"Not even...?" Chloe asked once her metal boots shrieked to a stop against the floor after sliding back several yards.  She looked up from behind the arm she'd raised to protect her face, one eye closed and breathing a little heavier than usual.  "Then...  Then it's just like<span style="font-style: italic">him...</span>"  Hardly one for reminiscing about days long gone by, she allowed herself only the briefest of moments to think back to that strange day she'd encountered the man with the cold eyes and the long teal hair who'd requested that, should she ever run into a person who looked like a younger version of him, she eat him.  Well, it had certainly been odd, but he'd said there was something special about her species that was important for this...  But whatever.  More important than how it happened was how it related to the situation at present.  "Hey, Arky, you wouldn't happen to know," she started to question, halting long enough to duck under the ball and leap to the side, "a little kid with wings, turquoise and purple hair, green eyes, looks and sounds like a girl even though he's a guy, named Tameko, would ya?"  After dodging with the ease possessed in her battle-trained body, she glanced back to make sure the sphere wasn't the homing type, somehow simultaneously keeping her attention focused on the tower in the incident of any more incoming attacks, and started to plan her counterattack while she waited for the response.