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Sid rubbed his chin. "Well the only ancestors that did anything outside of cooking were Aron, Lexine, Winry, Ryu, and Koh." Sid soon took notice of Gwen's appearence. "Well looks like this crowd just keeps getting bigger and bigger now doesn't it?" Sid looked around for a second. "Where'd Max go?" Sid scanned the resturant and spotted Max with a black marker scribbling glasses and a moustache on one of the customers. "Max Sinclair what the hell do you think you're doing?!" Max turned around unfazed. "This jerk came in last week and didn't bother to tip. Cheap b*****d." Sid rubbed his temples on his forhead. "Listen While I'm sure you could keep time frozen like this for awhile, wouldn't it just be simpler to finish this discussion upstairs in our living selection away from the public instead of keeping time paused like this? Let's just return to where we were, and let Max finish his shift and we'll take this conversation somewhere private. Is that okay with all of you?" Sid turned around and spotted Max writing on someone else's face "Max!!!" "But he-" "I don't care what he did, stop writing on people's faces!" "But-" "Kitchen NOW." Max capped the marker and sulked to the kitchen.

As time finally resumed its course, Max hopped over to the window and snatched a piece of paper off and read it. He glanced at the clock. "Yes, this is the final order. An Omelet with everything on it... Easy." Max slid across the white tiled floor and picked up three eggs and cracked them open and dumped them into the pan before whipping them up with a whisk. He moved to the counter and picked out a mushroom, onion, bell pepper, onion, zucchini, barley, and cheese. He gripped the knife off his hip and chopped the food up into little bits in a flurry of slices. He flipped the eggs and poured the contents of the omelet into the pan and folded it up and slid it onto a plate.

He grabbed a toothpick with a frill on one end and poked the pick through the middle of the omelet to hold it together. He quickly turned off all the stoves and placed the order on the kitchen window before calmly walking over to the clock on the wall and depositing a card into the box next to it. "DONE!" Max grabbed a bottle of water a chugged it down greedily. After undoing the bandana around his head and using it to wipe off the sweat on his face he finally turned around to Erica. "Okay. It is time to talk. I'll lead you upstairs so we can talk witht he others." Max motioned Erica to follow him and they left the kitchen.

As Max left three cooks went in to take his place. Sid had already taken the rest of the family upstairs already. Max walked to the door to the stair way and opened it and let Erica go in first as he closed the door behind him and walked upstairs too. It only took a few seconds to reach what appeared to be the main office. Portraits of past Sinclairs hung on the wall. The middle of the room was covered with a luxerious bold red rug that sat just infront of a large fancy desk made of mahogony. Sid sat behind the desk and watched as his son and guest entered the room where Sebastian and Julia were already seated in some nice chairs polished to a shine. "I'm glad to see you came. Please take a seat. I sure we have much to talk about. Max... please go lock the stairway door to ensure we don't have any uninvited guests." Max nodded and left the room shortly before returning and closing the door to the office. "I'll let our guests speak first." Sid calmly announced.

Sebastian so, soooo, didn't want to speak first. It was him trying to find out the answer and he really didn't wish to give out to much just in case.

"Why do you explain to me," stared Sebastian, "you knowledge of this defensive spell around your family. It does appear that you had knowledge of it, even if the origins were false."

As everyone talked back and forth, each trying to gather what information they could acquire, Julia laid back and withdrew. Sid had mention a series of names before.

....Aron, Lexine, Winry, Ryu, and Koh....

One of those were so familiar. She had remember it being spoken aloud, it wasn't really spoken to anyone personally. It was just thrown out there, possibly unknowningly. It was said with such a sadden and hurt tone by the speaker. Oh...what was that name? Ryu...that was it. She was sure of it, maybe it wasn't anything at all.

"Ryu....ryu....I know I heard it before, but from someone in particular..someone important...wait!" Julia's head snapped up as she suddenly spoke aloud," Relena!" She instantly covered her mouth as her eyes widen. Everyone was looking at her and her father had an utterly shocked expression with a hint of betrayal in it. How could she bring Relena in to this, especially after Relena personally asked them to keep things related to her to themselves because of who and what she was. Oh she hoped it would brush over and nothing would come of her speaking the name.

She was probably so wrong anyway!!!!!!

((sorry everybody, but school starts back up in a week and I'm afraid I'll have to commit alot of time this semester to my books, so I'm gonna have to play a micro tiny role in the rpg.))
Without saying a word, Sid stood up and reached for a book on the shelf behind him. It was labeled R. He pulled it down and flipped through the pages until he came to the one he was looking for. "Relena... dragon.... king... rebellion... Ryu.... I see." Sid calmly put the book back in its place on the shelf. "I'm interested as to how you know of Relena, but it seems as though your father doesn't want to bring it up, so I'll drop it if you wish." Max rolled his eyes at his father's over the top politeness.

"Oh come on. This is getting old fast. We're not idiots. We know that we all know more then we should, but dammit, the truth is not something that we should have to tip-toe around. It isn't right that we pretend to live in the clueless world that is ignorent of the harsh truth of reality. There was a giant war raged by a handful of people you accepted the truth about the King's corruption 500 years ago, and yet even now we pretend that the world is running smoothly. It's not! It's resistance to speaking of the truth liek thsi that let the King get as strong as he did half a millenium ago." Max turned to their guests.

"We know about Relena's part in the war, we know she wasn't 'human', we know there is something going down in the country again, we know that you are somehow involved. The fact that you could perform magic is proof enough of that. We know that the country is on the verge of war if something isn't done soon. No more p***y-footing around. Let's cut the crap and talk turkey." Max plopped back down on his seat and crossed his arms in frustration.

If looks could kill, Max would be dead ten times over from the daggers his father was staring at him. With a deep sigh, Sid spoke up. "It's true, the Sinclairs are aware of the unpleasent truth of the past and bloody conditions of the present. But we are not warriors. We are not saviors. We are not a threat. We are simply chefs. We cook and serve the best food through out the country. Nothing more." Sid stood up and walked to his guests, glaring at Max as he pasted, making Max's hair stand on end. He handed Sebastian a pendent on the end of a red strap. "This is a crest of the Sinclair's. If you show this to any of the Sinclairs through out the country, I sure they'd be more then willing to help you in any way they can. The Sinclairs are a good source of information on the goings-on in their city. And secrets between the family is secure since we code our secrets in food recipe code that only members of the Sinclair family can hope to understand. If you present that crest to anyone in the Sinclair family, I'm they'd be more then willing to give you a place to rest for awhile, gritty information on what's going on in town, and probably even a few free meals."

Max interupted and said, "Except for Edward and Elida Sinclair, those two cheapstakes would make you paid full price for a meal even if you were part of the family." Sid looked at Max. "Drop it Max, it was reckless of you to assume that you'd get a free meal from them anyways and you deserved the dish duty they put on you." Max slumped in his chair. "Anyways, please take this family crest as a symbol of our goodwill and consider it our way of helping. I can tell that you are good people, so can all the other Sincalirs. As far as I know, here isn't anything scandelious going on here in Yusak that would be of any importance to you. Now if that is all, you are free to leave. And Max-" Max froze in midstep as he tried sneaking out of the room. "Yeah..." "Freezer." "Damn." Max took off his shirt reveling a small burn mark on his left shoulder and right fore-arm along with a four-packon his torso. Max handed Sid his shirt and went downstairs. "I have him sit in the freezer to cool off as punishment for speaking out of turn. Unfortunatly, he keeps building a stronger tolerance to the cold every time. At this rate his tolerance to the heat of the kitchen and the cold of the freezer will make him nigh impervious to the weather around him... I'm gonna have to think of a new punishment soon... anyways, your meal is on the house today, please feel free to come again when ever you like and remember to tell your friends about our wonderful food." Sid announced like he was advertising.

"I'll keep that in mind. Take care, Sir." Sid said as he walked Sebastian to the front door of the resturant and closed the door behind him. Afterwards he headed to the back-room and opened the freezer to see Max sitting in the fridged cold storage unit without his shirt. "We have alot to talk about once your punishment is over young man." "Can't we just have the talk now and get it over with?" "Nice try, but no. I'll come back down in three hours. Stay cool." "Oh my god, I can't believe you said that! How can you be so lame?! I swear I can hardly believe I'm even related to-" the freezer door slammed as Sid left Max to wait out his punishment.

"I don't know," she said looking at the ground after a moment. "Before I had come, this puppet, as Relena called it, came to her and said the someone named Sang needed her. And a few moments before that Kaida and I were getting ready to leave when I felt someone else near us, but it wasn't Relena." Gwen shuddered as she remembered that sinister laughter she had heard. "As we ran I heard them shout 'Run rider, run! I will enjoy our meeting that will soon come to past!!!! Haaa-haaaah...'"