"Where are they..?" Lord Cedric felt his neck muscles tensing in the cold, and held watched the water with tired eyes that didn't want to bother waiting for the bodies to start floating up. But he had two leaders to collect and Cedric was poritioned, at the ready, when the water began to ripple.. Something was coming, and Lord Cedric frowned.. It was too big for a corpse.

A building; a room, rose from the waters, and Lord Cedric roared when the roof burst open in flames that seemed to douse themselves while he glared at the five women in purple and green, that rattled his very core. Clumsy girls.. The redhead had only been a clumsy brat when he'd sent her to the Oubliette, and what frustrated Cedric the most, was that he'd sent her to the murmur boy himself. "Top floor! Kitchen accessories!"

Cedric ignored the girls, deciding that his best bet was to keep his eye on the prize; aim for what he'd been sent for.. Caleb. He dove into the water; growling out curses to the red haired Keeper as he did so.

...

"Cornelia! Can you get the miners out of the way?" The young girl's voice echoed out, and Julian found his gaze divided between the others and her alone, because she seemed to be leading them well enough, and yet Caleb, beside him, was only uttering a long string of curses and Julian supposed they would be directed at the girl who'd defied him.

The blonde woman seemed to hold control over sticks and stones, and Caleb's words explained to him, as the green eyed murmur boy's demeanor changed to becoming far more polite when she directed enough logs for them to escape the waters on, "Go back Gaea! We're okay!"

"Gaea.." Julian frowned, as the men around him clambered into the water, and Caleb shivered in his bare shirt and strange trousers. "As in.."

"Um.." It was then, that Julian found himself smiling; albeit a little confusedly, as Caleb's eyes flashed over him with an honesty, where there would only have been cold mockery or spite. "Of the Guardians of the Veil.. Of.. Earth."

Caleb had almost winced as he said it, and Julian cocked an eyebrow, because he almost looked like he expected a scolding.. Like he was waiting for an approval or consent, and Julian found himself stunned.. Because Caleb was looking for it.. From him. "Earth? So you are an Earth boy now.. Have you fled the war?"

Caleb's features changed; first in shock, then defiant pride and Julian smirked at the man who'd become a boy, "I'm here.. I just.. They're very.."

"Ah." Julian smiled, finding himself having the first productive conversation with him, that did not involve Caleb yelling or snarling. "Women are very."

"The red haired one is the leader, ton Julian." And Julian didn't know whether acknowledgement of the girl, or the respect in Caleb's tone was the more shoking feature of his words, as Caleb pulled a final man onto the logs below.

...

"Are lizards reptiles or anphibians?" Taranee Cook stared at her leader, wondering what sort of a question that was meant to be.

"Reptiles."

Hay Lin swooped with agile ease, and peered into the murky depths of the water, and Taranee grimaced as she realized exactly what Will was talking about. "That means he has to come up again.. Right?"

As if in answer to the question, Cornelia yelled out a screech as Lord Cedric hurled his body past her; before diving back within the water, and Taranee frowned, but was distracted when Will pulled her out of the way of a flaming boulder and a row of arrows - Taranee being quick to make the flames burn the boulder into ashes. "Okay, what's the biggest problem.. Guards with catapaults, or Mr Freak The Salamander!"

"Uh.." Taranee threw another scorch of flames to perish the newest row of arrows, before turning to Will, who was scanning the water, "Where is he?"

"HE'S GOING AFTER CALEB!" Taranee's eyes widened as Cornelia cried out, but Will's expression seemed to swap through several emotions, before certainty found it's place, and she turned to Irma and Hay Lin.

"How big can you make that bubble that got us here? And how cold?" Taranee wasn't sure if she verbalized her agreeance, but Irma winked before pulling Hay Lin away by the wrist, so that Taranee was only joined by Cornelia, in sharing a questioning glance.. How Will did it, neither seemed to know.