"Eh?" Vincent muttered when Kiah answered her question.

"No..." he said.

"Why?" he asked.

"It seems she hasn't been heard from in about a week." was the answer that Kiah gave.

"........" Vincent was silent as he heard that.

"Want me to check up on her?" he asked.

".....right. I see." Vincent replied.

"I'll go check on her." he told her.

With that, the call was ended, and he sighed. He got up from his desk and stepped away from the books and papers that were on it. He made his way to a more open area, and used his wind mana to whip up a small tornado around him, teleporting him to the cave where he'd taken Aedan previously.

He made his way to the steel door, opened it, and poked his head in.

"Reveka?" he asked, using her 'real' name.

"Are you still here?" he asked further, making his way to the secondary door and knocking on it.

Vincent froze when he saw Aedan there, in that state.

"Oh, dear lord!" he exclaimed.

He quickly rushed over towards her, and lifted her up in a cushion of air.

He saw that her throat was VERY badly damaged, and floated her body into his arms, before quickly making his way to the teleport pad and using it to get back to his manor, in the den. He let her float in the air once more, calling Kiah as he did so.

"...Kiah, get to my manor now." he told her when she answered.

"Seriously. I need you to be here and teleport Reveka to the Unit, as I don't think my own mana is whitelisted for direct entry." he told her further.

Vincent just sighed.

"If you can get me in there." he said.

"Hal and I don't see eye-to-eye just yet, but he DOES need to know what I saw." he reasoned.

He then sighed once more, and nodded.

"I'm ready to go when you are." he told Kiah.

Vincent just nodded.

"Right." he said, making his way out of the medical wing, and towards Sharp's office.

After a few minutes, Angela was taking care of Aedan, and Sharp and Vincent had shown up in the medical wing, to check up on the latter.

Sharp paused as he looked around, before realizing something.

"Ohhhhhhhhhh boy." he muttered.

"I'm... probably going to get an earful from Angela." he mumbled, NOT looking forward to it.

"I would not want to be in your shoes." Vincent commented sincerely, before going to find Aedan.

"Ah, you can speak again." Vincent said.

"Good." he commented.

"At any rate, let's get down to the main concern here." he then said further.

"What the hell happened to you down there?" he asked.

"I'd ask what sort of accident you got yourself into, but given the state and size of the room, an accident that would cause you to break your neck seems highly unlikely." he then reasoned.

"So what DID happen down there?"

Vincent froze when she said that.

"Excuse me?" he asked.

"That's... that's impossible." he said.

"Nobody should have been able to get in there." he went on.

"...this makes no sense..." he mumbled further.

"And who would have known you were even DOWN there...?" he wondered aloud.

"....this is troubling." Vincent said after a pause.

"The fact that it got there at all is troubling, but it somehow knew that someone was there." he continued.

"...how did it even sense you?" he wondered further.

"When did it happen?" he asked.

"Do you have any idea how long you were in there before you were attacked?" he asked further.

Vincent crossed his arms over his chest, as Sharp came into the room.

"Aedan, what happened?" he asked.

Aedan gave her explanation, with Vincent adding in to help out.

After they finished, Sharp just sighed heavily.

"Were you at least able to find anything useful?" he asked.

"Or was you having your neck snapped and left alone in a deep cave all in vain?"

"....that could very well be the turning point for all this." Vincent commented.

"Indeed." Sharp agreed.

"But we need that phone in accessible condition." Vincent then said.

"Simple. We get her boyfriend to grab it and charge it at their place." Sharp responded.

"Boyfriend?" Vincent asked, looking at Aedan.