Sol took the hand offered him and merely nodded as Tom guessed his name.<br/><span style="font-style: italic">"And that lovely young lady is Alexis..."</span><br/>Sol took the girl in: Her looks...perhaps above average for a human....her power however overshadowed that, not by quantity but in it's intricacy....two signatures woven together within her, both on entirely different wavelengths...Did Tom know this? Sol's ability to tune into the power spectrum was highly abnormal...but not so rare that another couldn't have seen Alexis' unique power before.<br/><span style="font-style: italic">"..I need to ask what you know of the entire situation."</span><br/>Sol turned his focus from the power spectrum and replied.<br/><span style="color: #FF4000">"Your niece needs protection, protection you find yourself unable to give and keep her freedom intact. I stay with her, go where she goes, and we provide both freedom and protection."</span>Sol knew more...but perhaps he knew what Tom did not and there had been another offer.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">Sol climbed into the car, headed for the McHaunter household, to find a man sitting opposite him.<br/>"Sol, isn't it?" The man smiled and extended his white gloved hand.<br/>Sol nodded and took the hand.<br/>"I've heard so much about you...Thornton...must have been such a hard decision." The man shook his head in sympathy.<br/><span style="color: #FF4000">"You don't sneak yourself into a car like this for idle talk and flattery."</span> Sol observed, his tone mirroring is the lack of interest he had in the man.<br/>"Quite right, quite right...this family you're going to...McHaunter...they're good people, respectable position and Tom is even half angel.."<br/><span style="color: #FF4000">"The point."</span> Sol interupted, hurrying the man on.<br/>"Yes, yes." The man nodded and smiled. "Quite right, to the point."<br/>Sol glared at him.<br/>"So the Niece...she's different...probably dangerous, not by her own design of course but potentially dangerous all the same....she just needs the right training, just needs-"<br/><span style="color: #FF4000">"At what reward?"</span> Sol interupted the man again.<br/>"Pardon?"<br/><span style="color: #FF4000">"You want the girl, what do I get if I do?"</span><br/>"Ah...well, yes, I think we can find our way to providing you with around five million for your help." The man smiled nervously. "Help in averting what could possibly be a terrible disaster." He added. </span><br/><br/>Sol hadn't trusted the man...but if the girl was a danger he wasn't going to let on to Tom that he knew.<br/><br/><br/>(((OOC: the italics bit is a flash back ^-^ incase you couldn't tell )))