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"About you being a dumbass? Yeah." She gave him a smile, though did as suggested and quit talking, grunting slightly now that the pain wasn't distracted by the conversation.

The talk with Kat, and Lincoln's unnescesary bloodlust had done something funny with Rook's mind. As he laid, floating in the water, Rook decided to walk away from the organization. Lincoln's brutality, and the referance to the explosion that flattened a city in the midlands, as well as the Keeper's willingness to repeat that if it turned out St. Eva was too much, hung over his head.

The short-term goal, however, was simple enough- Play dead. Sink. Down and down, sink. And then find Kat. Her, a bullet hole and some dude weren't going to hold up long, especially with Lincoln's mad-on for her. But for now, he just had to play dead, patiently waiting for Lincoln to note the sinking body.

"You'd have to be more specific with your questions, it would make them easier to answer. But yes, the girl isn't entirely coherent, she seems to trust people too easily." Roxanna glanced at Jeffery, noting the soaked clothes. "If you'd like, you could look through some of my husbands clothes to find something dry to wear. He was taller, but I believe some of his clothes may fit you."

Roxanna motioned for him to follow as she headed towards the master bedroom. "They are people who would kill her, or me, based on certain qualities that Kat and I were born with, despite the fact they share those qualities. They believe only a certain amount of people like us should be alive at a certain time, or it could be a danger to the world. Kat is what they refer to as a backslider, being she used to be among their ranks...was trained to be among their ranks and forced to be among their ranks, but betrayed them and set out on the run." Roxanna spun her words a bit more carefully than Kat, almost making the keepers sound like some odd self-hating supremacist group. She walked into the bedroom, and followed into the walk in closet, fishing around a moment before she came out with some clothes that looked like they'd fit Jeffery the best.

"As silly as it sounds they are a surprisingly powerful group, with very strong weaponry and advanced technology. Most backsliders don't survive long, particularly if they invoke the wrath of its members like Kat did." Roxanna handed him the clothes. "Don't get to attached, you likely won't be able to save her next time, and there will be a next time."

"Qualities? So what are we talking about, you haven't been listening to Kat and her super powers?" He frowned, taking the clothes with a nod and thanks.

"So she knows about people by kissing them? You can move things through the water? There's a secret society of villains that hunt down anyone with abilities?" He walked behind the screen, changing quickly, but still talking. "This is crazy. Wouldn't people notice when someone starts shooting lasers out of their hands?"

"There's a difference between crazy and super powers, blowing up cities. How do they find them before anyone else? Assuming I believe this, one kid that can shoot lightning would blow the lid off of it."

He stepped out from behind the screen, wearing whatever the hell she had given him.

"You just traveled from sea to a swimming pool, and have a difficult time believing. What makes you think everyone would believe in super powers if they saw a kid with lightning? Easily replicated. Technology makes excuses incredibly simple."

As he stepped out in the casual pants and button-up--or at least as casual as Nick regularly got--Roxanna stepped over and began fixing the collar by habit, before catching herself. "Sorry, Nick always left his collars crooked."

She stepped back, her hands moving to her sides. "For the most part it wasn't too difficult to keep things under hand. Gifts were rare, and they had many in their ranks who are very very good at tracking. One can sense the intense emotional changes that come with the development of a gift, another can pin a person down and know their position anywhere on the continent...until they leave that continent, which is one reason islands are so popular for Backsliders. Unfortunately for all of us, the rarity of gifts has taken a sudden turn, particularly in St.Eva, many are developing very rapidly."