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((Orcus, this is bothering me, sorry, don't you mean "tendrils" instead of "tenderlings"?))

"Black Hand?" Craisis nodded to himself and stepped into the open. "I thought I recognized your voice, though I'm not really surprised to see you here." He looked at the other man, figuring he'd learn about him in a minute. "Craisi Triel, Ice Alchemist." He stated, more out of habit than anything. "Not all of us are as notable as you."

((Sorry. i said i was no good with plots... You're probably right, it is tendrils but i got the word from tv and never learned how to spell it so...))

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Orcus sighed in relief. "I'll let you go now. It's no longer a fair fight with the Ice Alchemist here." Orcus looked back at Koka. "We will meet again and next time hopefully with no interuptions." Orcus turned and ignored anything that Koka may say now. "I'm sorry i didn't regonize you sooner, please come with me." Orcus walked out of the ally and towards the bar.

Orcus laughed. "I've never let an Escaped go free and never will. He got lucky but i'll meet him again and i'll get him." Orcus entered the bar and looked back at Craisis. "Now, why are you here?"

Maria sighed and reopened the hole, climbing down into it. She erased her message scrawled in the dirt and wrote another, saying that she appreciated his kindness, but she had to keep moving. She lifted her backpack and climbed up the ladder, closing the hole and rolling up the piece of canvas, deciding that she might as well take it. Spinning in a tight circle, she stopped in a random direction and started to walk to any place she could avoid any State alchemists.

Craisis didn't quite agree with Orcus, but he didn't say anything. He knew that he kept his word, especially when it involved an Escaped. "I chose a stop at random on the train. The town I was in before this one was crawling with other States and a few military. No fun there." He glanced around the bar. "What are you doing here, then?"

Koka watched the two leave, not saying anything, having his luck hard to believe. He waited around for a minute or so, just incase they would come back. Sighing, relieved, he took his arm out of his pocket, making it spark. He pointed his hand at the ground and, sending an impulse, he was propelled into the air, landing softly on the roofs above him.
The number of alchemists in this town was a bit higher than he expected, so he decided he shouldnt walk around in the open as much. "How uncool," he muttered to himself.
Koka walked on the buildings until he got to the edge of the town. Deciding that was enough excitement for a day, he sat down on the edge of the roof with his feet hanging over. He alchemized himself some more bread, since his unsatisfiable hunger loomed over him again.

-Strider had underestimated the locals but he didn't care. The only thing he was worried about was how to get to Axel. Then it came to him. Axel's freind. What was his name? It didn't matter all that mattered was where he was- "Now then if I were a run away alchemist and I didn't go to this place then where would I go?" -He thought for a moment then he remembered a place....Haven City. Strider chuckled to himself. That man doesn't know what he got himself into. The state deemed that place a hide out for run aways and now has set in motion a strike force to kill or capture all alchemists and take the city and put it under state control. That man had walked into a war. Strider began to run in the direction of Haven City where smoke was riseing from the western area- "Looks like a party." -Strider creates two wolfs who went ahead of him to scout out-