<span style="text-decoration: line-through;"></span><span style="color: #FF0000"> <span style="font-style: italic">"Anywho- How is the weather?"</span><br/><br/>         Having heard these words uttered from the Runa's mouth, Kaleo turned around, staring at her with a stunned look upon his face, completely unaware that Keenan was doing just the same.<br/>        Then, after a few awkward minutes of silence, Keenan burst out laughing, nearly doubling over, followed by Kaleo's hearty laughter. For a few more minutes, they laughed until they cried.<br/>          "Wow, this is Runa Velia, the most famed huntress in EVER and she asks about the weather!" Keenan said, through bouts of laughter, followed by another contagious bout of extreme cackling. Soon, Kaleo and him were both lying on the floor laughing their asses off, tears streaming down their faces.<br/>         Finally pulling himself together, Kaleo picked himself up off the floor, wiping tears from his eyes and still giggling, and said, "Aw, man, that was great. How's the weather? I'm mean w-what kinda question was that?"<br/>          Leaning on one of the church pillars for support, tears still streaming down his face, Keenan still laughed his ass off, "Wow, man." Then, finally pulling himself together, he added with a sigh, "You're funny, girl. How's the weather. Wow. Man, I've never met a hunter with such a bad timing for words. Hahahaha, wow. That was just...that was <span style="font-style: italic">great</span>. Makes me not even want to kill her."<br/>           Then, catching his breath, Kaleo walked over to Runa and gingerly pulled her to her feet. "You know what?" he spoke, the aftermath of extreme laughter still slightly hanging onto his voice. "We don't have to do this crap."<br/>         "Huh? I don't get it," Keenan said, his voice draped with confusion.<br/>          "I mean we could just take her back to the count. I mean, it <span style="font-style: italic">was</span> Father Count Linus's idea, so why doesn't he decide what to do with her?"<br/>        "Ohhh, i get it now, man. Yeah. Great idea."<br/>            And with that, he didn't even give Runa a chance to talk. He just transformed into his humanoid bat form, grabbed her left arm, slung it over his left shoulder, heaved her on his back (which wasn't that hard since she was so light), and said, "Jump on, Spidermonkey." Both cackling with laughter at Kaleo's reference to the worst movie in history, they jumped through a stained glass window (yes THROUGH), the shattered glass shards floating around them, and flew to the castle.<br/>         Once near the castle, they flew through the open window in the main throne room (the window was kept open because of Kaleo and Keenan's tendency to fly through it while its closed), and landed on the crimson carpet leading to the throne. Changing back into human form, they, all three stood before the old, wise, well-known (and slightly paranoid) Count Linus. <br/>            There he sat, regarding them with ice-cold blue eyes, set deeply in his pale, structured, and middle-aged face, adorned with old style clothes, complete with the blue coattail jacket, white tights, and dark blue, boots, lightly adorned with jewels and closely hugging the lower half of his calves. <br/>            Running a hand through his ash-blonde, closely cropped hair,  Count Linus himself spoke, rather impatiently, "Well?"</span>