"Now here's a question that I know none o fus can answer. Who the hell would it be?" Aedan asked before sighing heavily.

"I already told Hal to keep an eye on her though, so with any luck, we'll be able to stop it before anything happens. " She added.

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Brie approached the door and knocked, wondering if he was home. She received a text from her friend, telling her that she wasn't safe, that she was found. and it was known that she wasn't exactly one that was as trustworthy as it was initially believed.

So she had to speed things up.

As a result she was knocking on his door, and thought she knew the perefcet way to get him to leave with her, but knew he could always reject it.

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"Hey there Levi." Brie said with a smile.

"And I'd love to." she added before stepping in with him.

"Is Aly home?" She asked, ehr voice curious.

"No, she's already headed in to work." Levi answered.

"Oh? Are you due in today?" Was Bries response.

"Yeah, in three hours."

"Ohhh, fair fair. Enough time for why I stopped by." Brie said with a smile.

"I heard got something in the mail today." She added before pulling some candies out of her pocket.

"High elf candies. Thought you might like to have some."

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"Friends share, right?" Brie asked with a laugh.

"Besides, my cousin is married to a high elf - if you believe that - so I can get them pretty easily." She added, shrugging.

"Meaning I have no issue sharing. And if you like them, you can have the bulk of them. I get them semi regularly." She added as she held the little box out to him.

"Feel free to take a few if you want." She told him. "They're super tasty if you have like ... two or three at once. The flavour just compounds."

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Brie just smirked.

"Why would they? They're absolutely delicious. Specially made too." She said, her voice almost sounding like it had a darker tone to it.

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She made her way into his office when she was beckoned to.

"Sharp... I.. Levi isn't here yet, and not answering his phone." She told him honestly.

"I'm sure he's just running behind, Aly." Sharp answered.

"I know it could be nothing, but ... is there any chance you can let me go to check the house, or send someone to do that?" She asked. He could hear the concern in her voice, see it in her face.

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Aly nodded.

"Will do." She said before smirking.

"But I've a companion to help me out, in theiry at least." She added after a moment or two.

"But thank you. I'll let you know if I find anything." She added before taking off.

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Aly looked to her companion with a puzzled expression for a moment.

"what's up?" She asked as she started to look around, hoping to find someone, or something, that can give her some sort of an idea as to what it is that happened.

She didn't know where Levi was, and she hated it.

"Something demonic here, or something?" She asked, her tone curious, concerned.

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Aly made her way over to what fell out and picked it up.

". . . a hard candy?" she asked, her voice curious.

"What's so special about this?"

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Aly was silent for a moment.

"Elven mana? Really?" She asked before sighing lightly and making her way to the kitchen. She grabbed a sandwich bag, tossed it in, sealed i tup and wrote in a sharpie on the bag to not eat it. Once that was done, she stuck it in her pocket.

"You picking up on anything else here?" She asked

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Aly was silent before sighing.

"That.. is very good to know. Alarming, yes, but still good to know." She said before making her way to the door, stepping out, locking it, and heading off to her bike again.

"I'll get this to the lab and we'll see what happens." She paused a moment. "And let Sharp know." With that, she hopped on her bike, slid the key into the ignition, made sure she had her helmet on, before taking off.

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She reached the Unit again within twenty minutes and stepped inside. As she was let through the entryway, she sighed lightly before doubling back.

"Yo, Jake. Wanna do me a favour?" She asked.

"Could you please let Sharp know I'm heading down to the lab, and that if he wants to know why, quicker, to meet me down there? If he doesn't, then I'll make my way up to his office, but it'll take longer, of course."

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Aly nodded.

"Bingo." She said before sighing.

"And I figured he'd want to know what I found. Anyway, see ya." With that she waved and headed off, making her way down to the lab as quickly as she could. Admittedly, she got off track a couple of times as she didn't know the path there too well, but she did make her way thtere overall in good time.

As she made her way in, she looked around, wondering if anyone was around to talk to quickly.

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