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After several days at sea, the ship eventually stopped at a dock where everyone packed up and disembarked with Lilith wearing a sun hat fedora and a headscarf to hide her identity, and Camila simply wore a shawl and removed her glasses as the two left with Fuchs watching from the ship as he called a scout.

"Folgen Sie den beiden." He spoke.

"What?" The scout asked confused as Fuchs swore under his breath.

"Follow them you fool! Haven't you learned the language yet!?" Fuchs yelled as he through a human language translation book at him while Ray struggled to carry flora's luggage on his back.

"You know you could have asked for a damn cart!" Ray stated as he held two large suitcases. "And why are we getting such a high-ass budget for a simple dim..." Flora then shushed him.

"This is a top-secret mission, we needed every intelligence member of the coven to be a part of this also must I remind you that this one-of-a-kind rare diamond is being auctioned off tomorrow night, and they won't take kindly to haven coven members around which is why I asked for this many snails," Flora stated not noticing two palismen overhearing the conversation as they flew and landed on Lilith's and Camila's shoulder's to which they were rewarded with small seeds.

"So that's what their plan is?" Camila asked.

"Just a part of it," Lilith replied. "But if manage to get this from them then it'll be impossible for flora to find the flower." The two then walked into a motel and checked in they spotted several troops with Flora and Mateo as they went inside a hotel building.


Mateo opened the door and tossed his belongings on the bed before laying on it and yelling. "You can come in now." Ava walked in removing her mask which she tossed to the floor.

"You sure this won't get us in trouble the two of us together like this?" She asked.

"Please, it's a private room and we left Philp with your mother, and don't think of it as work, think of it as a break from all this. Oh, and I got you this for tomorrow night." He took out a box and handed it to her which Ava opened pulling out a slim white dress.

"How did you?"

"Confiscated from a guy running an illegal potion shop in his store, go on, try it." He insisted Ava then locked herself in the bathroom just as the front door opened with Fuchs and Ray.

"Eine nette Frau hast du." Fuchs stated as Mateo glared at him replying back.

"Und was für ein schönes gebrochenes Gesicht." Fuchs was in a state of confusion before Mateo quickly punched him square in the face knocking his to the ground and resulting in Fuchs gaining a broken nose and a pair of now fractured glasses.

Fuchs then looked at Ray. "What are you standing there for you idiot!"

"Hey, I'm not getting into trouble for getting in a tassel with you two and frankly you guys can fight all you want, heard there are some nice drinks and I am not going back until I get a single shot in me," Ray said leaving the room and heading to the bar as Fuchs kicked the nightstand and yelled having stubbed his foot and left as Ava exited the bathroom wearing the dress.

"What do you think?" She asked as Mateo smiled.

You're more beautiful than I've imagined." He replied before leaning in as the two kissed and began to roll on the knocking over a few files and classified papers.


Lilith and Camila sat outside at a table eating supper.

"I'll take this than stale crackers and boiling water," Camila said as she started chewing on a living tentacle. Lilith laid back in her chair placing her hat in front of her face before taking a day nap. She then woke up in the small motel room as it became night.

"What did I miss?" Lilith asked Camila who was laying on the bed.

"Not much other than the large increases of troops in the area, don't be shocked if they start knocking on doors." She claimed as Lilith opened a window seeing boiling rain was now raining down.

"Guess that action will be postponed now," Lilith stated as Camila stuttered a bit.

"Actually... it happened already, they bought it, but it's one of those secret buys, trade is meant to happen at the local hotel."

"And how do you expect us to... oh right."


"Stupid rain, stupid coat, stupid binoculars!" Ray yelled as he was perched on the hotel roof as a spotter to keep watch as a scout handed him a cup. Ray looked at it and took a sip before quickly passing out cold as the scout removed their helmet revealing Lilith as Camila walked in dragging an unconscious scout.

"You know him?"

"Not really, he might be new but the mustache reminds me of someone." She said while dragging him and taking stripping him off his uniform and tossing him in a closet. "Well, your ex does know his style with uniforms."

Camila chuckled. "He was a bit of a historian type and his time in the service was a lot," Camila said to Lilith as the two quickly left and headed to the seller's location. It was a large dining and show area where they sat at a table and waited.

"How are we going to pay for this?" Camila questioned as Lilith took out a bag of coins that were painted gold.

"One of my sister's old scams took a month before I figured out she was using fraud coins." A while later as a group of women began to sign on the stage as a witch and his two bodyguards sat down at their table.

"Flora I believe? John Corban" The man asked looking at Lilith who quickly put on her round glasses and replied.

"Yes, I assume we had agreed on a price for... our transaction." John then reached into his pocket and placed a small pouch on the table spinning it around as Lilith took it and dumped its contents into her hand showing a diamond as large as her palm which she examined as two drinks were served to them.

"it's authentic." Camila slid the bag of snails to Corban who pocketed it and rose his glass and spoke out.

"To your explorations and hope you find your next one." Lilith looked at the drink which she moved as a drop of it fell on the table before drinking a shot while Camila refused.

'I'm more or less her partner, got to make sure she doesn't drink herself to death." She said chuckling forcefully as John sneered at them.

He then looked at his watch. "Well, I'm sure you won't see me or her after a few minutes."

Lilith had a confused look as she sipped her glass. "Why's that?" She asked as her vision began to deteriorate while John held his mouth trying not to laugh.

"Cause of the poison-laced in your glass." He said calmly as Camila quickly slapped the cocktail out of Lilith's hand shattering it while Lilith began to stumble as her nose and eyes bleed. Her senses weakened as she collapsed to the ground with John laughing at them as he stood up and took back the diamond from her hand as the doors opened as Flora, Mateo, and Fuchs walked in dressed fashionably with Fuchs holding a case.

"Sorry I'm late someone lost my invitation and..." She stopped and noticed Lilith on the floor coughing blood out of her mouth, Camila quickly giving CPR, and John standing up holding the diamond in his hand. She quickly looked at Mateo. "You have your weapon?"

"It's inside my suit holster why do..." He was interrupted as Flora snatched it from his holster and pulled the trigger a bullet left the chamber and struck John in the wrist making him yell in pain as he dropped the diamond before stumbling to get away.

"GET THE ROCK!" Flora ordered as chaos erupted with patrons running around trying to flee Mateo took his pistol back and pushed his way threw the crowd while Camila pulled on John's suit and quickly began beating him to a pulp and yanked him by his shirt collar.

"Where is the..."

John cried and whimpered before opening his suit pocket as Camila snatched a small vial from him and quickly fed the liquid to Lilith who gasped and coughed as John stood up holding his wrist as his bodyguards escorted him away while Mateo shot at them. Lilith took the diamond and stuffed it into her satchel as she and Camila blended in with the crowd as the satchel was grabbed and pulled on by Flora.

"This is my discovery, not yours!" She yelled as Lilith punched her mentor in the face before kicking her aside as Fuchs began to cast a spell.

"Suppressing Fire!" He shouted while blindly firing off spells that simply missed and bounced around the room causing it to catch fire several scouts rushed in as backup as Mateo went through a fire escape and fired off several shots at the two until his pistol ran out.


Both women burst into their room sweating from what just happened. "Did we just..."

"Escape a firefight and death? Yes, we did Camila." Lilith responded as she took out the diamond from her satchel. "And now we're a step ahead of them now, not sure how this is going to help us flora did most of the research on the bloom but I'm sure I can find the same result." She started holding the diamond as she placed it on a nightstand as the moonlight brightened the diamond which then reflected beams of light around the room depicting hieroglyphics.

"That's interesting." Camila then took the diamond and put it back. "Now please let's hurry before they start cracking down on our door."


"Scheiße, Scheiße, Scheiße!" Fuchs swore while kicking over a table while Ray was wearing a bathrobe over his exposed body.

"Well, it's your fault for not going in sooner." He argued as the two started a shouting match while Flora looked in her journal while walking sitting in a carriage with Mateo.

"Guess we'll have to start from scratch now." He stated.

Flora huffed. "You know how to command an army but I know about the subject of history and my knowledge will still keep us ahead of those two," Flora said pulling out a fake snail from a bag. "Even if they find it we still have leverage over them," Flora said as she put on her glasses and pulled out the map before setting it ablaze with a fire spell, tossing it in the air leaving nothing but ash as she and the troops left the hotel which was ordered to be shut down.

Ava who was now disappointed that the mini 'vacation' she planned was gone took out a piece of sketch paper and made a magic circle on it showing an accurate copy of the map which she placed in a mailbox as she went to rejoin the troops as Mateo looked at her.

"You alright? I know this isn't what you thought but trust me we still have about... a few more stops and then we'll have a break, I promise you that." He said.

Ava sighed. "You may be a good leader but your not a good planner from what you've told me." The two laughed as they followed the troops.

"Yeah, my ex was usually the one who would plan my daughter's birthdays though it was always us, never invited anyone else, shy." He chuckled as the two briefly embraced for a bit.