[h1][u][color=aba000]Leval Lamrue[/color][/u][/h1]

[@The One]

Leval rose from his prostration and smiled at Arken, as Arken turned to walk down the maze path. He quickly fell in line besides him giving Zephroth a quick stroke of his hand behind his ears. Arken raised his hands and conjured up a line of purple fog, which branched into several different directions. Leval assumed it was to somehow retrace the group's earlier steps and help keep track of their location. As the began to walk slowly along the outlined path, Arken began to describe his request of Leval about the Demon of Sin, Pozuzy. Leval listened interestedly, yet found it difficult to maintain his full concentration on Arken's words as they went down the path, eyes drifting back to the walls of the hedge maze looking for signs of his lost friends. However, when Arken finished and nodded. [color=aba000]"So you want me to make friends with him? Yeah I can do that. It will be by far one of the least strange things I have done since I got to this school. It takes a thief to catch a thief right?"[/color]

They walked through the maze, Arken would stop every once in a while and would somehow use his magic to play scenes of battles from earlier in the day. Leval watched as Rika managed to control his demonic form with Argentina's assistance and the breaking of the seal on Isabella. Leval took notes on a pencil and small notepad kept in one of his many cloak pockets, but other than that walked along without comment not wanting to distract Arken from his work. They came back to the room where Leval had lost to the Masked Man and, in turn, lost Shela. Leval reached down to his belt where he had secured the stuffed beaver toy he had picked up earlier. [color=aba000][i]'I'll get this back to you Shela, promise."[/i][/color] He forced himself to watch the scene again, noting every move that the Masked Man had made trying to find his error in judgement. Watched from this third party perspective, it was clear to see that the blinding light he had made to blind the Masked Man had proven ineffectual, and had given away his entire plan. Leval clenched the notebook in his hands as he watched the Masked Man toy with him till the final blow. Leval winced away not wanting to relive the look of pained surprise that he had seen in Shela's eyes just before she had been taken. From there, Arken rewound the scene and played it once more. Surprisingly, rather than berate him or comment upon his failure, Arken gave him the hidden weakness of the Reversal ability. [color=aba000][i]'But how to tell when it is active? That's the real question now.'[/i][/color] Leval pondered this for a moment before continuing forward after Arken.

There was no real evidence or new information till the very end of the scene of what happened to Isabella. Even the fact, that they had been taken in a southward direction gave them a much clearer idea of where the missing students could have been than they had before. Leval cast a weave at the location the giant bat had been flying before creating a line in the sky to clearly indicate its course and heading. While it could not serve as a true substitute for an address, it would help them come closer to the true location. Leval made a quick sketch of the heading and wrote a reminder to compare it to a map later. They made a quick stop to watch Irvine's fight against Ra, Leval watched carefully and made several notes, but again made no comment.

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When they came to Ceres, Leval breathed out. He was not sure what had happened to his friend and protector. She had been deceived by the Masked Man who had used her own past traumas and present circumstances against her, but at least it appeared as though she had been left unharmed. To Arken, he said, [color=aba000]"I don't think I would have done much differently if I was her shoes, she couldn't have really known what kind of man she was putting her faith in. If someone had come up to me and said 'Hey I can break your curse if you come with me' I think I would have at least given it a look just like she did."[/color] Arken than snapped his fingers and they appeared back in the Grand Hall, Zephroth in tow. Arken gave him a quick dismissal to which Leval replied. [color=aba000]"Alright then- good night Arken and thank you."[/color]

Leval went to his room, following the map in his pocket, and like Arken had predicted could not bring himself to go to bed. So he sat up at his desk looking over the evidence they had gathered from their mission. Leval formed tables of information, comparing the monsters that had been in the maze to the people who had fought against them. Then compared those notes to the powers of each individual. Then carefully went over what both the Masked Man and Isabella had said. Slowly he began to create a report for Arken that held his theories about the possible dangers and reasoning of the Masked Man*. Then he overlayed the course the bat had taken on the map he had been given of the Island. It was only a rough estimate, but presuming the creature had taken the fastest route possible with few course corrections, it would give them a better idea of where to concentrate their report. 
(* Majority of these theories were already sent over PM with the corrections included)

Leval sighed at his desk now covered with scrawled writings and notes, his completed report for Arken sat upon his desk. He had not paid any attention to his surroundings or roommate the night before and hoped that he had not been too much of a bother with his endless scrawling. There was not much else to do now except wait for sunrise and deliver the notes. Several of his ideas depended heavily on what further information Isabella could provide when he had the chance to speak to her again. Till then, there was one other piece of evidence that he had not gone over, he placed a clean piece of paper atop a clipboard and pulled out the energy source he had torn out of the death being.  His theories had led him to believe that each of the creatures in the maze had their own energy source to fuel their temporary lives and abilities. There was only one good way to test his theory however, Leval went to the training room and without turning the machine on, crafted an illusion in his mind. The weakest creature he could come up with at the moment was a small ball of fluff that had no ability to move independently expect for a mouth that it could communicate from and ears with which to listen. He envisioned it being as small as the palm of his hand. He sent that illusion through a thread connected to the energy source and pumped a small amount of his power into the device. He then waited to see what happened.