A bit of more world building. In a disturbing way.
Saturday Morning
Yang awoke sluggishly with Rubys voice bouncing around in her ears telling her to getup. "Rubs stop, I'm up, for figgins sake." Yang complained. Rolling onto her side Yang forced her eyes open somewhat miffed at her sis. Ruby had perfected the art of annoying nasal voice when she wanted something.
"What is it?" But a part of her knew once she focused on Rubys face. "This better not be about phyco bro." Rubys guilty look said it all and Yang felt like rebuffing her for it. Save she looked to Yang a bit scared. So, she switched emotional gears. "What happened?" Forcing herself to a half elbowed up posture.
"Isaac was hurting himself." Ruby blurted. "I wanted to tell you last night, but you wouldn't wake up." She explained.
Yang was about to tell Ruby that a lot of alcohol does that to you, when what she said sank in. "What?" Ruby quickly nodded her head.
"He's got some sort of a lab down below this building, past the third basement." Now Yang did sit up letting her legs escape the blankets for the floor.
"Just, hold up a sec." Yang moaned flopping an arm at Ruby. Trying to grab her. She felt a bit hung over and nausea's from the paint smells, add the idea of a lab, let alone three story's deep made little sense at this point.
Ruby Yang saw had taken a step back. Keeping out of reach. Sighing Yang gave up, and tried for the first thing Ruby told her. "He was hurting himself? How bad?"
Ruby fettered a bit about what happened before bursting. "I think he destroyed some of his aura."
"What!" Yang yelled. "That's! No, no. This is Isaac." Yang quietly admitted before looking down shaking her head before she looked up a bit done in by the thought and asked Ruby. "How?"
"I don't know!" She answered frustrated. "He's got a lab, below the workshop, its deep under the house, it was a box thing with a cable attached to it at both ends. He called it a reality stabilizer. He was in it and it was on."
"Ruby?" Yang asked slowly. "Did? You get in it?" Yang asked worried. She stood up, her head woozy and body swaying a little, holding up a hand like a traffic cop at Ruby already knowing. "No, of course you did." Yang lamented aloud.
"I had to get him out of that, that thing." Ruby protested. "He had some kind of switch, his hand was on it and it was spring loaded. I think he was not going to let it go on until he passed out or died."
Steadying herself Yang started moving. "I'm going to get some coffee." Yang knew she needed a somewhat clear head for this, and a little time to regroup. Yang left her room heading for the main house Ruby stopped her just at the door.
"That place is bugged, I don't want that guy to hear us."
Yang stopped to watch Ruby fidget. Nodding but wanting to be sure she heard Ruby right. "You? Talked with one?" Yang asked trying to make sure what she guessed is what happened.
Ruby nodded. Yang moved to open the door into the main house.
As the coffee was brewing the two said little rummaging the frig for easy to make food, making a hodgepodge of vegetables and meats. They took the coffee pot once it had finished. With a food tray they exited the main home and settled down in the living room around the coffee table.
"Eat. No talk." Yang told Ruby brusquely before she could get in another word. Yang wanted some time to fully awaken before she had to hear what sis had to say.
Once they finished Yang sighed feeling her hangover receding and much more relaxed for it. It felt good to focus. With a slow stretch Yang was feeling much more awake, and with the room no longer doing a slight slide to the right told Yang the hangover wasn't that bad and she pushed back into the sofa. Ruby hadn't moved much and kept looking down. To Yang Ruby was looking like she was about to burst. "Ok sis, shoot." That's all it took, Ruby started talking melding her words into one long burst taking breaths only as needed.
"I tried to find Isaac in the first basement, but he wasn't there, then I found an elevator." Ruby took a quick breath. "There's three story's below the first one, but only three buttons. Isaac has a camera in the elevator and took control if it." Another breath. "It went down a ways before it stopped."
"When the elevator opened he was sitting in a wire circle, when I got in it, it felt like bees stinging me." Panted Ruby. "Then Isaac told me what it was I saw a aura graph, he was half way down."
"That's when you got him out? Asked Yang more to let Rubys face return to a normal color then anything else.
"Uh? Yah." Ruby replied. "He, mh, I think he thinks we don't care about him, like we just think he's not our youngest brother, that this is just a cover to hid him, and its bugging him, when the medication kicked in he realized how, what he had said to us. And, well, he hurt himself."
Yang tried to wrap it up. To her Ruby was drifting. She wasn't sure if there were three floors with a fourth or two and a third. "So he went down deep underground and exposed himself to something that hurt like a bee sting? But, if what you said is true was going to keep going until he passed out, or died?"
"Sis!" Ruby said in a scolding voice. "He was hurting himself, that was painful and then he used it to killed a Ravager." Yang made a time out T with her hands.
"He's got grim down there?" She asked concerned.
Ruby frowned at her sister not understanding why Yang was so addled. "Yes, he experiments with them. Remember?" When Yang looked like she was going to ask something. Ruby stopped her. "Just, let me finish. He used that thing on it, and killed it, completely. Yang, he called that box a reality stabilizer." She almost shouted.
The two sisters heard a door opening.
"What's going on?" Asked Blake looking sleepy in her legless jinbei. "You two having an argument?"
As if rehearsed Weiss opened her door. She didn't say anything just looked at the two before folding her arms. "It is six am on a weekend." She irritably stated. Then she held her head swaying a bit as if in pain. "Please tell me that's coffee I smell." She pleaded with her face scrunched in suffrage.
"Yep." Replied Yang loudly popping the P. watching with a little sadistic pleasure as Weiss flinched from the pop. "Any tea?" Blake asked. Yang pointed at the main house. "Coffee's fine." Blake replied.
After getting a cup and sipping like she was drinking poison. Blake asked as she reached for the sugar. "What are you two talking about?"
"Uhh." Came Rubys hesitant reply. Then she rubbed her head not knowing if this was just family stuff.
"Sis found Isaac in some kind of lab downstairs. Seems there's three or four hidden floors in that building." Yang offered with a thumb motion to the doorway.
"There not hidden." Ruby retorted.
"Anywho." Began Yang dismissing Rubys outburst. "I guess he made something from his world and is calling it a reality stabilizer."
"Yang!" Ruby did yell with frustration in her voice. "Didn't you listen to Dad about that? When that one guy tried to turn Isaac into a house cat? Those soldier's stopped that criminal, using that thing, so he was only partly changed." Weiss and Blake glanced at each other with mixed emotions ranging from surprised to feeling a bit betrayed by these sisters. Ending with a simultaneous go fig shrug of the shoulders from each of them before they turned back to the two sisters.
"No, maybe?" Yang offered. "Don't really remember, I was still kind of, well, a little miffed at him." Then she settled for a natural opinion. "Well, partly. Depended on what he was doing."
"Ok, ok." Ruby said taking a breath. They all saw she was starting to get a little animated. "What I'm trying to say, is aura, semblances, and grim are not suppose to be here, something put it here, and Isaac built something that stops it, turns it off." Picking up her coffee. Her frown began fading on her face as Ruby drank of its cooling sweetness. Watching a bit amused as Blake was spooning a lot of sugar into her cup.
"And he was in that thing?" Asked Yang like Ruby hadn't told her. Ruby blinked confused before pulling the cup from her lips.
"Yes, he was hurting himself. I think for how he behaved to us. He thinks we don't care, that he's worthless. Gaa! Why am I talking?" Standing Ruby decided to leave. "This snack, was a good start. But I'm going to make a proper breakfast." She seemed done with there conversation taking her cup and leaving somewhat in a huff.
"Ahh?" Asked Blake almost too confused for words. "I've never see Ruby like that." Blake declared as she watched Ruby leave all but slamming the door.
Yang gave a Yang shrug. "Isaac is her brother. She's I think, accepted him into our family. So, if he's got a problem, she's got a problem. You've seen it. Just the way Ruby is."
"He's been around people who can reshape flesh and bone?" Questioned Weiss.
"How do you feel about him?" Asked Blake. Yang gave another shrug.
"Don't really know. Everything Dad's been saying is he is becoming a kid, well, a smart one with mental problems." Weiss shifted and sighed looking out one of the few windows quietly frustrated at being ignored before turning back and drinking more coffee.
"Well, I need to clean up." Blake told them. Returning to her room she came out with a night bag and headed for the main house. Then came to a dead, abrupt, stop. "Is. There another place?" Yang shook her head adding a shrug. Blake sighed annoyed, and gritted her teeth. Think of it as being out on maneuvers, in the field. She told herself.
Weiss pored herself another cup. "This is far too early." She said unnecessarily.
"Don't I know it." Agreed Yang. "We both drank a lot, still, I think we got about seven hours sleep, so it's enough." Yang snickered. "Ruby said she tried to wake me up last night, but couldn't. So. What ever Isaac and sis talked about has her upset, I mean, she was the first one up."
Sipping a bit more coffee Weiss candidly offered. "Well, a grim in the basement would keep anyone up." Yang started snickering at the thought of a grim knocking on a cell wall calling out Hello? Anyone there? She started laughing.
Weiss watched her confused, it wasn't that great a joke, she more wanted to let Yang know they were so loud she could hear everything, Weiss just shook her head. Yang is Yang. She told herself.
"I think we need to let Ruby calm down before we address this." Weiss offered. Trying to get back on track. Yang with a fading smile and a shrug nodded. "Just don't distract her while she's cooking, unless you want crunchy food." Weiss shuttered at the thought of Ruby and the inevitable kitchen fires.
Wanting to switch subjects Weiss asked. "Could you explain to me what Ruby meant? When she said. A house cat?..." With an ok tilt of the head Yang started to explain some of the adventures Isaac had recorded.
Entering the kitchen Blake saw Ruby cutting up some potatoes to fry in a pan. Looking over the kitchen she could see no cameras and that made her worry even more. She muttered in an almost whisper. "They must be using pin hole cameras on a fiber optics line." With a sigh she started moving.
Ruby watched Blake with half an eye as she entered the kitchen carrying her night bag, she looked around and Ruby saw her muttering to herself, upset about something before turning for the living room.
"Showering?" Asked Ruby guessing. When Blake nodded Ruby raised her head. "Security, um Watchers?"
"Yes?" Came a voice. Blake almost jumped.
"Turn the cameras off in the bathroom." She told them.
"Understood. Be advised this will void your warranty for this month." Informed that voice.
"Sure, give us some privacy. Just while were here." Ruby asked.
"Visual and sound off." Came that voice, then a soft pop.
"Should be ok now." Ruby told Blake.
"How can you be sure?" Blake asked knowing some men have more bottom feeder personality's.
"Isaac owns this security company. There called the Pinkerton's. Strangely there's no police here, just contracted security." Ruby turned back dumping the potatoes into an oily pan. They loudly sizzled as she continued. "They get fined if they don't protect, I think that's what he meant by the warranty being void for this month."
Blake stared motionless processing that information before letting out a mixed emotional sigh. Blake shook her head updating her opinion of Grimms Bane. It was just one twisted thing after another. Shunting that aside Blake started moving again muttering some more as she left.
Ruby occupied herself with cooking and searching the cupboards. Finding quite a few things and some packaged tea. So she started to boil some water for Blake.
Ruby had finished the potatoes and pancakes and was just getting the eggs scrambling when Weiss and Yang came in. "Time for another pot." Yang said tossing out the grinds and quickly making more.
The three moved around in almost complete silence. As time passed Weiss and Yang settled down with fresh coffee at the kitchen table. Ruby was almost standing on her last nerve, about to yell at them. Yang knowing Ruby and reading her near combustion state asked.
"So where's this stairway?" Confused by the topic not being what she wanted to talk about Ruby pointed. Getting up from the table Yang opened the narrow door. Ruby heard Yang groan loudly. "Noo. Please, not this." Blinking the two turned to Yang.
"It's just a pantry." Weiss said with a hand motion stating the obvious. Her back straightened as she blinked realizing what had happened. Bending over the table Weiss groaned putting her head in her hands. "He didn't." Yang nodded her head. "He did."
"But." Ruby complained. "I saw. I walked down a staircase, its there, I think?"
"Ruby, pay attention to the eggs." Yang told her sternly. "You burn em you eat em." A meek meep coming from Ruby was all Yang needed to know she had turned back to making breakfast.
Yang started to look about the cupboards. "Lets see. Knowing him, it's not obvious, yet simple." Yang couldn't see anything so she ran her hand on the inside of the framework until she was almost bent over. "Got it!" She declared happily as her fingers touched two buttons. She pressed the top one.
The shelving jerked, shifting as it unlocked, startling Yang who instantly yanked her arm back. Backing a step away she watched as it began rolling up and back with the sound of a garage door opener spinning. "I don't believe this!?" An indigent Weiss declared. "Of all the….. Why all the cloak and dagger? He has people watching the inside of his home, if not the outside. Why the deception?"
"Why you s'noisy?" Came a sleepy voice. They all turned seeing Isaac standing in the living room looking disheveled in his mismatched PJ's, clutched in his left hand was a blanket he had dragged out of his room, like he didn't know it was there. He was using a clenched up fist to rub the sleep out of one eye.
Like a cowboy from the west Yang, quick drawing her scroll snapped off a picture. Then aimed and took two more. "Prime blackmail." She smiled.
Weiss raised an eyebrow at him back straight she was becoming even more annoyed. "Go back to your room." She told him. Isaac blinked surprised as he brain processed what she said. Then with a frown forming started to flip her off.
Ruby seeing the trouble all but flashed over to him holding his hand. "Sorry were so noisy, just a lot going on this morning." Then she started to lead him back to his room.
"Hold up sis. Let me, you get the eggs." As they traded off Isaac simply stood sleepily swaying. "Why so loud?" He asked again. Then dropped the blanket to rub the other eye with a yawn. Yang turned to Weiss and put a finger to her lips for quiet. Weiss continued scowling indignantly before turning her head.
Scooping up the blanket Yang led Isaac by the hand to his room. "When did you get up yesterday?"
"Three." He tiredly said. "And you went to sleep?" "Uhh one, I think?" He muttered. Like he didn't want to tell her. "Oh, were going to have words about that." Yang told him.
When the door to Isaacs room closed Weiss asked. "Why is he…." Ruby slammed a pan down. "Just stop, please, just stop." Weiss tensed up almost shocked at Rubys reaction. Weiss blinked at Ruby for all of three seconds simply not knowing how to react to Rubys emotional outburst. There seemed no reason for it.
Weiss defaulted to what she understood even with a small voice in the back of her head whispering bad idea. With disbelief she asked. "You can't be siding with t…." Again Ruby cut her off. "That Freak?" She demanded trying to keep her voice low.
The anger in Rubys voice did get to her. Weiss lowered her head. This was a harsh reminder, she was a guest here. This wasn't the dorms, and sadly Ruby wanted a younger sibling, so she tried a different route. "I'm sorry, this is just hard for me." Ruby angrily stirred the near done eggs bluntly asking. "Why? You never stayed up late when you were younger? Or is it his ears." Ruby demanded.
"Well, yes….no!" Weiss stammered her thoughts stumbling over her words. "But." Ruby again cut her off.
"Wait, just wait. This is almost done." A slow minute passed as the eggs finished. Ruby scraped the lot onto a plate next to the hash browns. Placing the entire meal on the table Ruby turned to Weiss sitting in a chair next to her. To Weiss Ruby still looked upset. Then Ruby asked. "Well? How would you like to degrade my brother now?" Ruby folded her arms, almost glaring at Weiss. "And what was that go to your room about? This is Isaacs home. Even Dad just visits." She told her with an over exaggerated sweep of her arm's.
"I, I forgot." Weiss admitted. "I'm so used to the three of you and your easy ways. I grew complacent, and, ummm, my younger brother? He tended to be annoying and burst in on me and Winter at inconvenient times. So? Habit?"
So, you're projecting? Ruby wondered. Sighing Ruby fully turned facing Weiss. "Ok, I know, were partners, a team, and becoming family, but your rude to Isaac." The surprised look on Weiss's face made Ruby switch rails. "Ok, your both rude to each other, but its not going to stop until someone is willing, and I don't see Isaac doing it anytime soon, he's a child emotionally. He's smart with experience, but still emotionally and physically a kid."
"Do you really believe these psychotherapists are making any headway?" Weiss asked. Ruby nodded. She was convinced. Had seen his eyes and how they changed. Weiss sighed placing an elbow on the table holding her forehead with a finger staring at the table top. "Ok, I'll try, but if he gets mouthy with me there will be reprisals."
Ruby shook her head. "You just don't understand him." To Ruby it was like last night fell on her fully and she didn't know how to deal with what Isaac had shown her. Emotions built up until they needed release.
Weiss watched Ruby gasp, her face scrunching in pain before she slouched and softly started to cry. Weiss was up and moving to her as she bent. "He showed me." Ruby kept whispering he showed me.
"What?" Weiss asked and demanded. "What did he say? Why did he do this to you?"
"Life." Ruby sputtered. "Life is fake. A lie."
"What?! No! no. life is not fake, how can you even entertain such an idea?"
Ruby forced her emotions down enough so she could talk and make sense. "He proved it. Our semblances, our aura, grim. I think even dust. I've been thinking. Trying to make sense of this. It's like an overlay. See? Something put on us. Like some hate filled god wanted to amuse themselves by giving us these powers, and I think just to fight grim."
"H-how?" Weiss sputtered. Ruby went quiet thinking what to say. It helped focus down her emotions even more.
"Little brother built, something, it takes your aura, he killed a Ravager with it. He called it a reality stabilizer."
"Wait, I remember, earlier? But really? Like that story Yang told me? The one that was used to keep, that, that convict from changing Isaac into a house cat?" Ruby nodded her head. "He knew how to build one?" Weiss sputtered. Then shuttered as her mind seemed to expand into unknown directions. She wanted to believe this was just some aura dampener, or drug, like the ones she had heard rumors about. Trembling at the thought she hugged Ruby and sadly had to admit she needed this more then Ruby.
The idea that everyone was living a lie? Using ability's put on the world, no, no Weiss thought, animals have aura, some through rare used semblances. So, as her mind entertained a dark idea, was this a blanket thing? Were grimm added at another time?
Weiss looked over to the living room that led to the bedrooms and she knew a better explanation was needed. She also needed a distraction any kind would do, so she couldn't keep from hesitantly asking. "Well this day has started off, with a, Yang?"
Ruby sputtered then started snickering. "That's not funny." She told Weiss.
"Still, made you smile." She gave Ruby another gentle hug. Wanting to distract her and herself Weiss said. "Lets set the table."
Yang led Isaac into his bedroom absently noting the spartan environment. "Man, you got some leveling up to do." Isaac looked at her puzzled like he didn't understand. With a soft giggle she told him to get into bed. It was odd Yang noted, he was doing what she asked, quietly watching her. Once in she covered him with blankets adding another for his feet.
"You've done this before." Isaac said as she tucked him in. "Ya, when our mom vanished Ruby had some fitful nights." Isaac softly chuckled rolling onto his side. "Read me a story."
Yang was surprised for a second before the idea made her laugh. "Ya, right. Complex math is hard to emote." Then she ruffled his hair, her fingers lingering on an ear.
"Go ahead, Ruby does that a lot. She try's to hid it, like in a tickle fight, its funny." Smiling Yang felt the ears shape. The fur inside. The warmth of it and the way his ear was twitching under her fingers. "This is so weird."
Isaac shifted and looked almost amused. "You haven't, with Blake?" Yang watched him thoughtful, she liked Blake but? She made a shuff noise shaking her head. Blake was always hiding them. Her mind did a mental Meh. Moving her finger to the fur tuft on the tip of his ear. She watched his ear flicking, trying to get rid of the annoyance. "Ok, now your just fucking with me." He said.
Yang chuckled shifting back putting a thumb in for a full rub. "Remember what Dad said about swearing? So. Why are you doing all this." She asked quietly.
Isaac smiled and shifted getting more comfortable. "For you, Ruby, and Dad. For life. Here in this place. Only the end of the grim will get us there. Only removing there queen will give us peace." He finished with sleep quickly creeping into his voice.
"You're pushing yourself too much. Slow down." Yang counseled. Watching Isaac sigh she pushed it. "This has been going on, well before history, it can wait a few more days. Besides I think you rattled Ruby with that reality stabilizer so I'm not sure how the rest of the world would take it."
Isaac made a soft grunt as he shifted before quietly saying. "I am convinced. Reality with Dust, Semblance's and all the rest are an artificial construct. It does not remove them, just know there not part of the world, that makes them malleable, so use it, focus, change, and use it. There is no semblance. The form and limit's are only in your head's."
Yang watched Isaac. He looked like he was sleeping but the closer she looked she found the beginning of tears leaking out. Yang kept slowly rubbing and scratching his ear petting his head and switching between the three. Did he really care? Was that even possible with him? He took time to faced off with Jr. he's taking a big risk with the White Fang. Yang wondered. Maybe?
"Take it slower, its ok to be a kid. There's a lot of people taking your ideas and running with them." Isaac nodded slightly. "I don't want to hurt you, Ruby, anyone." Opening his eyes Yang could see they were watery. "Study, Yang, like your life depends on it. Think of the grim as a militia, five hundred to a thousand are arriving every day, around Vales doorstep and the Vale leaders are making laws to keep them from being wiped out."
He grasp Yang's wrist. "Prepare for war." He's adult eyes were back and bored into her. "Yang I'm sorry to say that. You've bent over backwards to be nice to me, I'm sorry….." Yang put a finger on his lips. Watching his eyes change, going unfocused.
"Ya, ya, we get it. Your beating on a dead horse." She said in a sigh.
"Sorry, sorry I just don't want,,, to loose,,, you, sis, dad." He said around her finger, he looked to Yang like a scared kid when he said that. "I don't want to loose my family to the grim. It's my fault that…"
Yang quieted him as she patted his head in a motherly way. "Shh. Were huntresses, its part of the job description. We will train, now more then ever, do our best and all that." Isaac half smiled with a slow nod before closing his eyes. Yang didn't say anything more, nothing more was needed she just kept rubbing his ear. "Guess everyone deserves a second chance." He muttered drifting into sleep. Then he surprised Yang.
Isaac started purring.
With an upturning eyebrow and slow smirking smile Yang petted him like she would a cat. Even his tongue came out a bit. Then Yang reached for her scroll intending to record this. After a time she finished tucking the scroll away. His purr was almost thrumming as he breathed.
"Well breakfast is getting cold." Yang reminded herself. Standing she remembered something Ruby said. Taking her scroll she tuned it to Isaacs aura. Finding he was still down was a bit was a surprise. Still, if he had gone to bed around one. Five hours sleep, even exhausted after over twenty hours awake. His aura should have been fully recovered. Yang quietly left closing the door softly. "I need a shower." She acknowledged. Then with a shudder Yang remembering the place was monitored.
Standing by the closed door Yang could smell breakfast drifting into the living room. She met Blake exiting the shower. She was in her alternate clothing and save for her bow that had yet to be put on her head she looked ready for the day. "Your braver then me." Yang commented with a head nod to the shower.
Blake nodded understanding. "Ruby had these, "Watchers." She made a quote with one hand. "Turn off the monitoring in the bathroom." Then Blake darkly chuckled. "Would you believe the warranty on protecting this house is void for this month because of it?"
The look on Yangs face said it all. WTF!? Blake gave a small smile and nodded. "Not sure, but, I think with what Ruby said that these security corporations are fined if they fail to protect as per contract." Then Blake shrugged and headed for the kitchen. Yang took a few seconds to process that before she fallowed.
In the kitchen Ruby and Weiss were setting up the table. Ruby seeing Yang almost burst out. "Yang!" Yang made a shushing motion. "He's sleeping." Ruby self muted and was about to ask another question. Yang shook her head. "His aura is still down a bit, I guess he really did hurt himself on this one." After Yang sat down she added. "That whole thing was kind of weird. Been a long time since I went into full mom mode."
"Mom mode?" Weiss and Blake chimed as one. Yang shrugged. "When our mom vanished. Dad, he kind a shut down, guess one wife walking out and loosing a second wife will do that to ya. Ruby had some bad nights so I had to comfort her and generally take care of things at home." Yang went quiet putting food on her plate but Weiss could see through Yangs smile, it had turned plastic.
"That would be, difficult." Weiss almost whispered. Yang again shrugged. "I dealt with it." With a sigh knowing that there was a lot more Yang was not saying Weiss jumped into the aura subject.
"So, Isaac? He has not fully recovered? It's been hours. How is that even possible?" Weiss asked quietly stressed. She had yet to come to terms with what she learned and a part of her wanted this to be a lie.
"Uh, could we. Talk. About this a another time?" Asked Blake. She made a slight motion to the ceiling. "I want some food, and after this mind twisting class look into these private classes we were offered."
Breakfast was done with little talking. The oppressive idea they were under surveillance was in the back of everyone's mind. Afterward showers were taken in a no frills, get it done quickly way. Everyone migrated to the temp home waiting for the scheduled buss ride. Blake occupied her time by scanning the net finding the security advertisements, and crimes with punishments.
"You would think a PGE filter would be placed on these trials." Blake said watching a woman who survived an attack that killed her husband shoot the one who killed him in the head. "This stuff is just brutal." The three arbitrators had pronounced the man guilty of murder not caring in the least why. Just that he had taken a life. Leaving the survivor to pass punishment. She chose death.
The man raved on how he won't beg and how there laws were unjust. His aura was broken and the bullet shut him up. Back tracking the files Blake looked at the list of executions. "There's a lot of Puritans in this list." She noted aloud feeling a chill. This organization believed the gods made Remnant just for humans. Making it their holy duty to kill faunas where ever they found them. "There's over twenty here." Blake gasped. "This is an invasion."
"They're catching them." Countered Yang trying to give her partner hope. "A great majority of the death sentence's were attempted murders." Yang pointed out.
"That's, and this is a guess, because there using the scrolls to cross check who there talking to and red flagging them. It's like there is no due-process at work here." Countered Blake. "These scroll taps are illegal in any other city state."
"Lives are at stake. And if what sis says is true the hired security gets fined if they fail. There's no real law. Nothing like were use to applies here, remember? This place is self policing. Blake sighed darkly, visibly upset. Knowing this was good and bad. So many things could go wrong with personal freedom and privacy that she couldn't get a grasp on it all.
Then at the appointed time with everyone ready they headed for the door, with an hour to go they had plenty of time to reach there first class. Save Rainbow intercepted them just outside the home with a change of plans.
Meh….That's it. On to the next.