Chandra sighed and threw the Ace of Hearts playing card at Gideon. Gideon ignored it like he had ignored the Seven of Clubs, and all of the spades cards. She looked at the next one. It was the King of Diamonds. She smirked, "Hey Lilianna."

"What, Pyromaniac?" Lilianna snapped.

"Do you know what the Queen of Diamonds is?" Chandra asked.

"Breathtakingly beautiful?" Lilianna sneered, "Thanks so much, Twit."

"No," Chandra shot her a triumphant look, "She is infuriatingly self-centered and slow on the uptake." She chuckled softly to herself, "Kind of like someone else I know."

"Oh really?" Lilianna got to her feet and walked towards her in an almost threatening way.

Kallist shook his head and pretended to be very interested in the map Gideon was making him stare at. He ignored the half hearted feelings of anger and the very sincere annoyance rolling towards him from the two of them.

Chandra threw the King of Diamonds at Gideon. He ignored it.

"I see your aim hasn't gotten any better from the last time I saw you try to hit something right under your nose," Lilianna taunted.

"And since when did you fight at all?" Chandra shot back. She smirked, "I'm feared all across the multiverse."

"Correction," Lilianna lifted her pointer finger in front of her face, "Your alter ego is feared all across the multiverse."

"And since was your name known, alter ego or otherwise?" Chandra shot back. She looked at the next card. It was the Ace of Clubs. She snickered and turned to the ice mage, "Hey Kaechia?"

"Yes?" Kaechia asked politely.

"Do we have any clubs?"

"Why?" Kaechia asked.

Chandra paused "Um..."

"Are you going to hit someone with a club?" Lilianna asked knowingly.

"It's the Ace of Clubs," Chandra shrugged, "I need a club. A real club. And yes I'm going to hit something with a club. I never said I was going hit someone."

Kaechia chook her head, "I don't think so. Besides even if you hit something it's still rude. This stuff belongs to someone you know."

Chandra sighed, "Fine." She sat back down in disappointment and put the card on the bottom of the stack. The next card was the Queen of Diamonds. She started laughing and shoved it in Lilianna's face. "There you go, Beautiful," she said mockingly.

"Shithead," Lilianna hissed.

Chandra laughed, "Yeah, yeah." The next card was Eight of Hearts. She threw it at Gideon.

Gideon sighed, "Chandra?"

"Yes?" Chandra asked.

"Stop throwing those at me please. I'm trying to focus on something," Gideon asked.

"Then who am I supposed to throw cards at now?" Chandra flopped back in her chair in exasperation.

"Throw them at Jace," Gideon shrugged, "I don't know."

Chandra glanced at where Jace was sitting in the corner, "He's too far away."

"You've practically just admitted that your aim is terrible," Lilianna laughed, "Looks like you can't do everything can you?" She snickered, "Phoenix." Her tone held mock respect and sarcastic reverence.

Chandra rolled her eyes, "It's not my fault rumors exaggerate. I never claimed to be able to do everything." She sighed and sat forward. Let's see if I can do this. I doubt it but it's worth a shot. She looked at the next card. It was the Jack of Hearts. Chandra almost burst out laughing, "Wow."

"What?" Lilianna looked at the card over her shoulder, "And you're going to throw that at him?"

"Oh don't bug me with symbolism Zombie-Lover," Chandra rolled her eyes, "Gideon's had all of the spades cards amongst others thrown at him."

"And yet you bugged me about the Queen of Diamonds?" Lilianna grinned, "You know what you are?"

"What?"

"The Queen of Hearts. Heartless, cruel and spoiled to the core," Lilianna smiled overly sweetly.

"Good to know," Chandra nodded, "but I'm not heartless and I'm definitely not spoiled."

"But you don't deny that you're cruel," Lilianna pointed out.

"I can be," Chandra shrugged, "I'm not heartless though."

"Oh yes you are," Lilianna nodded. "How many people have you killed?"

"How many have you brought back from the grave for your own devices?" Chandra retaliated. She threw the card.

Jace caught it and threw it back to her without looking up from his book.

Chandra's eyes narrowed, "Jerk."

"You're hopeless," Lilianna shook her head in mock disappointment that quickly turned to cold sarcasm, "I knew it from the beginning."

"You two are so rude to each other,"Kaechia muttered under her breath. No matter how rude they were she was pretty sure that they were actually fond of each other somewhere in their hearts. They probably would've killed each other by now if they weren't. She understood that this was their way of being nice and making up for whatever wrongs they'd done to each other in the past. Some friendships are just like this. Kind of like those two. She glanced at where Jace and Ral were exchanging hard looks. I still swear that these boys are nothing more than that. Boys. She smiled. But I guess they aren't so bad. Not as bad as they were at first. She preferred Kallist to the others. He was quiet and was the only one of the boys that wasn't constantly arguing with someone other than Lylly. Lylly however just watched everything go down. She glanced at Elspeth. Elspeth was pretty levelheaded. Kaechia suddenly understood why Chandra had devoted so much of her time to trying to find her. She was definitely the real leader of this group. Even Ral did what Elspeth told him the first time she told him without complaint.

Kaechia noticed Chandra watching Gideon with a weird look in her eyes. It was a contemplative look. She remembered seeing it on her face before in regards to Jace. Chandra had ended up being right about Jace. Her instincts about people were great. It seemed that she knew who to trust despite their flaws the moment she met them. She also noticed the look was darker. It was certain. With Jace it had seemed like she knew what she was doing from the start. She looked uncertain on how to handle Gideon. Kaechia glanced at Gideon. If Chandra thought something about him was off she was going to take her word for it unless proven wrong. Kaechia noticed that something was off about Gideon. He seemed much more easily irritated now that Jace didn't spend all his time in the library. He often sent him running errands and visibly relaxed when he left the room. Kaechia sighed. I don't know how to help with that but it appears that Jace is the biggest problem Gideon has. I'm sure Chandra's noticed that already but then there's not really much...never mind.

"Hey Lylly?" Lylly looked up at her. He was sitting on the roof staring at the sky like he did every afternoon, "Hi!"

"Have you noticed anything odd about anyone?" Kaechia sat down next to him.

"Well, Elspeth's not actually alive," Lylly said.

Kaechia looked at him in surprise.

"She died and returned," Lylly shrugged, "Other than that I don't know what's up with her. She's kind of creepy."

"Okay, anything else?"

"Jace has been spending more time with us and it seems that his baby dragon friend has a name," Lylly added, "And Gideon seems to be seriously perturbed by that fact."

"The fact that Jace is spending more time with us instead of by himself?"

Lylly nodded, "I've heard him muttering under his breath about how we don't need Jace at all. And I've also heard him talking to Elspeth about that too."

Kaechia nodded, "Anything else?"

"Well, Orriyon's sister is a shapeshifter. She isn't limited to her wolf form. And there's something weird about Orriyon. It's like she's...not...I don't know."

Kaechia shrugged. Orriyon could see the future. Her not being fully present was not unexpected.

"I can sense planeswalkers," Lylly said suddenly, "The reason I ran away was because I sensed Vadanya's spark ignite. I didn't mean to get Lilianna and Kallist in trouble."

"It's fine," Kaechia shook her head, "You didn't get anyone in trouble."

"But Jace and Chandra got captured because they came looking for me," Lylly sighed and put his head on his knees.

"Don't worry about it. Nothing happened to them so it's fine," Kaechia nodded and got to her feet, "I'm going to go talk to the others. I've been missing out on things lately and I like to stay well informed." She turned away and muttered to herself, "Though I'm going to avoid talking to the tinkerer.