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"Always knew Rage was stupid." Ndale pointed out. He sighed again and rested his head against the wood, trying to meet Jean's eyes through the branches of the tree. "Not sure if I should tell this, but Fabian is Rage's younger brother... haven't seen each other for about... five years, I think?"

"I... sorry." Ndale murmured, understanding that as well as darkness and anger, there was also concealed pain in Jean's voice. "But I don't think you understand Fabian. Was Rage's choice to leave, but was also for the better. And how do you mean, three babies dead?" he stood and swung himself into the branches, reaching Jean in just a few seconds.

"Yeah... funny how, in the end, all that matters is survival." he laughed shortly, bitterly; almost angrily. "We bury secrets, betray friends for enemies, even kill... all to just live." Too bad Nathaniel didn't have the heart to do the latter two... and he only did the former to protect others. Ndale thought to himself, bowing his head so that shadows hid his face.
'Oi, oi, oi! No negative thoughts!'
'Thanks Nicu, I'd kind of realized that.' he retorted, then sighed aloud. Things were turning out to be a lot more complicated than he'd expected.

"My story?" Ndale asked, surprised. "Not much to it, I guess... went to A of E since I was six, with my twin brother Nathaniel... various stuff happened... when we were about twelve-ish, N-Team was formed. Since Cortex, Brio, Gin and Tropy disappeared, N-Team was reduced to me, Nat, Nathan Dless, Necros Igma, Rage and Neill Viy. Oh, and Matthew Kaine, but he was too much younger than us to be counted. N-Team kinda disbanded when A of E went down, but before that, a hell of a lot of stuff happened. The two biggest things were probably when Nat, Rage, Dless, Igma and Kaine went off on their own to distract the shadow demon fire vampire hybrids... and the second was when they - and me, this time - crossed dimensions." at that part, Ndale's expression darkened and his eyes became hard as marble. "It was in the 13th, the Hell dimension, that Nat died." marble glossed over and spilled, salt water dropping onto clenched hands. "The ironic thing is... the one who killed him was the 13th dimension me."

"Nah, not your fault... guess I'm too emotional, ne?" Ndale looked up, a bright smile plastered on his face. "One of the reasons that Rage is so messed up is because of Nat's death... he'll never admit it, but I think Rage loved Nat. Still does, probably." he added, as an afterthought.
"Anyway, what about you? Your split-souls thing... it feels a little like my shadows but I can tell it's different. Would you tell me? That is, if you don't mind..."

'Wait a second... did he just say that we don't have a mind of our own?' Nicu hissed.
'Why, I think he did.' Nicholas replied dryly.
"Jean... there is a big difference, but it's not that." Ndale said, ignoring the angry voices. "It's the way in which shadows manifest. And no," he said, before Jean could say anything. "No, I'm not going to tell you how mine did. That's one secret that I won't uncover."

"They have no master, just like I have no master." Ndale said quietly, dangerously.
'Naa, we like friendly people! I'm Nicu, by the way.'
'Shut the hell up, Nicu... you're just making a fool of yourself, and us.' Nicholas admonished, hitting Nicu on the upside of the head.
"Ow!" Ndale said aloud, rubbing the back of his head. "That hurts me too, you know!" he appeared in his mindset to give the talkative pair a scowl, then opened his eyes again. "Sins, you said? Do you mean like the Seven Deadly Sins?" he mentally counted them off: Pride, Wrath, Lust, Greed, Sloth, Envy and Gluttony.