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"There was certainly evidence to that effect at the scene. Given what I saw, the damage looked like it was caused by a single individual, all of the scrapes, marks, and cuts were made by something extremely sharp and heavy. There must have been some elemental behind the unfortunate killings, but their association to us is an accident. We had nothing to do with that person, they simply happened to be found near our house when they went ballistic on the troops you keep sending to investigate us. I was merely reporting the incident myself to exonerate us from situation."

Cobra lifted his head up slightly after the last line and stared very intently into the Captain's eyes..."Perhaps, if you were to just leave us alone, and stop sending guards to our house, none of this would have happened. Just what are you after anyways?"

”A classic response of the ignorant…save the body by cutting off the poisoned limb. He thinks it’ll solve the problem, but it will only make it worse. It’s only when an animal is hunted that it becomes most dangerous. I need to warn the others.”

Cobra waited until the Captain and the remaining guards were gone and well out of site. Standing up, Cobra looked around. The room was in near pitch darkness, save for a glimmer of light that seeped through a crack in the stairway leading down. Adjusting his body and stretching quickly after having sat for so long, Cobra tilted his neck to the side and cracked it before getting ready to leave. If these men thought that they could hold an earth elemental prisoner in a stone dungeon, they were dumber then they looked. Closing his eyes and concentrating, Cobra placed his hands on the wall and focused for about a minute until his body gained a slight glow all around him. The aura radiated for a few seconds before disappearing, passing into him as he began to communicate with the rock and stone that made up his cell and the surrounding area until finally, his hands moved into the wall, merging with it and moving through it as if it were a screen of water to him. Inch after inch, Cobra pushed his body into the wall, until after about 15 seconds, he was fully merged into the wall and was able to see all around him in about 100 feet in all directions as if all solid matter were semi-transparent to him.

After a few minutes of walking through the earth, Cobra suddenly saw Straven walking through the sewers. He didn’t really care for the man, or his lifestyle and what it represented, but from their last encounter, it was clear he was an elemental user…he deserved to be warned just like everyone else. Moving downward, Cobra found a section of the sewer which had been repaired not by steel, but with stone and used it to make his way into the sewer. As Straven walked within the pipes, Cobra could be seen suddenly emerging from the wall, his body coming directly through what would appear to be solid stone (and in fact was) until he was standing directly in his path.

”Wherever you’re going, or whatever you’re doing, I would warn you…this city is on the brink of war against people like us. We need to start watching our backs.”

Cobra followed Straven at his beckoning, curious to see his "hideout", and was somewhat stunned to find many people living down here. He cast a quick look to Straven and surveyed the room, looking at the people and immediately feeling bad for them. Looking back at Straven, he suddenly felt a great change in how he saw the man. He may disagree with how Straven did things, but he was certainly doing what he did for the right reason, perhaps more so out of desperation to provide for as many people as possible. A time of trouble was coming up for elemental users in the city, who knew really who would be hunted down eventually. The knights had never seen him use any powers, and had arrested and locked him up for merely being linked to the others...who knows what could happen to innocent people in the light of such an event. Someone like Straven would be a powerful ally as an underground resistance and refuge.

"Yes, in fact, there is something you can do for me Straven. Keep up the good work down here. If my assumptions are correct, and if you'll excuse the hubris, they are...more people will need refuge. You know as well as I do that elemental powers exist within people on a much larger number of individuals then most know of. In many, the powers never awaken, but when they do, those newly born to the powers are like children, and the knights will now be hunting them. Can you be a refuge for those people? You've been fighting this longer then I have apparently, but perhaps not on the scale I'm talking about. My companions and I will most likely be forced to leave for a while, but in the meantime, we may need your help to hold Paris together. With the chaos of the knights rounding up suspicious "elemental" users, the poor and innocent will most likely be unfairly arrested. We could use a strong underground ally if we're going to be able to survive around here."

..."What do you say Straven?...are you up to it?", Cobra held his hand out in a handshake, waiting for Straven's response to see if they would join forces to survive and harbor a resistance to the knights int he city. If Paris were to be a free place for elementals to live, they would need someone who knew it well and was already fighting for the lowest of its citizens.

Cobra accepted the handshake and the bullet happily, he was fairly certain that Straven would agree to the idea anyways, but it was nice to have an official confirmation of it. "Perhaps they could be useful, but at the moment, I have to go warn the others. Before we leave, I will stop by here with some supplies and what I can spare from the house...no doubt in our absence it would be demolished anyways. I will bring whatever I can, and perhaps I can add a few things here and there to make the sewers more habitable. I'm sure that you all get by with no complaints, but a few creature comforts, or rather, nature comforts would do well for people's moral."

..."Is there anything else you would need from me before I leave?", Cobra said as he ended the hand shake and placed the bullet in a hidden compartment within his sleeve, waiting for Straven to say the last word.

Rune walked into her room and it only took a few minutes to make sure nothing was missing and let out a relieved sigh. "Well thats god..." she said quietly to herself as she headed back down the stairs and into the kitchen, to see Veronica already starting to make something with the food she had bought.