Everyone knows, those more or less peaceful days in Hive City can end anytime. They are at the scientists' mercy but they have gotten used to this life and the scientists stay off radar most of the time, Mary has almost forgotten the circumstances of this life.
When it suddenly goes dark, she thinks she is sleeping, having a nightmare again. Hoping to wake up, she closes her eyes tightly, before opening again-
She does wake up but. But where?
A soft glow tugs her attention to her wrist. Thin red threads weaving into some sort of emblem watch, emit more threads as if writing a message.
Ariadne's threads. Leading out of the labyrinth. Not alone. Linked lives. And to go to the core of the labyrinth. Mary isn't sure if she manages to understand everything before the threads disappear. The words first, then the longer threads that lead into darkness...
No. Not darkness. Someone is there. It pulls her there, just a few steps away from her. With outstretched hands, she closes the distance. In the dim light, she can make out a tall person. A familiar person. It is-
"Konoha!" The android boy with the white hair and pink eyes looks mildly confused at the change of environment and Mary would be even more but she is just so glad to see someone familiar that she can't stop herself from hugging him briefly. Although she also wishes Seto was here..
A small nudge from the other boy. Mary lifts her face, blinking away tears and follows Konoha's gaze to the side. For a brief moment it is like there is a thin red string again, which vanishes once Mary tries to look harder.
Contrasting that fading red is a dark green in the dim light. Green, more green...an overall. A familiar sight.
"Seto!" she exclaims with joy and wants to run over towards the boy that always has been there when she was lost - but she ends up stumbling over something on the ground, falling with a small yelp.
With a small whimper and while rubbing her sore hands, she sees again, for just a moment, a red thread, which however is instantly forgotten when she the person lying on the ground. Black hair, black clothes, pale skin, yellow arrows.
He is no-good, never had been, he infests fear within her and even if he seems unconscious, she scrambles back to her feet, Konoha helping her and Seto joining.
She is still trembling, even when the three of them move back, further and further but as they are several feet away from Kuroha, the red strings around Mary's wrist (and she notices Konoha and Seto and also Kuroha have them as well) start to glow and they are unable to move further. She pulls on Konoha's and Seto's sleeves and looks at Konoha.
"W-what do we do now...what do we do with...with him?"
->eyechanging
(->stolencharm->ssaeru->dreamingrosemary)
