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Ame, still hiding behind Lancaster glanced at Cat with wide eyes. "C-Cat are you ok?" She asked, blinking slowly. The hot sun was making her tired, but she didn't want to leave the picnic. The fireworks were tonight, and she wanted to see them. She leaned her head against Lancaster's back, willing herself to keep her eyes open.

"I'm fine," She overheard the pink-haired girl tell the others. "My name is Melody" she said, holding out her hand to shake. Then she walked behind Lancaster and kneeled so she was level with Ame. "I'm sorry I frightened you," she said softly smiling. "I didn't mean to. Sometimes I get really excited and all."

Ame smiled, nodding her head slowly. "Thats ok..." she said grinning softly. "I'm sorry, I'm so tired right now. I-well...we had...stuff..." she trailed off, not wanting to relieve the memory of the fight.

Melody raised her eyebrows, but just nodded. Leila meanwhile had not taken a step forward, and was still standing firmly on the ground beneath the tree some five feet away. She ran her blacked gloved hands through her silvery hair, trying to decide what exactly to do. The tall man seemed to be the touchy feely sort, she really didn't want to indulge her secret on anyone else at the moment. It was enough that Melody knew her secret, she didn't want to make it a public statement.

Melody however noticed Leila's delay. She motioned over with her hands. "Come on Leila! They're not going to bite!" she rolled her eyes skyward, then turned towards Ame. "So what can you do? How old are you anyways? Is he your boyfriend?"

Once again felt herself turn crimson. She was sure she was like a beacon, and it seemed as the entire area had gone silent with Melody's question. For several moments Ame didn't speak. "Of course he isn't!" She gasped out, a little to fast. He wasn't, of course. Ame however was embarressed extremely easily. Especially infront of the opposite sex. It seemed that ever since she began her changes, she was more aware of her feelings, or hormones, or whatever. Now whenever anyone said anything slightly embarressing, it felt multipled by one-hundred. "But erm, uhm...." she fumbled with her words. "I control water, and I heal" she said, extremely fast. "And I'm well...erm.....my age i-is its...odd...."

Cat looked over to Lancaster. Her eyes were wide with fear. "He's....he's here...no no he shouldn't be but he is..." Cat said as her wings hugged her tightly.

She zoned out, and then she saw those eyes; those cold orange eyes staring at her. She shut her own eyes to get the image out. He was so close. So very close. Cat wondred how he had found out.

"Caty...where are you my litte kitty...?" A voice mocked. It laughed...it was a horrid laugh. But he wasn'tseen, he would only be seen when she was vulnerable, when she was alone. She shuddered more. "Damien...he's here...somewhere here no no no he shouldn't be here Lancaster..." she sputtered. She couldn't fight Damien, he scared her to bits, and he was her rapist.

She cried "He killed the librarian Lancaster...now he's after me no...! I don't want him to touch me no..." she kept repeating. She was covered by her wings now, and she was shaking enough to cause a small earthquake.

Cat shook her head, signifying a no. "I don't mean Ria's librarian...I mean the one that took care of me back in my homeland a couple of years ago. She's dead...Arora and Calypto...they're trying to find him, to finally kill him." Cat sad as she looked at the sky.

She pointed at the sky. When she was in the care of her first foster parents, they had taought her to read the sky like a newspaper, the thickness of clouds meaning how long ago it was, the color being the actions, the shapes signifying the people. She pointed to a couple, explaing to Lancaster how reading the sky had alerted her. "He's near here Lancaster...somewhere here..." she said.

She had stopped crying now to speak. Her cheeks were tear strained. She brought Ame closer to her and hugged her. She would be sure that Damien wouldn't lay a fingernail on Ame.

Lancaster blinked and sighed as the girl from the tree came closer. He welcomed her with a smile and bowed his head in greating but never made a move to touch her, even before she told her story. As he was pointed to at the question of his powers, he smiled innocently in the way that only he could. "Oh miss I am but a humble gentleman, there is nothing speical about me." By now the girls in the group could tell that this was a lie, but those who did not would just be left with the question of why he was at the school. He just smiled innocently as he let that sink in then turned back to Cat. "See that, we're not going to let him hurt you."

Ame fell back, slamming into Leila as she did so. It was lucky that the Leila was wearing gloves, though they were now both in a jumble on the ground. Ame quickly picked herself and turned towards Cat, her eyes wide with shock.

"I saw him!" Ame cried jumping up in down. "A man! He-and then he. He..." her words were all jumbled together. "Damn him!" she growled, cursing in a fashion very unlike herself. "Was that him? Was that the man whose after you Cat?" she grabbed her hand, her eyes wide. "Don't worry. He won't get you. And he better not ruin the fireworks!"

Once again she had drawn back to her child like self. In no time at all the information that a stranger, who could appear and dissappear at will was completely out of her mind. She paced around, singing softly in a child like manner. She then noticed a caterpiller crawling its way up a tree. She kneeled infront of it, and watched it trek slowly upward. Its orange furry body was striking against the dark brown of the tree.

"Cat, hes a bad man!" Ame cried again. "Bad! But you know that, right? Yes. Bad. Bad,bad, bad..." she mumbled this to herself for a while, still watching the caterpiller.

"Uhm, is she ok?" Melody asked, watching Ame with interest. To Melody, it seemed as if Ame had just been possessed by the spirit of a six year old strung out on candy. One minute, she was acting like a mature rational adult, and now....

"Caaaaaaaattttttttt" Ame cried clinging to Cat, her eyes watery. "Hes a bad man! He needs to go away!"

Rachel's eyes went wide as the massive tangle of wires shot out of Seira's brooch and enveloped her in the large metallic flower bloom. Shaking her head after a few moments of staring, she whistled a little, obviously impressed with the display. "That's a pretty interesting power," she said, visually appraising the mechanical flower from her vantage point at the blanket. "It actually seems like it's a lot more versatile than my appearance changing power."

During all of this conversation, Joseph had become relatively fixated upon Nobara, and was only vaguely paying attention to the others. When Seira created her mechanical petal shield, however, he called over to her. "Seira! It's all right, this cutie here is one of Rachel's friends! C'mon out!" He smiled, despite the fact that Seira wouldn't be able to see him doing so.

Rachel rolled her eyes, looking back to Wisp at this point. "Yeah... anyway... don't worry about prying or anything," she said. "I don't really like my power, but it's there all the same. I have to admit, it's actually kind of useful sometimes. People usually don't take to it very well, is all. I've been made fun of more times than I care to count." Sighing for a moment, she shook her head. "But don't worry about it. You guys seemed to react pretty normally, at least," she said with a small smile.