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"Very well," I said to Dusk, "as soon as your friend gets off of me."

My eyes slowly peeled open. "Hello? What's going on?" I turned my head, seeing everyone in the cave with slightly blurred vision. "Dusk?" I coughed a little. "Asher?" I tried to get up. "Alexia, why are you on Asher? Please, get off him Miss Alexia, he came back to help." I coughed hard now, hacking on the dirt my face was pressed against.

I shook my head, a dizzy feeling rattling inside. "No, Lillith. Bad men burned it." I coughed hard, sending myself back on my knees. What was going on? Alexia still layed on top of Asher. I tried getting up, but failed the attempt, falling once again. "Asher," I said as the room begun to spun. I army cralled closer to where they were.

I looked toward Dawn, and then to Dusk. "You wouldn't kill the love of your own sister." I smiled in a smug manner and gently put the dagger back in my pocket. My words were the weapon now, and by Dusk's face I knew that they hurt her far more than any knife could.

I squirmed in his arms. "Asher!" I yelped, coughing again. "No, please, don't hurt him, Dusk!" I was in a daze, my eyes looked this way and that at everyone.

"Think fast," I said abruptly, pushing Al's body off mine and leaping up at just the right moment. At that exact moment my hand held the dagger, ready to fight off the many that I expected to spring upon me. "Don't do anything you are going to regret." I looked to Dawn, who squirmed in the man's arms. "Hey Dawn, come on, come with me, Dawn, come on!" I motioned to her like I would a dog, trying to get her attention in the state she was currently in. "It's Asher, Dawn, come on,"

I looked at Dawn, the way I always had when she knew she had to trust my word. "Dawn. Don't listen to him, stay where you are. He isn't what you think he is. I love you Dawn, more than this waste of a life ever would, you have to listen to me." I looked back to Asher, "If you know what's best you'll shut the hell up and follow me." I untangled Al's hand from his wrist, knocking the dagger out in the process. I snatched his other wrist and began to drag him away whether he liked it or not.

Alphonse held Dawn to him, trying to shield her eyes from the violence before them. She was no younger than his son, really. Perhaps it was an overprotective action. But he did not at all enjoy the thought of her watching it. "Why don't we take a walk, hmn? You do not want to stay and watch this."

Alphonse ignored Asher and called out to his son. "Mallory! Come join us for a stroll, mon fils. It will be good for us." He ushered Dawn down the tunnel, carefully keeping track of the way they walked. It would not do at all for him to get them lost.

Mallory blinked at the sound of his father's voice, surprised by his jovial nature. He shook his head, then scrambled through the hole. He took one glance toward Alexia, Dusk and Asher, but decided he did not really want to see what might be going on there. He looked straight ahead toward his father and hurried after him.

"No, I don't. She can't be by you right now." I continued walking until when I looked back Al was the size of a doll. Far enough for her not to hear our conversation, but close enough to hear my scream if anything went wrong. I pushed Asher back so that he now sat down across from me. I took a seat across from him, still holding my dagger in one hand flipping it through my fingers. My gaze moved across him until our eyes met. "We should set some rules to abide by." My face's expression changed serious as the words were spoke. "I don't kill you, and you don't kill me. At least while we're over here. Understand?"

Lillith said nothing as she walked to the hole she had made and stood there. She watched both groups with her steak knife clutched firmly in hand just in case.