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"Well, I was thinking of getting a coffee here, and then going to the central park." Aly responded.

She was then silent, her expression becoming a bit on the concerned side.

"Are you all right?" she asked.

"You don't look very well." she commented, moving so she could see his face.

"Your face is red. Do you have a fever or something?" she then asked him further.

There was silence from the boy, before she saw his face poke out from where he'd been hiding.

"....why?" he asked.

"Need a place to live." he said.

"This place is a place nobody cares about. So it's perfect for us." he went on.

"We're just trying to live. That's all. People can afford to lose some things every so often. They're essentially rich." he reasoned, inadvertently giving Anya a sense of his perspective.

Jake, meanwhile, had stopped at a closed door, and he could tell the scent was the strongest behind it.

"...all right." he mumbled to himself under his breath.

"Here goes." he said, gently pushing on the door to open it, and peering inside.

"........HOW!?" the boy called to her.

"HOW CAN I DO THAT!?" he asked.

Jake, meanwhile, was making his way through the building, his tongue slipping in and out of his mouth.

'This fresh sent... this... off... fresh scent is concentrated somewhere.' he thought.

'Maybe that's where the other one is.' he then thought further. '...assuming there only two...'

"......" Jake was silent, before looking at Anya.

"I'm going to see if I can find the other one." he told her quietly.

"Maybe they'll listen to reason." he said further.

"If you need help, call for me." he finished, before sneaking off.

"YOU'RE LYING!" the boy called back to her.

"ADULTS LIE!"

"GO AWAY!" they heard a young male voice call back.

One that was definitely that of a child.

"JUST GO AWAY! LEAVE US ALONE!" he yelled further.

"...that was a child." Jake said, getting to his feet.

"A child produced flames of THAT intensity?" he muttered.

"That's... frightening."

Jake looked around some more, his forked tongue darting in and out of his mouth rapidly.

"...this place smells weird." he told her.

"Weird as in... oddly fresh. Like, purified. As though the mustiness and staleness that should be here is gone. But at the same time, it's... off..." he went on.

"Regardless, maybe we should split up." he suggested.

"WOAH!" he then shouted, as he dodged ANOTHER fireball, but it managed to singe his arm.

"Yowch!" he exclaimed, looking at the burn it left.

Eke had been reading for about 15 minutes, before he heard Aly's voice.

"Yoo-hoo!" she called, keeping her voice down.

She approached him quickly, a spring in her step and a smile on her face.

"Sorry, got caught up getting ready." she apologized.

"Have you been waiting long?" she asked.

By the time Eke had awoken, Ryker was already gone... presumably to work.

Eke made his way to the bookstore, and when he got there, he found it rather quiet and empty.

Sure, there were customers, but it was hardly crowded. At all.

He also didn't see Aly anywhere, but that could just be because he got there first.

"Welcome." a kindly elder man said from behind a desk by the entrance, presumably the owner of the store.

"......" Jake was silent, hearing the door close.

"We need to be careful." he told her.

"Odds are they might know we're-" he started to say, before he saw an orb of flames hurtling right towards Anya.

"LOOK OUT!" he exclaimed, as he tackled her out of the way, and the orb hit the wall behind them.

"Ok, they DEFINITELY know we're here." he commented, as he quickly surveyed the area to see where the person had gone to after making the attack, if he could see them at all.

"....huh. It's unlocked." Jake said as he saw Anya open it slightly.

"All right." he told her.

"Let's try to be as quiet as possible." he said.

"We don't need to spook them, or alarm them." he reasoned, before pausing.

"But you already knew that." he told himself.

"You ready?" he then asked her.

Ryker chuckled at first when Eke was embarrassed, but froze when he made his parting statement.

".......hm." he mumbled.

"....a girlfriend. Me?" he muttered.

"Heh." he chuckled.

"That'd be the day." he said further, before making his way to his own room.

"She'd have quite the future ahead of her."

As soon as he finished, he head soft clapping coming from the doorway.

"Bravo." Ryker said.

"That was beautiful." he told him.

"Tell me." he then said further, pausing for a moment.

"Are you going to bring your new friend back home?" he asked.

"Play some piano for her?"

Ryker heard the music filling the house, and sighed quietly.

'Guess he can't sleep.' he thought.

He then made his way to the room with the piano in it, and stopped at the doorway.

Once he was there, he leaned against it, crossing his arms over his chest.

He just wanted to hear the music right now.

"...........hm." Jake muttered.

"Good question." he said.

"There might be a window we can slip through." he told her.

"Odds are the doors are guarded... but perhaps the windows are blind spots for them." he went on.

"Are you getting anything from your spider inside?" he then asked.