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Sorry for the late update. I had to type it up but I was also trying to figure out how to get Silven to sound (I didn't like how he was so strait forward before)… his words are a bit annoying to write so that they have an underlying meaning rather than a direct one. You'll understand when you read the chapter. It was fun doing it, but took a while to figure out how to make it work properly.

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Planning

Kara walked in and sat on the arm of a chair the group had left open, allowing Devin to sit in it. The two young boys looked up and saw that their parents wanted to talk to the group and so they headed off to their bedrooms to play.

"What are we going to do?" Yusuke asked when the children were gone.

"We have to find a demon known as Silven," Kara told them. "He's the only one I know that can tell us where the kingpin hides himself."

"Do you really think Tara would have been taken there?" Yusuke asked.

Kara nodded, "It makes plenty of sense. All the other holdings his people work at don't have high security, but the kingpin most definitely has unbreakable security. He's known for taking out powerful demons, but not before committing the most horrendous of deeds upon them."

"What do you mean by that?" Kuwabara asked with alarm.

Kara sighed, but it was Devin who answered, "The rumors say he tortures his victims to a point near death, but he never lets them pass on to that peaceful plain as he has heals to prevent such a thing." He looked upon all the shocked and worried faces before continuing.

"It's said that he likes to keep his victims for several months where not one day is free from even the slightest bits of torture. Due to this many think he likes to hear the cries of the tortured demons as they slowly die over and over again without really ever dieing."

"Damn it," Touya muttered before clamping his jaw tightly and his tight fists shook with anger beyond words.

"So all of that would explain the security?" Hiei asked.

Kara nodded, "Would you want someone barging in on your evil acts and leave alive." At Hiei's expression she got her answer, "I didn't think so. Besides that, there is the fact that no one really knows where his hide out is located and it would be logical that he'd wants to keep it that way."

Jin unclenched his own jaw to ask, "'ow are we to be getting' passed this 'igh end security?"

"I'm not sure," Kara admitted sadly.

"First thing is first," Devin began, "You have to find Silven. He's the only one I've ever heard of escaping from within that stronghold."

"Silven was once an inmate there?" Kurama asked in surprise, "How'd he escape?"

Kara shook her head, "I wouldn't have the slightest clue, but the way he acts and talks clearly shows that he had gone through some large amount of torture for an extended amount of time."

"What do you mean?" Yusuke asked.

Devin chuckled, "You ask him how the weather has been and he'll reply with something around 'the scent of the most luscious flower played with mine sense of smell and made me long for days of old'."

"What?" Yusuke and Kuwabara asked together in confusion.

"Precisely my point," Devin said, "When you tell him that has nothing to do with what you've asked he shoots back with 'Nothing to do? Nothing to do? I think I said something important to do'."

"This guy sound very confusing," Yusuke said with confusion on what Devin had said about Silven.

Kara nodded, "Silven is… a very odd fellow."

"Understatement," Devin said as he looked at her from the corners of his eyes.

With a shrug Kara said, "Perhaps, perhaps not. His personality is very hard to understand and accept to the majority of people. Tara tends to find him humorous and sometimes mimics his speech, yet he always seems understand it. I personally have a tad of bit of trouble figuring him out, but I'm better than most."

"Understand him?" Touya asked. "Sounds like he speaks nonsense. What is there to understand?"

"Tara once explained to me that he speaks in riddle and code," Kara told them. "She believes he was once a messenger of some kind for someone important. Me, I just say it's from the torture."

All was quiet for a moment. Kurama eventually spoke up, "Then how do we know he was truly stuck down there for a time?"

"He said it once, in riddle or something. Tara is the one who figured it out," Kara told them. "His words have somehow stuck in my mind since he uttered them, 'Dark and dreary it truly was to be locked away in limbo's hell. Blood and sweat mixed into one and broiled down into none. Noise so great, yet no noise there was to be heard through mine ears. No little light or darkness true there is only the limbo's hell for all and no few'."

"Now I'm confused even more," Kuwabara mumbled.

"It sounds like he contradicts himself repeatedly," Kurama said.

"Limbo's not hell is it?" Yusuke asked a bit confused.

Botan, who had been quiet ever since arriving in the ice world, spoke up, "Of course it's not. Not literally anyway. Limbo is the place between hell and heaven. It's where confused soul and souls that are not good enough for heaven or evil enough for hell dwell. It's basically what you were stuck in when you died Yusuke."

"I get that now," Yusuke said, "But I thought these people weren't killed, at least not for a long time."

"It's a contradiction," Kurama said. "The living can't be within limbo, but I suppose he feels like he is."

Kara nodded, "Tara explained the entire thing to me back then. Dark and dreary was the climate so to speak. Blood and sweat was the torture made upon them. For the noise part she said that there was so much noise yet through their own howling screams they could hear nothing. There was no sun light to ever be seen, but some kind of light, even if it was very minute, kept them from being in pure darkness. Limbo's hell meant that the tortured always wished to enter Limbo itself and they would repeatedly come so close, yet they are deprived of it, as if it taunted them and causes them hellish grief."

"Now I understand the last part," Kurama said, mostly to himself. "They're stuck between the living and the dead, so Limbo can't take them but they wish to be taken.

"Right," Kara said.

"Tara got all 'at?" Jin asked in surprise.

"Tara is well versed in riddles and codes," Devin told them. "She would have needed it if she followed through with the plans that she had made so many years ago."

Touya shook his head with a sigh, "Our parents dieing stopped her from going that far."

Kara nodded, "She decided that taking care of her little brother was more important than taking any other path that lay before her feet, even if it meant that everything she had studied for went to waste."

"What did she want to do?" Botan asked

"It's not important at this point," Kara said. "Right now we have to think about finding Silven and we should have an alternate plan just in case we can't figure out what he is saying."

There was a knock on the door, which caught everyone's attention. Devin got up and left to answer it. Kara shook her head and turned her attention back to the ground, "Like I said we need a back of plan."

"There have to be other people that have heard rumors of where this 'kingpins' hideout is," Hiei said.

"Yes, but I wouldn't know where to begin," Kara said with a frown.

All attention was turned to the door when they heard Devin call nervously, "Kara…"

"Better days, better days my good young lad. Who doth you call? Is it that maiden fair of yours?"

Kara shook her head with a smile, "Well that takes care of finding Silven."

Silven --;; he's a mess to figure out, no? He speaks in riddle and code and even puts old English in there. Geez, he's confusing sometime… most of the time actually. Lol. That's how he's supposed to be though.

Is Tara really facing, or about to face, all the troubles they spoke of?

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