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Archie and Cass were led to the investigation room with their hands and ankles tied, which made it incredibly hard to walk. As they were shoved through the bleak steel doors, they were confronted by the cold stares of a breathtakingly beautiful woman with raven black hair and a gentle lavender glow and the first of the two men that they had just talked to.

"So," said the woman, looking at them as if they were rats that were in her kitchen. "These are the brats that think that they can outsmart Queen Ancyra and King Arbitron. Well, guess what?" A smug look overcame her face. "You can't. The king and I have been alive far longer than you dwarfs. In fact, our race of Glades has been vital for more than double the span of your measly race of humans. Did you know that even the Gladian children can run from Boston to San Francisco in one beat of a humming bird's wings? What do you have to say to that?"

Archie and Cass kept their heads down and took her question as rhetorical.

"From now on," she said to the man, "these imps will be under your lock and key. I trust the placement of their cells to your discretion." She got up and sauntered out of the room, stopping in the doorway. She glanced back at the man with one eyebrow raised.

"Oh and Mr. Peterson? If anything happens to them, it will be your head that I will request. Ta ta!" And with that last comment, she whisked out of the room.

The man, Mr. Peterson, gulped.

"You heard her," he remarked, regaining his original smug composure. "There will be no funny business. Now let's get going."

He led the children back into the room that they had originally been imprisoned in.

"You will stay here. You will receive food and water daily. You will not communicate with the servants who bring it to you. They know nothing. They wouldn't tell you anything even if they did. Also, let me remind you that there are microphones and cameras everywhere." He turned to leave.

"Oh, and one more piece of advice, out of pity." Mr. Peterson granted them one last wicked grin.

"It's important to know when you've been beaten."