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Azazel just smiled in return.

"Likewise." he said.

"Taking her to see Hal?" he then asked Zeke.

"I am." Zeke responded.

"Well, don't let me get in your way." Azazel responded, stepping out of the way.

"If you ever need any help while here, gimme a ring." he then told Hazel. "If you don't remember my name, just ask for 'demon-boy'. Most people know me as such." he chuckled.

As they walked, they came across someone with another strange mana signal.

The one seemed to be quite dark and almost evil... but at the same time, it was a bit subdued, and it seemed less ominous or judgemental than Zeke's.

And he seemed to wince a little when he saw Zeke.

"Hello, Azazel." Zeke greeted him.

"Hey Zeke." the man responded. "Who's this?" he asked, looking at Hazel.

"Hazel. She's come here so we can help her." Zeke replied.

"Well, nice to meet you." Azazel said to her.

"I'm Azazel." he introduced himself.

"Allo, allo." the one behind the desk replied.

"I will take you there." Zeke told her. "We don't expect someone who's never been here before to try and find their way." he said.

"Come on." he added, as they left the room.

Once they did, they started to head down the hallways, and Hazel could tell that the place was filled with those that were... different.

She could just sense it.

Zeke looked at the other two, nodded, and that's when Hazel found herself surrounded by the tower of light. While inside, it was harsh and almost judgemental, but there was an underlying warmth to it.

However, she didn't have much time to get used to it, as it disappeared, and she found herself in a teleport pad room.

'Yo." the one behind the desk said.

"Hey." Zeke responded.

"All right, time for you to meet the boss here." he told Hazel, as the one behind the desk waved at her.

Ash nodded.

"Yep, farewell for now." he replied.

"At any rate." Zeke then commented.

"Come on." he told her, extending his hand.

"Take my hand." he said.

Lindsay saw her smile, and it made him feel that little bit better, as he returned it.

"I'm sure we will." he agreed.

"Bye for now." he told her with a wave.

"From all of us here, even though most of them are out for various reasons." he added.

"Not quite!" they heard Ash yell, as he poked his head in through the door.

"I had to be here to say so long to Hazel!" he added, smiling at the woman.

Lindsay just sighed in response.

"I hope that you learn that nobody is below anyone else." he told her. "That Vanessa's ranking system meant nothing, and it means nothing now." he went on.

"Regardless, you are very welcome." he then said, before grabbing a small wheeled suitcase, and giving it to her.

"Here." he said.

"It's your stuff." he told her, meaning all the clothes and the minor amount of personal items she'd collected or been given while she had been staying with them.

"I wish you all the best, Hazel." he finished.

"My name is Ezekial." the man replied.

"Zeke for short." he said.

"I've been sent here to take you to the Unit, where we can try and help you recover from your past." he explained.

"Ah, hello again Zeke." Lindsay greeted him.

"Hey Lindsay." Zeke replied, before looking back at Hazel.

"So are you ready to leave?" he asked her.

She wasn't waiting for very long, when she saw Lindsay show up.

"Just received a text." he told her.

"Someone will be showing up here in the next couple of minutes, and they'll be teleporting right into the middle of the den." he said further.

And, sure enough, about a minute later, the two of them felt mana swell in the centre of the room. As it did, the feeling that filled the room could best be described as... judgemental and ominous. It then turned into a pillar of brilliant sparkling right, which died down quickly revealing a man that was taller than Lindsay, and built just like him.

Witnessing him almost made Hazel feel like all her sins were going to come back to haunt her now.

"....are you Hazel?" the male asked her.

"Oh, yes." Ty then said, handing over a folder to the both of them.

"Just some things to sign." he told them.

"Sign?" Lindsay asked.

"Just to show that Hazel IS willing to come with us, and she is willingly doing so, but you as her current medical professional are confirming it." Ty explained.

"Oh, so standard red tape." Lindsay summarized.

"Yup." Ty confirmed.

Ty was silent, as he and Lindsay exchanged a glance, sharing in some silent communication.

"Very well." Ty responded.

"I will arrange for you to be teleported to the Unit." he told her.

"Seeing as I'm willing to bet you don't have any documents or personal I.D." he commented.

"Indeed." Lindsay mumbled.

"Don't worry, our people know what they're doing." Ty then said. "They'll even help her establish a set identity, so she can try and have an actual life." he assured them.

"Someone will be sent to get you at the beginning of next week." he told Hazel.

Lindsay just sighed.

"I haven't been-" he started to say, before pausing suddenly. "Okay, maybe I HAVE been." he admitted. "But only out of concern for you." he told her.

"A sign that you're a good doctor and a good person." Ty commented.

"However, as good as you are, you are one person, with one person's resources." he said. "You've laid the groundwork. A solid foundation for her to build upon. Let us help her build on that, with all the resources and people we have to offer." he told him.

"...I'm all right with that, if SHE is." Lindsay responded.

"It it DOES sound like she is." he added.

"I have heard of how she worked." Tyson responded.

"Perhaps I was a little unclear with what I said, however." he then said.

"You may think there's no one to recover, but the Fyrane boys are proof that there is." he told her. "They were taken at an extremely young age, but they are who they are now." he went on.

"Now, obviously nurture plays a big factor, but many of us believe that nature does as well. There's a 'you' somewhere deep in there. One that never got a chance to develop." he explained.

"Will you let us try and find that seed that was never allowed to grow?" he asked her.

"Please, do sit down." Lindsay told Hazel, as they sat down on the couch across from Ty.

"What can we do for you, Agent King?" he then asked the man.

"I am here to offer an opportunity to Miss Hazel." Tyson responded.

"An opportunity?" Lindsay inquired.

"The Unit in San Diego wishes to help you, Miss Hazel." Tyson said to the woman. "We understand you have been seeing Doctor Fyrane for help, but it can only go so far. We can help you take it further. We can help you recover who you were before your dealings with... a certain individual." he went on.

"You mean, wrench her free of Vanessa's mental conditioning?" Lindsay asked him.

"Precisely." Tyson confirmed.

"Miss Hazel, you must be feeling... confused... scared... like something just isn't right, and it needs to be 'fixed', so to speak." he commented to Hazel. "Let us help you. Let us help you find the individual buried deep within your psyche, and bring her forth, so you can be... you, again."