While Jd didn't follow SOF as he decided to take a walk, surprisingly Sinon did. The garden was more beautiful than before as the moon light illuminated the large apple tree in the middle. The stony path led around it and flower beds dotted the path.<br/><br/>"I thought you were sleeping." SOF said with a hint of exhaustion to his voice.<br/><br/>"I woke up when those 'two' did." as if implying that their nightmares disturbed her.<br/><br/>"Why not, go back to sleep? It's still night..."<br/><br/>"I'm not tired anymore, besides i've always had trouble with sleep."<br/><br/>"Do you dream?" this question had the sort of edge that meant more than just simple dreaming. It was directed as if he was asking about nightmares.<br/><br/>"Sometimes..." she admitted<br/><br/>"What about?" SOF asked if pushing it.<br/><br/>Sinon guardedly looked away without answering so SOF changed his question.<br/><br/>"Did it happen, while you were...?" he motions with his head towards where they just came from.<br/><br/>She paused her walking and then lightly shook her head.<br/><br/>SOF nodded nervously as he stopped at the apple tree, "Apple?"<br/><br/>"Are you sure that's a good idea?"<br/><br/>"Why not? Also who's going to stop us?"<br/><br/>"The resistance fighters and because it's not ours." She said flatly.<br/><br/>"I'm pretty sure i have a world class sniper watching my back." SOF laughed "I'm not too scared of the resistance fighters."<br/><br/>Sinon tilled her head as SOF looked at her "W-what... me?"<br/><br/>"who else would I be talking about?"<br/><br/>She blushed slightly but put on an irritated face "I not actually good with guns though."<br/><br/>Sinon seemed vulnerable prompting SOF to take a step forward and smile gently "I'm sure Hecate would be disappointed if she heard this."<br/><br/>"Its just a gun." She said in a very meek voice.<br/><br/>SOF took another step forward close enough to grab her. To his recollection this is the closest he had gotten so far without her jumping away, disregarding the times she hid behind him. "But it's your gun, the only gun to understand how you feel."<br/><br/>She stomped her foot like SOF overstepped his bounds "And what would you know?!"<br/><br/>SOF undeterred tooka small step closer "I know about what you did, how much you are afraid of guns because of it, but..." He pauses "Hecate isn't like that, its a part of you, an extension of your very soul."<br/><br/>She takes a step back from him, with an angry expression "Who the hell are you really?"<br/><br/>SOF was no one special obviously, but Sinon had no idea that a lot of people knew her story, that's just what it meant to be from a fiction.  "I'm just someone who had the privilege to see parts of your past, present and future."<br/><br/>Sinon took another step away from him with a terrified expression. SOF knew he had sort of screwed up, he wasn't amazing at this. "W-why?" Was all she could eek out.<br/><br/>"We are beings that exist in independent multiverses, it just so happens that in my multiverse your universe is a book/anime."<br/><br/>She looked away with a defeated expression and the tension left her body, "You better make up for this." She said in a pouty voice.<br/><br/>"Yeah... I'm sorry."<br/><br/>"Don't be..." She said quietly, "Just, tell me more about yourself, then we'll be even."<br/><br/>"I promise..." Some force cuts him off. An eerie chill. He dived into Sinon as he felt cold steel graze his back. The chill was gone as he let go of the now shocked speechless Sinon and looked at the place he was just was. A small sword resides in the ground. The blade has the words "Faker." Etched into it. SOF gulped and pushed himself up. He went to extend his hand to Sinon but as he saw her expression he looked at his now blood covered hand. Did he touch his back? Why was his hand covered in blood? Wait that sword in the ground... no blood was on it. He looked down a jagged sword stuck in his abdomen. The change from calm to panic was instant and violent. His body trembled as he shakily walked like a zombie towards the others. Sinon was calling his name, but he couldn't hear her. He was stuck in an infinite loop "Am I dying?" he repeated over and over again in his head like a mantra, "Help... Someone help me." His breath caught in his throat and those words reached no one. He walked into the room with the others and something drew him to Naive. One look at her and he couldn't think of anything else. One more step and suddenly the blade dissipated and he healed. The power that did so seem to have come from Naive. SOf regained his composure almost instantly and pulled his thoughts into normality. He looked back at Sinon and mouthed "Sorry." To his worried companion. He needed to get his mind somewhere else, maybe he should talk to the other new person? He was sure that maybe he could alleviate some of her confusion if she had any. Though in truth his reasoning was a selfish desire to run away from what just happened.<br/><br/>He walked over to Katara quelling his terrified expression and returning to his pleasant calm one "You seem to have trouble sleeping is something on your mind? I'm SOF by the way, welcome to our collective sinking ship." He tried to make a joke. Before the conversation could go further he heard Doce "Do you want a fight?" His voice had an edge to it "We may have a mission and a reason to be here, but an army does not march lightly, rest is important as is knowing our next move, blindly jumping with get us nowhere." Then the next thing that pissed him off came out of Eggy's mouth. He ground his teeth "Are they just expendable, they are still people you know!" He stood up and moved to the center of the room, then his sense returned to him, that wasn't what they were saying it was just banter to mask the levity of the situation. SOF sighed "Sorry, took me a moment, I misinterpreted that, we should be off soon, but if what I've been hearing is true we have to tread lightly, everything here seems tentative." SOF was a giant mix of good and bad emotions, unstable at this moment, his face wasn't calm, it looked strained and the hole in his clothes where the sword was very centered as was the blood stains. "I can track the hacker guy, if that's where you want to go first." he said a slightly trembling voice.