Caroline's hand twitched in her sleep, as if she were holding a pen. She was sleeping at one of the larger tables in the hall, head cradeled in her arm with dozens of different sheets of paper spread out around her. She muttered in her sleep as Talon walked by.

"If target_moved equals true, call 'find_target_position' and 'redirect_shot_vector', else call 'impact_split'..." Her face rolled downward and the rest of what she was saying was lost to the table.

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Artemis pushed his way through the guild's doors, barely glancing at Talon on his way passed. His eyes had a hard, cruel glint that they had lacked months previously, and he silently walked up to the bar and lay a piece of paper next to Kori. The paper read "Exterminate a Demon" with a large stamp on it proclaiming it "S Class". The rest of the page was taken up by a picture of the demon, which had a large gash rent through the paper.

Not even stopping to acknowledge anybody in the room, he turned to leave, but hesitated before pushing the doors open, as if expecting, or perhaps hoping, somebody to stop him.