are people no matter what, right?”

-Nickname: With a name like ‘Fleur,’ what sort of nicknames could one possibly have applied to them? As far as things go, she doesn’t really have any nicknames thanks to her name being as it is. People have tried to give her nicknames in the past, but those attempts have been in vain, as nothing’s ever really stuck. The closest thing to a nickname Fleur has had applied to her was someone who made use of her simple middle name, ‘Ada.’
-Age: Eighteen
-Gender: Female
-Species: Genetic Experiment
-Role: Child of the Abyss
-Motivation: She lives for all life is worth right now, she knows that things are hard, and that the world has basically descended into what people consider ‘Hell,’ regardless of this though, Fleur wants to live her life with as much vigor as possible. Even if things are indeed bad, she wants to see smiles light the faces of those she regards as dear to her heart, she wants to keep them safe as she possibly can . . . she views the ‘Lost’ as being her family. And, it is they that she desires to keep safe.


APPEARANCE
“I don’t really understand . . . what does my appearance have to do with anything?”

-Eye Color: Navy Blue
-Hair Color: Violet Black
-Height: 5 ft 8 ins (173 cm)
-Weight: 125 lbs (57 cm)
-Measurements: 35-23-34 (89-58-86)
-Build: Busty and Slim
-Skin Tone: Ivory
-Body Markings: She has the numbers ‘0-7-1-3-1’ inked on her left shoulder blade from when it was that she was subjected to genetic experiments. Her body is also riddled with various scars, some simply explained, and others not so much.

MENTALITY
“Ah, I’m broken, well, that’s what they tried to tell me anyway~”

-Quirks: Fleur is, surprisingly a bit of a klutz. If she loses her focus or something catches her attention, she’s liable to lose her balance, begin to knock things over and otherwise make a clamor without meaning to.

She’s a sound sleeper, she doesn’t move in her sleep, at all. She will just conk out wherever she is, and remain there, maybe snoring and potentially drooling until she wakes up, or until someone violently forces her to rouse.

She has this tendency to half drift off into la-la land at random points in time, though she doesn’t mean to, she will sometimes be in a total daze when someone’s talking to her and will miss every bit of the conversation.

In truth, she has a surprising appetite to her . . . if she gets hungry enough, Fleur can out eat most guys.

You might not think it of her, but Fleur has taken to cooking and singing as if they were second nature to her now. She’s started acting in almost a maternal sense. . . .

-Fears:
Achluophobia – Complete Darkness
Growing up locked in a dark room, and not being able to remember it, it makes sense why a fear of it would linger within her. Being stuck in the dark makes her body remember just what sort of Hell that darkness came with soon after.
Aquaphobia – Deep Water
Simply explained; she cannot swim, so deep water scares her a fair amount. It’s not that she hasn’t tried to swim before, it’s more like she can’t. Every time she’s tried to swim, it’s ended in failure, or her about sinking to her watery doom.
Claustrophobia – Tight Spaces
Easy enough, the idea of being confined to a small space without being able to get out of her own free will is a thought that scares her.
Hemophobia – Blood That is not Her Own
Fleur can deal with seeing her own blood, because she knows that it is her that is hurt, but if someone else is bleeding; she doesn’t know how bad that person might be hurt, and the fact that they could be fatally injured scares the Hell out of her.
Necrophobia – Death and Dead Things
The notion of death sends her into a panic. Even if she doesn’t remember the happenings from her early years, she doesn’t like the idea of death or of anything or one dying.
Autophobia – Being Alone
Because of what she underwent for most of her life, isolation and such, there are things which her body remembers that her head does not, the notion of solitude isn’t something she likes, and being completely alone is enough to leave her anxious and in tears.
Batophobia – Fear of Heights
During the time she had to survive on her own, Fleur got caught up on the rooftop of a building when it was she had been chased for food. Scared and not knowing what else to do, she jumped . . . and by jumping she got herself hurt. Since this happened, heights leave her paralyzed in fear.
Iatrophobia – Fear of Doctors
Although she doesn’t consciously remember it, her body does, what was done to her for the first decade of her life . . . as such she has a completely consuming fear of doctors.
Trypanophobia – Fear of Injections
Falls under the same area as her fear of doctors . . . with experiments came needles and injections.
Tomophobia – Fear of Surgical Operations
Falls under the same area as injections and doctors again.
-Likes: Sunlight, dozing off in the sun, books, people, warmth, the color red, flowers, animals, sweets—especially cinnamon, having fun, sleeping, reading, cooking/baking, making people smile, singing, good food and having physical contact with others . . . mostly in the form of hugs.
-Dislikes: When it’s too hot out, seeing others in distress, pain, blood, thunderstorms, being alone for too long, when people fight, when things get too serious, math, silence and spicy foods.
-Hobbies: Reading, cooking, singing, sleeping, talking, etc. . . .
-Personality: A strange amalgamation of perceptiveness, intelligence and lightheartedness, she is indeed an interesting person. There are times where she may act as if she is disinterested in the happenings around her, like she is lost in her own little world, but the truth is that she is always paying attention to the world around her and is taking in every bit of it all. Times can pass over when she seems the shallow sort, that she does not care about others and their strife, only about simple things, maintaining relationships with people that only goes skin-deep. Although she does indeed socialize in a way that can keep others from feeling as if they are getting close to her, or that they are getting to see a deeper side of her, the reality is that Fleur always acts as she feels. If there is a smile on her face, and she’s playing the part of a joker, then that’s simply what one will get from her.

She likes acting like a jokester, being lighthearted and such—she finds such an approach refreshing and simplistic compared to the gravity of the world at hand. While she can be teasing, sarcastic and purposefully make bad puns and lame jokes, she knows when to stop this, when things call for a more gentle approach.

In line with her less-than-serious self, she tends to act childlike at times, moving around constantly when awake, speaking in a extremely casual manner and simply acting as if she’s always having fun. She can seem as if she is weak-willed and is lacking in intelligence due to her mannerisms, but this could be not be more opposite of the truth. Fleur has a resolute heart, and is a girl who is sure of herself. In a way, she is very odd—while having faith in herself, and her views, she also realizes that the way she sees the world is flawed and imperfect, so something she believes might be wrong in the eyes of another. But, she also will flat out tell another that their own way of seeing the world is the same, imperfect and flawed due to their humanity and limited scope of understanding. Her policy is that she’ll respect the views of another without question if they can do the same for her.

Although she can seem arrogant due the certainness she has in her own mindset and way of seeing the world, that could not be more of a lie. She is a very modest girl who views herself as being of average abilities, no better than anyone else. Human life is significant to her in all forms, everyone is important; she is above no one and below no one. In a way, she can seem as if she is solitary due to the fact that her outward self can be caught in-between her joking and her more serious side. It is true she does like being alone sometimes, but Fleur enjoys being around others a lot as well. She is an amicable girl who likes the company of people.

Going along with her strong spirit and unwavering views, she is actually a girl who is rather tough despite looking like she might be the delicate sort. Those who matter to her receive her full protection, doing so with words and force, if the need be. She is not someone who falls victim to rage or anger at all, virtually speaking—she has no berserk buttons or anything that really seems to send her into a fit. When she is defending a person even, she displays impressive sang-froid. She would rather settle a matter with words than anything else. It is odd to find a person who doesn’t seem to suffer from fury at all, even in situations that might rouse the tempers of others, Fleur can be found displaying disappointment rather than anger. Disappointment because she believes that people are capable of better, they are intelligent enough to make good choices, and to not act so terribly.
Because of how she views humanity, she is a rather accepting sort, there is little in a person she can’t overlook in order to take one as who they are. Due to this, Fleur makes for a perceptive person, as she is a good listener, capable of encouraging words and appropriate advice.

Her ways, the silliness in her coupled with her accepting ways, and protective nature toward her important people, it gives her something of a maternal sort of feel. Fleur seems motherly, to those both younger and older than she is, it seems odd in a way—she’s apt at calming people down, scolding them for inappropriate behaviors and giving comfort to those who need it. She is a source of solace for those who need it, and is more than willing to provide this for even complete strangers. Seeing people happy is what she wants, to make others smile, she wants that. . . .

Of course . . . she can be rather affectionate too, even if she can be a calm girl who seems far too perceptive for her age, her maturity has its limits. She can be prone to hugging people, and clinging onto them. There are also some rather odd quirks present in her as well, very interesting indeed. Something of a klutz, it’s not uncommon to find her banging into something/one, falling, tripping or knocking things over, yet she’s able to laugh at herself in these instances rather than become embarrassed.

Even if her heart is a strong one, there is no denying that she is actually a rather sensitive girl, although she can come off seeming as if she really is affected by the world at large due to her displaying little emotion toward things, and expressing them only in ‘disappointment,’ Fleur is a very sensitive young woman. As much of a dork as she can be, even with the smiles and the dissatisfaction she shows toward things that would anger others . . . she is someone who can fall to tears rather quickly. If she comes into hopelessness or feels as if someone she cares for is beyond her ability to aid, she will cry. She is odd, for she sheds tears for others and not for herself—she never cries for herself. Even if someone says they hate her, even someone she really likes, she does not cry. Even to pain, there are no tears; it’s only for other people that she ever succumbs to crying. But, that’s often. . . . Her heart is sensitive, she is an empathetic young woman along with perceptive, so she easily finds herself crying for others.

As sensitive, perceptive and intelligent as she is, she is also a blunt young woman who speaks her honest mind, and gives her straightforward opinions to others, even if those are words that might sting.

Even still, she is naĂŻve and silly in regards to a lot of things, and because of this, she seems rather lighthearted compared to other people when it comes to dealing with serious stuff.

Because of her naĂŻvetĂ©, Fleur comes to trust others very easily. She approaches others with her heart on her sleeve, a smile on her face and no doubts about them; she figures that if she knows nothing about someone, why should she be judging them? This is not to say that she doesn’t have a few shallow thoughts enter her head when it comes to people’s outward appearances, but hey, she’s only human and it’s an unfortunate aspect of human nature to judge others by appearance. Even if she still does fall victim to this, Fleur often just brushes it aside and does her best to put her faith in someone until she has a legitimate reason to not. As she is, Fleur really gets attached to people easy and comes to trust others at the drop of a hat . . . and also, she’s rather hardheaded when it comes to her opinions on people in general. When she’s formed some ideal of a person in her head, it is very hard to defer her from it. This means that if she sees a person as being good, she’ll stick to believing in this, almost indefinitely. You can barely shake her thinking like this, and it would take a near traumatic event to turn her views on a person she has deemed good. This also applies to her seeing a person in a negative view. . . .

Fleur is like many girls her age in the sense that she has a developed view of what she sees as right and wrong. Her sense of ‘justice’ is powerful and etched very deeply into her heart and mind, these ideals though, are not like her views regarding people, Fleur’s sense of what is proper and such is rather flexible. The world is not black and white, and she believes there are many shades of grey, which is part of the reason it is so hard to defer her opinions of others. . . . If an action by someone she sees as good falls into the grey area of her views, then she’ll begin to try to rationalize the act immediately by thinking about possible reasons it was carried forth. It causes her to enter a time of denial about the person, until she eventually returns to seeing them as she did before—as being good.

Even with the sorrow in her past, Fleur lives her life as a happy enough young woman, and despite her honest personality here, there is no denying the fact that she can come off as being incredibly cautious about her own self at times, there are moments where she can appear in a panic for reasons unknown.


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EQUIPMENT
“Umm . . . these are my things? What else is there to say . . . ?”

-Clothing: She dresses pretty plainly, actually. She can more or less always be seen in a green uniform looking outfit, the top worn undone like a jacket with a tanktop underneath, and wedge heeled boots on her feet. Given her personality . . . you’d think she’d be dressing a lot differently, but no, Fleur actually prefers dressing rather simply since it’s easier.
-Carried Items: Nothing in particular, Fleur isn’t really one to keep things on her, she has no mementos or physical reminders of her past or anything of the sort, so she’s got nothing to carry as things are now. All she has are her memories.

-Main Weapon
‱Name: Halvestasha
‱Type: Leg Greaves
‱Made of: Leather and Iron
‱Length: 50 Centimeters
‱Weight: 2 Kilograms
‱Description/Info: Halvestasha is . . . pretty normal, composed of two different parts, it’s just itself. Quiet and reserved, it doesn’t speak much, not unless necessary.


COMBATIVENESS
”Fighting . . . yeah, about that. . . ."

-Natural Talents
‱Talent 1: Agility and Evasiveness. Fleur is a rather quick girl; thanks to the fact that she’s actually an experiment and not a plain human, she’s fleet of foot and can move better and faster than a lot of people. Being fast and elusive are probably where she shines most as far as combat goes, she’s not exactly the most physically powerful person out there, but her speed makes up for what strength she is lacking.
‱Talent 2: Instinct. Putting it simply, she’s mostly fighting by pure instinct when it comes down to it, as things are, she never had any way to train to fight . . . so, she’s gotten by on instinct and so far, that seems to have treated her pretty well.

-Skills
‱Skill 1: Cryokinesis. She has the ability to freeze things—she doesn’t have control over it, but she can do it. Mostly this will only surface if she’s been thrown into a state of emotional panic, or she has no control over herself.
‱Skill 2: Hand-to-Hand Combat. This is the only sort of fighting she knows, only knowing it from her time having to survive on her own for four years, and for the last two when she’s absolutely had to defend herself. . . . She’s not great at it, but as far as skills go with combat, this is honestly one of the only things she has skill in.

-Weaknesses
‱Weakness 1: Unwillingness to Fight. It’s an absolute last resort for her, and even when it comes down to it, Fleur is very antsy about hurting another, even if they’ve hurt her. There is an exception to this, however. . . .
‱Weakness 2: Her Temper. If she gets angered, she loses all sense and it will send her into a blind fury where she acts more like a feral animal than a human, she’ll attack without mercy and without reason. This is a weakness since she won’t even stop if she’s been injured—she’ll keep going, even if she’s bleeding out, she’ll keep going until she finally falls.


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HISTORY
”My past is missing a few spots."

-Life
‱Martial Status: Single
‱Family: She doesn’t know her family at all, she was taken from them before she could remember.
‱History: Her life is rather simply defined in all truth . . . Fleur was born an otherwise average girl, to parents who loved her. But the circumstances behind her life underwent a change for the worse when she was still, very young, and before she could remember. Her parents died, and she was forced to undergo genetic experiments from before she could even use her own voice to protest. These events should have probably traumatized her entirely, day in and day out of pain and completely inhuman things being done to her. . . . No one to console her, to show her love, or anything like that. Her parents were gone, dead, and she was otherwise alone. Merely an experiment, a subject that could be disposed of at anytime. If she died, no one would care, they could just start over. She wasn’t human, she was a number, a thing.

This is how her early years were spent, Fleur grew up as a test subject, having things done to her that should never be repeated—she was miserable, lonely and lost in despair, she never knew happiness or affection at all. All she knew was how to hate.

Just hatred, nothing more than that. Those who hurt her, who came for her, there was nothing in her but loathing for them. She wanted them dead, to die. That’s all she knew and understood at a young age. And eventually . . . she got her wish. They did die. And it was by her hand that they perished. The experiments that were done to her, the years of torture she lived through amounted to something, cryokinesis. She was ten by the point it happened, a decade had passed since her birth, and upon the time that came for her to undergo more tests, something within her snapped. Fleur couldn’t take it anymore, and ten years of hatred finally came spilling forth from her. It happened without her understanding, coming to her as naturally as breathing. The wish of their deaths came to her mind . . . and so, it happened.

When a hand reach down to touch her . . . the hand’s owner froze. In an instant, his whole body frosted over, and it threw all others in the vicinity into a panic, and even when it was they tried to restrain Fleur, anyone who touched her found themselves turned to a popsicle an instant later, touching her brought death. Her cryokinesis having developed, finally showing itself, it couldn’t be contained any longer. And unable to control it, Fleur released the extent of its power all at once; rendering the facility she’d been kept in and those inside of it encased in ice. Following this, she passed out. Upon awakening, she found herself caught in a world of ice and frozen figures. She was the only one alive. She had managed to freeze everything and one, the people she wished dead and even other people who were being subjected to experiments like herself.

. . . .she didn’t know them innocent, at this point, she didn’t know anything but hatred. She trusted no one, believed that everyone would hurt her, wanted to, that no one was good, and really, she didn’t even know what ‘good’ was. Fleur knew nothing of a normal life; she knew nothing of love, of what it was to have something of a ‘normal’ life. Hell, she didn’t even know how to read.

So, with what little she knew of the world, for the first time, Fleur took steps of her own will out of the ruined facility, toward her freedom. At the age of ten, she at last felt the wind against her skin, and the sun. . . . But the world had become Hell by this point, things had fallen into chaos, many were dead and everything that was once ‘normal’ had been abolished as the human population had fallen into a dangerous decline. Life was hard, very hard. And as she was, Fleur wasn’t equipped to handle living on her own—she didn’t know anything more than how to hate really by now. Sure, she knew how to walk, but the girl could barely even speak. . . . Her powers were entirely out of control, spinning to her will. If she wanted someone dead, then without the slightest bit of reason or thought, she would attempt to freeze him or her if she could. All this little girl knew was survival, she was feral, dangerous and acted more like an animal than many animals did.

She was a danger, a threat to anyone around her, she killed without reason, no matter the circumstances, the person, who they were. . . . Communication with her was impossible since she barely knew how to speak, and no one could come near her since she only knew pain at the closeness of others. . . . She’d freeze anyone who got too close to her. Because of this . . . Fleur came to be hunted. People chased after her, they tried to kill her because of the danger she posed. Of course, she didn’t understand this either, anyone who came after her was subjected to her powers if they got too close. . . . She hated them all—that was all she knew, and all she would know had something not changed. Nearing eleven years old, Fleur had been free of her confinement as an experiment for almost a year, and in that year she’d become nothing more than a feral scavenger.

A danger, she was a danger to everything alive, and would continue to be unless she was killed . . . or so it seemed. So, it happened. Fleur was hunted again, an effort that seemed in vain, as usual. Her cryokinesis reacted as it willed, if she desired someone dead, it would act upon that want. Yet, as it was, something was going to go a bit differently this time, and it was as she was hunted that Fleur wound up suffering a head injury of all things. She had simply been walking, unafraid, without worry about the people who were after her, when it was that part of a dilapidated building collapsed right over top of her, and she’d been too late to react to it and freeze it in place with her powers.

Cement and bricks buried her, and they left her unconscious. Yes, this was the perfect opportunity to finally end her life, to put an end to the danger she posed . . . but, against the odds, she was shown pity. She was taken in by an elderly couple who had managed to survive the Hell that was now life, they found her under the collapsed rubble shortly after Fleur had fallen unconscious. They had heard about the dangerous monster which froze any person who got too close . . . but they wouldn’t have known that the girl they found was it. So, they took her in, and tended to her head injury.

When it was that she came to . . . there wasn’t anything there anymore. The hatred that had consumed Fleur, the only thing she’d known her whole life it was gone, and the almost-eleven year old was an entirely blank slate. She was like a baby again, the head injury she suffered had entirely wiped her memory clean, she’d lost knowledge of everything she knew before. It went so far as that she couldn’t even walk. She had to be taught everything from the ground up, which really wasn’t such a bad thing since it gave her a clean start, a chance to know a life that was more than just constant pain, and hatred. The couple who raised her regarded her with love and affection. They treated her as one would a granddaughter really. Because of them, Fleur gained an identity, a grasp upon the good things in life, the beauty of it and learned how to exist without knowing just hatred. And it was because of them that she even came to have a name, Fleur wasn’t a ‘Fleur’ before they found her and took her in. She had no name, and because it was that, she lost every bit of her memory after that head injury. . . .

The couple came to assume that she an orphan who was wandering around the city, looking for food when she’d gotten hurt. Seeing that she couldn’t remember anything, not even her own name, they named her ‘Fleur Ada Lhydderch.’ Giving her their last name. Under the care of this couple, Fleur came to grow, to learn and to adjust to normalcy rather quickly. Her mind bounced from a state of near-infancy to that of a preadolescent’s rather quickly, adjusting in under a year. By the time Fleur was twelve she was acting like a child her age should—she knew happiness, laughter, she knew of emotions beyond hatred and she came to love life. The feral child she had been before was entirely gone, not a trace of her remained it seemed.

She was loved, and happy. . . . Yet, it would of course show itself again, those powers of hers. Without her wanting them too, and as naturally as breathing her cryokinesis awoke once more for many to see. And with this happening, people came to realize who this strange child was, who it was that Fleur had been before. And because of this, with people’s inability to let go of hatred for something that no long existed, she came to be hunted once more. Because it was that she knew so much more than hatred this time, because she wasn’t feral and bent on survival . . . Fleur fled away in tears. She didn’t understand it, all she knew was that people were angry with her for something she didn’t remember—she didn’t remember having ever hurting people, she didn’t know why it was she had these weird powers.

So, in her panic, she came to find the couple who’d been caring for her, scared and crying, she told them what happened. The looks that crossed their faces were indeed disturbed ones . . . but soon enough they subsided, as though they came to understand just who Fleur had been before they found her, they also came to understand that she was an entirely different girl now. What she had been before was gone. They still loved her, because the girl they knew before them was genuine. Despite her being guilty of countless deaths in the past, the couple choose to believe in the girl they had raised in the last year, and for her sake they risked themselves. They made it possible for her to get away—sending her off with their regards, and their love. Fleur came to understand that she could never again see the couple who had brought her up after she’d lost her memory.

She was on her own again, but she wasn’t like before, this time, she understood the human heart, she knew more than pain—Fleur knew how to trust. Even with her cryokinesis, she lived in a very haphazard manner, she got by, barely, having instances where she very nearly died because of her own clumsiness, or because she didn’t have the heart to do something she needed to. . . . Because she was a young and sensitive girl, Fleur had trouble killing things, or others, even if they threatened her, or hurt her. Even with pain, she couldn’t hurt another person easily . . . and it was only when she was thrown into an absolute panic that her cryokinesis would awaken. She didn’t like it, having to hurt others, but if it happened, it happened.

This was how Fleur came to live, barely getting by in the world her humanity sustained by the memory of the couple who raised her, showed her love, and who gave her a name. The coming years passed by in a blur to her . . . from age twelve to sixteen, Fleur lived day to day, barely managing an existence in the harshness of the world, only surviving others at times because of her uncontrolled powers. The years were nothing more than one big blotch for her, and things didn’t change until it was that she came to be recovered by a group called the ‘Lost.’ Lying in a pathetic state of near-death from starvation, Fleur cannot remember how it was she was found; who exactly found her or anything . . . only that she faded into unconsciousness, thinking that she was going to definitely die. By some miracle, she awoke though, having been taken in by the group.

Over the coming months, Fleur managed to return to good health from being on the brink of utter starvation thanks to them . . . and it was through these people that she came to be able to smile again too. She found herself beginning to think of these people as her family, as she came to regard them as she had the couple who’d raised her for that one year. Fleur came to understand the notion of ‘family,’ of loving others and valuing them so, and even with the world having turned to Hell, she found herself finally content in it. The Lost came to be something more precious to her than air, and as her health returned, Fleur’s personality came to develop as well. The roots of it could be found in the year she spent with the couple whom gave her, her name, but really, who she truly is has only come to form in the last two years.

The outlooks she possesses on life, on people and the world all come from her time with the Lost. The cheeriness she has within her, the good nature and the smiles all come to her because of this group she now regards as family. Even if living is hard, even if just surviving is hard . . . she’s still able to be happy, as long as these few people are safe, as long as she’s able to contribute keeping them well enough then that is enough for her. And that’s how it is she’s intended on living her life, how she’s lived her life. Her powers are still beyond her control, but they come to her when she needs them to. . . . They appear when she needs them to in a battle. And they’ve done their job of keeping her alive, and protecting the people she cherishes.

-Other: Everything was read~

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Fleur Lhydderch's Story

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ImageMorgan sighed, feeling restless. He needed to move, to stretch. It had been almost a week since their last raid, and that had gone pretty badly. He did a quick head count. All accounted for, save for Fleur, who was probably holed up in her room.

He stood and stretched, easing the tense out of his muscles. He passed by the other Lost Children, or Children of the Abyss, as they had so fondly named themselves. He glanced at a few of them as he passed, Oryn, in particular. It seemed that the boy was engrossed in drawing something. Morgan usually left the kid to his own devices, he didn't want to sound mean, but Oryn creeped him out slightly. Still, the kid was useful. He headed down to the control room, where Clyde did most of the research for missions and raids. They had holed up in an old abandoned steel mill, as this part of the city was considered haunted by the locals and usually steered clear of. So far, they had been left alone.

"Hey, Clyde. Got anything useful? Like something for me to do? All this waiting is killing me, man."









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ImageTallen watched men unpack, move, and load crates onto the cargo trains. Funny how long trains had survived. But once the oceans had receeded and the storms had become even more deadly, sea and air travel had become impossible. So, land was the only way they could go anymore. She too, was restless. She'd been on the hunt for amonth and stil no sigh of Kishitora. Master was not going to be happy with her at this rate.

And she had no leads on the Prince either. She had orders to apprehend both of them. Well, she was also allowed ot kill the Prince outright if he resisted. Tallen hoped it wouldn't ome to that. She had no reserves about fighting. It was when she had to kill that she got upset. Well, on the inside. She rarely showed her feelings to anyone, not even Master. Especially not Master. Master thought it ws weak.

She sighed, standing up. Standing around wondering wasn't going to get any work done. She headed back into the city, to see if she oculd find any more leads.

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Something of a weary groan escaped her throat, as she awoke to find herself laying on the floor of the placed now deemed her room. However long that’d last, of course. It wasn’t like it was a certainty—that is, how long they’d be staying in a place. They did move from place to place once in a while given their way of life, so, calling a room hers was really a pointless notion since sooner or later, she might well be leaving it behind. Regardless of this though, the tiny little square space was her private getaway, for now. It was where she was supposed to drag herself when it was time for her to zonk out; it had to it the thing called her ‘bed.’ Something made for someone to sleep in, despite its intended use, it seemed that hers didn’t quite get much attention, as it was that she more or less fell asleep in the most random of spots around the mill.

And even when it was that she did manage to wander back to her room, and to sleep in her bed, most of the time when she found herself waking up, she was on the floor, having managed to roll out of the bed at some point during her unconsciousness. That was more often than not, and however long it was that she was on the floor, well, that was anyone’s guess.

So, of course, that’s how her day began again, her having managed to find her way back to her room at some point late in the night, only to wake up on her cold floor, blankets tangled up around her—one wrapped around her upper half, and her arms, as if it were a cocoon, the other twisted around her rather exposed legs to the point that she couldn’t move them apart from one another. How it was she wound up like this during the night seemed a feat of trickery; she had to be acting the part of a contortionist to have managed some of the things she had before. Even still, this was just another day for her, waking up like she usually did when she managed to conk out in her bed. The routine that followed was wriggling out from the hold her blankets had on her to freedom, something that sometimes took too long. . . . Following that was the even more usual, dressing herself, or just entirely skipping that part and wandering around half the day in her deemed sleepwear—a tanktop and a pair of black spandex shorts that went halfway down her thighs. Given how she was feeling today, she was probably going to wind up doing the latter.

Of course, her wandering around like that made her seem lazy . . . which she was. And, Fleur knew that it probably got on the nerves of a few of her fellow Lost, but it didn’t matter much to her, unless it was that they were going on some sort of raid or whatever today, there was really no reason to exert the effort in donning her usual garments. If she got word that something was indeed up for the day, then she’d do whatever she had to do and all that.

Fleur grumbled and groaned to herself while it was she did her part in working free of the bindings that were her bed sheets, wriggling around like a worm, turning over on her back and rolling back onto her stomach time and time again until she finally managed to loosen up the death grip the fabric had on her enough to slip her arms free of it. A rather loud, and victorious, “HA!” escaped from the girl’s mouth as she yanked herself completely free and managed up to her feet. Chances were that someone had heard her exclamation since it was that the steel mill carried a surprising amount of sound. . . . She bent over, doing so at her hips to pick up those blankets of hers, while doing so she extended her left leg out behind her for balance’s sake—she didn’t feel like tipping over right after getting up and off the floor.

Balling up the annoying things, Fleur chucked them back onto her bed to deal with at a later time before it was she set her hands on her hips and nodded to herself for little reason other than to just, and set to head out into the main part of the building . . . and maybe find someone to anno—socialize with~! It wasn’t as if she’d be the only member of the Lost within the complex, unless it was they’d finally decided she was too much of a nuisance to keep around and decided to move without so much as a notice, chances were pretty high that there was someone around. Yeah, right. If they’ve kept me around for two years without doing that, it’s safe to say that they’ve decided to let me stick around for good. she laughed to herself a bit at that one.

She was . . . who she was, a weirdo, strange-acting sort of girl who had a huge chunk of her memories missing, her whole childhood was a giant question mark, although it seemed to be full of things she definitely didn’t want to remember it seemed. Those things, whatever they were, Fleur was happy enough to let those things remain lost to time. After all, she was just . . . herself now, whatever happened in her childhood, whoever she was, and whatever it was she did, that may as well have been a whole other life, because she wasn’t that person. Those memories, those things, they were gone now. Time had left her as the bizarre woman she was now, for whatever the reason. Why ever it is that things happened the way they did, that things do even happen as they do, eh, it can’t be helped so why worry over it? A shrug came from her as she mused over things. As long as it is that the Lost stay safe, that I can play some part in protecting them . . . I’m fine with not questioning things, and letting them happen.

A rather contented smile surfaced over her face with that last idle thought—her bare feet padded and made somewhat squelchy noises on the floor below as it was she stepped lightly down the corridor that she thought led to the main part of the steel mill. Even being there as long as she had, as long as the Lost had, and somehow it was that she still had yet to fully figure her way around the place. I’m still directionally impaired, no matter how old I’m getting to be, I still get the simplest things mixed up. When it was that Fleur reach a flight of stairs leading down, she knew she’d definitely gone the wrong way again. The contented smile left her face upon seeing this, as a rather blasĂ© one took hold. A solemn, “Hmm.” escaped her, as she wasn’t exactly sure what to make of this screw up. Yeah, where she was trying to go was not down it was suppose to be on the same floor as her room. “It would seem I’ve done it again, I took a wrong turn somewhere and wound up . . . here.” She said, mostly thinking aloud.

After a moment or two more of silence, a melodramatic sort of sigh left Fleur’s lips as she reach up and scratched the back of her neck, so, what should she really try to do now? She’d gotten lost, again, and going back the way she came might just leave her as bad off as going down the stairs given her luck and sense of direction. Fleur turned to look back at the way she’d come from, before turning her dark eyes onto the stairs before her, thinking it over. Again, she remained quiet, blinking as her brain processed her thoughts and before long, there came a nod. “Y’okay, so . . . stairs it is.” She said, pointing straight ahead.

Without another moment’s hesitation, she descended the steps before her, not sure where she was going to wind up. Fleur knew she’d gone by a couple of the other Children’s room before winding up at the foot of a descending staircase—the only problem with that was that she didn’t know whose rooms it was she’d gone by. . . . It could’ve been anyone’s, and she wouldn’t have known. The control room or something is down here, isn’t it? I think it was in the lower part of the mill, somewhere, that is. After stepping off the last stair, a questioning look took over, Maybe if I’m lucky I’ll find another person down here who can help me.

Shrugging, Fleur went forward stepping along with little thought in her head but just doing what she already was. After wandering around for a while, she eventually took to opening any doors she found along the way, just because she didn’t know what else to do. Mostly, the doors she opened led to nothing more than old storage rooms or were empty. . . . And still, she was utterly misplaced. Finally, after what felt like an eternity, Fleur still continuing her door-opening strategy, the girl popped open the most recent door she’d seen, and poked her head through the opening, a curious expression on her face.

It took a moment, and a blink or two, for her to realize that she’d finally had some amount of success . . . as by some miracle, this time, she’d actually found the control room. . . . And there were other people in it too! Maybe she’d be able to get directions on how the Hell to get back to the main area of the mill. Of course, those inside the room were Clyde and Morgan, but given the fact it was the control room, that was to be expected, or they were, at least, the most likely of people to find down there.

With something of a smile lighting her face, Fleur opened the door wide enough for her to actually step inside as she said, “Yay, I was actually right about the control room being down here . . . I guess that’s something to be happy about, even with the getting lost thing in mind.” Fleur prattled on as she gave an anxious wave to both Morgan and Clyde, “Uh, hi guys, I’m sorry if I’m interrupting something really, really important or anything like that, buuuut. . . . You can probably guess what I’m even doing here in the first place, anyway.” She laughed a bit, nervously, before clearing her throat.

“Ummm, yeah, I got my directions and stuff mixed up again.”

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Clyde was beginning to get a little stir-crazy. He'd taken three walks around this whole entire area within the last two hours and he wasn't even tired yet. Every single time he went anywhere anyway, somebody felt like they needed to talk to him. As if I care. Just because they knew him and just because they were passing by each other didn't mean they had to carry on some sort of conversation every. single. time. He swore to whatever out there if he heard "How are you?" one. more. time, he was going to murder the person. He was going to grab them by their stupid scruffy hair and drag them up to the roof of this place and just drop them off the side, laughing as their corpse splattered on the pavement. The only issue would be the screaming and the crying and then all that crap he'd have to deal with afterwards with everyone going against him or something for killing off one of their own. One of his own. So no, he wouldn't actually do it. It didn't keep him from thinking about it, though, among a variety of other colorful things.

Luckily, there was at least a handful of colors around this place that gave him the relief of sanity. Even Clyde enjoyed talking to people every once in a while, but that didn't mean he liked to carry on a conversation about the stupid weather or the stupid past or some stupid part in a stupid weapon. Oh, who the fuck even cares if you can assemble your gun faster than you could yesterday? You're gonna die anyway. And you're gonna die, and you, and you, and ohohoh, yes, definitely you, you little punk weakling. As if any of these people had a clue what he thought about on a daily basis anyway. If there was a mind reader around here they'd have it in their right mind to be more afraid of him than the rest of these lackeys already were.

Eventually, Clyde found himself wandering into the control room to get away from it all. He'd seen someone coming around the corner and didn't even wait to see who it was; he just wanted to avoid another useless back and fourth by all means necessary. Sighing once he was inside, he strolled over to a chair and sat himself down, just getting comfortable when the door opened. He glanced over his shoulder with a glare until he realized it was only Morgan. A great color in this world, someone Clyde could actually tolerate. He relaxed and went back to propping his feet up on the table in front of him, leaning his chair back on its two back legs. To Clyde, Morgan was a greater color, a bit brighter than some others. He had it all figured out. He was smart, ambitious, a leader of a whole group of people, and knew when to get the goods.

"Hey, Clyde. Got anything useful? Like something for me to do? All this waiting is killing me, man." Clyde shrugged and rocked the chair back and fourth a little. He hadn't been there long enough to think up anything useful, but he did have a plan rolling around in his thoughts somewhere. He just had to figure out the details. Morgan would probably be good for that. But maybe that would be better used for later.

For now... "If you're that bored we could rush the place." He grinned, knowing he was joking. Even he wasn't that crazy. They would kill every single member instantly and those they didn't bother killing would be used for further experimentation. Although, if he had to admit, he wasn't so sad about the whole experimenting thing. In fact, Clyde loved the idea of it. He loved his powers, he loved the power the Nobles had, and he loved the idea of wasting some people for the point of progression of an awesome cause. Hey, whatever they were doing was working, wasn't it? The only things he didn't like it the fact that nobody had a choice and nobody had freedom. If he had that power, he'd fix that. Then everybody'd be happy. "You know, we could always--"

The door opened, cutting him off mid-sentence in curiosity. Clyde glanced behind him, as awkward as that was from his angle away from the door, and realized it was only Fleur. Another color. She was so...weird. A bit of an outcast. A stranger even though he'd like to think he knew her well enough. Definitely a color. “Yay, I was actually right about the control room being down here . . . I guess that’s something to be happy about, even with the getting lost thing in mind.” He shot her an amused expression before turning back more comfortably in his chair--he didn't actually want to fall backwards, especially not with a chick around. That would be stupid. “Uh, hi guys, I’m sorry if I’m interrupting something really, really important or anything like that, buuuut. . . . You can probably guess what I’m even doing here in the first place, anyway.” He nodded and waved a hand over his head, not really caring if she heard the conversation anyway. He wasn't really one all for secrets, unlike Morgan who seemed to be all about them. Even Clyde didn't know it all. “Ummm, yeah, I got my directions and stuff mixed up again.”

"You came to the right carnival, weirdo." Surprisingly enough, he actually meant that as a compliment. Weirdness wasn't a bad thing to him. In fact, it's what gave her color. He welcomed it with open arms. If a gray had walked through that door he wouldn't of even bothered with it before telling them to turn around and go away. He glanced at Morgan, whom he could see better than Fleur from this angle, silently asking him if he should go on with what he was about to say.

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Oryn held Calcie, the toy rabbit, before sitting him opposite to him as he lay the small notebook in his pocket on the floor. It did take him a while to find the pen, but after he did, he started sketching really lightly and brought his knees to his body, curling up. He sat carefully, the lines traced with precision, and yet like a child, his drawings still looked rather mediocre and, well, rather cute. He vaguely registered Morgan walking past, he thought, but didn't bother looking up. Did Fleur walk past too? He wasn't sure anymore. Oryn was almost done with his drawing anyhow, and he was just finishing off the ears. "It's really weird Calcifer." he said to the red rabbit plush, glancing up to check he was still there. "But I just can't draw this part." Oryn looked at the ears, before he smiled. "Oh well."

What are you drawing, Oryn?" Oryn jumped, looking up suddenly with a small hint of fear in his eyes. However, he settled down when he saw it was only Rillian. He looked from his drawing to the girl, and he hugged the small book to his chest, as if hiding it. As most knew, it was bad to suddenly confront him with speech as he didn't really have time to think about what to say, so he just looked at her for a few seconds, staring at her with bright green eyes.

After a while, words filled his brain. "B-bunnies." he said quickly, before thinking a bit more. He needed to calm himself, to stop stuttering. Oryn really was a bit overly shy sometimes. "You know, the bunny-bombs I make? It's a concept idea, I think." he brought a small one out of his pocket. Being reasonably small, he showed it to her with a smile, before he giggled slightly. "You can see if you want." The picture he'd drawn looked like a cute rabbit in a field, not at all like the small robot in his hand. The blonde showed her his picture with a childish smile, picking up Calcie and hugging him close. He couldn't even remember which of the Lost gave it to him, but he was well and truly grateful.

Looking at Rillian, he smiled calmly. "How are you? What have you been up to recently?" He flicked the pages backwards, looking at some notes. "Do I need to thank you for something I've forgotten? I'll remember next week, I promise."


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Morgan was about to answer Clyde when suddenly, Fleur walked in on them, lost and laughing at herself, as per usual. Morgan cracked a smile that only Clyde would recognize, and then nodded to him. It wasn't up to Morgan to make sure everyone got along. He just offered them a place to sleep and live in exchange for two things. You didn't bother him, and you helped out when needed. Other than that, Morgan pretty much left everyone alone. Then, with a sudden thought, he grabbed the back of Clyde's shirt, lifting the boy onto his feet. "C'mon, you can walk and talk at the same time. What's your idea?" He pointed to Fleur. "You, follow us. I'll show you to where ever it is that you're going. Where are you going, anyway?"

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Tallen was not expecting someone to just come up and speak to her. While she did indeed stand out, she was rarely spoken to, let alone confronted by someone claiming to be her brother. Her pink eyes narrowed at him, and shadows twined their way up his arms at her will, ready to restrain him. "I would have you explain yourself. I have no brother, so you are definately not mine. Do you even have any idea who you're speaking to?" He knew her name, which was not always a good sign. There could be a number of different explinations. Perhaps he was apart of the Underground, or the Lost. Though the Lost had never shown intrest beyond raiding shipments every now and again.

The Underground, however...that had to be where this man was from. And she needed a way in, in order to meet the Prince, and find out who he was, what he looked like. Still, Tallen was very cautious, unsure of how to respond. Finally, she said to him, "My name is Knightmare. Not Tallen."

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Diaren was sitting htere, guarding the entrence, bored to tears, when suddenly Desaro and her two lackeys dropped down from outside. He glanced at the three of them, almost ignoting them to a point, before fianlly asking, around the wooden stick he was chewing on, "Hey, Des. Did you happen to ask Keir where he was going? He left about an hour ago, but completely ignored me, as usual, when I asked him where he was headed. 'Course, I'm assuming you ran into him. Even if you didn't, anything interesting going on? Like something we're going to do soon? I never was one for waiting around."

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Clyde acknowledged the smile lacing his leader's face and, satisfied with that reply, turned back around in his chair and planned on subjecting him to a dramatic pause before he revealed his newest, greatest idea. Unfortunately, the whole attempt at dramatics was completely ruined by the nearly pathetic show of Morgan lifting him up by the back of his shirt and dropping him unceremoniously back to the ground. Well, at least he was on his feet. If he'd lost his balance, he would have been totally done and stormed right out that door like a child in a temper tantrum. Not to say something that was even his sort of thing, because uh it definitely wasn't, but that's what he had a feeling would of happened. Public humiliation was usually something he tried brushing off, but blatant displays of embarrassment were mostly unacceptable. He'd give Morgan the silent treatment for days.

But anyway, he was getting off track. He landed on his feet, crisis avoided, and unnecessary immaturity was not to be expressed. Not now anyway. Maybe there'd be some time or reason for it to happen later. "C'mon, you can walk and talk at the same time. What's your idea?" Clyde nodded as Morgan pointed to Fleur, grinning easily in anticipation. "You, follow us. I'll show you to where ever it is that you're going. Where are you going, anyway?"

Clyde waited until Fleur replied to the question before chirping up with his own reply as they walked. "Okay, I've got the greatest idea of the century. Well, it should be anyway. Greater than anything those Noble nerds could think up--even though they've got some seriously cool tech. Have you seen that stuff? One of them had a plasma gun. I would give a kid's arm for one of those." No, he wasn't rambling just because he lost his train of thoughts. Not at all. He was rambling because if he couldn't have his dramatic pauses, then dammit, he would have some sort of dramatic finesse that would make Morgan wait for his stupidly amazing answer. That is, if Morgan didn't totally decapitate him for making him wait. That wouldn't be very cool either. Taking a quick check of Morgan's expression, Clyde finally went on, pretending as if he'd just suddenly remembered what he was going to say.

"We should make friends with the Underground."

Nekria

Ooh, Games were so much fun~

Nekria sat on the couch that was put in her office for means of comfort and relaxation, a water bottle within reach on the obsidian table in front of her, as she considered all she had accomplished. She enjoyed this, but those thoughts had lingered for too long and now it was about time to move on to more important details. It had been a while since she'd been given a proper update on all that was going on and she didn't feel comfortable not having a firm grasp on each and every situation. She wove a complicated web and for anyone else it might be too much to keep up with in a general view, nonetheless a detailed one, but she knew everything going on at all times. She was the ruler of her own kingdom and, although she not a Queen, she surely felt higher than one.

A knock at the door interrupted her silent musings and she allowed the person entrance. When she spotted Vernigan enter, she gave him a soft smile. "What are my orders for today, Lady?" He was so young to her, merely a simple-minded teenager who hardly has a grasp on the world and its realities. Or perhaps he did know and chose this way regardless; which, of course, was all but reasonable, considering this way was the only right way. What Nekria was doing was not only smart, but progressive, and nothing could be considered more important. However, when it came to Vernigan, she always made sure to keep a watchful eye on him. He was one of her younger ones and, although he claimed to be unable to tell a lie, that did not mean that he didn't still have rebellion in his heart. As a teen, he still has the room to develop. Who knows what he could be thinking? Someone so young and easily influenced is not to be the most trusted.

She waved a dismissing hand. "Please, Vernigan, there is no need to be so official around me. Think of me as family. You wouldn't treat family so stiffly, would you?" She patted the seat next to her with a welcoming smile. "Come, sit with me. I just might have a use for you today." For anyone else, that may have sounded passive-aggressive, but for Nekria with her sugary sweet tone, it should have sounded completely legitimate. She took a small, lady-like sip of her water and handed a bottle to Vernigan before continuing, taking time to enunciate her words properly. "Vernigan sweetie, today I would like you to check up on Randle. After that, I would appreciate if you went ahead and took your mission to the outside. I haven't heard from Tallen in too long. Perhaps she is in need of assistance on her mission. However, if she dismisses you, accept it and return. I trust her skills."

Nekria took another slow drink of water. She had no reason to rush. "Before you do any of that, however, I want you to fetch me Drean and Rorian, if you wouldn't mind." Not that he had a real choice. She gave him another honey-glazed smile and fixed up his bed head, smoothing it out until it looked proper to her. When she finished, she lightly patted his cheek and went back to her thoughts, waving a hand to dismiss him. "That will be all. You are dismissed."

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“You came to the right carnival, weirdo.” That was how it was Clyde regarded her uninvited presence in the control room—and though that might’ve come off as an insult to come people, Fleur knew well enough that such words from the second in command were more welcoming than not. She could only smile at the words; a slightly nervous one, but it was nonetheless a smile that surfaced over her features. At least she didn’t seem to be too much of a nuisance here, not for the moment at least. Her getting lost in the steel mill; that was common behavior to expect from her, antics which she seemed to pull regularly . . . though it wasn’t on purpose, of course. Even the most experienced of actors wouldn’t be able to pull off getting lost so much without making it seem completely staged.

Fleur kept her mouth zipped shut when it was Clyde gave a look to Morgan, basically like he was asking if it was all right for him to go on with what he’d been saying before she’d walked in. Yep yep, definitely a good idea for me to keep my mouth shut for now. I interrupted God knows what again. she thought, silently shifting her eyes from side to side as she pursed her lips together. This wasn’t uncommon, her wandering in on a scene she wasn’t meant to be in because of the fact she lacked a sense of reliable direction. Normally, she wound up greeting anyone and everyone entirely by chance, just because she somehow managed to wind up where they were whenever it was she got lost again. This was time was just another prime example of what was her normal everyday.

Luckily, neither Clyde nor Morgan seemed upset with her. Morgan was just giving some sort of smile to Clyde that she didn’t really get—seemed like something that she wasn’t supposed to. Secret between old friends. That was how she understood it, and that was understandable. In truth, even given the fact she’d been with the Lost for two years, she was still rather a stranger with everyone else in the group, she knew them but she didn’t know them. The people they were now, that’s what she was familiar with regarding the people who composed the group, their personalities, mannerisms and such . . . the things which composed them as they were now was what she understood, and they were the things which made her regard everyone as her ‘family,’ yet that was as far as it went. The people they were before turning up in the group, much like herself, was more or less just a mystery. No one really spoke of their pasts, and she did the same. Whoever anyone was before coming into the Lost . . . that was the past.

The smile Morgan gave to Clyde was just an example of this, the fact that the past was something not spoken of but between a select few people. In truth though, Fleur wasn’t the slightest bit curious about any of the Children’s past. . . . It was that, the past, stuff that happened before—who it was that they were now was what mattered. Yet still, if it ever so happened that someone felt like sharing their story with her, Fleur would listen to them at any time.

Of course, she was still keeping herself quiet while it was that Morgan and Clyde seemed to be doing the same. She quietly cleared her throat during this, and looked off to the side, scratching the end of her nose for a moment, wondering when this little spell would come to an end. Are these two trying to go for some show of dramatics because they have an audience today . . . ? she questioned. Then there came something of a weary smile over her lips, and a shake of the head. So okay, I don’t know what they’re up to, maybe they don’t want me to, or whatever, but still . . . staying quiet for more than a minute is kind of dorky. she laughed, And I know dorky since I’m probably the queen of it.

Finally, there was some movement, and noise, from Morgan as he moved over to Clyde and hoisted the younger one up to his feet from the awkward position he had himself upon the chair by the back of his shirt. Clyde of course looked like he was a bit more than startled by this, as the action was definitely an unexpected one. “C’mon, you can walk and talk at the same time.” he said to his second in command before he pointed to her. That caused her to straighten her posture up a bit before he addressed her. “You, follow us. I'll show you to where ever it is that you're going. Where are you going, anyway?”

The questioning part of his statement made Fleur nervously laugh a bit . . . how did she explain exactly that she’d been trying to locate a place a floor above them now . . . ? Okay, so everyone already knows I’m an airhead, this won’t make me seem any worse a one. she tried to convince herself as she abashedly placed a hand on the back of her neck. “Umm, weeeell, I was trying to just get the main room on the ground floor from my bedroom . . . before I wound up down here.” Fleur’s voice fell flat as she got to the last bit of her answer.

Not too long after she’d given her answer, did Clyde go on with the idea he had. “Okay, I've got the greatest idea of the century. Well, it should be anyway. Greater than anything those Noble nerds could think up--even though they've got some seriously cool tech. Have you seen that stuff? One of them had a plasma gun. I would give a kid's arm for one of those.” Fleur’s eyes trailed to him as he sort of prattled on it seemed, maybe getting a wee bit off topic it seemed. Or was he trying to go for dramatics again? Was that it? Clyde did seem to like those at times. Maybe he felt like it made things more interesting. . . .

He checked the expression Morgan was carrying before he even tried to go on more. Of course, Fleur couldn’t help but glance over at the leader herself, blinking a couple of times as a questioning look formed over her face. Yep, she was wondering what Clyde was getting at with this, “We should make friends with the Underground.” and she got the answer her curiosity was beginning to crave.

At the words, Fleur drew her lips together so that her mouth formed a very thin little line on her face. It felt like her heart had entirely stopped beating for a moment or two while her unintentionally held her breath. Clyde’s suggestion or plan . . .whatever it was, yeah, it made her rather uncertain. Friends . . . with the Underground? she wondered. Where did that bolt from the blue come from? I mean, it’s . . .random. I don’t know if it’s a good idea or not, but it’s just really random. Without meaning too, Fleur wound up squelching up in thought. Would the lot of them making friends with the Underground really be for the best? Did it have advantages, or at least have more of those than drawbacks?

There were some definite drawbacks to befriending that group. The Underground has their hands dipped into some rather . . . nasty matters, things that might not be good to get involved with. A look of definite concern surfaced over her face, Of course, it’s not like this is my place to decide anything that the group does since I’m one of the Children, but still. I can’t help what I’m thinking.

Her fingers steepled together at level with her chest, that look of uncertainty remained over her young face, “Uh . . . um, it’s not my place to . . . but, t-the Underground . . . ?” she got out, her voice soft-spoken and unsure. “I-I’m sorry, but I can’t keep myself from saying what’s in my head or else it’ll drive me batty!” Fleur apologized, squeezing her eyes shut as she bent her head forward, ready to sputter out what she was thinking in one go, and do so as quickly as her mouth could form the words. “The Underground had itself settled into some really dangerous and unsavory stuff—I know we’ve gotten into our share of danger and other stuff too, but still, would aligning ourselves with them, or even associating ourselves with the group b-be. . . .” she trailed off, feeling her face beginning to redden, “W-Would it be for the best? We could wind up marked, hu-hunted. . . .” Fleur’s voice faltered on that last part; she knew what it felt like to be hunted, and it wasn’t a fate she wanted to befall her family now. “I-I don’t want to see any of us like that, in so dire danger, I’ve been hunted by people before, and i-it’s . . . horrible.”

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Morgan listened to Fleur, and nodded. He cracked a small smile as she stammered through her explination of getting lost. He wasn't surprised. Hell, he wouldn't be surprised if the girl managed to find her way into the Noble's fortress trying to find her bedroom. That's be an interesting way to infiltrate them. His reverie was cut short, however, by Clyde's sudden and unexpected suggestion.

Morgan halted, an intense and rather mad gleam in his eye. He said nothing as Fluer put her own input in, and then spouted at Clyde, perhaps in a harsher tone than he had originally intended, "There's no way in hell I'd ever go back to the Underground. There's a reason I left, Clyde. And it wasn't easy, getting out. I doubt they'd welcome me with open arms anyhow. The Prince would more likely execute me on sight. He's one of the few who know exactly how to kill me." He paused again after his little outburst, and lit a cigarette, taking a long drag before continuing on, motioning for the two to follow.

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Diaren nodded, following Amelia closely, rather excited. He liked it when he had something to do. It gave him purpose, and kept his mind off of other things. "Hey, listen Des...I know you don't really like Keir going off on his own. And I'm sorry I let him. But...he's our leader. It's not like any of us can just tell him he can't go alone. Besides...I'm not that inconspicuos, either." Diaren was rambling. He did that alot. His mechanical win sraped along the side of the tunnel as he walked, and he pulled it in closer. He'd have to fiddle with it later, and get it more compact. He sighed inwardly. Apart of him wished that his mutation was invisible. Then at least he could go outside and to the surfae with a small chance of being recognized. As it was, he normally could only go out after dark, when the streets were less crowded. His arm was easily concealed. His wing on the other hand...

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“Uh . . . um, it’s not my place to . . . but, t-the Underground . . . ?” Clyde's eyes darted to Fleur's face, his lips tugging down into an unsatisfied frown. What? Was there an issue with his perfect plan? What would she know? Obviously, if she had any objections whatsoever, it was only because she had no idea what it would mean and obviously didn't have the adept thinking skills that he definitely had. He was so far superior to her tiny mind that he was surprised her moon wasn't rotating around his planet. Tft. “I-I’m sorry, but I can’t keep myself from saying what’s in my head or else it’ll drive me batty!” He rolled his eyes and waved a hand before shoving them both in his pockets. He'd already decided at this point that despite her being a color she disagreed with him and therefore, he did not care for whatever she had to say from this moment onward. She could be calling him every insult under the sun and it'd probably go in one ear and out the other.

“The Underground had itself settled into some really dangerous and unsavory stuff—I know we’ve gotten into our share of danger and other stuff too, but still, would aligning ourselves with them, or even associating ourselves with the group b-be. . . .” Is she still talking? Ugh. “W-Would it be for the best? We could wind up marked, hu-hunted. . . .” Clyde let out an exaggerated sigh, not caring if it seemed rude to do so in the middle of her little...whatever she was doing--in the middle of her whole talking thing. He looked around and realized he could see some people up ahead but he didn't care enough to bother focusing on them. “I-I don’t want to see any of us like that, in so dire danger, I’ve been hunted by people before, and i-it’s . . . horrible.”

Whether she was done talking or not, Clyde was a hundred percent done listening to her. "Yeah, yeah, that's nice but--"

Morgan stopped. "There's no way in hell I'd ever go back to the Underground. There's a reason I left, Clyde. And it wasn't easy, getting out. I doubt they'd welcome me with open arms anyhow. The Prince would more likely execute me on sight. He's one of the few who know exactly how to kill me." Clyde felt a little hurt by Morgan's tone, his frown deepening as he gave his leader much more attention than he'd bothered giving Fleur. Morgan didn't agree? Obviously, they couldn't agree on everything, but on this? And he'd thought it was such a good idea, too.. No, screw these two. It was a great idea! ...But that didn't mean he was going to go out and follow through with it. If Morgan said no, then that was it. It wasn't exactly that Clyde feared Morgan because, honestly, he didn't. He wasn't afraid of anyone. But he respected Morgan and would do as he said.

The details on this issue were vague, even to Clyde. He knew bottom line that Morgan and that Underground Prince priss were not on good terms, but...so what? Who even cared about some stupid disagreement or whatever, right? Clyde believed there was strength in numbers. The Lost were good, but...the Underground was great. And the two of them together and all four leaders with their heads together? Plus the kind of talent they could get their hands on? It was a good idea! Annoyed, unable to complain, and now bored with everything, Clyde decided to take his silent frustration out on the nearest object: a small, red rabbit sitting right next to one of the blond kids. If he'd stepped at a different angle, he probably would have stepped on the kid's hand, but he missed the hand and stomped right on the rabbit's head. He glared down at it, not moving his foot for a good few moments as he debated on whether or not he wanted to snatch it up and set it on fire, before giving up and moving on. He hardly glanced at either of the three people sitting around, even the blond boy who owned the toy, before grumbling about something under his breath and moving on to catch up with Morgan.

"Where are we even going? You make it sound like there's somewhere we actually gotta be at," he said when he got there. He adjusted the headphones around his neck so they'd stop rubbing against the skin. "If we're just wandering around without a purpose, then I've got places to be you know." Okay, so that was a bit of a lie. He had nowhere to be. In fact, if Morgan told him he could leave, he'd just end up doing the same boring thing he'd been doing before.

Nekria

Nekria had decided herself finished with outside contact with anyone aside from those she had requested, so she almost immediately gave up any attention focused on Vernigan and went back to what she'd been doing prior. "My Lady Nekria, that will be quite unnecessary." Ah. So he finally decided to present himself. Nekria did not look up, but merely glanced over at the door as Rorian entered the room. She did not allow her expression to waver any as she inspected him, making sure that he was presentable and, as usual, he didn't let her down in that aspect. "I am here and at your disposal, Lady Nekria." She nodded to him in greeting as she waited for Vernigan to say his parting words and leave. Rorian was an older gentleman and therefore she found it unnecessary, and un-ladylike, to use the motherly disposition on him.

Once they were alone in the room, Nekria took a small sip of her water and leaned back in her seat with one leg crossed over the other. She glanced over again at Rorian, head turning with the motion this time to give him more of her attention. "What is it that's humoring you today, Rorian?" She allowed the slightest upturn of her own lips even though she didn't quite believe in using the same tactics on Rorian as with most of the others. It was unfortunate, but easy to make due with. "Have you carried out your requests? Is there anything that needs tending to?" She paused as she took another small sip of her water, her gaze turning back to face ahead of her rather than on the nearby man. "Have any more children been admitted to the ranks?" Another pause as her tone threatened to drop, but continued to be as even as always. "Or is there any news on the rebels?"

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Morgan sighed as Clyde stomped on Oryn's stuffed animal. "Honestly, you're worse than a child sometimes." He turned to Fluer. "You can find your way around from here, right? And the others can help you, if you get lost again." He then grabed Clyde again, litteraly dragging him from the others. He stopped when they had reached the edge of the steel complex. There were many different buidlings, the mil only one of them. But the mill was in the best shape. He sighed as he let go of Clyde. His back was to the other boy, and he was staring at the borders of the city. "People are beginning to move, and there are whisperings. It would seem that I've gotten the Noble's attention. They're looking for me, Clyde. The way I see it, we have two options. Either we get the hell out of dodge, fast, or I do something to get them off my tail. I'd prefer to do it myself, but I can't leave you behind, I'd never hear the end of it. As much as I hate to admit it, you're probably right about the Underground. But if we do this, it's you and me. The others stay behind until we know whether or not we're even welcome. Then we'll bring along the others." He finally turned and looked at Clyde, his green eye like fire. "Deal?"


[Tallen]

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Tallen wasn't quite sure what to make of everything. The man who had claimed to be her brother had left as quickly as he had appeared, Drean fell in front of her, and her fellow Knight, Vernigen was there helping him. Slightly caught off-guard for a second, Tallen simply stood there, before realizing Vernigen had addressed her. She cleared her throat. "Knighttruth...no, I do not need any assistance. But I could do with the company." She knew very well Vernigen had no ability to lie, and would welcome his point of veiw without having to consider the possibility of being lied to. "That is assuming, Ser, that you'll be alright making your way back on your own?" She asked Drean, who loked slightly...well, grey. But then, he always looked like that.


[Diaren]

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Diaren silently followed, this time keeping his mouth shut. His superiors were talking, he had no right to intervigne. Instead, he turned to Corvin, studying the other boy. However, he was cut short by Keir returning, followed by Desaro speaking harshly to him. She was probably the only one who could do that. There was something bugging him though, it was just a feeling he had. Non-chalantly, he checked the small monitor built into his arm that was linked to a security cam outside the entrance. Nothing, only garbage, rubble, and shadows. Though there was something quite unnerving about the shadows. They seemed to...move.

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Oryn looked up at Kyveli, a small smile on his face. "I think we're both okay, but bored." Well, that was what he had gathered from talking to Rillian. He decided not to mention his on-growing headache and he glanced up as Clyde walked past. He looked pissed, and obviously proved it by stomping on Calcifer. Oryn, instead of getting annoyed, smiled brightly away and began muttering to himself about how he'd stomp back on him after he'd ripped his head off, though almost inaudibly and to Calcie as he took the soft toy and held him close. His smile turned into a small frown and he then grabbed Calcifer close to him. He sighed and brushed the small bear down, crossing his legs and setting the rabbit in the triangle-shaped gap between his legs. The boy sighed once more, before looking at the small bear. He sat it on the ground and it began to twirl around in midair in front of the boy. Oryn blinked, as though he hadn't realised he was using his powers, before looking up.

"'Ello." he said quietly to Fleur, a little smile on his face before he looked back at Kyveli. "Vellie." Oryn looked at her, his voice hardly more than a whisper. It was his own personal nickname for her. "How are you?" The plush span in the air quicker as he looked at it and he suddenly grew angry at Clyde again, though he only grabbed the thing and held it close, looking away from the two with a mature look on his face. It was only at times like this where he acted his age. His green eyes drifted to the floor and he went shy again at the silence. He smiled calmly and patiently at the two, sighing.

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"Are y-you two alright.. or good?" Kyveli asked in her near monotonous voice. Rillian thought that something about her was... lacking, maybe? Kyveli hardly had an expression on her face and her voice was usually pretty flat.

"I think we're both okay, but bored." Orryn said brightly.

"All in all life is good," Rillian said. Just a little lackluster at the moment.

Morgan, Clyde, and Fleur walked into the room. Something was biting at Clyde. He had a nasty expression on his face. Viciously he stomped on Orryn's bunny, Calcifer. Rillian watched as he did it with a horrified expression. Families don't ruin each other's prized possesions! Or maybe they did? Rillian didn't have much experience with families. No, it can't be. How would they work together if their too focused on destroying each other's things and getting revenge?

She watched Orryn to see his reaction and was relieved to see he wasn't openly fighting back. Clyde was another very unstable person and it would be catastrophic for the two to fight. Instead the blonde boy was playing with his toy with his powers, muttering about something. Things could be much worse at the moment. Clyde really didn't have to do that. What is it that he's upset about now?

Orryn greeted Kyveli and Fleur, asking them how they were. Rillian trained her attention on them too, looking back and forth between the two. She rubbed her arms. When she went without flying for too long her arms started to feel stiff, which led into pain when left unsolved. I hope we get to do something soon.

To Kyveli and Fleur she said, "Done anything interesting lately?" It was unlikely they hadn't done anything interesting. They were in a group of rebels, after all.


Vernigen Soletra


"Knighttruth...no, I do not need any assistance. But I could do with the company." Tallen said. Vernigen nodded. "That is assuming, Ser, that you'll be alright making your way back on your own?" she said to Drean.

"Ah no I think I'll be just fine," Drean said. "Actually Vernigen, a difficult situation arose and you were unable to get a 'hold' of me," he said, bending over to tie his shoe. Vernigen looked at him with a puzzled expression. Drean was there in front of him, Vernigen had managed to find the Noble. Maybe he meant-

Whatever it was that Drean meant was to be undecided at the moment. The Noble stood up and flung dirt in Vernigen's face and dashed off into the crowd. Vernigen was blinked rapidly, trying to clear his vision. That definitely wasn't a noble trick! When he could see again Drean was gone. That was unnecessary. It wasn't like I would have manhandled him to Nekria's office. Or at least I probably wouldn't have.

"That was a dirty trick," Vernigen said to Tallen, smiling a little at his rather lame joke. His hands flew to his head as sudden splitting pain tore through his body. This hasn't happened before, I don't think. "I'll stay with you, then, Knightmare," he said to Tallen, his smile a little strained by the pain. The pain quickly receded, leaving him wondering if he had really felt it. I hope that doesn't happen again.

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When it was that Morgan stopped moving ahead, after it was she’d given her input on a matter that really didn’t need it, Fleur ceased moving. Even if she didn’t know much about the people s regarded as her family, their pasts that is, she knew enough to know that now, Morgan was definitely not a happy camper~ Clyde, honestly, the fact that she disagreed with him and his idea, it probably didn’t faze him in the slightest. If it was someone didn’t care for what he was saying, more often than not he seemed to entirely just shut it out and ignore it, as if the opinion didn’t exist. That was something she’d figured out in the last two years. And, she definitely wasn’t fond of getting friendly-friendly with the Underground. Sure, she didn’t know everything about them, but with her flawed understanding of things and the world, she knew what it was she felt, and she felt like that was just a no go. Or, that it should’ve been.

At Clyde, Morgan snapped, probably not really intending to so much snap as he did, “There's no way in hell I'd ever go back to the Underground. There's a reason I left, Clyde. And it wasn't easy, getting out. I doubt they'd welcome me with open arms anyhow. The Prince would more likely execute me on sight. He's one of the few who know exactly how to kill me.” Fleur kept herself quiet as the Leader of the Lost spoke, part of her was really relieved that it was he didn’t want to take part in what it was Clyde had suggested, really. The Lost, seeing them put in needless danger, hunted and placed in the center of something . . . she didn’t want that. She’d been through that sort of lifestyle before, hunted, hated, wanted dead. . . . It wasn’t something that anyone needed to get involved with—that she didn’t want them to get involved with.

He left them . . . ? Okay, so yeah, new information there about our Leader. . . . Of course, it’s not like I’d know anything about anyone’s past around here since no one really talks about it without slipping up over it in front of me or something like that. Of course, I’m no different. But, I guess I’m not surprised to hear that Morgan used to be involved with the Underground. . . . Fleur intertwined her fingers together over her chest in a nervous fashion, maybe it was obvious she felt out of place at the moment, having been there to overhear something said to Clyde that she probably shouldn’t have. And why? Because her lack of direction had bested her again, and led her into a place that was not her domain. The Ice Queen continued on tailing behind the Second in Command and the Leader, her head turned down as it was she kept a quiet and thoughtful expression upon her face.

Eventually, the ‘common’ room of the steel complex was reach, the area that Fleur had intended to wind up all along. Already, the others were there. Oryn, Kyveli, and Rillian, the rest of the Lost Children, like herself. Without saying anything, she observed the interactions and the happenings for the moment between everyone—Clyde stomping on Oryn’s rabbit, before it was Morgan chided him a bit, grabbed him and began to literally drag the Second in Command away before more or less telling her she was on her own at this point. Fleur gave to him a nod, she was fine now, and this was where she’d wanted to be after all. Her morning routine hadn’t been typical, the usual of her struggling and wriggling around with her blankets and sheets to gain her freedom, and then it wound up with her getting lost, and winding up in a not so typical situation with what she heard with Morgan and Clyde. . . .

Something was up though, of course, she was no expert on reading people . . . even those people she’d been with for two years, but the whole thing with Morgan dragging Clyde away like that. It made Fleur sigh as she dropped her hands back to her sides, her head drooping down, those two. . . . A blasĂ© expression carrying on the teenager’s face, she couldn’t help the idle, wandering thoughts of hers. I don’t know a lot, but I know enough to guess that those two are going to be doing something dangerous. And potentially stupid, but that’s not any newer than my apparent lack of direction. I already know that they are going to do something, and they aren’t going to spill the beans on what that something is. They’re going to go off, leave us in the dark, get themselves into God knows what possible trouble. . . . That was to be expected with how Morgan and Clyde acted though—they did stuff like that sometimes.

Whether or not they knew that they weren’t so surreptitious as they might think. . . . They went and did who knew what at times, and it always worried her. They were strong of course, Fleur didn’t doubt the strength that either Morgan or Clyde possessed, but even with that power of theirs, she still couldn’t help her worries—the two of them were still mortal even with powers.

Another thought for another time. she reckoned, turning her head away from looking in the direction the two had gone as it was Oryn greeted her and Kyveli.

“Ello.” he spoke, and it caused Fleur to look at him a bit surprised before she gave the boy a smile. “Vellie.” he looked to Kyveli as well, voice quiet, “How are you?”

Rillian also drew her attention over to herself and to Kyveli while she rubbed her arms, before speaking. “Done anything interesting today?” she asked.

To this, Fleur gave a shake of the head, and another of her smiles. “No, nothing interesting per say, just the usual morning antics of getting myself lost in trying to get here from my bedroom, Llian.” She answered, before turning her eyes over to Oryn. The blonde didn’t look too thrilled at the moment, probably upset with Clyde again for having stepped on his toy. He was holding it close to himself. “And Oryn, thanks for asking how I am. I’m doing fine.” A smile lit up Fleur’s face at properly responding to the boy’s inquiry.

Her hands went to her hips for a moment, as she seemed to lose herself in thought. Part of her mind was musing over what to now do . . . she was where she wanted to be, and Oryn, Kyveli and Rillian were all there now. . . . Looking up into space it seemed, Fleur’s dark eyes suddenly trained upon Kyveli, who had yet to speak. Well, she’d speak when she felt up to it, Fleur wasn’t going to force something out of her on the spot—the girl was there, and that was something enough as far as she was concerned. Taking her hands from her hips though, Fleur stepped over toward Oryn—taking note at last that she still donned her pajamas. Yep, a part of her had forgotten about that. Stopping before him, she knelt down and gave Oryn a smile before she asked, “So, is Calcifer all right? Clyde’s little hissy fit stomp didn’t hurt him, did it?”

Though she was honest in inquiring about the state the boy’s toy had been left in, a part of Fleur’s mind was dwelling on thoughts regarding what it was Clyde had suggested, and the fact that she had a sinking feeling that Morgan and he were going to be up to something dangerous again soon. Despite what it was Morgan did say, I got a gut feeling that he’s going to act on Clyde’s idea in some way, we might find ourselves involved with the Underground. Keeping a comforting smile on her face, Fleur kept herself knelt down in front of Oryn. I wonder if . . . maybe I shouldn’t say something to the rest of the Children . . . ? It might just be a suspicion, and saying something could get me in trouble or irk Morgan and Clyde, but, their choices concern us too, they’re what brought us together as a group—as something of a weird family.

She didn’t know for the moment, and hopefully, that uncertainty she carried wouldn’t be something any of the Children picked up on quite yet. If she didn’t know what to do, she didn’t want to be forced into having to make a forced-decision yet.

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"How are you?" Oryn asked. Kyveli felt a smile pull at her lips [or it felt like it], as she was pleased at the response. "I'm..okay.." Maybe she didnt sound as bad as she believed she did.. But her smile vanished as she noticed the change in Oryn as Clyde entered the room. And maybe it was just her..but he seemed pissed. But when Clyde, her superior, stomped on the poor and helpless toy, Calicifer, it confirmed her suspisoun. As expected of Clyde.. luckily enough it wasent her headphones..
Though, dispite her emotionless and flat self, she felt a bit of..anger? Or was it guilt. Her fist clenched tightly, and she barely noticed.

Kyveli always wondered about Clyde. People told her that she was related to her somehow, and they got that how? Probably from the headphones he constantly wore, just like her, but even so she saw no other relation. With a small nod toward her surperiors, she turned back to Oryn, hoping to comfort him. Sadly enough, Fleur beat her too it. “So, is Calcifer all right? Clyde’s little hissy fit stomp didn’t hurt him, did it?” Her eyes softened at that, and she fingered the cord of her headphones in comfort.

"Done anything interesting lately?" Kyveli turned her attention towards Rillian, while jealousy seeped through her skin. She always looked up to Fleur..for her abilties to speak, and to express herself in general. Kyveli never got to that.. well, after the incident. Though, her emotionless self did serve a purpose. It hid weakness, and pain, so it wasent as bad as she thought it was. Shaking her head towards Rillian, she gave it a thought about the past. They never really did anything without their leader's permission...and she wasent given any mission in awhile.. so nothing really.

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Fleur confessed that she wasn't doing anything special lately, other than getting lost again. A small grin played across Rillian's face for a moment. Everyone in the Lost had something special about them, and Fleur's thing was getting lost. It sort of fit her. She was in a rebel group called the Lost and she got lost often. Irony was funny.

Morgan dragged Clyde off to the back and the two continued talking. Rillian was curious but she knew better than to disrupt the conversation of the leader and his second and command. Maybe they were planning a new raid. That would be exciting and a break from the monotony. Even if it was dangerous. If there was a good enough plan danger could be reduced.

Kyveli shook her head at Rillian's question. It was true there wasn't much to do but there had to be something people were doing in the meantime. I guess not. Nevertheless, it was good to try at conversation, even if it fell flat. In a raid things could be planned to a certain extent. People guarding things would have orders to do certain things and act certain ways. They had an objective in mind: to keep whatever they were guarding safe. In a conversation no one had orders or directions. It was much harder to predict how people would react. You couldn't even tell what they wanted unless they straight out told you. Even then they could be lying. Sometimes raiding was much simpler than talking to people.

Morgan and Clyde left. Kyveli would probably be in charge in their absence.

Rillian rubbed her arms again. The feeling they had was honestly unpleasant; they felt sort of asleep. "I need to fly. I'm just going to head out to the roof and change. I won't be long."

Rillian stood up and left the common room. She took the stairs to the top of the roof and changed shape. She looked about with her keen osprey eyes. The run down city wasn't much to look at, especially for a bird of prey, but at least people were not inclined to look at the sky in it. Launching into the air, she couldn't surpress a screech of pleasure. Flying equated freedom, even if there were some risks to it.

The rivers of air were buoyant enough to support her. Rillian slowly spiraled upward, surveying the city from her height. Some movement at the base of the mill caught her eye. Someone was milling about, probably looking for an entrance. What the heck was he doing? She angled downward and circled about aout ten feet over his head. Landing on a window ledge she rapped the window loudly with her beak twice, the signal that something was going on outside. She looked down at the man. He didn't look like anything special, but that could easily be a disguise. Rillian fluttered down to a lower perch to get a better look at him. There was nothing that out of the ordinary about him, but he did carry a pack with him. Could he be carrying explosive? Another screech, a warning this time, warbled out of her throat. If this man tried anything funny she would defend her home and friends.

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Vernigen Soletra


Vernigen followed Tallen to a sewage pipehole. With brief words she told him her plan and he nodded. He decided to stay out of the way unless she needed help. Tallen seemed to be fine with that. Vernigen went to a pile of rubbish behind some garbage cans, pretending to be fully absorbed in trying to find something useful in the junk.

Sooner than later he heard a male voice explaining the attributes of members of the underground. Then Tallen said, "I'd honestly hoped you'd be a bit more of a challenge to catch, Kishitora...but thank you. You've provided me with the Intel that I need about the underground. It will be easy aprehending the Prince now."

Kishitora? That was the code name of the Knight Morgan before he left and formed the Lost. So Tallen had him. "You are the one known as Clyde, no? Your number...what was it...ah yes, I remember now. 0-5-1-3-7, and your power...a minor type of Pyrokenisys. Family of two other siblings, both male, one deceased. Parents deceased soon after your younger brother was born. No, you are not on my capture list, you may go," Vernigen's fellow knight continued.

Vernigen heard a faint cracking noise. He slowly moved over so he could see what was going on. He would be visible to others now, but that could help Tallen if she was in trouble. There was strength in numbers. He saw two orange haired males confronting Tallen, one of them being Morgan. Vernigen hadn't actually seen Morgan in real life before but he could recognize the once-Knight from pictures. Morgan had apparently broken through Tallen's power.

"I take it...you're a Knight, correct?" Morgan said.

Vernigen took a step forward, about to announce himself, when he felt a shiver of pain brush up against his body. It was gone in an instant, but it made him stumble. In his haste to regain balance he stepped on an old, brittle metal can, the resulting crunching noise horribly loud. With more graceful steps he made his way to Tallen's side. There was no chance of a surprise attack now. What was with the pain?

"Yes, Kishitora, we are Knights. This will be easier if you surrender now." Vernigen said. It wasn't a walk in the park to say a truthful statement in this situation. His mutation was an annoyance. Vernigen desperately wished he had his staff with him now. Oh well, hands would have to do. "What say you, Ki-"

Vernigen gasped as the pain hit him again. This time it was hot, raging hot, and shot throughout his body. He crumpled over and curled up into a fetal position as the pain continued. It felt like every nerve was being burned, electrocuted, and jabbed with needles all at the same time. Normally it would have been embarassing to be curled up like a small child in front of enemies but at the moment Vernigen could care less. He couldn't think of anything other than the pain. His breathing rate accelerated and he became totally unaware of anything else. Thankfully unconciousness enveloped him like a soft, dark blanket that shut out the intolerable, mind numbing pain.

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Although he was unaware of it Vernigen's body changed. It lengthened and stretched. Clothes melted away. Red and blue wings sprouted from his back. His skin changed to a blood red and his entire body became serpentine. His alternate body and personality had taken over.

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Veritas found himself lying on the ground. He quickly rose and opened his eyes. His surroundings were blurry at first but they came into focus within seconds. The last time he had emerged he had been in a different place, one with far less people. No people, in fact. This time there were other beings, sentient beings, who were present. Of course, he had only emerged once before, so he had little idea of the surrounding area. He was weaker then. He wasn't used to having a physical form at the time, and still probably wouldn't have perfect coordination, but he was more ready for true life than before.

He looked at the people around him. One was a female with a white haze about her that had streaks of the dark blue color of caution. There was a male with an eyepatch and orange hair who also had dark blue in his aura but he had a more curious blend of determination's stone grey and anger's burnt orange. Another oranged-hair male had a fiery red aura of bright-as-blood recklessness.

It looked like some sort of fight was going on, or at least a conflict. It probably would have been easiest for Veritas to just leave the scene, but that would have been cowardly and undignified. Instead he stretched his wings and let a growl rumble out of his throat, just to show the humans that he was not to be taken lightly. He was terribly outnumbered and slightly unused to a body, but they didn't need to be reminded of that. What they did need to know was how impressive he was.

"I am Veritas," he announced, his voice a little raspy. What should he say past that? He wasn't sure, but something would be better than sitting around and looking stupid. Perhaps something awe inspiring or threatening? No, that wouldn't be the best idea. He was outnumbered, after all. If he was perceived as too much of a threat that would be just as bad as being viewed as a weakling. He flicked his tail uneasily. Veritas couldn't really control when he emerged, and now definintely was a bad time to have done so. Oh well. He couldn't take that back now. Who knew when he would have another chance to live? "What is going on here?" he asked.

Probably not the most eloquent of questions, but it would get information flowing. If the situation turned sour he could still turn tail. He found himself mot wanting this, though. He wanted to pick a side amongst these humans. The world was empty when it was lonely. Without telling them he decided this would be a time for them to try to win him over. Although he didn't know it, Veritas was going through a sort of imprinting stage. Like a baby bird to its mother, he would imprint on a living thing that he would acknowledge as a leader. This could be changed, but it wouldn't be easy to break a first impression. He was still rather new to real life instead of being an experiment induced fragment of conciousness.

Veritas looked expectantly from human to human, wanting an answer and wanting it soon. Why were they taking so long?

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As it seemed that Oryn was keeping to himself again, Fleur simply gave the boy a smile, hoping that Calcifer was indeed all right, and that Clyde hadn’t managed to do any real harm to the stuffed toy in his hissy fit. A part of her was still dwelling on the whole weirdness she inwardly felt about what it was Morgan and Clyde were up to. Even if she were directionally impaired and something of a major ditz, she knew when things were up. Fleur looked up when it was that the Second in Command slipped back through the room, hurriedly, seeming to be gearing up for something.

A sigh escaped from her, as she knew her thoughts were confirmed, he and the Leader were going to be up to something, something potentially dangerous, as usual it seemed. Great, looks like I’m going to be nothing but a loony worrywart until it is the two idiots get back from whatever in the Hell secret mission they’re setting out on. She shook her head, a visible frown formed. Honestly, those two were reckless, whether or not they were the leaders of a rebel group, of the Lost; Fleur really wished that they would find it in themselves to be more careful.

Fleur’s eyes went to Kyveli, as it was the girl gave a shake of her head to Rillian, answering her question of whether or not she’d been up to anything interesting. With both Clyde and Morgan out of the mill, gone doing who knew what, Kyveli would be left in charge of the Children, herself included. Of course, Fleur had no qualms with that at all, the girl was definitely worthy of that, as she herself wouldn’t do well trying to be in charge of anyone or thing on her own. . . . So, it was that she gave a smile to the pigtailed teenager before she got up to her feet, which were still very much bare. Right pajamas still, I need to change my clothes, er, or actually get into them. she thought to herself, shifting her gaze from side to side.

She was the only one of the Children still in their sleepwear. Rillian was rubbing her arms again, Fleur could only guess that they were hurting her. “I need to fly. I'm just going to head out to the roof and change. I won't be long.” she informed them, a sort of desperation was evident in her voice—having the need to do something like that was not a sentiment Fleur was familiar with. But, she gave Rillian a nod as she got up and left the room. The girl had to do what she had to do, after all.

With her worries about Clyde and Morgan still gnawing away at the back of her mind, Fleur set her hand on the back of her head as the other came to be placed upon her hip. Those two, whatever they were up to . . . if it got them into some serious trouble, she was so going to chew them out, whether or not they were technically her superiors—so what if they were above her? Honestly, even if they are above me, they sure aren’t acting like it. Our leaders, and they go and act like they have nothing to worry about, they keep secrets from us and go off on these little suppose to be hush-hush operations where they could wind up in some serious dilemmas or even dead. . . . as she thought to herself, a weary sigh slipped from her mouth. Did any of the other Children get tired of how those two acted, or was it just her . . . ?

When a loud, but happy sort of screech filtered through the walls of the steel mill from the outside world, Fleur lazily looked upward, knowing that was probably Rillian, vocalizing her relief and joy to be flying. “It’s nice to know that Llian’s a happy camper. It must be wonderful to be able to fly like that.” Fleur mused aloud, her voiced thought wholly different from the ones flittering about within her skull. Inwardly, she was still mentally ranting to herself about how irresponsible Clyde and Morgan tended to act when they were supposed to be those that were relied on by the Children, herself included. Turning on her heel, Fleur stretched her arms out above her head with a groan, standing there silent a moment afterward, drawing her hands down behind her neck.

Tired of keeping it quiet, she spoke her thoughts, whether or not they actually mattered. “Y’know, while I get the whole ‘they-are-our-leaders’ thingy, Morgan and Clyde’s random vanishings and such are kind of getting old.” Even if Morgan had expressed relatively clear dislike for the plan Clyde had proposed regarding them associating themselves with the Underground. . . . He and the Second in Command suddenly leaving right after the whole matter had been drudged up more or less told Fleur what they were up to, whether or not they were trying to be surreptitious. “I swear; I’m going to age twice as fast as I should because I spend so much time worry about them. . . . I’ll be forty by the time I’m twenty.”

Taking a step toward the hallway, a lazy look passed over her face, “Anywho, soooo, I’m gonna go change and all that. It’s probably not best for me to wander around in a tanktop and spandex shorts all day when anything could happen, right?”

With that, the Ice Queen took to the halls of the mill again, attempting to seek out her room. Although she had managed to get herself lost earlier that morning, having wandered down to the basement while trying to locate the common room, it seemed like it was always easier for her to get back to her room than to get anywhere from it. She didn’t know why that was, but that simply seemed to be how it went. After taking a few turns here and there through the dim corridors, her thoughts settling themselves into merely making it back to the small and tiny little room that was suppose to be her private haven, the whole bit with Clyde and Morgan beginning to annoy her with how they were acting slipped to the back of her mind. Oh, that’d come up again, but for now she would lay it to rest.

One of her hands found its way to the knob on the door that led into her room, and she entered into the little square, heading for a box placed in the corner of the room, she pulled the tops up and open, dragging some wrinkled clothing out from within it—green military issued pants, a jacket and some boots with a wedge heel on it that pushed her height up by a good two and half inches. It took a few minutes for her to dress herself, along with a few moments and incidents of her tipping and stumbling around her room while trying to get her pants and shoes on. Pulling her jacket on over her tanktop, a weary sigh slipped from the teenager’s mouth. “Even my clothes have it out for me . . . first my sheets, and now this, I wonder if all fabrics have decided that they want me to suffer.”

Stepping back out of her room, shutting the door behind her, Fleur looked from side to side, blinking as a confused look came over her face. “Common room . . . common room, damn it, which way did I come from again?” she mumbled to herself, unsure of how to get back to where she just came from. Shaking her head, she shrugged, “I’m never going to figure it out if I just stand here, lollygagging.” With that said, she took to the right . . . keeping herself quiet in her idle wanderings until it was she heard it, the sound of something rapping against glass rather fervently. Of course, the noise was muffled, but as it always did in the mill, the sound carried through the halls. Ceasing her movements, Fleur stood silent. What was . . . ? she thought.

Then she heard yet another screech, a warning call, again it was muffled. Rillian. . . .

Without giving it a second thought, she took to running through the mill, taking random turns whenever they came up until, finally, she found herself again in the common room, by some make or miracle, she hadn’t managed to get lost that time. She didn’t take the time to stop from running when she managed to return into the room, nor to speak to either Kyveli or Oryn, instead, Fleur merely made her way toward the door that led to the outside. Rillian wouldn’t have tried to warn them of something if she didn’t think it was important, and if she were outside, alone with whatever she was trying to convey a warning about, then she could’ve been in serious trouble. Without warning or hesitation, Fleur suddenly exited the mill, outside, “Is everything all right?!” she called out, meaning to address Rillian, however Fleur resisted using her fellow Child’s name.

Within her line of sight was an unfamiliar person, a male who, while looking ordinary and harmless enough, was a definite stranger who was out of place, wandering around outside of the old steel mill. Fleur kept her mouth shut, a cautious expression having taken root upon her features.

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Oryn stayed silent to Fleur's inquiry, still slightly ticked off. If anything, he wanted to forget it as soon as possible. Well, for him, that wouldn't be especially hard, but. . . . He'd have to wait for a while. The blonde blinked slowly, eying his soft toy, before twirling it in the air with a soft expression on his face. He glanced at Rillian as she spoke. "I need to fly. I'm just going to head out to the roof and change. I won't be long." Oh, how he wished to cling to her and go flying too; he imagined the sensation would be rather exciting. But he just nodded and suppressed the urge to leap onto her back as she left.

“Y’know, while I get the whole ‘they-are-our-leaders’ thingy, Morgan and Clyde’s random vanishings and such are kind of getting old.” Fleur said. Oryn smiled in agreement, but his eyes drifted more to Calcifer floating in the air. Suddenly, he dropped and Oryn found himself slightly short of breath, using his telekinesis for too long. Luckily though, he caught the rabbit before it tumbled to the ground. “Anywho, soooo, I’m gonna go change and all that. It’s probably not best for me to wander around in a tanktop and spandex shorts all day when anything could happen, right?”

"Oh, have fun then!" Oryn said cheerfully, grinning up at Fleur. Of course, changing wasn't exactly an exciting activity, but Oryn always had fun finding new clothes. A few minutes later, he heard Rillian's cry (which he forgot was the warning call) and after a few minutes, Fleur was racing through the common room, going straight to the door. Oryn's eyes followed her before he jumped up and beckoned Kyveli with his hand which wasn't holding his rabbit.

Fleur was already at the door, shouting to Rillian. “Is everything all right?!” Oryn rushed to the door, expecting to see Rillian in trouble but not much seemed to happen. No, there was a man. . . . A random stranger. He seemed to mistake Fleur's call to Rillian as addressed to himself. Oryn only stared at him with evil eyes as he spoke to Fleur.

"Everything is much better now that I have caught a glimpse of your beauty," he said, and Oryn grabbed Fleur around the waist like a small child protecting an older sister. "Pray tell fair maiden, what is thy name... also you wouldn't happen to know of any gangs that might possibly be staying round here? I have something to discuss with them." Oryn blinked. Gangs? Oh no, no, no! Have they found our base? Shall I rid us of him? Unconsciously, far out of the man's view - due to him and Fleur both being in the door - Oryn was raising all the things in the common room behind him slightly, but he noticed quickly and they hit the ground with a clatter. Oryn glanced up at Fleur, before closing his eyes tightly. He didn't mean to and he was apologising quietly, repeatedly, in tiny whispers.

The blonde glanced up at Fleur. "I didn't mean to, I promise." he whispered, clinging to her even more as he shook his blonde locks quickly. Oryn looked over to the man; his eyes were glaring darkly but he smiled sweetly. "I believe that you should offer your name first, before asking for another?" Oryn straightened up fully, and though he was still short, shorter than Fleur, he was pretty sure he could just not answer the man's question, so he then did not lie. Or. . . . he could forget it! Yes, just forget it. Oryn closed his eyes for a few seconds, and bam! the question was already gone from his mind, just like the incident with Calcie and Clive, or even having a conversation with the others in the morning.

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Kyveli eyes glassed over as she was lost in numbers. Literally. Being an ION girl had its kinks and this was one of them. If she was unfocused for a period of time, she would fall under a trance of information. Why this happens? She doesn't know, but she calls it a little glitch.
Luckily enough for her, it wasn't so bad, so she could hear Morgan saying something. Something mentioning her name. "We need to go now. I have a hunch the Underground hasn't moved yet, they were growing too large to just up and run without notice, it would take time, a lot of it, so if we're lucky...they'll be right where I left them. Leave Kyveli in charge while we're gone, tell them it's recon, but don't say anything else. Fluer can be Ky's back-up. I trust the girl, but never her sense of direction, god help her. Get your gear and meet me back here. Odd enough, the entrance to the Underground isn't very far into the city." 'M-Me..?' If it wasn't for the glitch, her eyes would have widen a centimeter, for having a responsibility like that made her swell up in..shock, pride? Some emotion along the line, But without a thought more, she felt herself being pulled by a hand, as she was under the trance, which she was grateful for she didn't want to be left behind. "T-Thank...3425- you." She shook her head back to earth, and her eyes melted back to its still- emotionless self.

Looking around, she saw herself outside which was alright if they weren't going to catch any attention, but sadly they already did. "Pray tell fair maiden, what is thy name... also you wouldn't happen to know of any gangs that might possibly be staying round here. I have something to discuss with them," She rose a brow at his direction, confused on his ways of speaking. 'Strange..? Gangs..?' Kyveli scanned the man, taking in his electric signals and such, knowing for a fact that he wasn't one of them, but then again who was he? The headphones around her neck whispered 'Danger..caution..' But she choice to ignore it when she heard the sudden clatter of items from- she assumed Oryn's power. This signaled stress and it was obvious too, until the memories were pulled right out of Oryns systems. 'This man might cause trouble..' Doing a head count of their members, she nodded a bit, and started to calculate plans if anything were to happen. 'He might not be alone.'
The first rule in her book was to show no emotion, fear, weakness, and remain calm. but Honestly she never did have a choice on this rule, although she didn't think too much of it, for she had better things to think about.
Glancing at Fleur, she watched for any signs of suspicioun or caution, because Kyveli had no idea on how to react to this man, seeing how he held no real threat...but he was a stranger after all.
'Better safe then sorry.'

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[Fleur Lhydderch]
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Remaining in the doorway of the mill, she kept her eyes glued to this stranger, a serious look kept over her face, who knew what might be expected when it was a stranger managed to show up on the doorstep of their current home. They were the Lost, after all, a rebel group, they were wanted and had two headstrong idiots leading them, so danger was a definite concern, caution much needed for the sake of safety. No matter how harmless someone looked, and no matter how it was Fleur wanted to regard people, anyone, she knew well enough that for the sake of those she loved, for the sake of her family, she couldn’t act open and warm to everyone, especially not when things began like this. A random guy just showing up where it was they were hiding was . . . just something that couldn’t be overlooked or taken lightly, and even if he looked like one of the most unassuming people in the world, and even on the lazy side, Fleur would dare to think as much, he could not be regarded as not being a potential hazard to herself and the other Children.

Morgan and Clyde had gone out on one of their escapades again, which meant that the Children had to fend for themselves, even if Kyveli was named leader in their absence, she was still as much a Child as herself. I swear, if something bad happens while those two hotheads are gone, and I die, I am so-o-o-o-o-o going to haunt them until they go insane and join me in Hell.

Fleur could sense a presence hovering around behind her; Oryn had come when it was she’d called out before. Before anything more could be said though, the seemingly ordinary man spoke himself, seeming to have assumed that the question she herself had posed was directed at him. . . . “Everything is much better now that I have caught a glimpse of your beauty,” A visible frown formed over Fleur’s face at that line, well, it was something of a frown crossed over with a deadpanned sort of expression.

Okay, so we have a wannabe Casanova. Before the weirdo continued, Fleur felt arms wrap around her middle, tightly, protectively. A questioning look formed over her face and her dark-eyes flickered down, to see Oryn clinging onto her like a younger brother would to an older sister, to keep her safe from this strange man.

A soft smile formed over her face from the boy’s action, and she set a hand on his head before stripping the smile from her features to look back to wannabe-Casanova with a solemn look as he droned on. “Pray tell fair maiden, what is thy name... also you wouldn't happen to know of any gangs that might possibly be staying round here. I have something to discuss with them," So, he wanted her name, and he was speaking of gangs . . . damn, that was not at all good. The man spoke cheerily, in a way that Fleur would almost have deemed airheaded. She still had a hand settled upon the top of Oryn’s head, while she just stared at this guy, thoughts processing.

So, someone’s onto where we’ve been hiding. Now, if that’s the case why wouldn’t this guy just up and maybe assume that we weren’t the ‘gang’ he was looking to talk with? Her thoughts continued, while it was that Oryn caught her attention, there was a something of a sinister air to him, an aura that bespoke of definite danger. Fleur knew what was up . . . he got like that anytime any of the Lost came under potential threat. A couple of seconds after looking at him, there was a montage of noises from back inside the mill, all sorts of things seemed to have gone clattering to the ground all at once She knew what that was, Oryn’s powers. She could hear him apologizing, rapidly, repetitively, whispering it out in a panic. He looked up to her, seemingly uncertain of himself.

“I didn't mean to, I promise.” he apologized to her, honestly sounding regretful, as if he’d done something truly wrong, before his grip around her diaphragm tightened a bit more, causing her to squeak a bit in surprise while Oryn shook his head. She knew what this was leading into. A sinister glint shone within the boy’s eyes, though he smiled in a lovable, and seemingly kind enough manner before it was he spoke, and Fleur kept her hand on the blonde-boy’s head, ”I believe that you should offer your name first, before asking for another?” he asked, tone of voice not indicative of Oryn’s usual persona in the slightest. This was the side of the boy that only showed up when it was that he felt like the Lost was under threat or was in danger, but she knew what to expect next.

Just as suddenly as Oryn had shifted into dark-mode, he just as quickly came out of it, he stood to his fully height, shorter still than her, he let go of her middle and squeezed his eyes shut. He’s forgetting. she thought with a sigh, turning her eyes back to the white-haired man, her thoughts going back to him, though her hand remained on top of Oryn’s head despite his change in attitude and in position. Okay, so, what to do about wannabe-Casanova there . . . ? Fleur thought, remaining quiet as she tried to think—the guy knew something about the Lost, and there was no way a normal person would just up and be wandering around looking for them at all, no that wasn’t right. For someone to be seeking them out; there was a motive there; something that Fleur knew was not at all good.

Kyveli was there, watching over the situation, probably trying to figure out what to do, just like she was. What do we do? Even if I don’t know who this guy is working with or for, or anything, it’s obvious enough that people are onto where we’ve been holing up. It doesn’t help that Idiot Leader One and Two have decided to ditch us for some covert rendezvous with the Underground.

It was at this point that Rillian decided to intervene herself, and so she glided on down from where it was she’d been perched before, and changed back into her usual spindly self, behind this guy, looking every bit as serious as Fleur herself and Kyveli. She spoke, “Whether everything is all right or not depends on you, Mister. And what interest do you have in gangs? I'm thinking whatever it is it's unhealthy.” While it was she was trying to seem maybe confident, intimidating even, Fleur managed to overhear the bird-girl’s stomach growl from where it was she stood, still in the doorway of the mill. Following a moment of silence from her, Rillian continued on with before, trying to compose herself it seemed as it was she tapped on the bag the man hand with him, “What's in here?”

A sigh slipped from Fleur as it was she went back to thinking, I swear, Morgan, Clyde you two are so . . . gah, you two are so stupid sometimes, leaving us on our own, just to have to deal with this when you poof to do whatever. Putting her gaze back on this guy, she tried to figure out what to now do. So, he flirted with me, or tried to majorly, even if he was really bad at it, I think I can take him as a sucker for women. . . . Something to use.

The man smiled a normal looking smile at Rillian when it was she poked at his bag, inquiring of the contents. He pulled from it what appeared to be a bag of chips, offering them up to the bird-girl. “Hmmm, I dunno if it’s such a great idea to talk about gangs and stuff out in the open, I mean if someone over heard they might think I was trying to join a rebel's gang and mark me as a traitor, who knows what kind of horrible punishments I would get for such a thing.” he rambled on, seeming to try to get at the fact that he didn’t want to discuss this out in the open like they were beginning to. Fleur got that much, but there was no way she was going to let the guy inside the mill, what he had said just made him someone to hold caution toward even more! “As for my name, I am happy to give such a thing to two beautiful ladies but I dislike such a rude man as yourself hearing it. You can call me 'Cid'... 'Cid Valentine' and now that you know my name I would be honoured to know the names of two angels such as yourselves,” God, she wanted to gag.

He was hesitant in giving his name, enough so that it was obvious it had to be an alias, as far as she was concerned, and he was still trying to flirt. I’m sticking to addressing him as wannabe-Casanova. a rather blasĂ© expression graced Fleur’s face. Keeping in mind what she’d deduced before. . . . Though it sort of sickened her to even consider doing so, much less actually acting on the notion of it . . . Fleur got the idea that it might not be the worst idea in the world to proceed ahead with, maybe, an attempt at half-flirting back with this weirdo. If he was indeed a sucker for women, as his poor attempts at flirting seemed to show, then going through with the idea of it could well get wannabe-Casanova off their trail and keep them safe. God, I’m probably going to make myself sick by doing this, but it’s for the sake of my family. . . .

Fleur cast a glance to Kyveli and Rillian, one that more or less begged the two to not judge her for this, and to never mention what she was about to do again. . . . Disregarding what it was that Oryn had said before, and the caution Rillian had used in addressing the stranger, she removed her hand from the blonde boy’s head before it was she took a step forward, a rather playful smile forming over her face. “Lia, Ryn,” she started, referring to both Rillian and Oryn by shortened forms of their names in order to maintain some semblance of anonymity for her family. “There’s no need to be so suspicious of everyone who shows up around here, y’know? It’s not like we’re hiding anything after all~”

She stepped toward ‘Cid,’ hands behind her back, fingers laced together, still smiling. Stopping short of him, a small laugh came from her throat, “Now, Mister Cid, while Lia there may well be something akin to an angel, I must say that I’m nothing of the sort. And, I must say that you’re wasting your time here, and I’m sure that your time is precious. My sister, my brother and myself have no knowledge of gangs or anything of the sort I fear, all we’re trying to do is to survive . . . so we took up residence here since the place was far more inviting than many other places in the area.” She tilted her head to the side, smiling sweetly, tone of voice light and airy. “I’m not sure, but there’s nothing wrong with what we’re doing, is there?”

“Anyway, I’m sorry to tell you that we’re not aware of any ‘gangs,’ or anything of the sort around here.” Something of a questioning and regretful look formed on Fleur’s face, as it was she tapped an index finger on her jaw uncertainly. “Then . . . we’re not really out and about a lot given things, so, if there is anything up, then this would definitely be the first we’ve heard of anything.”

Morgan and Clyde are so going to pay for the fact that I have to act like this while they're off being nimrods. . . .