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A/N: Another short chapter.it's all that's coming for this ficcie. Be grateful you're getting anything, girlies! My muses ran off on me.*glares* And it was all Pie!Muse's idea. He's jealous that I'm on a Dante Brisco/Rufio fix right now.

Stupid boy. *glares in the direction the Muses ran off in*

*cries* Did he have to take EVERY ONE?! The only one he left is Swifty!Muse. And he's worthless.

*Swifty!Muse dances* *Swifty!Muse strikes a pose*

That's ALL he does. *pokes him with a fork*

Grrr. Type the chapter now.

------- I meekly followed Oracle into the kitchen. She gave Dutchy and another guy (Definitely Specs, though I hadn't met him before) a look, and they left quietly.

Oracle picked up a butcher's knife and played with it, apparently collecting her thoughts.

I just hoped none of those thoughts involved me being the new sheath for that thing.

I'm allergic to pointy objects.

Oracle cleared her throat, and I snapped back to attention.

"Kyle. Kid. I'm gonna be brief."

Then get to the point.

I didn't say that.

"You don't go snooping around here. There are things that, if I find out you know, I wouldn't hesitate to drive this knife into your head. Blunt side first." She waved the knife around, as if proving a point that I understood very well.

"Mind your own business, kid. That's life's number one rule." She growled, advancing on me. I backed up against the counter, and swallowed nervously.

In one quick motion, she stabbed the knife into the cabinet- no more than three inches from my head. "And those who disobey it often won't live to make the mistake twice."

She blinked, as if regaining her senses. "Specs is gonna kill me." She muttered, glancing at the knife, then walking out.

That would be enough of a warning for normal, intelligent people.

But I'm not normal. And I'm sure as hell not intelligent.

So I'm determined to figure out just what the hell is going on with these people.

------ Ah, that's all. So far.

Aha! I smell a plot! It has arrived *grins insanely*