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"Well," Luciano began as he went to sit in his chair, "Let's start by your interest in this group- This is the first time we're letting an Outsider, into our home. I want to make sure you deserve to be here." Luciano sat back in his chair. He wasn't the least bit bothered by Jade; While some of the others we treating Jade like he was another species, Luciano knew he was only human. It's not like he had some kind of disease or something. Plus, Luciano was raised by human parents, so this was just like being in front of his mother, or father, or his neighbour.

(Yay for disturbing nonfiller!)

Sabe had slept long enough to start dreaming of a familiar scene. It was at an old handball court at the far corners of a college campus from some number of years ago. It lost its intended purpose ages ago, and was stained, etched into, and drawn on. What stood out the most on the old wall was a target spraypainted on it, which spanned the whole surface. The graffitti was hardly new; some spots were worn down, others chipping. A group of college-age kids were nearby, most were the 'popular' (more like attention-whoring) types that haven't changed their ways since high school, chewing big wads of gum and sticking them on the backs of papers while the most obnoxious kid stood off to the side drinking coffee. This kid looked strikingly like a younger Sabe, except with slightly longer hair, a penchant for purple lipgloss, stage makeup, oversized sweaters, and black leggings that emphasized his twig-thin frame that made even some of the skinny girls cringe. A younger Charlie stood further away from him, and Lucy was next to Charlie. They were only there to watch the spectacle that was coming soon.
A crippled squirrel laid in front of the young Sabe, struggling to move. Sabe saw the squirrel move and pinned it down by the tail. "Hurry up, you guys~" he said, "I wanna punt this thing before it scrams! I wore my good steel-toed boots for this!" A few looked at him with some resentment, but a glare from him sent them back to stuffing bubble gum in their mouths. "That's more like it! You guys are so good!"

Sabe walked away from the others to his backpack, and unzipped the front pocket of it. He rummaged through his things until he found his little bag of white powder. He took a moderate pinch of it and huffed it before going back, and by the time he got back, the people he was hanging out with were now sticking the papers onto the target. They were people's photographs. They looked blurry, and it was hard to tell whose pictures they were, but they were definitely people's photographs. Sabe walked up to the squirrel and dragged it along with his foot to a marked, also spraypainted 'X' mark on the ground a few meters from the wall. Two kids lifted it within kicking range with a pair of wooden sticks each, and everyone else backed up all the way to the sides of the handball court. This younger Sabe was really about to punt a squirrel against a wall of people's pictures, and enjoy it. It was like a grotesque variation of darts that secondary school kids would play, except more violent and pointlessly cruel.

Luciano woke up a few feet from Pen, only he was face down in the grass, then a foot or so to his left Michelle could be found hanging in the tree, "Okay!!. . . What the ******** just happened?!" Luciano let out a groan as he rubbed his head, he could see some of the members of his group scattered about.

Luciano rubbed his forehead and he said, to whomever was closer, "Is everyone alright?" He didn't know who was all there, but any kind of response would've been nice.

Luciano rubbed his chest as he slowly got up; It must've been a hard landing if he was in this much pain. He walked over to the tree that Michelle was hanging from and gently helped her down. She let him know that she was ok, and then Luciano said to the group again, to anyone who was there, "Is everyone alright?- Sound off."

Luciano shook his head, "I have no idea-" And suddenly it hit him. He remembered that Pen had some kind of device, so Luciano quickly made his way over to Pen and he said, "What happened?!" Luciano was mildly upset now, because he thought that maybe Pen had messed with it a little bit or something. Luciano clenched his jaw, then he looked down at Jade, thinking he had something to do with the device's delivery- Judging from what Luciano knew of Jade so far, it may have been something Jade would do. It took so much restraint not to break Jade's face right now, because that's exactly what he wanted to do. "Where the ******** are we?!- I want answers, and I want them now!!"

Having pushed Jade off they both sat on the ground; Pen was mad for Jade landing on her and Jade was confused on how he got there in the first place.

Grabbing in the device, Pen rotated it to where the arrows pointed to a single row of numbers. What in the world made it go off and why did now read this date? All she did was walk downstairs and look at it; what was the catalyst to this strange thermos?

Before she could figure that out she found Luc in a fit yelling either just to Jade or both of them. Though Jade had gotten up he sat next to Pen without her realizing it.

"Hold up Boss Bro, we are just about as clueless. No need to lose your head." Glancing over to Jade it was evident that he was just as stunned.