[i]Did you - [/i]

[i] hear that?[/i]

The twins looked up at each other, abandoning what was in their hands. They heard their names spoken in a loud voice not too far down the hallway followed by the distant sound of gunfire. Barnabas rocketed into action, his mind racing to form a plan. He grabbed the books and blueprints on the table, motioning for Alice to do the same and began putting them back on the shelves and in cabinets. When they were done, Barnabas turned to his sister and began giving her specific instructions via thought.

[i] Change your hair color and put colored contacts in [/i]

[i]Why?[/i]

[i]To hide your appearance. Once you do that, you’re going to walk right up to the ones looking for us and act like a member of another team hunting us and lure them into a trap.[/i]

Alice nodded at her brother and began to chant a flow of incantations followed by specific sets of movements until her raven black hair began repelling light and changed into a vibrant pink. She then slipped a set of green contacts from one of her pockets and slipped them over her light blue eyes. She looked completely different in her disguise. Barnabas nodded to his sister, and as she slipped out of the door and walked down the hallway and turned the corner to arrive at the newcomers, Barnabas slipped out of the library and began weaving his way through the bunker and stopped near one of his hidden sigils, which was hidden behind a vending machine. He held one of his sister’s bracelets loosely in his hand, ready to break the beads open and make a whirlwind of antialchemy poison if necessary.

Alice, who was usually graceful in her steps, walked down the hallway rigidly and with a look of slate on her face. Barnabas had slipped her his sword in order to complete the disguise of her being a different Asylum altogether and told her to hide her bracelets and gloves. She flipped the sword around as she walked, until she rounded the corner and came across a bear of a man, a blonde man who looked at the bear with a look of confusion, and a girl with headphone blaring in her ears. Alice walked a little closer, stopping about five feet away.

“Did you say Alice and Barnabas,” she asked in a monotone, with the same blank look on her face, holding the sword to her side, but ready to strike.