Hirune stared at the unfamiliar faces around her with some grimace, but mostly annoyance and worry. The annoyance wasn't really at them though; it was more at Namulenza not even hinting at how to use her powers, which she could really use right now for some intimidation points.
She looked at her surroundings, trying to find some sort of escape.
To her left was a mini bar. Nothing too fancy, something that looked to have the cheaper drinks, yet it was made of high-quality wood and marble. A couple barrels rested behind the counter, but from the smell coming from them it was all just normal juice. It had 3 stools, which was surprising considering there were clearly 4 people here, but she just assumed that they took turns serving drinks or something.
To her right was a shooting range with multiple gun racks. Thing is, none of the racks were holding a gun for some reason. All of the gun racks besides one had swords, shields, spears, etcetera, so it was more like a weapon rack. Either way the one gunrack that did have guns only had cheap faulty looking revolvers. Slightly to the left of that though was a staircase that went downwards, and to the right of it was a staircase that went up.
Hirune slowly sat up and looked behind her to see if there was anything else to observe. Right behind her was a counter with some printing presses. Which she found weird because for the way they seem to control their finances and printing presses being fairy expensive this doesn't seem to be in their budget. Though owning the place does have to be quite expensive so maybe it was in budget. A weird tube in the middle with a little dispenser that launched whatever went down it onto the counter was erected right behind the counter. Next to that counter was a small hallway that led to a door that said " BEDROOMS ".
"Ahem," someone behind her cleared their throat.
Hirune turned a little too quickly for Kala's liking almost earning her a spear to the face, but a girl with light blonde hair and light hazel eyes stopped her. This girl was certainly unique though; she didn't seem human. The biggest giveaway being a gaping hole through where her heart was supposed to be.
"Sorry about her attitude, I take it you already know each other considering how she kept on mentioning a Wichuza being at her school?"
Hirune just kind of stared at her, she wanted to give her some attitude, but she seemed like the most rational person in the room.
Not to mention she was the only one unarmed, so it seemed as if only she was willing to listen, "We do know each other. Not personally though. Also, if I may ask, what's a Wichuza? Oh, and what's your name?"
"My names Ellen. About your Wichuza question, we can talk about it once we know you're trustworthy. But I'm glad you know each other in some sense. Still, I should introduce you to the others since we don't plan to let you leave anytime soon," Ellen said gesturing towards the others.
She pointed towards a boy with gray-almost white hair and icy blue eyes that seemed to be around the same age as them, "That's Tundra, he's pretty distant and doesn't talk much, so I doubt you'll get to know him before you leave."
Hirune just shrugged it off. She didn't care about getting to know them, she cared about escaping.
Ellen pointed at the other guy in the room. He had curly chestnut hair and green eyes, "That's Clint. He's very extroverted and our campfire... In a way... he has fire powers."
Hirune backed into the couch a little more, 'very extroverted? Great, just what I needed,' she thought hoping that he'd somehow ignore her for the short time she'd be there.
"Well either way, it's 10 p.m and we've got stuff to do early tomorrow. You should try to get some sleep, alright?" Hirune nodded, pretended to go to sleep. Then listened to their footsteps go into the little hallway and into the bedrooms.
Instantly, she sat up and sneaked towards the staircase that went down. She thought the staircase that went up went towards the main entrance, which would make it easier to leave, but they probably expected her to try that and set something up.
She creeped down the stairs and peeked the corner to see if anyone was down there. Luckily there wasn't. She looked around trying to figure out where to go from there.
It was a very large library, yet sort of a museum at the same time. The walls were covered in books, from the floor, up to the ceiling. Anything within these shelved walls was something like an artifact, some extra scripture, or a cool weapon. It was all marble flooring, besides a path in the middle that had little paths coming out of it that went around the artifacts within glass casings. She walked down the path in the middle. It led to a large pair of doors.
She went through the doors and saw 15 different paths, a corridor that went to the left and to the right connecting them. She went down the one in the middle, which led to a pair of large black metal gates that had a dark mysterious veil covering any view in.
She slowly opened the gate, and what she saw inside shook her to the core. It was the same place she went to when she lost consciousness.
That wasn't what shook her though, what shook her to her core were the shadowy figures sitting down in the chairs. None of them looked remotely human.
She quickly shut the door and ran down the corridors and up the stairs. She stumbled and fell when she reached the large room everything had started at. She went up the other stairs. At this point it was better to alarm them about her escape than staying in this place any longer. When she went upstairs it looked like a hotel lobby, but she didn't bother to make out any of the details besides the front door.
She stumbled out of the front door exasperated trying to catch her breath.
"Well would you look at that. Our little witch tried to escape," someone said in a monotone voice.
She looked up and saw Tundra standing there, snow blowing in the wind around them. Which was weird because last time she checked it can't snow in Triste.
"I have a good reason, ok?! And how's it snowing?!"
"I don't care about the reason for your escape attempt, and it's snowing because I have ice powers... The rocks and hard wind crushed the ice I made to appear cool to powder," he replied befor freezing Hirune's hands and feet together, picking her up, and taking her back inside.
Hirune just kind of sat there as Tundra went to get the others. She wasn't sure if she was just being paranoid, but she was seeing a weird shadowy jester clowning around near the staircase that went to that forsaken nightmare of a basement, or whatever that was. When she heard the footsteps of the others the jester pranced like a wobbly gas station balloon down the stairs.
Ellen walked around the couch in front of Hirune. "So, why'd you try to escape? We were all--" Ellen cut herself off and glanced at Kala. "Most of us, were nice to you. You just had to be a little patient. All we were going to do was see how well you controlled your powers to see if it's safe for you and the people around--"
"How do you know the whole powers thing? I barely know about it, so it doesn't make sense for you to know about them."
Ellen sighed, "You'd be surprised by how much a crow's eyes can see. The crow saw you had powers, but something stopped it from seeing what they were. Besides that, I don't know what else the crow saw."
Hirune had a rough idea as to what stopped the crow from seeing what her powers were, but she didn't want to directly say it because she didn't really trust anyone in this room. She still did though as the name of the starved, forsaken witch slipped out of her mouth.
Ellen stared at her. She looked baffled, but she also looked concerned, "How do you know that name?"
Hirune shrugged, "I don't know, what name?"
"You know precisely what name young lady."
"Young lady? We're the same age, and I seriously don't know what you're talking about."
"Answer me. Now."
Sparks started to come out of the hole in Ellens chest, then suddenly, those sparks lit up into the event horizon of a black hole.
"Okay, I'm sorry. But for the love of the gods use common sense! It's because of what everyone says about me!" Hirune yelled.
Ellen just sighed trying to calm down. "Kala, show her the weapons. We're taking her with us to Medio. You already know why. Tell her on the way."
Kala nodded and looked at her as she stood up. Right about now some geography classes would be nice, or a permission slip to pretend as if this is a field trip.