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I’m very late, but after this last post I knew I had to rejoin the chaos lol

Basil:

Talking castle, huh. 

“I’ve been thinking about the next challenge, and it occurred to me that several of you are particularly well suited to it. Our resident assassins.”

Oh great.  So there’s assassins.

“Lorcan–”

Basil raised his eyebrows.  Mmm that one’s not so surprising.  Try again.

“Niarok–”

The herbs!  But he doesn’t know about me yet, so I don’t see why he’d want to kill me.  Anyways, he gave them to everyone, so if it really is poison we’re all going down together –

“And Siya Aydin.”

What, seriously?

Basil wrapped his arms around his knees.

Well, I don’t care how harmless he seemed.  I’m not drinking anything until I see him using those herbs himself.  How much water do I have left?

Somewhere off in the near distance, Niarok and the black haired girl collapsed in a tangled death grip.  Basil shut his eyes.

This is bad.  This is so, so bad. 

But I could probably take them.  They’re all human, right?  I sure hope so.  I can take them if they’re human.  They all look human enough at any rate, so that’s bad news if…if they’re something else.  There’s nothing worse than things that only look human but aren’t.  I shouldn’t risk it.

Well if anyone dies here we’ll know soon enough.  It takes more than swords to kill a machine.

“Idiots, knock it off!” A voice bellowed somewhere up above.  Basil glanced up to see the armored man standing in the middle of the group.  Basil sniffed.

Finally, someone said it.  

“Look at yourselves. You go and try to kill each other just because you learned the other is an assassin like you. After all we’ve gone through. Think about it. Y’all could have been killed a dozen times over but you weren’t. This… entity is trying to pit y’all against each other for sport.”  He paused, his feline eyes gleamed in the firelight.

Basil gasped.  Yes – there it was!

He has cat eyes just like Sasha!

Wait…does that mean…

“Since this has proved to be an issue, lets eliminate it.”  Klein sat down.

“My full name is Klein Mattias Gray. I’m a gunnery sergeant in United States Marine Corp, part of the Marine Raiders special forces detachment. I am a biologically enhanced soldier. I am trained as a scout sniper and shock trooper. I’ve been deployed to Iran, Afghanistan, Mars and the Asteroid belt in nearly ten years of service. I have 89 confirmed kills with nearly as many unconfirmed.”

“Wait, you too?”  Basil flushed as the group turned to stare.  That wasn’t supposed to be loud, but oh well. 

“You said you’re biologically enhanced, so I had to ask.  You’re not involved with Project Goldenseal, are you?”  He frowned.  But I’ve never heard of a United States before, whatever that is.  Oh well.

Basil sniffed, burying his chin in his knees.  Misu’s looking at me.  The man was staring straight at him now, looking at him with some mix of vague familiarity and a deep, untouchable sorrow.  He smiled sadly.

“You too?”