also are we gonna do something christmasy on around christmas?

I sit quietly in shaft towards the ceiling, watching Olympia confront the group. When the time comes, I attack using my arrial fight pattern.

Suddenely, there is a miny war, and they are shooting at each other left and right. I swing through the bars on the ceiling, when I'm finally over the enemy group.

I silently take out my gun and aim it at a boy, busy shooting at Olympia. But a red hair girl notices me.

Right as I pull the trigger, she leaps in front of him and takes the blow.

I swoop down and pick her up by the collar, beating my wings out the doors, through the hallways, and to the ship. 

I set her down on the floor, where she is passed out and where a steady flow of blood is coming from her shoulder area.

The doctors come and get her, taking her to the White Room.

I follow, and watch as they arrive and strap her to the bed, preparing to get the bullet out.

I'm ushered out of the room, and all I do now is wait.

~~~~

A few hours later, she is fully concious, and the steady liquid flows from the IV to her arm. Our ship has taken off, and Auva stands beside me.

She glares at us. "What?"

Auva chuckles. "You know, the usual. We want information that you won't give to us." 

"You're right," the girl, I think Eliza from the reports, says with a sarcastic tone. "Not a thing you say or do will get me to tell you."

"Figures," Auva nods, smirking. "And that's fine."

Now Eliza looks confused. "What?"

Then it looks like she finally got it. "Bait," she mutters.

"Correct!" Auva exclaims.

Auva nods to the doctor, and they come in with a new IV bag. They replace it with the other one, and Eliza looks at it.

Auva smiles. "Slow poison. Your body will fight it, but eventually it will give up. And we can send live recordings of you to your little friends. Maye that will make them come."

We turn and walk off as Eliza yells at us.

Right as we close the door, she screams.

Good. The poison is starting to work. 

After I'm dismissed from the ship's clinic, I head straight for the Records Department. I need to check something.

When I arrive, I look through some of the boxes and files that are on the shelves, looking for one name in particular.

Maria Rachael.... What was it? Oh, yes. Maria Rachael Brown.

I scan through the letter B, and find one box. One result. I open it and find a single folder with a couple of pieces of paper inside.

I scan through it.

Maria Rachael Brown...HSAP...one sibling...Resistance...shadow....

Nothing new. Oh, well. I thought I might find something because I thought something was off concerning the blood samples, in turn concerining Shadow.

"Hello," I hear a voice behind me say.

Startled, I shove th box back on the shelf and whip around. Poe Allen. "Oh, hello."

"And what are you doing?" he asks.

I gulp. What to say. 

We sit around the campfire as Shadow finishes crying. I don't do anything, I'm not good at comforting anyone. Shadow goes off into the forest to get more wood for the fire, and I sit, staring at the light flames.

Suddenely, I hear a twig snap behind us.

I slowly reach down for my gun.

I hear a rustle, and I spin around, aiming it.

I find myself face to face with a New Republic leader, probably a captain becasue of the War Eagle pin on her shoulder.

Surrounding her are other soldiers, all pointing their guns at me.

"Mina Courageux," the captain says. "You are under arrest."

"Under who's order and what charge?" I spit, as they put me against a tree and handcuff me.

"Under the act of treason," she replies coldy. "And our general, Poe Allen, has asked for any old enemies to be delt with immendiatly. I would say you are an old enemy, yes?"

"I was a friend once," I reply.

The captain smirks sarcastically. "Yes. Once. Until you betrayed the New Army."

The entire time the captain talks, I scratch a message to Shadow on the tree with my claw behind my back:

Under arrest by New Republic. Base unknown. Look around. Ask. Find me. 

A soldier shoves me into the forest, and I look back one last time.

I hope Shadow reads it.