"Another chain? Really? This is the forth one this week!" Alice shouted up at Break, who offered a bored shrug.

"Do you wish to find your memories, or has our little encounter with Oz's father last week changed your mind? I understand if you can't handle it…" Break couldn't finish as Alice gave a yell. Everyone in the room couldn't help but giggle as Alice repeated Break's words in fury.

"CAN'T HANDLE IT?! I should snap you in half you stupid clown!"

Break chuckled and pulled out a small piece of red candy from his pocket.

"That anger could far better be used on taking out this chain you know. I hear it's causing quite a bit of distress. Usually Pandora would handle this issue since it's so close to headquarters anyway, but I think you might want to take this one personally," he said thoughtfully. "I may even go myself."

At that Oz raised his head. Ever since Break had collapsed after summoning Hatter last week he'd been forced to bed by Sharon and the other Rainsworth family members. Oz had seen the extent of the toll Hatter had on Break's body before, but never this badly. Gil's expression seemed to mimic his thoughts as well.

"Err, Break I'm not sure that's such a good idea. You know, considering what happened last week I'm sure you're still a bit tired," Gil said with sincere concern.

Break waved this away with his hand and smiled widely. "I assure you all I am quite fine. I only suggest I go for my own entertainment. This chain seems to be a rather interesting one and truth to be told I'm surprised at Pandora's disinterest."

"And why is that?" Alice said slightly confused.

"Because even I can't find a file on it," Break replied and everyone turned to hear Sharon gasp.

"But…..you always have a file on it. You're Break!" Sharon said causing everyone to laugh. This was indeed true however. Break seemed to know all about chains and the workings of Abyss. He knew things that made even Lord Barma itch to get a look at his brain.

"Ah, but Miss Sharon to find a file, you have to have a name and place to start looking. That's another reason I can't help but be interested. There are no eye-witness accounts, nor traces of this chain. It's almost as though it erases its tracks along with the humans it kills."

At that Break walked to the window over-facing the countryside. "And not only that, but with me along you could easily find it. By simply just using me as bait, that is."

Alice spit out the water she was drinking and laughed.

"You? As bait? Trust me if I don't want you around neither will this chain. I'm sure there are thousands of less annoying targets in this city!"

"Alice, Alice," said Break in a mischievous tone, "Are you always this stupid or are you just having a particularly rough day?"

Before Alice could give a rather vulgar reply Break continued. "As you all know chains can smell other chains. This specific one manages to kill many people and yet leaves absolutely no trace. This obviously, means it is rather powerful. Do you all follow?" Gil, Alice, Oz, and Sharon nodded silently. "A week ago I released enough of Hatter's power to completely erase every chain in this city. The mark of my chain is faint now, but spread everywhere. This chain should still be able to sense it as a threat and, being powerful, want to destroy it. If you bring me, you bring the threat this chain may want to seek out. If not, I won't be trouble anyway."

"So basically you're volunteering to put yourself in danger? That's so unlike you!" Oz said extremely confused by Break's reasoning.

"YOU IDIOT YOU ARE NOT GOING YOU HEAR ME?!" Sharon yelled across the room at Break. "WHATEVER YOU REALLY WANT YOU BETTER SAY IT NOW MISTER OR I SWEAR I WILL TELL MY MOTHER!"

Break gave a small smile and backed just an inch farther away from her. "I will not endanger myself in any way Miss Sharon I can assure you. I'm just going because I'm genuinely curious, is that an ok excuse? It was stupid of me to weaken myself so badly last week and I'm sorry. However, it's still my duty to help with this investigation as well as aid Pandora."

"I…..alright. Just don't do anything stupid," Sharon said with an annoyed sigh.

"I can't guarantee that, but being stupid has usually served me well! I'll meet you by the carriage in 10 minutes. Be ready to fight," at that, Break stepped into the closest closet to him and after a thorough check by Alice, was determined to have left.

"So….I guess that means were going into town?" Oz said lamely after this whole event.

"I hate that clown. Not only are we going, but I also can't quite figure out the point in the conversation where WE decided to let him come," Alice huffed.

Gil finally stood up and started heading to his room for extra ammunition. "Lets all just get this over with ok? I'm tired and out of cigarettes. Not good for me. Maybe if we get this done fast I can stop in at a store somewhere."

Oz finished off the tea he was having and left for his room to prepare as well, followed by Alice. Sharon remained seated at the head of the table and smiled to herself.

Thank God Break didn't invite me along. She thought while sipping her tea. I'm only on page 38 of that new romance book Oz's sister lent to me….its finally getting steamy! With that last word ringing in her head she ran out of the room and down the hall to the library where her book awaited her.