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Luke looked around at the roof gardens, and smiled.

"Wow..." he said.

"Oh, wow. This is... amazing." he commented.

"These gardens are wonderful! And there are some rare flowers here." he continued.

"Some of which are difficult crossbreeds." he then noticed.

"Whoever manages this is REALLY talented." he continued further, before looking at Terra.

"Do YOU have anything to do with this?" he asked her.

"......" Ryker was silent, before his face went red.

And then the demon took over again.

"Before Ry-guy says something stupid again..." he muttered.

"If you want to help, you can make some juice for breakfast." he told Eke.

"And after that, you can make up the potato hash to fry up. Ry-guy will take care of the fish once he's done being a dumb-dumb." he added with a laugh.

Luke just nodded as Terra said all she did, as they walked and ascended the stairs.

He had no reason to trust her. He had no idea who she was. All he knew was that he was feeling an intense connection with her, and what she said put him at ease. Like he could believe that everything would turn out.

"Yeah..." he said.

"Yeah, I... I can believe that." he told her.

"At least things are a little better HERE at the Unit." he then said further.

"I've noticed that Lily already seems less violent..."

".....I dunno." Luke admitted.

"Everything's so confusing and scary." he said.

"I don't know what's going on. Lily's angry, her viper's missing..." he went on.

"I just want everything to turn out okay." he told her further.

"....but I don't know if it will." he admitted further.

"It's frightening."

"......." Luke was silent, before nodding.

He then quickly and quietly slipped his stuff into the dorm, staying as far away from Lily as he could, before slipping out of the dorm again.

"....all right..." he muttered.

"Let's go." he told her.

"I... I'll get settled in later." he went on.

"I think Lily just wants me to leave her alone..." he added quietly.

"...." Andrew was silent, before sighing.

"Thank heavens for small miracles." he muttered.

"I hope this gets sorted soon." he went on. "If Lily gets worse, then it'll be bad news for all." he said further.

"Anyway, Anna, shall we retire to our own dorm?" he asked Anna.

"....I'm going to... go do something..." Luke said.

"Not sure I want to be alone with Lily..."

"Right then." Andrew said.

"You, two." he told Lily and Luke.

"Behave." he warned them.

"We are guests here, and we will act as such." he continued. "So be on your best behaviour." he told them... before pausing.

"Actually, be on someone ELSE'S best behaviour." he then said. "Someone else whose behaviour is generally better than yours. Be on THEIR best behaviour." he continued.

"What I'm saying is, for the love of everything, don't kill each other or anyone else, or destroy anything."

Andrew was silent for a moment, before shaking his head.

"I see." he said.

"So it's happening." he commented.

"What?" Luke asked. "What's happening!?" he asked further, growing a bit panicked.

"She'll explain to you shortly." Andrew assured his son.

"But... well... this is a big day for you, to massively understate it." he added.

"No!" Luke protested, before Andrew smacked Lily upside her head.

"Hush up!" he told her.

"Don't make assumptions!" he warned her further.

He was then silent, before looking at Luke, with a subtle expression of 'what did you do...?'

"What!? I didn't do anything!" Luke insisted.

"I swear!" he added, sounding almost scared now.

Hal watched them go, before shaking his head and hanging it slightly.

"Draydins..." he muttered.

"Some things never change, I suppose." he mumbled further.

Meanwhile, Andrew looked at their kids, and Luke seemed to shy away slightly.

"Yes." Andrew agreed.

"Let us be off." he said, as they left the office area.

"...so... you want to talk to one of us?" he then asked Terra.

"Which one?"

Andrew looked to their kids as well.

"Wonder if she's tired of Lily's shit." he said.

Hal then coughed out loud to intervene with any potential argument that could have started from that.

"Moving on!" he declared.

The next couple of minutes were spent getting some things out of the way, giving them passes, and making sure they had keys. Hal then put away the paperwork, and nodded at them.

"All right, that's it." he said.

"You're free to head to your dorms now."

Hal just pinched the bridge of his nose.

"I hate being left out of the loop." he said.

"You don't know what she is?" Andrew asked.

"I know the name she has given, and I know she is passing herself off as a dryad." Hal responded. "I also am aware that she is NOT a dryad, as the power I sense from her is immeasurable." he continued.

"...fair enough..." Andrew admitted.

"But I will not press or pursue anything, as I believe she means no harm, and it would be immensely foolish of me to try and pressure one with the power she has." Hal then added.

Andrew seemed to freeze as well, and Luke looked a bit uneasy, but confused.

Hal was just silent, before shaking his head.

"A couple more minutes." he told her.

"Then you can take them to their dorms, Miss Terra." he finished.

"Terra?" Andrew asked aloud.

"Heh." he chuckled quietly.

Andrew seemed to be intrigued by the presence as well, and looked over towards it.

"...." Hal was silent for a moment.

"We have a greenhouse-like area on the roof." he told them. "And the lab has an area for such things." he added.

"Are... you all right?" he then asked.

"You seem... quite distracted." he commented.

However, he had a feeling that it was the presence on the other side of the door. He could feel it, too.

But the draydins were acting FAR more on-edge about it than anyone else he'd seen.