Anre took a big nail used to close the box I was in he concentrated on it, and it turned bright red, just like when he launched Yun into the air “Isn’t that going to explode?” I asked Yun, “Nah he has the most control of us three, his Gift wrath lets him heat an object or charge it with energy for an explosion” the man screamed at the top of his lungs from the pain of the cauterization of his bullet wound, after an excruciating moment of screaming the man fell unconscious but it seems that he would be fine, at least I hope so, Parker worked diligently to clean and patch I’m up while Yun and Anre argued, “this is why we should go Yun, they hurt and innocent for just talking to us!” “This is our own fault! We knew something bad would happen if we talked to him in the first place!” “Yun… I’m with Anre, if your punishment for talking to us is death something seriously wrong is going on, come on you can’t tell me you don’t feel the same way” Yun looked to his side and twisted his mouth in a worried smirk “plus this time it was Marston next time” he looked at me, and that broke Yun “alright, alright, but I won’t go before Karolin says what she wants”

“I… well… I want to get out of here too, to me, I didn’t know what you guys are but so far you look mean and scary but you do care for others enough to help, Parker is very quick and creative and Yun is caring and generally a nice person, I don’t think you guys should be locked up, the guy that shot Marston should be here, not any of you” the three looked at each other, Yun scratched his cheek “well… if you put it that way… I guess we are settled… but before anything” Yun took some things from what was left of the crate, he pulled clothes, scissors, and razors, “we should get a makeover before we leave” Now that he mentions it they do look roughed facial hair, longer and damage hair that could really use a trim, Parker and Yun seemed exited, while Anre was annoyed.

“thanks for the help Karolin” I laughed a little while I helped Yun with his hair, I guess that being good with hair is not something granted by the gift, Yun asked me to cut his hair short and to leave a long braid section he kept it bound with a white cloth, “move is my turn I want to go back to my normal hair!” Parker pushed Yun out of the makeshift chair I cut his golden hair very short and helped him with his facial hair, “aaaawww you are the best Karolin, but now comes the hard part” Parker moved his hand and a ribbon of paper trapped Anre´s leg “nooooo, I don’t wanna!” Anre tried to claw his leg free, but Yun started to pull on the ribbon “Come on Anre~ you can’t be a furball forever!” “This is insubordination! My hair is perfectly fine!” a claw of a monster fell from his beard “… I was keeping that for later…” “A likely story, Karolin please help him”

He looked at me with big, worried eyes and mouthed “Help me lass” “Fine I won’t cut it short I´ll just help you clean it” he almost cried and in a matter of minutes he was done, they all changed into more normal looking clothes too, “okay now that that’s settle, what’s our plan Anre?” Yun asked, “Parker can I have some paper?” he gave Anre a piece of paper and started to explain, “We are in the lowest level of the maw, first, and foremost we must escape this hole, we all have ways to get out now that we have paper, metal and a hammer for our gifts, so that should not be a problem, any of us can take Karolin and Marston, the real problem comes when we are out of here” he made some doddles on the paper and continued his explanation “this prison holds many criminals and as far as we know a few moonlight beast and of course a bunch of guards and other mindless automatons if we knew of their routs we could trace a better plan” the sound of a terminal clicked behind all of us “I… I think this might help us… guys” Marston had woken up and gave us his terminal, “How does this work?” Anre asked “I used to have one like this, but it was a few years ago,” said Yun “Puff I will not be caught dead with a mockery of a book” buffed Parker.

“May I see it?” Anre nodded and let me have it, I input some commands, and Marston unlocked it, after a few minutes of my fidgeting with it I found the schedule for the guards “You are very good with technology lass, with this we might be able to avoid hurting people” I smiled, I´m not a fighter like them but I need to help if I want to get out of here, not only I but also Marston, Anre look through the rounds the guards were going to be making and finally he said “alright in about four hours the change of guard is going to happen, during which we will be able to sneak out, do to our especial situations cameras are not present in the vicinity and with Yun here” “I should be able to fry them, but how do we escape from the island?” Parker raised his hand “If we take a detour… here, there should be a place where files in paper are kept if we get some I can take us out of here, Marston I’m sorry this happened to you, it’s all my fault” Parker said discouraged.

“Come on man, to be honest, I was expecting more like a demotion, not a bullet to my arm and one hell of a fall, I’m gonna be honest, Caulfield has always been weird but never to this extent” We all look at him “what do you mean?” I asked him and sat near the man “he was always tough and kind of a jerk but lately he has become more agitated and physical about it as if someone has been stressing him out” he grunted from the lingering pain in his arm but continued “he had more and more meetings with unknown people I believe that they were higher-ups from the other nations but considering he shot me from talking to you guys I’m not so sure anymore… here young lady have this” he handed me his wallet, inside there was some money, a keycard and a picture of himself a woman and a girl my age “I… I can´t take this” I replayed but he shushed me “Listen you four will need some cash to get by once you are out that’s enough for a few nights at an inn and food, starting over is hard and I would hate to see a young lady on the streets”

I looked at the rest Yun shrugged, and Anre nodded but Parker walked over to Marston “Hey come on we´ll get you out of here to a real doctor and you can see your family… please don’t talk like you are dying” Marston laughed with some hurt in his tone, I noticed his wound was bleeding a little he does need a real doctor as soon as possible or else he could actually be in danger, “alright, I´ll take Karolin with me, Parker will take Marston and Anre will get out alone, now we just wait"

When four hours passed everyone was tensed, if we get caught we must likely won't live to tell the tale, Yun kneeled down and asked me to cling to his back he was going to carry me all the way to the top, in the end, Parker had to sacrifice all of his books but through his gift, he folded all of the paper into the shape of a spider, it was connected by strings to Parker´s hands like a puppet, he tied Marston´s body to its abdomen making sure he was not in pain nor in danger of fall from his creation, Anre spent his time stretching and warming up for the climb up.

“That was amazing” Yun said to me “What was?” “Your gift, without it Marston would have been a splat on the ground what was it? Supper hearing?” he asked me I tried to think about it to answer as best as I could, “I don’t think so, it was not like I could hear better, but rather like I somehow connected with Marston, I felt his fear and heartbeat, that’s why I yelled” “hum… what if we call your gift Linking for now, are you ready?” I nodded and held him as tight as I could “Everyone ready?” Parker mounted his puppet and moved his hands to make it assume a ready stance “I´m ready!” Anre´s hammer glowed bright red as if it had just taken out of the roaring fire of a furnace “Let´s blow this hell hole lads!”