[Mint]

"They cannot use them like this!" The man said firmly- looking over Red and the others. "These are not weapons!"

"They don't know anything about us." Denum murmured quietly to LiSen.

[Uke]

LiSen looked up nervously as a woman with her hair done up approached and he was gently scooped up, before being placed on a nearby rock.

She pulled up his pant leg and gently removed the bandages on his leg, looking like an adult playing a game of operation as she picked at the small bandage delicately with her large hands.

"Appah, they need a place to rest," Q addressed the man.

[Mint]

"Here, where the men do not find them." The man replied as he turned to Q. "You are hurt, aren't you."

"We found him in a tube...he was all rigged up to machines and crap." Red frowned- that's right, Q had bee in pretty bad shape himself when they found him.

[Uke]

"I am tired," He admitted, before pulling back his sleeves and showing the pin-prick red dots that went up his arms. "My Malu is not controllable. They were using liquid to stop it."

"Malu is what you call your powers, right?" Aireio asked. Q nodded. "They were drugging you to keep you in there, because they knew you'd be able to get out if you fought them."

"It seems so," Q replied.

The medic called to one of the children, who came rushing over with a bowl of some mashed violet thing. "Berry," She told Denum, holding up the bowl for him to smell. "No harm." She scooped some up and put it in her mouth. "See?"

She then scooped up a large clump and dropped it on LiSen's wound, rubbing it in. LiSen gasped - but not in pain, more in surprise at the sudden cold.

"Oh wow... that stuff is numbing it completely!" He breathed.

[Mint]

"Not surprising, most of the stuff out here is poisonous to human beings." Denum remarked.

"So they were harvesting from you and giving...what were they trying to make us into Silvers?" Red asked Q.

[Uke]

"They were trying to make it so we're able to fight them," Aireio informed. "Like Q said, their weapons have no effect on Silvers... so they were trying to make us into weapons. Telling us the Silvers were bad and that they killed people..."

"We kill no people," The Queen informed. "Only defend ourselves." She turned toward a group of Silvers that were about Q's height. "Kamairya, Rathi! Please show them to a place to sleep."

Two forms moved out of the crowd. Like Q, they could have passed as tall humans if it weren't for their tails and their wings, which were hidden behind long curled black hair.

"It has been a long time," The boy said, moving to hug Q. "We worried about you."

[Mint]

"The land weeps less." The girl said to Q with a nod before turning to Aireio and Denum. "Follow."

She lifted a set of slender fingers and beckoned them.

"I'm not going anywhere." Denum put his arms around LiSen.

[Uke]

"You may bring him," The medic informed as she finished wrapping a long, thick blade of some kind of greenery around LiSen's wound.

Aireio moved over and scooped her brother into her arms, holding him close.

"Are you going with them, or will you stay with me?" Q asked Red. "I can tell you're tired."

[Mint]

"And so are you." Red replied as he watched the others walk off with the two younger Silvers.

Denum looked around- his eyes cold and un-trusting. He didn't like this place. It was too closed in, just like the facility. But even that aside, they were surrounded by potential threats to their health. All the eyes on them- glinting silver in the dark. And those whispers- constant and not voices, but thoughts. These people just seamlessly went from vocalized conversation to telepathy- both just as natural for them. He could feel them reaching out to him and kept his guard up to keep them from invading his mind.

[Uke]

"I am," Q confirmed as the Medic came and shooed him to the rock, before setting him on top and pulling his shirt over his head gently.

"I am Rathi," The boy introduced, smiling softly. "Quarrel is my cousin. Our mothers were sisters."

"Quarrel?" Aireio asked.

"I think you called him 'Q'," Rathi hummed. "I am not sure what a 'Q' is."

[Mint]

Red drug himself to his feet and walked over to stand beside Q.

"So he's one of you guys." Denum mumbled.

"One of us." The girl said- almost in correction. "You, me, Rathi-"

"We're not Silvers!" Denum cut in. "Why is everyone trying to get in my head!"

The girl blinked and looked at Rathi in confusion.

[Uke]

"We aren't Silvers, either," Rathi informed, turning to look at Denum. "We're half... and technically, so are you."

[Mint]

"I'm a human being." Denum said firmly. "Just like LiSen and Red."

[Uke]

"Uh, and me?" Aireio offered with a snort. "I don't think they're trying to insult you, Denum. Why are you so freaked out? They've been nicer to us here then they've ever been at the Facility."

[Mint]

"I don't know a thing about these guys and neither do you." Denum said. "Can't you feel them snooping around in your head too!?"

[Uke]

"I don't have any mind powers," Aireio reminded.

"We do not 'snoop' in other people's minds," Rathi said, looking at his sister with a frown. "That is... the word I am looking for?"

"Impolite?" LiSen offered.

"Yes, that's it," Rathi agreed.