@KavenBach:  "I mean, she's not like us... they won't be after her.  Even IF they find her, I'm sure they won't do much more than ask her where we went - but its us they're looking for, so just being with her brings her trouble." He swallows, his adam's apple bobbing.  "As for what I remember... all I remember is pain." He shakes his head.  "Pain so tangible you could almost feel it again if you thought about it long enough.  Pain you could feel in your dreams.  Shari... made me forget the pain."  He smiles meekly.<br/><br/>The bald man shakes his head.  "I used to work for them, see?  But I was a janitor.  That's right, I scrubbed your shit out of the commodes.  So I had high level clearance, but of course I was watched and screened closely.  The only reason I'm here is because I had a personal ethical objection to what they did to you." He stops outside where no one is within earshot and lights a bold.  "I was angry, but this other guy slash girl, who still works there.  I can't say who.  He slash she provided me with the time freezer.  Expensive, it is, to freeze time for five minutes.  One pop, it's about... a quarter million dollars.  He slash she gave it to me, I already had the gun... and he slash she called me when he slash she said they were on the move.  Earlier tonight." Smoke jets out his nostrils.  "Yeah... thing is, we didn't manage to prep a safe house.  It's tough to communicate under the nose of the rich and connected.  Point is, my plan was extraction.  They're a tech branch - Ratio workers, so they're gonna have trouble getting a hold of you on this side.  The downside is, your regenerative properties won't work on this side." He finishes up his smoke.  "Okay, I can't tell you any more here.  We need to move.  Lay down some ground rules.  Tim, don't eat her. Comprende?"<br/><br/>Tim:  *Nods feverishly.*<br/><br/>Baldie:  "And Santi, no eating him out of revenge, if you're thinking of that.  I gotta sleep too, we might even need to split up..." He pulls his scalp off, a fake, and medium-length black hair cascades out.  "So I can't keep my eye on you two all the time.  And since I'm no longer bald... call me Sam."<br/><br/>@Ome:  The wolf flies into the other two, only for the Geckoboi to fall back and kick him straight up into the wall, actually knocking free one panel of the cage that envelopes the lupine like a steel mesh cradle... he's out of the ring... and the ref counts him done.  The Firin' Ozirin rises, Lilliana sagging from his midsection, thrashing uselessly.  His lips curl into a smile.  "If you join her, I win." He hops to one side, hardly bothered by the extra weight at all.  "And you can both be the... spoils of war." *Pats his belly, flicking his tongue.*  "But at least it's like I wanted now.  Equal footing.  Just you and me." He crouches, arms out to his sides, almost as though it's an old west quick-draw...