Surprisingly, the hallways of the pyramid were barren. There was no kind of physical security stopping Lucas, Draggie, Venoct, and the small cat Nox from darting through the hallways. Many of the traps were already activated and broken through already. They had to keep things up and hurry, who knows what clock was ticking before absolute madness was unleashed. Nyaset's prized possession was in danger, and if it was already proven that in the wrong hands it was destructive, who knows what horrors may spawn!
"It seems someone has already been through this way." Venoct blankly commented at the sight.
"Hopefully it isn't anyone bad." Draggie added, quite more nervous than Venoct was.
Nox, being a much more rumbustious feline, kept prowling around. She was a little bit behind the group, only to step up ahead as if something had caught the feline's attention. However in the midsts of running on ahead, Nox's little paws tapped on a switch with a surprising amount of grace.
Though what the press of the button lead to was far less from graceful. After all, the wall swung open a hole, to where only Lucas was only able to really fall through.
Thankfully it was a less higher fall than the initial entrance of the pyramid but still threw things off for Lucas.
"I thought Nyaset to go up..." Lucas muttered quietly, finally getting up after that pit trap. Though, the pit seemed less like one of death and more like the entrance to a long hallway. The halls were decorated less with the Egyptian themed wall engravings of the main pyramid. Instead it was painted with quite the elaborate painting depicting a very powerful yokai, wielding a flaming sword that seemed to destroy the dark evils quite...graphically. The strange yokai also had a mirror around his neck and an odd looking gemstone on the same neck chain as well. Several yokai appeared to have been praising this one, perhaps for punishing the evils depicted in the mural.
"Was wondering when you'd get here." A familiar voice said. "I somehow knew you would arrive eventually."
Upon looking at the end of the hall, it was Claus, without a scratch. In his hand was a finely made blade, looking an awful like the one depicted in the murals. This instantly caught Lucas' attention.
"Claus, where did you get that?!" Lucas asked, completely shocked at what Claus had been wielding.
"This is actually one of three ancient treasures said to belong to my family." Claus began, holding the blade delicately. "This blade is said to be able to slice through any evil."
"Really, how is that so?" Lucas asked.
"It's locked behind a seal, but it's said someone with a powerful heart of justice can lift it, awakening the true power within." Claus added to his explanation. "Though even without the seal broken, it's still, you know, a sword. So it isn't completely useless. Just has less of that 'cuts through anything evil' thing."
"I see, is there a reason you need that sword?" Lucas asked again. "And why do we keep running into each other? I'm sorry I'm asking a lot of questions..."
"As stated before, it belongs to my family, so naturally I'm one to try and reclaim it. As for the other thing, well, I'm trying to figure out what happened to my mom." Claus answered to Lucas, getting a bit quiet.
"...Oh..." Lucas answered, almost speaking just as low as Claus was now. "Did...something happen to her?"
"I believe so. I never knew her, and if I ask, everyone just gets really quiet." Claus responded. "I don't know why everyone would try to hide me from something so simple...Especially when I only vaguely remember her..."
"I never had a mom, so I wouldn't know what it's like." Lucas said, before putting his hand on Claus' shoulder. "But this is important to you I'll try everything I can to help."
While a bit silent at first, Claus eventually nodded, shaking Lucas' hand.
"We shouldn't wait around much longer, I'm pretty sure those two evil yokai are up to no good. They have messed with Nyaset, and I have no idea what they'd do to the other Mystery Legends." Lucas said, Claus noting the response.
"You're right, I nearly forgot about that entire ordeal." Claus responded with. "I guess I got my calling a bit too early and it was distracting me."
Without much else to say, the two boys began making their way out, which was almost comically easy to get out. Things seemed like both of them would be trapped into that room forever. Though, this made Lucas pop a question.
"One last thing, Claus, how did you fall into here?" Lucas asked, as Claus looked off to the side quite embarrassed.
Yet another awkward pause of silence went on by without much hesitation.
"...Don't tell anyone but I slipped and accidentally bumped into the switch because I heard a loud sound." Claus finally admitted, shaking off any signs of being embarrassed as it seemed the others were in the distance, waiting on them.
"I think Lucas is back!" Draggie pointed out, getting Nox and Venoct's attention. Shortly after, the group had finally caught eye contact and reunited.
"It's good to see you two ended up coming out of there unharmed." Venoct remarked at the two.
"For something keeping a powerful heirloom, I was expecting a few more dangerous traps that would cripple me." Claus commented a bit nonchalantly. "Aside from the whole barrier thing only me and Lucas could enter though."
The team kept making their way through the tricky pyramid, remembering the advice of Nyaset saying to keep going upwards. Taking any flight of stairs upwards they could, they eventually ran across something happening in the room.
"Now." A shadowy pegasus yokai spoke, fluttering around in the room. Held in one hoof was a golden staff, the pegasus confused and puzzled with the thing. "Can you instruct me on how this dang thing even works?"
Off to the side, somehow tied with rope by a hoofed yokai, was an Egyptian themed dog yokai with golden flames. He also looked completely done with the nonsense this pegasus was giving him.
"Neighfarious, I am not a fool." The dog yokai said back, quite grumpy. "Like I would ever let you in on anything about my staff and it's magic powers!"
"Zuraubis just tell me how the dang thing works!" The pegasus, Neighfarious yelled at Zurabis, frustrated with the candid yokai's ever so stubborn attitude. It's not like anyone else is in here!"
"I think you may want to reword your statement." Zurabis noted, as Neighfarious turned around and saw the team of yokai, humans, and one cat.
Nox greeted the scene with a simple mew, gently licking her left paw as everyone stared at each other.
"First of all, how did you brats manage to get in here?!" Neightfarious asked, trying to keep a hold of his stolen staff.
"Well how are you holding onto that staff without any hands?" Venoct asked back, pointing at the staff Neightfarious was struggling more and more to hold.
"I don't have time for your questions, snake punk!" Neighfarious spat back, trying to balance Zurabis' staff against a wall. "Now you can all get outta here, I don't got time for ya pretty boys! I have work to be doing!"
As Neighfarious kept rambling on and on, Nox was already prowling on around, going onto some railing. Shortly after the pegasus yokai finished his speech, the tuxedo cat struck from behind with a graceful pounce.
"Now if you excuse m-Argh! What are you even doing, foolish feline!?" Neighfarious screamed, the cat weighing him down as she kept batting at him from behind with her tiny but graceful paws. Being weighed down by Nox left Zurabis' staff right in the open for the others to retrieve.
Quickly, Lucas and Draggie went over to keep Neightfarious from running off, whereas Venoct and Claus went off to untie Zurabis. Draggie looked up to Lucas, confused as Nox struggled to keep the pegasus pinned down.
"What should I do?" Draggie asked curiously.
"...Throw rocks?" Lucas suggested, just as confused as the tiny dragon was. "I'm sorry, combat is not my strongest suit."
But, it was enough for Draggie to get an idea. He took a stance, puffing out his chest as much as he could as he looked at Neighfarious dead in the eye.
"Alright, you dumb horse, take this for kidnapping someone and taking their stuff!" Draggie yelled as loud as his little lungs could, summoning a barrage of pebbles out of thin air.
"Listen you-oof! Foolish-owch! Yokai child-owow! I am not-ow! A-argh! Horse!" Neighfarious yelped, trying to get at Draggie and the others, but each stone that was formed delayed his process of doing so more and more. As Neighfarious was being pelted with rocks, Lucas quietly grabbed the staff, unharmed and unnoticed.
Meanwhile with Zurabis, the other two were trying to figure out how to free the mystery legend from his binds.
"I think I figured out something..." Venoct said, his dragon heads pulling at a certain part of the rope to be just a few inches away from Zurabis. Claus then took the blade he carried, carefully wedging it through the rope to finally break Zurabis out of the rope. Soon after, Zurabis had been reunited back with his magic golden staff.
Seeing the jackal like koma reunited with his staff was enough for Neighfarious to take a few steps back, finally done being pelted with rocks and pounced on by a cat.
"Well that's it, that's enough of this. I'm outnumbered! I'm overwhelmed and I'm outta here!" Neighfarious said, poofing away with a puff of violet smoke. Zurabis sighed as the shady pegasus disappeared.
"That takes care of that staff thief, I guess." Zurabis said, thankful that he has his staff back.
"Oh yeah, Nyaset told us to say hi to you if we see you..." Lucas shyly popped in. "That is, if you are Zurabis."
"Indeed I am Zurabis of the Eerie tribe and one of the leaders of the Mystery Legends." Zurabis more properly introduced himself. "I thank you and your friends for thwarting off that thief. As for Nyaset's staff, I fear it's in a more tight, evil grip."
"I'd figure since there's two that have seized control of the place, they each tried to take a staff of yours and Nyaset's." Venoct responded, waving his hand in the air a bit.
"Indeed, Neighfarious was more of a bumbling underling to Awevil. He was able to turn a rather powerful yokai into a house cat to prevent word getting out of something he was doing." Zaurabis continued on with. "And also decided to seal me and Nyaset in here as well, hence why everything is so deserted."
"That explains a lot then..." Lucas said, pausing a bit as something came to mind. "Though, I don't know how we were able to get in here..."
"Guess the sealing process left a tiny opening, maybe in case of emergencies?" Zurabis answered with a shrug. "Though, I can sense the presence of the fiend strongly, I can lead you to him once you are all ready."
"We're ready when you are, I think we can all take him on just fine." Claus said, as Zurabis nodded.
"Alright, this way, and and we must hurry! We can't let Awevil and Neighfarious continue holding this place down any longer!" Zurabis finished, leading the way to the center chamber in the grand pyramid.
The group had managed to find themselves in front of a huge set of doors, elaborately decorated to prove it's grandeur. Zurabis stepped aside.
"Well, this is it. I would help, but I have to break the seal. I'm pretty sure you can take this on your own, right?" Zurabis stated, looking up at the doors.
"I think we can take care of this just fine." Venoct said, as the rest of the group nodded, setting foot into the doors without another word.
In the center of the room, Neighfarious looked to be acting dramatic to a yokai who looked incredibly sinister despite having an odd gourd for a head. He leaned in a throne, covered in many treasures, and in this yokai's hands was more than likely the magical staff Nyaset carries. Or at least, regularly carried if there wasn't a staff thief on the loose.
"Who let these children in?" The staff-stealing evil yokai boomed, Neighfarious looking up to see the group had entered.
"Well you know that one hole I used to get that cat to scram out? I forgot to seal it and-" Neightfarious said in response, only to be bonked on the head by the magical staff.
"You idiot! You foolish fool! Even if we weren't expecting the cat to get help, you should have still sealed things up you utter fool!" The evil yokai yelled at his winged equine underling, before looking at the group of group that had entered moments ago.
"Allow me to introduce myself more properly. I am Awevil of the Shady Tribe, and I have a particular low tolerance for children." Awevil introduced himself, holding onto Nyaset's staff rather closely. "Especially those who want to get in my way of breaking this seal in the yokai world."
"Right now we could care less about some seal!" Claus responded to the evil yokai's speech by pointing his blade at him. "You've caused enough trouble for the Mystery Legends and who knows how many other yokai, that's enough to get us to be fighting back!"
"You're such an aggressive child, do you know such aggressive behaviour in children is looked down upon?" Awevil slyly responded to the rather aggressive child, giving an even larger, almost smug grin on his face. He held up his stolen staff and pointed it to the opposing boy. "You wouldn't want that, now would you?"
Claus dropped his stance for a moment, stepping back quite aways from Awevil.
"Not really..." Claus attempted to respond, only for Awevil to chuckle and fire a light blue, fiery beam at Claus, much to the paralyzing shock of everyone.
Though, the results was not a pile of soot like everyone had expected. Instead, Claus was simply turned into a lion cub, no bells or whistles or even any magical powers from the looks of it. Despite this, Claus still tried to get the blade in his tiny mouth. But, the lack of opposable thumbs made this very tricky, causing him to topple over from side to side quite a bit. The magic spell left both sides of this very confused.
"...I thought this thing had a 'vaporize into nothing but dirty ashes' mode." Awevil blankly stated, almost completely stunned. "Then again I swore the same when I turned that other yokai, but turned her into a feline."
Awevil looked up, refreshing back to a more intimidating grin he was known for. "Ah well, I'll get rid of you all, even if I have to turn you all into helpless felines! I'm everything but a cat person!"
Soon the room had become a game of dodging the fiery beams of utter cat-astrophe. Thankfully, Venoct was quick to try and find an opening in Awevil's constant beam firing.
"You menace, take this Octo Snake!" Venoct yelled out, unleashing his signature move onto the evil yokai. Though in the midsts of trying to zap everyone, some got on to Venoct, much to everyone's horror.
It was a relief that Venoct had not fallen to the feline curse. But rather, his scarf did. Instead of dragons, the extra heads on his scarf were much more feline, even going as far to purr.
"...These are actually kind of cute..." Venoct admitted, petting one of the heads on his scarf gently. It seemed like he was not going to be joining back into the fight anytime soon.
In the midsts of the battle, the blade Claus had found had flung it's way nearby Draggie. Dragie slowly tried to pick up the blade, hopefully to try and hand it to someone with better handling than a feline. However, something caused Draggie to be unable to hold or even dare touch the blade's finely crafted hilt.
"Owch!" Draggie yelped, swiftly stepping back from the blade in question. "It's so hot, I can't handle it with my hands!"
This wimpier in pain caught the attention of Lucas, running over to Draggie as fast as he could, dodging Awevil's attacks all while he could. Lucas stumbled a bit in trying to help Draggie out, as he really didn't have any sort of bandages on hand.
Least he could do was move the blade out of the way. Instinct told him to pick it up, and even if this burned him he would at least know and then try a different method.
But somehow Lucas was able to hold onto the blade just fine, not feeling any kind of burning sensation as he gripped onto it.
Right now, Lucas didn't have much of an option, Draggie couldn't do much with burnt hands. Venoct was too distracted nor could use any of his techniques. Nox and Claus, being cats, were doing naturally cat things. This battle was going to be tricky, leaving Lucas with only one last resort in all of this...
Awevil took a break from constantly attempting to turn things into cats, lowering the magical staff down for a moment. This was his chance, while it wasn't within his moral plane most of the time, this was his chance to strike right now.
Lucas ran up as fast as he could, the ruby red blade in hand. It didn't have any special bells or whistles, but as Claus said, it worked just like a regular sword no matter what. So it was still a sharp blade Lucas had to be extra careful with handling...
He attempted to hit the evil shady yokai from behind, but quickly chickened out before he could do any sort of slashing or hacking, now that was really out of his character.
Though best that was done was startling Awevil, and in a swift turn around not only did Nyaset's staff skid across the floor, but ended up giving Awevil's beard a rather rough bladed trim.
"My beautiful beard!" Awevil gasped in horror, stroking over where his beard had been trimmed. "I spent over two hundred of my years trying to grow this beard!"
Lucas stepped back a little, looking at Awevil frightened, clutching the blade nervously in his hand.
"I...I didn't mean to..." Lucas nervously apologized to the sinister yokai, as Awevil looked more and more enraged at the black haired child that gave him such a lousy beard cut.
"Foolish child! Why, I'll not turn you into a feline, but drown your entire existence out of here!" Awevil angrily yelled, trying to look for his staff, only to realize it was stolen.
As the shady yokai was getting furious, sparking quite the feud, Nox and Claus had both grabbed Nyaset's wand and were already heading out the door, staff in tow without him ever noticing. By the time he noticed, the felines and the wand were already gone.
"Well with that staff gone, I always have a backup to carry out more of my evil deeds!" Awevil yelled, bringing out an old wooden staff. Without much of a word, he began to charge up a powerful aura of evil energy.
He would have unleashed utter terror had a voice from afar not interrupted him.
"There is something I would like to reveal, that being I despise nothing more than pure evil!" a familiar feline voice shouted with a well timed rhyme. Awevil put down his staff.
Standing in the doorway was Nyaset, alongside her partner Zurabis. Following behind the duo were the cursed felines, Nox and Claus. The duo stood side by side, their wands in hand as they glared down at Awevil.
"For your crimes against me, Nyaset, the Mystery Legends, we figured now it would be most appropriate to give you a well deserved punishment." Zurabis explained, as Awevil looked more confused.
"You two can't even send me to the Inferno. I know well that you two are legendary yokai, but there is even one level above you." Awevil explained, no longer fearing to two as much. Nyaset looked serious, gazing at the evil yokai.
"That is true, the two yokai gods watch us from above in the heavens from the great mountain. But, we still punish those who's truly evil within!" Nyaset shouted out, being quite fed up with Awevil's constant stalling. Zurabis looked at Lucas and his slippery yokai friends.
"You may want to look away for this, it's about to get quite...glaring." Zurabis said, as Lucas stepped out of the way, dragging Venoct and Draggie with him out of the way.
With any possible innocents out of the way, Nyaset and Zurabis raised both of their wands, taping them together.
"Within our sacred realm, we find your evil to overwhelm. Now begone, for your evil is too set in stone, therefore you must atone!" Nyaset and Zurabis yelled, the room flooding in with a powerful, holy light. As soon as the almighty light show calmed down, Awevil and by extension Neightfarious were gone. Once the two evil doers were gone, the koma inu and nyan duo looked at the two normal felines that stood before them.
"Ah, we should get to lifting the curses off of you." Zurabis noticed, looking over at Nyaset. "Well, it's your job so do your thing, Nyaset."
Nyaset stepped up, holding her magical staff in hand.
"Of course, leave it to me to make this curse nothing but past history." Nyaset commented, waving her wand around.
"A ruler of feline I may be, but these souls are not a cat most certainly. Now, answer to myself, show these soul's true self!" Nyaset chanted, unleashing energy from her wand.
With a calming red flame, the tiny lion cub had turned back into Claus, no ill side effects to be noted. Then, the calming red aura went to Venoct, restoring his dragon scarf back to normal.
Most shocking was to see Nox's transformation. She went from a normal looking, black and white tuxedo cat to something truly outstanding. She was a humanoid yokai, with fiery red and pink hair and a matching red kimono. She held a gentle expression with her mint green eyes and delicate light pink flowers in her hair.
"...Nox?" Lucas asked, as the mysterious girl that was once Nox looked up. at the assemble.
"While you may have known me as Nox on your adventures, I go by a different name. My name is Princess Camellia, but just call me Camellia for short." The red haired humanoid, Camellia, introduced herself.
"It's an honor to meet with you, your highness." Venoct responded formally.
"I suppose we could be a bit more casual, after all I did spend quite a bit of time running on top of tables eating pancakes." Camellia commented, laughing a little.
"Though, this begs the question, why did Awevil turn you into a cat of all things?" Lucas asked, Camellia looking off to the side, then back to the group.
"I had heard of suspicion within certain members of the Yokai Council. I, being one of the higher ranked members had heard of this shady dealing with Awevil and a few other yokai, explaining they wanted to break seals to make everything right again. Though, before I could even report my suspicions to the great council leader, Nurarihyon, I was captured by Awevil and Neightfarious, being turned into a small feline. I managed to escape from the pyramid, knowing to try and find some kind of help." Camellia explained herself, before pausing briefly. "As to why they decided to turn me into a cat of all things, I will never know. Unless princesses being turned into cats in a pyramid is the only way it could have all worked."
"I see, so Awevil was up to some shady dealings with other, unknown yokai." Claus responded. "I'll be sure the full story gets to Nurarihyon...I have my connections."
Camellia stepped up to Lucas, handing him her medal.
"You posses the Yokai Watch, I figured that would be of great use." Camellia said. "And thank you and your friends for saving and helping me, it means a lot to me."
"You're welcome, Camellia." Lucas responded, while a bit shy he still managed to shake hands with the princess yokai.
"I feel this is intrusive, is there a way out to get us back home?" Venoct asked, as Nyaset and Zurabis looked up and nodded.
"Yes there is, give me a moment." Zurabis answered, holding up his staff. In a nearby wall, he opened up what looked like a portal. "Now, go forth. That should all take you to where you originally came from."
"Once again, we thank you greatly for saving us from absolute darkness, but saying farewell leaves me saddened regardless." Nyaset said a meaningful goodbye to the others. "Though, I feel this time will not be our last. Maybe one day we could meet once more perhaps?"
Everyone went through the portal, saying their goodbyes to the duo of mystery legends. After entering through the portal, everyone ended up back out by the old abandoned house, with the cellar doors still opened ajar. Night had fallen over the town, a few stars sparkling in the sky.
Claus went his own way, same with Camellia, whereas Lucas, Venoct, and Draggie went back home to his place.
"Maybe another night, I should show you where I usually watch over from." Venoct said, trying to be quiet, but Lucas had heard him.
"Really? I'd never thought you'd ask that sort of thing, Venoct." Lucas responded, Venoct initially being shocked he was heard, but soon calmed down quite a bit.
"Yeah, it's really pretty up from where I overlook. I feel you'd like it, even if our social ability isn't exactly the best." Venoct answered, seeming to smile a tiny bit to be noticeable.
The three had made it back home, going to bed for the night after a long day once more. Dreaming away the night...
Again? It seems for the third time, things roll back into that same old garden of lilies. Though, it was only viewed through the windows. Yet, within the halls of what looked like a beautiful palace, many of the same flowers were kept beautifully in vases up and down the halls.
The couple of Blizzaria and Sheen waited outside a set of doors, guarded by quite the intimidating duo of yokai consisting of a white horse and a dark brown cow. They glared down at the two, holding their deadly spears in hand in front of the doors.
"Halt you two, what business do you two have here?" The cow headed yokai spoke, in a low yet harsh tone. "Lady Yami is extremely limited with her visitors at the moment. Any lie or foul action to the dear lady will lead to a harsh demise."
"We were requested to visit her as soon as we both could." Blizzaria explained. "I was by Yami's side, I was merely bringing Sheen to not only keep me company, but Yami's as well."
"...Our apologies." The horse head spoke. "We know you are Lady Yami's most trusted right hand lady. You are the one who she trusts the most, and you put the same amount of trust with Sheen hopefully."
"Though, we still stand by our word with any ill intent to the fair lady." The cow head finished, eventually letting the two pass over into another hall, leading to a very large room.
"I'm so happy to see you've brought your newly wed husband with you, Blizzaria." Yami greeted, sounding quite tired and weak. She was gently holding something in her arms, and didn't look like she got a whole lot of sleep recently.
"I'm happy to see you too, Lady Yami." Blizzaria greeted back, bowing briefly to her lady. "I fully understood why you weren't able to attend our wedding, but I knew you were always in spirit, happy for us."
"Blizzaria only met him briefly, but this is what she wanted to show you once she was able to get you here..." Yami said gently, revealing the thing she was holding was in fact a tiny newborn yokai. He was still really tiny, didn't seem like opening his eyes just yet as the tiny newborn was fast asleep. He didn't exactly resemble his mother, having golden blond hair lightly fluffed around his little head and reddish colored skin. On the upper part of the baby's forehead was a birthmark for the symbol of a king.
"Somehow he's even cuter than when I first saw him." Blizzaria softly gasped, urging her husband to look at the child as well with her.
"You're absolutely right, he's so tiny and precious." Sheen softly spoke as well, trying to keep his voice as gentle and as quiet as he could.
"Thank you two so much. I love my new son, even if he ended up looking a lot more like my father as opposed to me or my lover." Yami thanked, gently rocking her new baby. "I wish that my lover didn't run off so fast upon hearing I was not only a daughter of Enma but also having a child..."
"It's alright, Lady Yami." Sheen tried to lighten things up with.
"Though for certain I know that no matter what, my son will make me proud. I can't wait to see what wonderful things he does..." Yami wondered, holding her child closely.
Things began to fade out, ending this odd sequence of events once more...
On the same night, halls of darkness crept over somewhere within the Yokai World. The same magenta haired oni and the dark, cursed swordsman were taking orders from a vaguely humanoid female yokai, waiting in the shadows.
"So Awevil and Neighfarious were defeated." The Magenta haired yokai reported. "However, I have been slowly carrying out the plan you had ordered me, my mistress."
"And how has that been going?" The shadowy woman asked, the magenta oni looked up.
"The member of my oni clan has been fully affected by the power you have given me, it should be very soon he will return to his former glory as one of the most deadly yokai." The oni responded with. "The Eerie and Tough yokai you have recommended me were only very recently given the black heart shards. They were classical yokai, and powerful ones at that, but things are still only in phase one."
"Very good, very well..." The dark mistress said, her tone as deadpan as ever. "As for the other before me?"
The dark swordsman stood up next, dragging along a yokai with a bright red jump suit and large bat wings.
"I have heard of an odd power from the area of St. Peanutsburg, and this lady here will take me to the location of a piece of this power." The swordsman spoke, seeming to threaten the bat yokai with his sword. "And we will seize anybody who gets in our way, is that correct."
The bat yokai remained silent for a bit, before speaking up. "Yes, that is correct."
"Good, and if we need to, we will get any of your partners to help us out." The swordsman kept going, still sounding just as threatening. "They're just as much in this as you are, that's what teams do, right?"
The lady in the shadows nodded, not even cracking a smile at all these schemes unfolding. "Very good. I hope the work all goes well for you all." She said, eerily lacking any kind of inflection with her tone.