Kandace stared at the towering fence. It buzzed faintly, which gave the impression that it was an electric fence. Skorge approached beside her and turned to Kandace, who was observing the area.

"I had forgotten, what of Vael?"

Kandace perked up, she hadn't known the fate of her pet after her exile.

"Oh! When I was exiled, they took him away..."

Skorge nodded a little disappointedly.

"I see."

At that moment, they heard a small sound, the silent rustling of twigs and leaves. They both turned to see a small reaver with familiar golden stripes struggle, one of its tendril-like legs tied down with a chain. Kandace hurried over and unlatched it. The lock had no key to use or anything, just one of those simple locks for keeping small animals in check. Vael let out a small purr as he curled in Kandace's lap.

"I see he's safe."

Skorge said smiling, with his arms crossed. Kandace smiled back as she began to stand up, Vael wrapped tightly around her shoulder. Samael could be seen observing the building that wasn't too far off in the distance curiously.

Skorge came up to him from behind, arms crossed behind his back.

"I was wondering. By healing Kandace, you won't use some sort of sorcery, correct?"

Samael shook his head.

"Of course not. A majority, if not all reapers are born from a Kantus bloodline. I could heal her that way."

He turned his head to Skorge.

"I think a better question is why the other kantus couldn't heal her?"

Skorge felt startled about this question. He felt his shoulders tense.

"Myrrah wouldn't permit it."

"Really? Well, what about you? You don't seem to be held back."

Skorge loosened his shoulders and shot a cold stare at Samael, and turned to walk away.

"I think this conversation is over."

Samael glanced at him curiously as he walked back to Kandace. She was walking around the fence looking for a way to disable the fence. She had discovered some wiring running through the ground earlier, and wanted to see if it connected to a mainframe. She saw a small shack and began walking towards it, under the assumption it had a switch or some sort of device to shut the fence off. She slowly stopped in front of the door, it felt a little ominous.

Skorge was behind her and was prepared to take action in case anything went to Hell. She opened the door carefully, as the door made a creaking sound, and the scent of moist wood could be smelt. The lights from outdoors quickly filled the room. She let a small gasp escape from her lips, as she saw a corpse against the wall. Blood splattered everywhere. Skorge picked up the body to examine it.

It had probably been there for a very long time, and he could tell, seeing how shriveled and soft it was. He let go of it, letting it drop to the floorboards as Kandace examined near the window that there was some sort of motherboard of switches. most of them labelled, but the lettering seemed to be faded. Only a few could be readable. She flicked the switch as heard the fence nearby shut off. Kandace stepped out with Skorge, who was eyeing the old blood he got on his hand.

Her eyes widened with disgust as she pressed herself against the fence.

"Hm? What's the matter?"

"You got blood on you!"

Skorge stared back at her in disbelief.

"You get blood on you all the time!"

As Skorge walked up to her she crouched down making a slightly audible hissing noise.

"That's old blood! It's all sticky, gross, and you can get diseases from older corpses!"

Skorge looked rather annoyed with her at the moment, and rolled his eyes.

"I am doing just fine. Now, come."

He picked her up and carried her over his shoulder. She tried squirming, but gave up knowing how strong his grip is. Vael scattered crossing Kandace's back to Skorge's.

"I'd like to mention for you to cover your right side up more. I can kind of see your... posterior, to say."

Kandace turned red and smiled a bit in embarrassment.

"No one's seemed to notice."

Skorge smiled.

"That's only because I don't allow it."

They found Samael and Skorge let down Kandace as she looked back up to the fence. She cracked her knuckles as she began scaling it. As she reached the top, she grew nauseous looking at the pavement of the courtyard below. She built up her courage and started to climb down.

She lost her grip as she began to climb down and held on the other side for dear life. Samael nudged Skorge a bit jokingly.

"I suppose you're enjoying this especially?"

"I dont approve of her getting injured, I'm sure she can handle herself. It's kind of entertaining watching her struggle with simple tasks like this."

Kandace looked down at the both of them rolling her eyes. She lowered herself to the ground. Skorge shrugged as he scaled the fence with ease. He landed beside Kandace and turned to see Samael hover over it, as a supernatural being would. Kandace walked off through the courtyard, and wrapped her small hands around the door handles.

She opened the door and was welcomed by an ominous breeze, and saw an empty hallway, with scattered papers coating the floor. She shivered at the ambience of the place, much to Skorge's concern.

"Is something wrong?"

"No... I'm fine."

She bared her fangs as she walked through. Some of the broken pipes were leaking water, or other fluids all over the corners of the hall. There was the occasional overturned desk, and that was it. She glanced through the windows of different rooms, with dim or flickering lights and pressed a palm to the glass.

"I'll go look out for security, stay here with Samael."

Kandace simply nodded as Skorge headed off. She opened a set of double doors into a new corridor, where she saw different-sized cages and padded cells. Samael was impressed she knew her way well around this place as she made it up some stairs to the balcony area near the top floor. Skorge however found more skeletal remains of humans and.. locust? he knew something had to be up.

But, the humans didn't have anything to do with The Coalition? He glared as he walked through the empty, dark corridors, only to discover a door with a sign reading "File Cabinet Storage". Kandace, upstairs, had found an exit and told Samael to they needed to bring him there. They agreed and headed back down. They had trouble finding him but, there he was, emptying drawers.

Kandace's eyes went wide with realization as she ran over and swiped a couple of files across the desk.

"W-What are you doing!?"

She asked nervously. Skorge with an innocent smile on his face held a couple papers in his hand.

'I found these. My expertise on reading human language is limited, but from what I can see, there was some research going on here. Maybe you would've been interested?"

Kandace shook her head as a bead of sweat formed on her forehead, as Vael sunk into the back of her neckerchief, buried in her locks of hair.

"No! Put them back!"

"Kandace, what's going on with you?"

Samael watched them from a distance as several suspicions began to arise.

"I'm sure you're worried about disturbing the dead, correct?"

Kandace looked at him to speak, only to be interrupted by Skorge, who snatched most of the papers and observed them. One of them made a look of dread spread across his face. One of the subject names was one he recognized. The name of his lover.

"You... came from here?"

He asked looking back to the mass of bodies outside. Kandace looked away upset, silently nodding. Skorge sighed heavily as he glanced for anymore info.

"What other secrets have you kept from me?"

"I didn't tell you because I hate this place..."

She folded her arms.

"Do you know how many people were tortured for my genetics? I had blood on my hands as an infant, both human and locust..."

Skorge swallowed his anger. Looking back at her.

"If that is the case, you could have told me. I don't like it when you bottle your stress."

Kandace smiled a bit as Samael picked up a paper.

"You said you wanted to know your origins?"

Samael asked drawing his finger across the paperwork.

"Your locust gene-donor was... Velous?"

Kandace perked up.

"High-Priest Velous?"

"Former High-Priest. He was discharged for reaper worship. We used to be close friends."

Skorge immediately dropped what ever was in his hands and turned to Kandace in blissful shock.

"Seriously? That is..."

Unable to find the right words, he simply had a sincere smile as he gestured Kandace to lead them out. As they headed out the door, Samael quickly grabbed a folder. Inside was a simple picture of Velous with Samael. He placed in in his chestpiece and went to catch up to the others.