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Mizi placed a pot on the stove and dumped a can of chicken noodle soup into it. He added water in a hurried fashion and then grabbed the towel off the counter to follow only seconds behind Slaine into the living room. Mizi rushed directly into Slaine's back due to other's sudden stop. "Slaine? What's the dea-- " but when his plum hues took in the sight of the returned Shinto, he too was struck dumb. Mizi pushed past Slaine with Adrian's demanding tone, yet he ignored their exact content. He subconciously didn't like the other's abrupt hostility. "Come on, Slaine," he muttered before speaking up to the new kid. "This man.. is Shinto," he said, handing Adrian the towel before stepping around to place a cool, familiar hand on the boy's forehead. "Oh, dear God, Shin.." he murmured horrifically, unable to bear the thought of what a kidnapped prostitute would endure to wind up in such a state. "What happened to you? Do you want Slaine? We're getting things for you."

Adrian sighed, running a hand through his hair and stepping back letting the two others take care of it. The animosity that was being shot at him was stifling. They knew the young man, they could care for him, no need for him to get in the way. He'd just wait for his meeting with Lady B. Though he had a feeling that it probably wouldn't be today, but he'd wait. He looked at the clock, she was late anyways. With another sigh he looked at the men and watched as the youth tried to stand. He had the impulse to push, was it Shinto, back down and tell him to rest. Not his place...

((Did I die in this RP or am I still locked up? o.0 ))

No confirmation? No denial? With a lack of either one, Radevel didn't know which direction to go. However, Talis's last statement seemed to work as a guide. One to send him deeper into the anger he had already felt. Who was this boy, this whore to tell him what to do? Talis belonged to him, not the other way around. He set that glare centered on the defiant one before himself.

"What?" he asked more than a little rhetorically. "I provide you with the clothes you wear, the food you eat, and the shelter that keeps you from having to live in that damned world outside these walls. I give you everything, and this is how you repay me? Backtalking and spoiling my business? You have been nothing but a leech since you've come here. Taking and taking but giving nothing back. A liar and a nuisance, and I am damned well sick of it."

Radevel once more started forward until he was barely a foot away from Talis's smaller form. "I think it's about time for me to repay you all the trouble you've caused me," he said, a hand already out to take a handful of the boy's silky hair.

Another order. Another notch angrier he became. Radevel's strong hand gave a firm tug back on Talis's hair. Was he even able to think clearly through this building fury? Not even he was sure, but he was far too used to acting upon impulse that he didn't try to think everything piece through logical piece.

Leaning in close, mere inches away from Talis's face, the white-haired man sneered. "You're in no position to tell me what to do," he said, his hold unrelenting. "You should be begging. At least, that's what any smart person would be doing, but you.. You're just another supid whore here for no other reason than to be a pain in my a**."

He wasn't bothering to run the words over in his mind before saying them. They simply flowed free. The comforting, more considerate Radevel from last night seemed nothing more than a distant memory as his old, merciless self seemed to have returned.

His weak arms wrapped around the boy and he held on as best as he could. "Where's Lady B?" he whispered and looked at the boy. The light once reflected in this once bright eyes were now dim and barely visable.

"It can't be," a voice came from the base of the staircase. Lady B looked down at the broken boy with tears in her eyes and at lost for words. She placed a hand on her chest and resisted the urge to run out and wrap her arms tightly around her nefew, knowing that it would probably hurt him with the current condition he was in.
"Rukio! Run a hot bath! Someone boil some tea and bring a change of clothes!" she comanded and walked up to Shinto, brushing some hair out of his eyes. "Welcome home."

The youth's back his the wall hard and he sharply inhaled with the pain it delivered. What was he to do?! Those things he said.. they were never lies. He didn't touch a hair on Shinto's head and he was being apprehended for some crime already!

How wrong Radevel was. How so very wrong. So now he was to 'learn his place?' What was that supposed to mean?! His place was whereever Radevel was. "I admit nothing!" he hissed back, frowning and trying to push the man away with all his might. "Get off of me! I didn't do anything wrong!"