-Chapter 4- Glimpse of Freedom-

A bunch of new things happened at Providence. Rex noted that Crest was put under heavy guard, when she wasn't in her room. When she was, Six did regular patrols around her door. The bright side to all this nonsense was that Rex was getting to know Crest better. Not by choice though, by force.

The two had put it off as long as they could, but White Knight wanted to test and see how Crest's ability would effect Rex. Neither of them were too keen on the experimen but the choices were limited: either do the experiment by choice in which things would go smoother, or do things by force which would be unpleasant. Rex sensed Crest could not handle anything unpleasant and went along with it when he saw her frightened eyes.

All of this mayhem made it nearly impossible to get a private word in with her, and Rex needed to talk with her. There had to be way around all of this mess. The last thing he wanted was for a sweet girl like her to go through something as intimate as her ability seemed unwillingly. Their first session was scheduled today around 4:00pm.

Right now Rex was getting as far away from them as he could. He was in docking deck and preping for a trip when he felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned and found Kenwyn looking at him.

"You forgot didn't you?"

Her voice oozed with displeasure and Rex mentally smacked himself. He had planned a get together with Kenwyn to teach her the foreign language! That was about an hour ago, she had propbably been looking for him all this time.

He winced, "Uh... yeah... sorry..."

"Well then whereever you're going, you're gonna have to take me with you to make up for the time."

Rex stopped for a moment then smiled. It would be nice to have a companion with him. He morphed into bike mode and patted the seat behind him.

"Get on, we're blowing this place."

She complied and wrapped her arms around his torso. Rex sighed feeling her warmth so close to him. Then without a word they were off, zipping across the dry ground outside of Providence and into the freedom of the plains. Behind him he could hear kenwyn giggle. After awhile, her giggle turned into laughter. She liked the feel of the wnd on her face. He smirked as he felt her personality let go and be playful for a moment. Rex felt pride in himself. He had made a girl happy. Today wasn't so bad after all.

"So what did you want to learn today?" asked Rex over the blowing wind.

"Whaat?"

"What did you- Oh wait!"

Rex pulled over at the edge of a cliff that over looked a gorge. There was nothing here but the vast sky. Providence was so far away right now. He waited for Kenwyn to get off and transformed back.

"I said, what did you want to learn today?"

Kenwyn smile, "Nothing big, just the conversational stuff."

Re thought about it, "Alright then, Hola chicka que pasa?"

Kenwyn looked at him funny, "say it again... and what does it mean?"

"I said hello and what's up. I think you're getting caught n the words, things sound differnet than how they look on paper."

"Oh."

Their converstation lasted like that for about an hour, before switching onto other topics like guns and weaponry and battle tactics. They even mentioned a few video games they liked. Rex was surprised by Kenwyn's more girly choice of games like Harvest Moon and Cooking Mama, then not so surprized by Call of Duty and Resident Evil. They spoke for what seemed to be forever. Rex liked the way she talked, so deliberate with her words, she wanted people to know what she said when she spoke.

They were sitting side by side now, tired of standing, and she leaned on his shoulder.

"Rex, you could just run away, dissapear..."

Rex looked down at her, "I could... But the people I care about are at Providence."

"Like Doctor Holiday?"

"Yeah... Like the Doc, Six, Bobo, Noah" ...you... he tought gently, "and Providence doesn't want to lose me. They'll keep tabs on me no matter what."

She nodded into his jacket. The next thing Rex knew she was sleeping. Come to think of it Kenwyn didn't sleep very often. Every now and again he would catch her yawning, but never once had he even heard her talk about sleep. Just for a second Rex lay his head on hers and breathed slowly.

The sky was still blue, but he could imagine a sunset that painted the sky. If he were not in Providene he could have certain things... this was just a glimpse of freedom.