[Mint]

"Probably tried to justify it with how you'd be fed and have a bed to sleep in." Denum said. "You couldn't even speak English...but you were right there with us."

Denum smiled, but it was a bit sad.

"You were right beside me and Red and Aireio." Denum told him. "You saw me with Kayen and my parents...I guess I was fortunate to have my parents right there with me...we were all kind of a family."

[Uke]

"It was nice... and I had Ai with me, too, at least," LiSen commented. "Something from home, even if I didn't remember her too well. Her parents didn't come over often... Denum?"

He looked up at the other.

"I'm scared," the older boy admitted, weakly.

[Mint]

"Thank God." Denum laughed. "I thought it was just me."

[Uke]

The dark-haired teen smiled weakly.

--

Quarrel and Red flew through the doors seconds before the creature crashed through after them, swinging wildly at their backs.

They stumbled and stopped, looking in surprise at the wall of children that had lined up.

"What are you doing!?" Quarrel cried. "Run away!"

"We're not cowards anymore!" Aireio cried from the front lines. "We're going to fight!"

[Mint]

"You're doing what it wants!" Red said- slipping out of Q's arms. "It's calling or something! It's making you stay!"

[Uke]

"If we all ban together, we can beat it!" A little girl cried as a group of children in the front grabbed sharpened sticks and stood at the ready.

[Mint]

"Please make them move, it's right behind us." Red breathed to Quarrel.

[Uke]

"I think they can see that," Quarrel whispered, nodding to the creature - which looked all around, seeming alarmed for some reason.

He realized, then - he could feel all of the children pressing against it... creating a wall. It had the creature uneasy, swatting at nothing and looking all around.

[Mint]

"...What's it doing?" Red whispered- as if trying not to let the creature hear.

[Uke]

"Fighting against the children," Quarrel explained. "Can't you hear it? The hum... they're all humming. Invading its mind..."

The creature swatted away, slicing its own arm open.

[Mint]

"How can they?" Red frowned. "It's mindless, isn't it?"

[Uke]

"No creatures are mindless," Quarrel whispered, frowning. "Its defenses are just too high for one person to take down."

[Mint]

"That thing is too tough for any of us to hurt." Red replied. "But it can hurt itself."

[Uke]

Quarrel watched as the children drove the creature insane - the ones on the front line tossing sharpened sticks at it, making it jerk around and swing, slicing at itself once more.

He watched in awe... for the children of The Facility wre handling the battle just as a group of Silvers would do in the same situation - driving the creature to insanity.

[Mint]

"Q, look!" Red pointed into the brush and Quarrel saw something or rather a bunch of somethings moving in it.

[Uke]

Slowly, Quarrel moved forward - his shoulders tense and his tail at the ready.