"A trap sounds like a good idea," said Ebisu, smiling.<br/><br/>"I agree," said Maryann, "But I'm afraid it's still a little more complicated than that."<br/><br/>"Oh, great," said Mai. "I sense another untold secret coming up."<br/><br/>"Sorry, but yeah," Maryann said, smiling slightly. "First of all, we have to make sure that whoever stole those files isn't one of the four to help us bring Lee back. Otherwise they might pull a fast one on us, instead of the other way around. Second, the four people have to specialize in certain kinds of magic. There must be two sets of parallel types, but the two sets have to be opposites of each other."<br/><br/>Ebisu laughed, "You lost me," he said, rubbing the back of his head.<br/><br/>"I'll explain," said Mai. "There are ways to compare magic types and they are as follows: contact vs no contact, and same basis vs different basis. If you take Maryann's and my types, summoning and motion, they can be compared either way. They could be considered parallel, as they both fall under 'no contact' or opposite, as they each have a different basis. In other words, it doesn't matter at all who the first two people are. Then when you get to the third person the options narrow. If the third person's type is say illusion then they have to line up like this: illusion is parallel to blank and summoning is parallel to motion, also illusion and blank are opposite to summoning and motion. The fourth person must fit in the blank."<br/><br/>Ebisu rubbed the back of his head, "So why do they line up like that?"<br/><br/>"It's simple," Maryann said. "All three of those types have a different basis so in that way they're all opposite. That's not possible for the line up to fit properly. Therefore we turn to the other comparison: illusion falls under  contact instead of no contact. In this way we now have a parallel pair and the start of an opposite pair. In order for this to work though, the fourth person must fall under contact. This way we have two parallel pairs that are opposite to each other."<br/><br/>Mai nodded as if this were first grade common knowledge.<br/><br/>"I suppose I understand the theory," said Ebisu. "But for the most part I'm still lost." He smiled and rubbed the back of his head. "I'm a scientist. Magic is the farthest thing from everything I've ever known. Though I am curious I'm afraid it would take far to long for me to get enough of a handle on this stuff. We need to free Lee Green before this mysterious third party. You need someone more open to this than me."<br/><br/>"I guess so..." said Mai.<br/><br/>"Reina and Lestat will be gone," said Ebisu. "But there are others who may be up for it. Off the top of my head, maybe someone like Ari, or Silver would work." A frown settled on Ebisu's face.<br/><br/>Mai paused, "What is it."<br/><br/>"Well I'm sure it's probably nothing," said Ebisu. "But Silver hasn't given me those pictures of the party he promised. I know I sent him my camera. He probably just hasn't been able to track me down yet..."<br/><br/>Mai got a worried look on his face. "Silver said he would take us to the party," said Mai. "But he sent others to pick us up in stead. They said he was busy with something. And then... I didn't see him at the party."<br/><br/>"Maybe Silver wants a miracle cast that only Lee could be capable of," Maryann suggested.<br/><br/>"Well, I really don't want to suspect Silver," said Ebisu. "But it couldn't hurt to ask him. Besides how nice of a person he is... he would make a perfect candidate..."<br/><br/>---------------------------<br/><br/>"Yes, well let's see if Reina can figure it out," Insei said, not responding to Lestat's analysis of his personality. It really didn't matter to Insei what others thought of him. He was fighting a war and his part in it was delicate. There was no room for sentimentality. Or emotion for that matter. One ounce of pity, sadness, kindness, sympathy, etc. and the images in him mind would cause him to collapse. Any anger, frustration, irritation, etc. and he'd likely end up starting a fight that would only end badly. He couldn't be like Ebisu, he wasn't allowed to be. People would just have to deal with him the way he was and that was that.<br/><br/>Reina struggled with her answers. Though she felt better giving her own answers, she was still worried she'd fail just like Lestat did. And the smallness of the room and loudness of the clock had her on the border of insanity.