Ty raised an eyebrow when she made her comment about not calling her 'Kiah'. Especially the 'generations' part. However, he had to chuckle when she mentioned that he looked better than when she last saw him.

"Heh, yeah." he said.

"Being mauled by a rune-claw wolf is never fun." he told her.

"But I recovered as I always do." he said further.

"You're looking good, too." he then said. "Gave us quite a scare when you passed out."

"Woah, woah, woah, what?" Ty asked.

"Generations?" he asked her.

"And hold on! Stop right there!" he then said.

"We're both taken." he said further. "Pretty sure Ilias wouldn't like you eyeing me up like this, and Miki wouldn't appreciate it, either." he reasoned, sounding more than a little confused.

"You SURE you're all right...?" he asked her.

Ty had been unable to fight off her full force kiss, mostly due to being purely stunned and shocked by it. When she said what she did, he angrily pushed her away.

"What the HELL are you ON about!?" he exclaimed.

"Yes, you're an attractive young lady, but I don't feel that way about you." he told her.

"And Miki and Ilias are very much NOT dead." he insisted. "For god's sake, you were working WITH Ilias before you collapsed from your headache!" he continued.

"What is wrong with you!?" he asked her.

"What happened to your head while you were unconscious in that mini-coma?"

"Who the fuck is 'L'!?" Ty asked her.

"What is with this attitude!?" he asked further.

"One of 'these' reject you? Freedom from L?" he asked even further.

"For the love of everything, did that migraine screw you over in the head?" he went on, taking another step back.

"As for what I want, previously I just wanted to say hi, and chat. I figured that, since we're friends and co-workers, and you were on your feet again, we could have a talk." he reasoned.

"I didn't expect you to suddenly decide to completely disregard and throw away Ilias, and make a mockery of what Miki and I have." he growled further.

"..." Ty was stunned by this. This wasn't how Kiah acted. What was wrong with her?

What the hell had happened?

---

Sharp froze when he heard that.

"...excuse me?" he asked.

"Missing?" he asked her.

"How? How did this happen?" he asked further.

"Did someone kidnap her? Is there ANY information at ALL?"

"Damn it!" Sharp cursed.

"We need to find her." he said.

"Heaven only knows what's happening with or to her right now." he went on.

"Damn it." he cursed again, shaking his head.

"Right, we need to track her." he told her further.

"The sooner she's found, the better."

After a brief moment, she heard something approaching her. She knew the sound of it, though. Footsteps. Her cousin. He peered through the bars on the window on the door to he room, and looked at her.

"My apologies for the disrupter serum." he said.

"But I can't have you and your newly regained restrictive morals going out and joining those lowly resistance." he told her.

"Don't worry, in due time, you'll remember what it was that we learned together." he assured her further.

"Our plan wasn't wrong, but flawed." he continued.

"Or... rather... we weren't looking at the big picture." he added with a light snicker.

"Twisted?" 'Lindsay' asked in response.

"See, already those morals are colouring your perception." he told her.

"What happened was I was enlightened." he said.

"I saw what the power of science could do. And... if unrestricted and unfettered, it leads to new discoveries!" he continued. "Knowledge! All the knowledge and understanding!" he went on.

"You saw it too, eventually." he then said.

"We realised that there was so much to learn, and we needed to leave the boundaries of conventional thinking and morals behind!"

"Don't worry." 'Lindsay' replied.

"I'M going to help YOU." he told her.

"After all, none of this would have been possible without you." he reasoned.

"You're my cousin... my dearest assistant... my most valuable asset..." he listed off, before uncontrollably chuckling to himself suddenly.

"Boy are you EVER my most valuable asset." he laughed, before they both heard some explosions close by.

"Ohhhh damn it all." he cursed.

"Resistance or foolhardy raiders?" he wondered.

"Oh well, fresh test subjects, regardless!" he exclaimed happily.

"The sentries will see to them." he added.

Before he could respond, they heard something. Voices. From outside her small window, down on the ground.

"Keep firing!" one voice commanded. "This fort will be OURS, today!" they declared, to the sound of rousing cheers.

Then, they heard the sound of metal doors opening.

"...what... what are THOSE!?" another exclaimed.

"SHOOT! FIRE AT THEM! NO!" yet another screamed.

What followed could only be described as 'horrific screams, crying for help, calls to retreat, and begging to not be left behind'... with a lot of the yells and screams being cut unnervingly short.

'Lindsay' paused for a moment, inhaling through clenched teeth with a sheepish look in his eyes.

"Ooooooh..." he mumbled afterwards. "Seems it's a bit late for me to make that promise..."