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She looked over the side and saw a small person treading water.

"... Hello..." Saylis said uncertinly.

The tiny girl's eyes where black and somewhat big as she just stared up at Saylis. Her hair floated all around her like some black cloud.

Sticking her hand out to help her up out of the water, the girl said in the quietest voice possible, "Someone's on the ladder, big and slow, he's been stuck for two hours or so it seems."

Saylis reaching down to the help the child she realized she had nothing on. Saylis wondered about that and about the fact that someone was trying to get out of the water at night. She puzzled about why they were there, as the child hastily climbed up onto the dock.

Saylis stared at her and wondered if she should leave.

"... I had to leave all of it behind..." the girl said in that tiny voice that only Saylis could hear.

Hearing her speak propelled Saylis to answer the child.

"Leave what behind?"

The girl shrugged a bit or what Saylis thought was a shrug. For she did not shrug with her shoulders but her shoulder blades.

"My clothes." the girl simply said.

"Wher-"

The girl cut her off, "I was locked up," she turn to Saylis, "I did not deserve it. I might have before but I did nothing to frighten or stir up the people over there."

"In a jail?" Saylis had never been so confused in her life, well other than that one time but that didn't count here.

She looked to the hint of sun rising, "Come, I'll take you back with me," she put out her hand, without another word the girl took it and they ran through the city back to HQ.

((exit to demon HQ))

A dark figure stood at the end of an unused pier, the gentle sea breeze played across her skin. Her trenchcoat gently swayed to her right, as did her soft, feathery black hair. Her gleaming, green-grey eyes reflected the red setting sun, and it gave Lain's ashen face color it hadn't ever possessed before. The playful sea lapped and swirled against the pier, and cries of annoying sea birds echoed in the distance. Probably hounding a cruise ship littered with the leftovers of old, barmy fools. A smirk played across her normally calm face, then disappeared into a blissful, yet wounded grimace, and she lowered her eyes. She unbuttoned her trenchcoat all the way, and let the sea air tantilize her normally covered, pale skin. She shivered slightly at the unexpected cool, and at the insistant tugging on the bottom of her cargo pants.

Lain glances over at the newly revealed person, and she smiled lightly, not embarrassed by her lack of concealment, nor by the exposer of her bra. "I am Lain." She stated softly, her hair still being possessed by the light zephyr.

Lain smiled mysteriously, her hair still floating over her eyes. "I am a demon." She blanked her face. "And you?" She stuck her hands into her nifty, trenchcoat pockets.

Lain continued shielding her side emotions, and letting them out by holding the ankh around her neck. "I don't think you did." Lain faced her, and smiled, extending her pale right hand in greeting.