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It had been Blue that had captured the boy but it was Chesh who they'd left with him when they'd returned. Like all the other's they'd taken, December would find himself bound, a gag in his mouth, and propped up against a mostly finished wall.

Across from where he was placed sat Chesh, fingertips pressed together as she watched him with her thumbs placed against her bottom lip.

Beside her was a white cat, golden star in the center of it's forehead and a large fluffy tail that wrapped around it's paws.

"Wake him up," the cat told her.

So she got up and shook him.

Aaliyah was running later than she would have liked, but after the information that she'd received she couldn't not come - not after hearing about the stranger that Blue had picked up.

Stranger? Maybe outsider was a better term - and more to point one that by his own admission was supposedly powered.

It all sounded very suspicious and a part of her could understand why it had been enough to warrant Blue grabbing said stranger, although a part of her couldn't help but feel a little nervous because if the other really was powered then that made two of them–

Well okay make that two at the very least since there were those other two...

It was as Simoom that she entered the place where the captured stranger had been taken, a part of her half expecting Blue to be the one there with the other.

Instead she found Chesh, her lips quirking in a small but brief smile as she caught sight of the white star-cat with her fellow senshi, before fading as dark eyes turned towards the bound and gagged boy that had been propped against a partially, but most finished wall.

December was nothing if not obedient, especially when it came down to fear.

Another person came in, just as intimidating as the last, and after a brief glancing up, he kept his eyes low.

The gag was removed, but hit bit his tongue from speaking too soon, not wanting to scream and give them any reason to hurt him here.

After a moment to wrangle in his breathing, he looked up to her, clearly scared and confused.

"Are you going to hurt me...?"

Nuxaz

Litian

Chesh's smile only slipped when Simoom gave her response.

Once they figured out if the kid was lying or not they could have a conversation about it. Things for later, if later ever came. Still it was nice to have back up, though the super knew she could handle the guy on her own.

He looked terrified, which could have easily been an act but...

"This guy claims he's a senshi." Chesh laughed, sharp and loud like she'd just told a joke.

"We're going to find out if he's lying or not. And if he's lying," she said it in a way that indicated she was positive he was, "he's going to have to do a lot of explaining..."

A senshi?

Dark eyes glanced back over at Chesh for a moment before shifting to glance back at the boy, a part of Simoom not really sure what to make of said statement.

Whilst she didn't want to really think about the enemy having senshi, the rose garden and that Ceraskia woman had pointed to otherwise, but–

The boy spoke up again before she could say anything in response - only to state that he had 'apparently' been lying all along.

Simoom's lips turned down in a frown.

"I think it's clear that he has a lot of explaining to do" her words were addressed to Chesh, although the stress on clear suggested that the words were being directed at December - which they were.

That was if December was even the other's real name.

Each time she spoke, Dessy shrunk back, keeping his eyes cast down up until the started to touch his face. She wasn't hurting him, there wasn't any bad happening, but there was no telling what would happen next.

But when it came to numbers, December just didn't know. Whatever the General in charge had said came in one ear and out the other in his panicked state... The best he could do was tell half-truths

"Twelve." He murmured softly to her, still far too afraid to look up. "Each named after a month of the year. Two are confirmed dead... I was there, I saw them burn... I-I saw the Negaverse do it, as a punishment for not following orders." October, May, his siblings... More than a year and a half ago they died in that fire that General Leucite set.. .

It wasn't a lie, just... Not information that they could use.

Nuxaz

Litian

The boy seemed...amicable, willing to participate and provide them with information but as to how accurate said information was, Chesh couldn't be certain. Especially once he really began spinning whatever story he decided to give.

"There's more than twelve of you," the eternal snapped, a hand raised, poised and ready to strike him across the face. Lips were pressed into a firm line that twisted downward into a frown.

Chesh themselves had seen at least six and there been reports of others.

"Start telling the truth about how many of you have come to our city or you'll regret it."

The corners of Simoom's lips turned down in a frown at Chesh's words, followed by the agent's insistence that he wasn't lying–

Because, whilst Simoom didn't know how many agents were wandering around Witzen, there had been three agents alone at the Rose Garden - which meant that twelve overall seemed pretty low - especially given that it appeared that she, Rose and Remit hadn't been the only ones to encounter agents.

Although Simoom wasn't sure why the agent was lying about something that they could easily verify.

She didn't say anything for a long moment, dark eyes glancing towards Chesh as the other raised a threatening hand, even as the agent yelled something about wanting to go home "Then maybe you should start answering our questions."

She stepped closer as she continued "You said there are twelve of you..."

At least from what she had pieced together it suggested that that was what the agent was saying "So maybe you can start by telling us how many of these twelve are in the city" a pause, and then to make it absolutely clear she added "And by city I mean here in Witzen - don't count yourself."