The Chamberlain started to come out of the drug. He whimpered as he woke up and got his bearings. He found he wasn't tied down or anything, but when his vision focused, he rubbed his head and he saw he was in a cage. He looked around the room and didn't recognize it.

He saw his cage was big enough for him to lay in. It was about 30×40 square feet. He focused more and pushed himself to his feet. He went up to the front of the bars and was about to put his hands on it.

"I wouldn't touch those bars if I were you." Demona came out of the corner.

Sil's eyes widened.

"Demona? Why am here? Where is here?" Sil demanded.

"That's not important. But you've got some explaining to do." she replied.

Sil didn't listen about the bars. He put a hand on a bar and instant electricity burned his hand. He screamed in pain, and held it with the other. He glared at her.

"I warned you." she said.

"What you want with Chamberlain?"

"So, is that your name?" Sevarius asked as he came from around the gargess.

"Who you?" Sil demanded.

"I am Dr. Anton Sevarius. As for you, quite a regal name, for whatever you are." the man said.

"Skeksis, I am." Sil replied. "What you want?"

"To find out more about you. We certainly don't have anything like you on our planet Earth, natively."

"I know. Come back with Brooklyn when he get transported to my planet."

"I brought him back, Sevarius. I saw him come back on Brooklyn's back that night." Demona said.

"Another world? Intriguing." Sevarius grinned evilly.

"How about letting Chamberlain out of cage?" he declared.

"That all depends. You attacked me last time we met." Demona stated.

"You try to force me to come with you. I choose clan, not you." Sil glared.

"Tell me, Chamberlain, are you the only one of your kind here?" Sevarius asked.

Sil could remember what Owen was telling him about this human. He had said not to trust him. He could do who knows what with his DNA.

"Yes. No others here."

"If you are the last of your kind, that's devastating to hear. We could learn more about your species with more." Sevarius said.

"From what I know of humans, not much different than Skeksis in ways. Much in common with what know." Sil exclaimed.

"You sure don't look like us." the man replied.

"Not have to. Skeksis dominate our world. We tell other beings what to do." Sil stated.

"How old are you, really?" Demona asked.

"Not telling." Sil looked the other way. "Long lived."

"We could always get answers about you if you were dead." Sevarius warned him.

Sil turned back to him. "NO! Skeksis no good dead!"

"Why do you say that?" Demona asked.

Sil replied. "No good for answers. Please, not kill Chamberlain." Sil generally had little to fear, but death was the one thing that he did fear.

"Well then, keep talking." Demona ordered.

"Think you hear quite enough." Sil growled.

"Are you the last of your kind?" Sevarius demanded.

"No. But others not want me around. Banished. That all you hear." Sil replied.

"How many are there?" Demona asked.

"Not telling anymore."

"You will if you know what's good for you." Demona threatened him.

"I can do quite the experimentation on you while you're awake, and you may not want that." Sevarius declared.

The man was already reminding Sil of the Scientist back on Thra. He saw some scientific machines in the back. This could get nasty. He might cooperate if he could stop something from hurting him so badly. His silver tongue had always been good at talking others out of punishing him at times. He had to keep trying, but limiting what he would tell of his world and species.

…

The clan had picked up Sil's scent in the park and followed it. Hudson had examined the area where Brooklyn had been found and there were gargoyle tracks leading away. There was only one other possible person who could have taken him.

Demona. But where would she have taken him?

Bronx lost the scent once it hit the air. "You did your best, boy." Hudson said, petting him.

"Wait, I think I could track him." Lex spoke up. "I put a tracker on Sil's sword. It should lead us right to him."

"Good work, Lexington." Goliath declared.

The clan took to the air again. They followed the tracker to Nightstone Unlimited.

"Does Sil know you have a tracker on his sword?" Broadway asked Lex.

"No. He doesn't." Lex replied.

"Enough talk. We have to get him out before he becomes a victim of Demona's treachery." Goliath declared.

…

Sevarius and Demona were approaching the cage with tazers. Sil was about to become a crispy critter since had chosen to stop talking.

"You will talk or there will be more trouble." Demona snarled.

Sil growled and began baring his teeth at her. "Keep away." he warned. The door to his cage was unlocked.

But then, there was the breaking of a glass window, and five gargoyles came in through the window. Their eyes were glowing. Angela's were the only one in red.

"Demona! Sevarius! Get away from him!" Goliath ordered.

"Make us!" Sevarius mocked him.

Bronx had been set down and he charged the man, snarling. He knocked him down. Sevarius let go of his tazer.

"Mother, how could you do this?!" Angela demanded.

"To get some more answers about him, Angela." Demona replied to her daughter's question.

"You can't fight all of us." Broadway declared as he, Angela, and Hudson surrounded Demona. Goliath and Bronx hovered over Sevarius.

"Let Chamberlain go." Goliath ordered.

"He will be valuable to my work." Sevarius managed to say from under Bronx.

"That's what you think." Lex said. He had gone in search of the results and Sil's dagger. He found the dagger and the DNA results next to it. He tucked them into his belt. There was no way he was going to manipulate it.

Goliath also came over and he began to break apart their machines. One of them was the release from the cage.

"NO!" Demona screeched.

"My machines!" Anton cried out. Bronx growled at him some more.

Sil came out of the cage. "You not using me for gain like experiment." he growled at the human. Then he looked at Demona. "You either."

The lab was destroyed.

"You can decide what to do with them, Sil." Lex said.

"Electric cage sound good. Hmmm." Sil smiled.

"Oh you ought to know me better than that." Demona stated as she threw a smoke grenade and she vanished. The others all coughed.

Sevarius was thrown into the cage though and locked in.

Sil liked that look on him. As for Demona, she showed she was capable of anything.

…..

The clan was soon on their way back to the castle. Sil had temporarily forgotten about his right hand. It had gotten burned on the bar.

Once back at the castle, Brooklyn greeted them all. "Are you alright, Sil?" he asked.

"Yes, except for hand." he replied.

"What happened?"

"Burned on bar. Electric." Sil said.

"We can treat that easily." Goliath said.

Sil glanced at him.

"What did they do to you otherwise?" Hudson asked.

"Tried to get me to talk about self and other Skeksis." Sil replied.

"What did you tell them?" Brooklyn asked.

"Not much."

"Good. If you had revealed much about yourself to them, they might view you as even more valuable to try to get at again some other time." Lex declared.

Sil liked to be valuable in many things, but not what had happened before. Not if he would be the experiment.

He was taken to the infirmary where his hand was cleaned and ointment and bandaging was applied to his hand. When it was wrapped, he looked at the detail on it. Not bad.

"Hurts." Sil whined.

"And it will for a little while. Let it heal." Brook said.

"I know. But short one hand for few days."

Sil was grateful to the clan for saving his life.

"Oh, here's your sword too." Lex gave back the dagger.

"Thanks, Lex." Sil smiled. He held it in his good hand. "But how you all know where to come to find me?"

"I kind of implanted a tracker on your sword." Lex replied.

"Where?"

Lex showed him, under the hilt. "You might want to keep it there. If you take it out with you every time you leave the castle, at least it gives us something to track you if you get into trouble." he explained.

"Okay." Sil could agree to that, but only when he left the castle.

Sil and the clan spent the rest of the night relaxing. He was glad he was back at his home, with his friends. He hoped he wouldn't have another encounter like that too soon. He now knew who Sevarius was, and some more of Demona's deceit.