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"They use us," Roch said quietly, hugging them both gently. "Their weapons--they were once us. They're using us against us, ghouls. They attack with FEAR, that's how they can hurt us. But..." He sighed. "We can get stronger. And... I don't know, we need to be more careful. When talking to strangers you need to be careful, you need to travel in groups, and you need... hell, I've jumped into so many traps that I'm talkin' like a hypocrite," he said honestly.

"I don't know how much I trust the boogies, but I trust the horsemen--at least I trust Invi," he told them quietly. "There was this time when we were caught in nets, they had us all--and it wasn't a dream. But the four horsemen, they traded themselves for us. Sure we exploded afterwards, but hell, that was just another dissipation."

Circe stared at utter disbelief at Roch. She had known hunters were real ever since the Haunted House but, to learn that the Horsemen really did go to school with them was a shock. "Wait... You mean they actually go to school here? With us?" Circe asked, her eyes wide. Then his words sunk in. "I don't want to be a weapon. Ever." She said, as if saying that could make it true. That something like that would never happen. "If their humans they should be easier to harm... Right?" She asked Roch.

Then at Mitzi's words she slightly scrunched together her eyebrows. Was it possible that the Horsemen would leave them? Suddenly a small pang of panic grew in her chest. Sure she knew pretty much nothing about them other then there were four clans and each of them had an heir that might possibly go to their school but that was about as much as she knew about them. "They wouldn't leave us... Right?"

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Mitzi made a face. "The hunters can use FEAR, too?" Another thing she had been avoiding thinking about. If they could hurt the Amityville students, they must be able to manipulate FEAR on some level.

"A student exchange program? That sounds... really great actually. Learning what they know. If the hunters think they're that big of a threat, then we should learn everything we can from them."

"Invi is the heir of Conquest," Roch said. "He's ah... short, and cute, but don't tell him I said that," he told them. "He's a serious badass, and is really, really old, compared to us--but I'm pretty sure he's still a kid in his family. And as for how we fight them..." He frowned. "I ain't sure. We'd probably need to learn to work as a team, for one. Every time we get into a fight we just do whatever the hell we want, it don't work against a group like that, see? But it don't help that we keep getting grouped into small teams."

There had to be a way, he thought. "Somethin' I'm missing..." he muttered. It had been bugging him all day long. "Maybe the clans can figure it out." And he knew, straight forwardly, that the clans were probably interested in them purely to throw them up against the hunters. They didn't live as long, and weren't as important as their own, he figured. But hell, they wound up fighting anyway.

For the first time that night she smiled. "I won't tell Roch... That you have a boil crush." She couldn't help but giggle a little, purposely teasing him. Then she sunk back into reality and all that faded. "Small teams shouldn't matter. If you've got an even offense to defense ratio... Right?" She began to state before quickly changing it. Maybe she should just listen to her peer and shut up. Seemed like a good plan.

The ghoul looked to Mitzi. "There was a teacher who... Fought for us. I hadn't known her before that as I had just arrived at the school before being tossed into the Haunted House but after that day she forever has my respect." Then she frowned and pointed at the piece of skull from said teacher that hung around her neck. "She died protecting us. Fighting the hunters." Circe smiled sadly down at the piece of bone. "If she was still here maybe she could have taught us how to fight against the hunters."

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Mitzi giggled as well at Circe's comment and Roch's retort, and replied with a teasing grin, "Well, you've got the two of us, and who says we want to share you any further?"

As the two talked about what had happened in the haunted house, the ghoul sobered back up. She nodded as they talked. "Well, I wish I could have met her, then."

"One," he said, squeezing Mitzi closer, "two," he went on, squeezing Circe lightly as well. "Somethin's missin," he told them seriously, only to snicker. "But honestly, I got two arms, don't know WHERE a third would go, and I ain't about to ask Invi," he decided.

Of course, there was red creeping up the back of his neck even as he said that. "I could ask my granddad," he went on thoughtfully. "I've seen him with four before--but that was at the themepark. But no more hunter talk. I'm sick and tired of hunter talk, at least for the day. Let's talk about somethin' funner!"

Circe smiled and nodded as hugged the boil as well. "Yeah I'd rather not know either." She replied, looking up at him. "I agree. Why don't we watch a movie?" Circe asked not really sure what it was they could do. All she knew was that she wasn't quite yet ready to head back into her room of solitude. Who knew what might happen next. "Do you have any movies Roch?"

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