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You're within a mountain, a hidden underground Sanctuary. You see a large hall, filled with an alignment of air-lock doors. These are the members dorms, where you eat, sleep and bathe. At the end of the hall, there is a large dome like structure, this is the hidden marketplace and banking area. Around the dome, lies several other halls much like the one you passed, some of them have dorms. Some halls have an armory or parking area for vehicles. This whole area is hidden within a mountain, and has been for a long time with no one knowing it. The entry ways to here are hidden as well, special designed air-lock doors that have a realistic camoflouge to it. With the lazer embedding on the door, which makes up most of the door, it can make itself out to actually make it shape like trees and such, after that, it spreads holograms around itself.

Shadow groaned as she began to regain consciousness, her body throbbed
with a dull, left over pain as she slowly opened her eyes. Where am I?
She thought to herself, after a second her memories came rushing back to
her, Shadow springing into a sitting position, her vision swimming, but she
didn't seem to care as she looked around, immediately feeling the restraints
on her ankles and wrists.

Damn... Jerome isn't going to be happy... She thought to herself as she
pulled against the restraints. Despite her size she was quite strong, though
no matter how much she tried the restraints wouldn't budge. The next step
was to slide out of them, attempting to make her hands and feet vanish into
shadows. "They blocked my power..." She muttered to herself, though she
wasn't about to give up.

Shadow jumped at his voice, instantly turning to face him. She narrowed her
eyes, "Let me go." She told him, ignoring his comment. She glanced at the
tea suspiciously, faintly remembering the last time he had given her tea, it
had been a long time ago.

She narrowed her eyes, "What are you going to do to me?" Was her first
question, assuming the worst. "Well a lot change after you left." She said
shortly, "Jerome changed." She added, and as his pride experiment, the most
had probably changed for her.

"By restraining my to a chair?" Shadow narrowed her eyes, obviously not
entirely believing him. "And regardless of what you do now it doesn't much
matter does it?" She laughed to herself. "You started, someone else finished.
And he's much more intense with his training." She said, not offering detail,
as his last comment she looked away. "Something changed all right, he saw
the opportunity and he took it." She told him, "Yeah well... it worked didn't it?"
She asked, treading on thin ice as she watched him, still pulling on her
restraints, but a bit distracted by something else.

In all honestly, she didn't know how to react. He had already shown he still
acted like a captain so why was he sitting here talking to her? What did he
want? Her out of the way? Information? Ideas spun around in her head that
she decided best to keep to herself.

Shadow leaned back, her eyes studying him carefully, looking for even the
slightest sign of a lie. "I can heal just fine at GoeTech." She told him cooly,
though that obviously wasn't the only reason he had brought her hear. "And
what is it you have to talk to me about?" She asked him, seeming to
understand she wasn't going anywhere. She didn't like it, and if she wasn't in
restraints she would be gone already, or just attack him back and show his
she wasn't beat that easily... but she wasn't in a state to now.

Shadow laughed, "You really think I'd stay here and live with YOU? Why would I do that?" She asked. "You know as well as I do you have no right over me any more. I don't work for you." She told him, clearly have no intention to stay with them.

"You wanted to see us Kokir... Woah! Shadow?" Chang asked as she walked into the room, jumping back slightly as she saw Shadow. "You sure it's a good idea to have her in here?" She asked.

Shadow sighed, leaning back and closing her eyes, "Great, it's a party or traitor experiments." She said, shaking her head.

Chouko came up beside Chang, resting her hand on her shoulder. "Don't be rude Chang." She told her as she walked past Chang smiling at Shadow. "It's good to see you again Shadow," she told her. Chang sighed, scratching the back of her head. "Sorry I just... how'd she get er here?" She asked, obviously surprised she was here against her will, which was obvious by the restraints.

Chouko, glanced at her, "I wouldn't expect anything else from Jerome's pride and joy." She said, slightly sarcastic on her use of titles as she glanced at Chang, "Chang, close your mouth, just because she about killed you in training one time isn't a reason to freak out." She told her. "That was a long time ago." Chang pointed out, as if that proved she didn't care. "How long?" Chouko asked, "1902 years." She said without hesitating, Chouko raising an eyebrow. "Exactly." She said, no one should be able tor remember it that exactly if over something they didn't care about.

Shadow laughed, turning to look at Kokiru, "You're lucky your sister showed up at the right time." She told Chang, not helping anything as she closed her eyes, leaning back against the chair. "Freedom?" She repeated, laughing a bit. "You have got to be kidding me... this his nothing to do with freedom, it's about pride, trying to keep your pride after you grew to weak to run GoeTech." She told him simply.