Xiang's looks upwards, her brows furrowed in concentration, silently she gets from her seat and walks to the kitchenette, she fills the kettle with water to brew more tea, this one has more lavender and chamomile. "We will continue in a moment Adam, I apologize but Beloved is unsettled, his aura is normally undetectable when he is here, but he must have found out what happened with Inola and the children".

Adam tilts his head to the side hearing Xiang's explanation. It causes him to remember something, it was one of the ways he had tracked Blake.

Closing his eyes Adam concentrates, breathing in and out slowly. His aura expanding out first within the confines of the office he is currently at and then beyond, it crosses the garden which they came through as it does he can feel different auras and their states, for some reason they are moving hastily across the garden. And then he stops when he hits a wall made out of pure bloodlust, he shoots up from his seat gasping for air, clenching his throat with a hand, the other arm on the sling pressing closer to his ribs. The feeling had been akin to what he felt when he drowned in Argus.

"Oh goodness are you alright Adam?", asks Xiang startled by Adam's sudden movements, almost dropping the tea in process.

He takes a couple of deep breaths to calm his racing heart. He is not drowning, he is on solid ground with Xiang in her office, he repeats that sentence several times in his mind, he doesn't want to have another panic attack, not right now. "Is he safe? The amount of bloodlust I felt on his aura is insane".

"Believe me when I say that we are.", she walks back to the coffee table with a huge cup of freshly brewed tea and a pack of cigarettes and a lighter.

The door to the office opens quietly and slowly, Vicious steps inside his face not betraying how he is feeling on the inside, gently he closes the door. But Adam can certainly feel the bloodlust permeating from Vicious being and then he freezes when he sees Vicious predatory eyes. They are not their normal blue and green color, but two different shades of red, the iris is crimson red and the pupil is dark wine, they seem to be glowing.

Vicious is currently wearing a skin tight black leather suit with belts and a few zippers through it, as well as black combat boots and fingerless gloves. His mid back length hair is contained in a high ponytail.

Adam without meaning to start to shake, his breaths quicken, his skin pales several shades and he begins swaying on his feet a panic attack begins. Xiang approaches, standing in front of him and grabbing his arms forcing him to focus on her and her calm red eyes. "You seem to have seen a ghost, why don't you sit down? Beloved won't hurt you."

Adam nods, fighting down the terror he feels and obeys without question, not having the will to, he clasps his hands to stop them from shaking, his palms sweating.

Vicious looks like he is about to leave the room not wanting Adam's panic attack to get stronger, but Xiang links her arm to his, not letting him go. "Come one Beloved I made you some fresh tea".

He doesn't resist as she takes him to the sofa opposite to Adam, the sofa creaking when he sits down. Xiang reaches for both his cup of tea and hands it to him. Before placing her cup closer. She spies Adam still shaking a bit looking warily at Vicious. Xiang takes a step further to calm both and to keep Vicious from fidgeting with his free hand, she plops down on the tall man's lap, drinking her own tea.

"Boys please take deep breaths alright, Vicious my love your eyes are red as blood right now, I know you are furious but that's affecting Adam, the room is thick with bloodlust", she says grabbing his huge hand on hers,placing her now empty cup of tea back in the table and tracing patterns on the back of his hand with her finger.

Vicious downs his tea quickly placing it on the table in front of him, before lowering his head and burying his face in Xiang's blond hair, closing his eyes and taking deep breaths like she told him to, taking in her scent, his other hand resting on her lap.

Xiang takes a look at Adam and sees that the faunus has calmed down enough to sink back into the sofa.

The trio stays in complete silence until Vicious raises his head and his eye color is not red anymore but still pinkish.

Xiang looks up at him and smiles before kissing him. "Better Beloved?"

Vicious nods, he looks at the table and knowing what he wants Xiang reaches it for him. She grabs the cigarettes and the lighter, lighting one for him, almost immediately the scent of cinnamon floods the office. Which is a complete surprise for Adam, all the cigarette scents he had felt before stank badly.

Thanking her, he takes the cigarette into his finger and takes a long drag, before he speaks. "I apologize, if I frightened you Adam… it wasn't my intention".

Adam shakes his head. "It wasn't you… it was… your eyes and your aura", he stops taking a sigh, it's still painful to talk about it, but he has to. "The day you found me dead, I had two stab wounds, one was from Blake and the other from Yang."

He takes a deep breath and closes his fists to stop them from shaking, before he continues. "When we were ordered to make Beacon fall, I cut Yang's arm off and stabbed Blake", unconsciously he tightens his fake arm closer to his body. "They loved to make me remember the pain and the trauma of having my own arm cut off by doing the same to other people."

He looks back at Vicious, his eyes are still pink, but they have gone back closer to being red. "I am not afraid of you, it's just that when Yang activates her semblance, her eyes get red and they glow and the bloodlust you were projecting reminded me of one of Salem's men called Tyrian Callows".

"That would be the serial killer scorpion faunus?", asks Xiang.

Adam nods in confirmation.

Vicious observes him for a moment thinking how to phrase his words and connecting the dots. " Was Tyrian… the one to cut your arm?", and just like he thought Adam tenses, he lets out a sigh to calm himself before answering the question.

"He pushed me down into the blood filled ground and used his tail to stretch my arm out, as another one of Salem's men cut it off, using a jagged edge blade slowly to make it look like a grimm bit my arm off".

Xiang, knowing the conversation is taking a darker turn, gets off her husband's lap and stands beside him. "Adam is it okay for me to remain in this conversation, are you comfortable? I can step out if you need me too, I know you are sensitive about your past"

Adam is about to tell her that this is her office, he wasn't about to quick her out but stops for a moment considering his choice of words. Taking into account that the queen, the ruler of this country he is currently at, has allowed him to remain in this place and recover and right now she is even offering to leave her own space so he could feel comfortable the action humbles him.

Adam tries to smile at her but it comes out strained, not her fault at all. "It's okay, it's just...", he swallows what remains of his pride before he finishes his sentence. "It's just hard, especially when I didn't think I was going to live".

Xiang refills all the teacups before sitting down. "It will be alright, you are going to be fine, don't forget we want to help you", Vicious nods at her words agreeing completely.

"Thank you".