Thomas pulled back in disgust and fear, wanting to run, wanting to hide, wanting to be anywhere but here.  Terror running up through his body before he slowly calmed himself before backing into Xan's legs which would have surely been the end of him.  "Mistress, I don't know what to say...I never thought to injure anyone, I just wanted to extend my own level of arcane knowledge.  I failed so miserbly though, I can't believe this is happening....executions and my family excommunicated....and our only hope to fix this is to catch this succubus?  Mistress, might I ask what you will do to this thing if we happen to succeed?"  Thomas asked quietly scared out of his mind and having trouble thinking straight aside from the sudden burst of relief that he felt that he had a chance.  A crippling realization crept inside of him though, he and Hitomi were by all rights to dead and no longer existed.  He turned back to the head mistress the question buzzing in his mind as he put his hands on her desk leaning forward a little, the respect and fear clear in his voice and eyes.<br/><br/>"Head-mistress, if you have a document for our executions...then we by all rights should be dead and the state will surely know of this....What do we do then?  Work only in the shadows of the night or will we be given new identies?"  He asked respectfully and pulled back a little, not knowing if the sudden intrusion into her desk area had aggriviated her are not.  It was the last thing he wanted to anger the Head-mistress, especially when she held his life in the palms of her hands.