The Story (Triliment Setting)

[fireflyninja]

Hotaru spun around at the sound of a fight and saw the girl from before sitting on Hizoku's stomach pinning her arms to her sides, the girl raised her cuffed arms and prepared to beat Hizoku to death. "SHIT!" She swore loudly and channeled fire to her hands and shaped into a ball before launching it at the angry girl. 'Oh please let me be able to control it!' Hotaru screamed in her mind. The fireball hit the arm guards and the girl turned to Hotaru and growled angrily. 'shit what have I gotten myself into here' she thought to herself feeling her mood swing into rage.

Hotaru whipped the rope off of her back and spun the end of the rope in front of her as a guard. ' reasoning with her probably won't do anything but it would probably lower the bloodshed a bit.' Hotaru reasoned with herself ' I love a good fight but this girl seems a bit crazed probably wouldn't be that much fun.' Thinking quickly Hotaru placed the weapon on the ground and stepped back and said " stop please I don't want to hurt you, but I will if I have to." She pulled a kunai out of the holster on her leg and tossed it to the ground at the silver-haired girl's feet " here you can break those guards open with this." Hotaru stepped back a few feet not quite trusting the girl to co-operate peacefully.

Suddenly without warning a furry head poked out of Hotaru's bag an mewed loudly not appreciating being ignored for so long. Hotaru's eye twitched in annoyance and she ignored the urge to impale the cats head on her rope. "What now? can't you see I'm kinda busy." she hissed at the cat not taking her eyes off of the girl. Akuma mewed loudly in protest as his head was shoved unceremoniously back into the bag and the flap was hooked.

[Half-Dragon]

Dragogale stared long and hard at the man. He was sure he did this cause there was no one else around. To his relief though Saige stood up. Axel looked very pissed off at her for what she might have done. Dragogale was curious to what they were talking about but decided not to interfear.

Saige stopped to tell Dragogale that she was alright and it wasnt the man in the tree but her uncle instead. That caught him off guard, she had an uncle? At the mention of her uncle Saige wings turned black and the weather started to change rapidly like the time Dragogale and Axel were in the forest. This time Dragogale knew the source was Saige.

This came to become a suprise to Dragogale there was so much power in someone so small. This made him smile a little. Then a lightning bolt struck the ground near them. It didnt seem to startle anyone though. Axel seemed to have calmed Saige down for her wings returned to being pure white.

Dragogale turned around to look at the man again once more but stopped to her Saige call him over since the sparring was about to begin. Dragogale sighed and walked over to Axel and Saige. They began to walk over to the church and Dragogale noticed a man running towards the church. He recgonized him from earlier at the meeting. For once in while Dragogale was looking forward to a good fight.

[Barrelex]

"Fifteen minutes! I'm gonna be late! C-can't miss this opportunity!" Barrelex wheezed, as he was now out of breath. The church was now in sight, so he couldn't give up. The fifteen minute hike from the Academy, was now a 20 minute run there and back. Pretty impressive timing he thought to himself. I'm putting warriors to shame here!

He slid next to a wet market, where a pankeru couple sold fresh savrahna, the most common fish in the Triliment region, and nearly fell on his face and nearly toppled their stand. The pankeru chirped at him in anger and threw a tooth at the mage, who blocked the assault with his dagger. He continued his dash and finally made to the church, only to see the one named Dragogale nearly get hit by a lightning bolt, and also to see the new comer, Saige with a pair of black wings. he stopped to see if they were real, as actavians were rare since their war amongst themselves a few years back. He brought himself back to reality and dashed again to the courtyard in the back.

[toboehatake]

Toboe was watching Lynn carefully. He had smelt her blood since she shed it in the inn witht he effigies. He was curios and wanted to find out what that was all about. Toboe has lived away from wolves for quite some time, only occasionally visiting the local wolf pack nearby. Toboe watched from a good distance away, watching Lynn, Hizoku and Hotaru. He seen what she did to the goblin and knew right away she wasnt one he should mess with. She knew how to kill even with her hands and mouth bound. He was scared to go near her first.

"Man this chick is crazy... Maybe I should..." Toboe muttered. Then stopped. She was already angery enough. "I dont think she would be so pleased to meet another one so soon...She might do me in like she did to that goblin...." He muttered again in a soft voice. His blue hair moved slighty with the wind. He smirked lept from the tree with ease and began to walk towards them.

Once he was standing not too far from the small group of girls, he lifted an arm in greeting.
"Yo..." He said simply. He smirked at Lynn. "I havent met another one in quite some time." He muttered. He looked at Hotaru and Hizoku, sniffing the air slightly, they werent lycan. He sighed.
'Shes the only one thats a lycan here...damn..' He thought miserably.

His katana rested at his side, he put an arm on it and leaned on the tree. "Good luck getting out of those things..." He muttered at Lynn's arm bound. He laughed quietly, still waiting for a response from her.

[L y n n - C h a n]

Lynn spun off of Hizoku growling at Hotaru, then she suddenly turned to face Toboe. She stood glaring at him. She turned to the fallen kunai by Hotaru. Then at him again.
"Hmpth... Youre one too...intresting. What do you want pup?" Se snarled. Hizoku got up and went to Hotaru. 'What the hell...they are...lycan..' she thought, getting seriously scared. Lynn turned to her once again. Hizoku coudnt tell but she knew Lynnwas smirking behind that mask.
"Ha, you're scared arent you? I can smell it off you!" She snarled. But Lynn looked away from them and turned to Toboe.
"I asked you a question!" She yelled.

Hizoku looked at Toboe, wondering what he was doing here anyway. She blinked and then looked at Lynn. She looked as if she was shaking. Lynn growled at her unfortunate luck. 'Damn it.. I need to get these things off...' Lynn thought looking down at them. She glanced at Toboe's final words to her before going silent again.
"I cant get them off just fine!" She growled. But the current postion she was in she couldnt exactly get them off. "God." She said quietly. Then she noticed everyone staring at her. "GO AWAY!" She snarled. Hizoku looked at the ground. NOt knowing what to say. "Wolves and their pride..." Hizoku muttered...

[toboehatake]

Toboe frowned at the word pup. "You dont look too old yourself missy!" He snapped back.
"I dont want anything. I just smelled something interesting thats all... and I never met another lycan in such along time." He said quietly. He shot a glare her way as well. He looked at Hizoku who just finished saying wolves and their pride. He smirked and said, "Whats the point of living if you're just throwing away your pride?" Toboe asked, looking at her. She still seemed a bit scared from the attack. He looked away. "Well, it seems that Miss Bitch doesnt want me around, or anyone for that matter, so see ya around." He turned and began to walk away. Not really interested, but still intriged by the meeting with another wolf. Once Toboe was engulfed by the darkness of the forest he lept up into a tree and sat there. Not knowing what else he should do.

'I should've helped her. Then maybe she wouldnt be so vulnerable. Then again.... ah who cares anway...' He thought, alittle disturbed. He closed his amber eyes and began to dose off. He sighed and opened his eyes again, bored. Toboe lifted his head and smelt the air again. He smelt different smells from around the church, but none belonging to the girls he just met. There was a smell of blood, but a differnet kind. Not like the metallic smell, to his nose it was hard to describe. He shrugged it off, along with the hunger that lurked inside of him. Toboe also smelled... what was it? A half dragon... he smirked.
'Intresting...' he thought, bored. 'I'll check it out later....'

[~*Reiana*~]

Saige sighed and waited for the others to come so she could watch the battle. She looked around observing the view.
( Sorry if this post is so small. I just didn't know what else to say.)

[fireflyninja]

Hotaru looked around at her recent situation, Hizoku was safe now but she was stuck between one crazed girl and one passive guy with the "I'm so cool that if the sky fell down I'd still be brooding" look about him. Some words were exchanged between the girl with the silver hair and the passive guy, but Hotaru didn't hear them because she was to busy thinking. 'that guy said that he hadn't met another one in a long time, another what?' she questioned herself. She tried to fit the pieces together " ok lets see, she's obviously been locked up somewhere and shes very dangerous from what I can see, she also seems to growl and snarl a lot......' a decison came to Hotaru quickley. 'Holy shit shes a lycan!' she turned back to the girl and then to the guy 'they must be the same then.' Hotaru's face filled with interest she had never met a lycan before

"Your a lycan?" Hotaru blurted suddenly without thinking,
somehow she wasn't afraid of this girl she turned to look at the guy to find that he had gone. The silver-haired girl gave her an icy glare, and if looks could kill Hotaru would be lying in a pool of her own blood twitching. "Not that it means anything to me" said Hotaru quickly not wanting to offend the lycan, just because she tried to kill Hizoku didn't mean Hotaru hated her. Akuma chose this moment to once again pop his head up from the bag and cry pitifully. Hotaru's eye twitched and she saw the other girls eyes flash. She quickly shoved the cats head back down again and made sure the bag was sucurely shut. "What is your name?" Hotaru called out to the lycan really not expecting a kind retort. She glanced at Hizoku and was glad to see that see wasn't harmed in anyway and turned her attention back to the crazy person in front of her.

[..::\-Kai-/::..]

Kai stared at the reaction of the girl, and the people around him. "So I've been discovered. I was hoping to see the mental girl to completely spaz out. Maybe she isn't mentally unstable at all..." Kai jumped down from the tree.

"Yeah, that's mine, but I don't need it," he replied, but he wasn’t sure if she could her him or not. Not like he cared either.

Kai looked around and saw the Half-Dragon glaring at him. His glare was surprisingly effective on Kai; it was like he was he was shooting daggers through his stare. Kai narrowed his eyes, and looked away. He watched the mentally stable girl walk towards the Half Dragon, and say something. Kai sighed, and walked away toward the courtyard. If he wasn’t going to fight unless dragged into it, he might as well watch to see who his ‘leader’ was going to be.

Kai saw Barrelex come running toward the courtyard. “Someone’s in a hurry…” he thought to himself as he watched Barrelex try so hard to get there on time. “Heh. Idiot.” Kai turned and walked around aimlessly. He was so damn bored; he wished he could just leave and have nothing to do with this. But obviously, he wouldn’t be able to just simply leave…Or could he? “While these guys are sparring, I can just leave and no one will notice. Yeah…that’ll work. Okay…so how soon is this match going to start?”

Kai got bored waiting so he walked off in a random direction. He began to hear voices, and angry yelling, and he turned his direction to the area. He smirked at what he saw.

There was Lynn, freaking out and there was a blonde girl, there was a black haired girl, and a blue haired guy. They were talking, and that blue haired guy left. Kai started walking towards them, wanting to see what was up with them. When he finally got to them, he said,

“Well, it looks like you managed to get away from that prison place the Pedophile Priest sent you. How’d you manage to get out so easily?” Kai wasn’t too surprised at her escape, considering her short temper, and at this time of the month, her being a Lycan, she’s bound to be a bit more feral than usual…

Kai stood there and awaited his reply.

[L y n n - C h a n]

Lynn looked at Kai, 'Oh great...' She thought. She smirked evilly.

"You sound like you're underestimating me. Dont forget what I am. How? Well, I just tricked those idiots 'gaurding' me. But they were the same as Pedofile Priest..." She said rather calmly. She sighed and hit her arm bounds on the tree lightly. She smirked when she heard Hizoku make a small noise as if abou to protest.

"Dont worry you." She growled. Hizoku stood behind Hotaru. BUt turned around to see Kai. She blinked, "Um hi..." She said quietly. Hizoku looked at Hotaru. Then at Lynn who glared at Hotaru, "...My name is Lynn and yes Im a lycan. No big deal anyway.... well around this time it is..." She muttered darkly. Lynn leaned against the tree, 'God, I need to get out of these things... but how damn it...' she thought quietly.

Hizoku stepped out from behind Hotaru and said quietly, "Please Lynn... Can I help you?" Lynn shot a glare that made her look to the ground almost instantly. "No." she said forcefully.
"Well... then how are you gonna get out of those without help?"
"Ill figure it out..."
"Then I will do it myself if you are gonna be so stubborn!"
"Touch me you die..."

Hizoku fell silent, as Lynn sat there trying to think of a way to get out, ignoring Hizoku completely...

[fireflyninja]

Hotaru watched the the Lynn as she lightly bashed her arm guards against the tree. This new guy was here now too and he seemed to know Lynn, 'He better not be an enemy' thought Hotaru to herself. "Well since you have told me your name I guess I have to tell you mine, I'm Hotaru" she said somewhat wishing that she could help Lynn without getting disembowled. Then and idea hit her as she glanced at a tree. Hotaru walked over to the tree and with a kunai carved a notch in the wood, then she shoved the end of the kunai sucurely in the wood with the blade sticking out.

" Here!" she called out to Lynn " there is probably a lock in those arm guards somewhere, try to pick it with this." she said taking a few steps away from the tree, and turning her attention to the newcomer. "and, who the hell are you?" she questioned him, really not giving a shit who he was. Hotaru looked over at Hizoku, who looked woried about Lynn. "don't worry about her" she wispered to Hizoku, quite aware that Lynn could hear her "After what she did to that goblin she can probably handle herself. She threw Hizoku a small reassuring smile, and returned her attention to Lynn and the new guy.

(ooc: I'm sorry this post is short but i'm kinda not supposed to be on the internet and my mom is due home any second so yeah sorry)

[~*Reiana*~]

Saige looked around for the others and started to get bored for no one was coming. She looked over at Dragogale and Axel. They seemed relaxed. And Axel seemed to be talking to the guy. “ This is kind of boring you guys so I’m just going to go and look around. Since I’m not sparring I don’t really need to be here, if I’m late coming back I’m sure no one will mind.” Saige said to her two companions. She was about to walk away when Axel called her. She turned around to look at him.

“ Where are you going to go?” Axel asked demandingly. Saige frowned at him.

“ Somewhere, anywhere, where there is action. I’ve been waiting here for how long and no one has showed up. Maybe I’ll go look for my uncle’s consorts, and kill them or something.” Saige simply stated. She heard Axel hiss. “ Stay here with him, I can take care of myself.” She added.

“ Yeah like the last time, you almost got yourself killed. You fainted for-goodness-sakes and you could have been killed then and they’re if it weren’t for the guy,” Axel said angrily his fur bristling with anger.

“ Oh Axel, cut it out. This will be different this time, I promise. And I didn’t faint I was tired, I passed out.” She replied calmly. She looked at him, her eyes now purple, was sharp and piercing. “ I can take care of myself, don’t worry about me. Stay with this guy. I’ll be back in no time.” Saige thought reassuringly again. She walked away from them and headed towards an inn. Inside was like a pub, inn or whatever it was. But before she had entered the pub she put her hood up so no one could see her face. She didn’t want people to talk to her because she wasn’t in the mood. She walked up and sat on one of the benches that were facing the bartender. She looked up and showed him her face. She smiled sweetly and alluringly at the bartender, he smiled back at her, his eyes filled with something that she didn’t want to describe. He was young and full of himself. He had curly brown hair and big brown eyes. To her he looked kind of boyish. “ Hello, there. My name is Karla.” Saige lied.

“ Hi der. Me nem tes Ramon.” He replied with a heavy accent. She grinned at him and started a friendly conversation. She kept on talking friendlily and then asked the question she had been dying to ask.

“ If you don’t mind my asking Ramon have you seen guys with a blond haired guy, ember like eyes. Tall, about six feet or so. His name is Dronis.” Saige asked carefully and watched him from the corner of her eyes as she sipped her drink Ramon had given her free of charge.

“ Yes, me meet him days ago. He wit others, me say he wit his frens.” He said, thoughtfully trying to pronounce his English properly.

“You seen any of them lately?” Saige asked. Adrenaline rushed through her veins.

“ Yes, that guy der. He was wit Dronis, me think he is leaving now.” Ramon said pointing to someone behind her. Saige turned and looked around. There was a guy standing up and was just about to leave. He had orange red hair and pale skin. He had lots of freckles too, and icy blue eyes. He looked really mean too. Saige saw a girl run up to the guy and talk to him. But he just shoved her hard and she landed on her butt. As he went through the door Saige got up, she looked back at Ramon and smiled sweetly at him.

“ Thank you for your help. It was a pleasure meeting you. Maybe I’ll meet you another time. Yes?” Saige said. Before the guy could answer she had already went out of the door. She discretely followed the carrot-head guy. He went in the forest and so did she. He saw him stop when he heard the voices of people. Saige strained her neck to look. There were people around a pond. The very pond she had taken a bath in and forgot to drain. Well she didn’t really forget to drain it she left it like that. The girl in metal looked soaked to the bone, she must have fallen in. “ I don’t think she would be very happy to know that I conjured up the pond.” Saige thought. Then she remembered her scent. She must not allow them to smell her specially the lycan. She changed the wind directions with her will, so that they won’t be able to smell her anymore. She then saw the guy move again and so she followed. They walked exactly for two minutes when the guy stopped and finally unfurled his wings.

Saige heard the sickening crunch and snaps, then it stopped and he took of to the top of the tree. She heard voices coming from the top of it. She estimated that there were atleast eight people there. “ Eight against one. Not a very fair fight but it’ll be fun. They might have the advantaged if they knew how to fight and think.” Saige thought. She listened to what they were talking to.

“ I couldn’t find him. He is gone! Damn idiot. I’ve looked everywhere. He probably took off.” A harsh voice said out loud.

“ He can’t be gone. He is still here. Find him!” another one said.

“ No! I have looked everywhere! Why don’t you look, I’m tired of looking!” the first voice said.

“ You dare defy me!! After what we did to the other actavians!! We may be the last ones left and I don’t think I want to kill you that would be one less on our number. The glory that we got when the battle we started with the dragons and the other actavians!! We ruled, and we outwitted them!!” the second voice said more harshly than the first voice.

Saige had finally had enough. While they argued she also unfurled her wings. The sickening sounds were as loud as the other guy’s. Anger was brewing in from what she had heard. “ How can they betray my parents, how can they do any of what they have already done.” Saige thought. One of the guys must have heard it because someone told the two arguing people to be quiet. She heard crunching and snapping and she knew that they were unfurling their wings. Saige took off and flew up into the open sky. She heard one say, “ look”. Saige flew higher her wings had turned black, her eyes stormy blue and piercing. She looked down at them and watched as they circled her. From a distance she saw where the pond was and the people that was near it. She saw them clearly, but her attention was now focused on the other people. She had shed her cloak when she took off up in the air.

“ Why did you betray all the actavians?” She asked one of them. One laughed, then all of them laughed. And that was a big mistake. Saige’s anger rose up which she had been trying to control, bursted out. She let her anger take over. Large heavy thunder clothes came rolling in. It was black, thick, heavy looking and ugly. The wind rose and the thunder rumbled angrily. She could sense their fear, but they were stubborn and stupid. They looked at her wings and she knew what question was going through their minds. This was only half of what she could do.

“ You must be one of the children that escaped the battle. You must be the last one we are hunting down. We have been hunting all the other actavian children and killing them. And you are just making it too easy!” One person yelled out, then they laughed with sneers on their ugly faces. Saige silenced them with dangerous flashes of lightening almost hitting their wings. She heard their angry curses.

“ Tell me why you betrayed everyone!!” She commanded, lightening flashed as she said these words.

“ You really want to know? All right, since we know you won’t live to tell anyone once were done with you. We did it because we hated the dragons the leader befriended and who the others befriended as well. But not once did the dragons try befriending us because of what we were. We hated all the dragons and the actavians. Finally we had enough and we planned against all. We made friends fight against each other. We watched them turn against one another, and we saw them die and cry out in frustration. We felt pleasure in watching this. And we all owe it to the leader’s brother. Deveril.” The carrot haired guy said with sheer pleasure as his eyes became dreamy. Saige thought for a moment then it suddenly occurred to her that they might be the same as her uncle.


Saige looked at them carefully then said, “ You guys are not pure-blood actavians aren’t you? That’s why you guys did it, but why? No one cared if you weren’t a pureblood; everyone loved everyone as if they were all family. No one would have cared for what you were. You guys are-’’

“ Shut up you witch!!” Another person yelled. “ We don’t need to hear this. Once all the pureblood actavians are gone, we will be the new generation of actavians. We are the future. And you are the last actavian child.” He added menacingly. She heard them pull out their swords, and Saige pulled out her own sword as well. All of them attacked at the same time. She lashed out a powerful and forceful wind at them, except for one. She held off the others while she fought the carrot haired guy. He went behind her and grabbed her by the hair. Saige hissed out.

“ So your going to fight like a girl huh.” She hissed out. “ Well if your going to cheat so will I.” She added. She sent a bolt of lightening and hit him from behind. He screamed and screamed in pain and he finally let go of Saige. She looked at the others their eyes wide with terror. “ You messed with the wrong person and killed the wrong people. I was the leader’s daughter before you killed him. You killed my family and my people. I will kill you all to give everyone you murdered peace. Tell me how many people are left! How many people rebelled against my father and everyone! And maybe I’ll let you go.” Saige asked, her voice full of venom.

“ The-ther—there are about sixteen left, not including us. They are around in Nuchu, Gratanki and maybe in Maltrujis.” One answered his voice full of fear. Saige nodded her head, and then she let them go. The wind died down where they were so that they were free to fly away. She turned her back away from the.

“ Alright go.” She said. She could smell their evil ways and she could tell their way thinking. She waited right for the last moment then she turned around, their sword was up in a killing position and they were about to swing. She dodged the killing swords and backed away from them. She laughed at their stupidity and their way of thinking that she would fall for it.

“ Did you really think that I would fall for that one? I gave you a choice to flee but you chose death.” Saige said to them. She waved goodbye and then seven large lightening streaks ripped the sky and hit them. They all screamed in pain and she watched. Finally it was finished. They fell to the ground and Saige just kept on watching.

“ Sixteen left to go and they might be all over.” Saige thought. Somehow or the other she knew she would get all of them sooner or later. Saige sat on air and let the air fly about her. She sat crossed legged and thought of the next events. She closed her eyes and thought of plans. She forgot to clear the clouds and she didn’t really care. She thought the land needed a bit of rain. And so it rained, but not one drop touched her. It thundered and lightening streaked about.

[toboehatake]

Toboe was watching all of the action with the female activian since she was sneaking around Lynn and the others. He had caught her scent and tried to defy his unnatural thirst for curiosity seeing as her blood was somewhat... sweeter then regualr humans. Sweet but oh so damn cold. With everything he seen wide eyed but collected. He muttered only three words,

"Holy Shitake Mushrooms...." He twitched as a droplet of rain fell through the tree tops and onto his face. "Rain? Weird..." He muttered and watched, her kill the activians with such a fury he was beginning to think Lynn was as scary as a grass swaying in the breeze. He looked back to where the others were, he couldn't really see through the thick of the forest. Toboe stood and lept quickly to the others.

He stood on the tree on which where Hotaru stuck the kunai in the trunk. "Yo. Hey, did you guys catch that fight? Man that was intense..." he said in a sudden bored and monotone. He looked at Lynn who looked pretty angry and well just being herself. "Umm... good luck with that..." He said sitting down on the branch. He looked up at the dark and stormy sky. "Peticular weather we are having arent we?" He said quietly...

[Barrelex]

Barrelex wheeled right into the entrance of the preparation room.
God sakes, whats the time? he thought to himself. He brought up a little enchanted item of his- a disk that held 3 little gemstones. He clicked it on. and the stones levitated up. 9 more minutes. Everyone's going to be counted up for the torney in 3 minutes... He clicked the timestone again and took out a slip of paper, and a charcoal stick. Drawing a crescent moon and some lines in the design, he channeled some magic energy into the drawing a tested it. As he hoped, the drawing lit up and pulsed in the Rainbow element. "Rainbow Bolt!" he cried and the design lit up and lifted off the paper, glowing in the colours of the rainbow. "Fire!" he said, and the magic dart flew towords a crumbled pillar, and cutting it clean in half, and then blew up in a small explosion. He could only help but smile widely as he had finished the spell after a month of design.

It was then a cleric came in a waited on a stool, paper in hand. "If anyone else comes in, they'll be put into the contest." he explained. "If not, we'll have to call you the leader of the group... "

[..::\-Kai-/::..]

Kai smirked as Lynn was talking; she seemed rather calm. Kai leaned against a tree that was beside him, and sighed when she was done.

"I never for a second doubted your abilities. I knew you were going to get out of there; those retarded guards don't stand a chance against a Lycan, especially one with your persona." Kai sighed and listened to Hizoku and Lynn's conversation. It was rather funny how that girl seemed to eager to help the Lycan. It was as though she was trying to get on her good side...what an idiot.

Kai's eyes flared over to the a girl who just demanded his name. "What is it to you?!" he hissed. Why should she want to know his name? She wasn't even going with them on this "mission" thing, as far as he knew.

He looked to where she just came from. A tree, with a kunai sticking out. "The kunai shouldn't open these locks. The guards may be stupid, but they should have the common sense to at least make locks that can't be simpily picked."

Kai sighed reluctantly. Since everyone was desperately trying to open these locks, he might as well pretend to care and offer some help...

"Hey, Lynn. When you give up on trying to pick your locks to get out of those cuffs, let me know. I know how you can get out of them, and it's foolproof." he added, with a touch of caring. In a small way, he did care...only because she was part wolf...