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"Yes, but if they're retreating, they'll tell other and come back with more. No its better to finish this now. Mind if I go ahead?" Laurence nodded, perplexed. "You'll see." She searched out with her mind, taking out every retreating figure that she encountered. She left one, for Laurence. "Why don't you finish this battle, it is yours after all."

"I'll take that one," said Karissa, choosing a room at random. Still clutching the absent notes for Laurence and Rachel, she experienced a sudden jerking feeling. When she was still again, she saw Rachel and Laurence in front of her. As she watched, they killed a large number of humans. "Ouch," she winced, as one of the assassins got his head blown up. The scene in front of her slowly started to recede, as if she were moving backwards on a moving sidewalk. In just another moment, she was back at Arianna's house. "Are you okay?" the other girl asked. "Yeah. I'm fine. I just had some sort of vision...I guess my powers are expanding." Karissa frowned. "Did you see Laurence and Rachel?" asked Arianna hopefully. "Yeah. They look like they're having fun. It was like a scene from a shooting video game, I swear." Arianna grimaced at the imagery, she'd played a few of those games before.

He gave her a serious look, "No, you're completely boring." He then waited a moment before laughing off his sarcasm. "Actually, I'm very fond of you. I think most of it has to do with the fact that you seem so human in nature," he looked around the room, "In one instance you collect objects, which isn't bad, of course, simply very... human. A second would show the simple fact that you could attend a school, be around them nearly every day," he turned to look at her, a quizical expression in his eyes and voice, "How do you do it?"

"I think it has to do with the first vampires I met," she said softly. "They were...different, to say the least. They never really accepted what happened to us, so they acted like it didn't. We all befriended humans, rather than considering them a food source. We liked letting ourselves get attached to things, people. We had romances and friendships and lived normal lives." She looked out of the doorway to a picture of a few pale-skinned people, all smiling. "But then things started happening, and eventually we all had to accept it. I guess even after...I still can't." The thought of all that had happened came rushing back to her. Memories she was sure she had managed to push away. "But, it's all in the past now."

He wanted to ask what, but he wasn't sure if the time was right. Instead, he looked away from her, giving himself time to lighten his own mood, then looked back with a cheerful grin, "Well, how about we finish up here and then we can chat later." His word use didn't seem at all to be connected to their conversation and he had meant it that way.

"Of course, any time." He smiled, but then frowned as he looked around. "You need greenery."

Karissa was glad that her friends were back and she went to hug Rachel. "That didn't take as long as you thought it would," she remarked to Laurence.

"Guess what? I have another power now," Karissa whispered to Rachel as Laurence and Arianna set up the DDR mats. "Really? What is it?" she replied interestedly. "I get these premonitions - I had one of you and Laurence." "Doing what?" asked Rachel, alarmed. "You know. Fighting the assassins." Karissa rolled her eyes at what Rachel had thought she'd implied.