Stubborn as a mule. Larke seemed so convinced it wasn’t him, and it was disheartening to say the least. 

[color=#A2A2A2]“... Larke-”[/color]

The boy reeled back as his friend coughed, concern touching his eyes again. His hand dropped down, not bothering to return to Larke’s forehead but rather resting on his own knee instead.

[color=#A2A2A2]“Come on. Use that brain of yours. You know I’m a member of the group you came after, it was only a matter of time before I found you up here. You’ve only seen, what, three? Four of us? You should know there are a lot more, possibly even some who aren’t really aware of what’s going on in here. Myself included, though I have a pretty good excuse for my absence.”[/color]

[color=#A2A2A2]“Dawn’s the only mentalist here, and I’m pretty sure she’d sooner cut off her leg than force her way into your head. It’s not a pleasant experience for either side.”[/color]

Drake sighed wearily.

[color=#A2A2A2]“No one’s killing anyone. And Hel’s perfectly fine,”[/color] his eyes flickered blue for a moment.
[color=#A2A2A2]“She’s downstairs right now, in fact…”[/color] the boy’s voice trailed off, silver eyes moving toward the window sill of the attic when he realized someone had been watching. His gaze lingered on Rei for a moment. It was unsettling to say the least, that she seemingly knew about Larke being up here. That she could just watch this scene play out and do nothing.

/It’s possible she’s scared,/ he thought, a solid attempt to reconcile this.

Drake had to think there was a reason behind everyone’s avoidance of what was happening to Larke up here.

Plus, whenever Rei watched him in any regard he felt uncomfortable. Possibly the overhanging concern that she might be sizing him up as her next meal. It was almost impossible to not have that lingering in the back of his mind. But he tried to dismiss it.

He looked back to Larke. [color=#A2A2A2]“If Hel goes back home, they’ll continue to experiment on her with their so called ‘treatments’, just as they were before. You only know what they tell you because to Erubesco, that’s all you need to know. But she wasn’t sick. She was part of something bigger, some sort of project of theirs. Think about it for a minute. Why else would they send people and resources after her, time and time again? If she’s just sick, as everyone is claiming, that’s even more resources used on ‘curing’ her in a lab, resources a big faction like Erubeso wouldn’t be willing to spare willy nilly on just one kid. When you boil everything down, it just doesn’t make any sense. They’d sooner let Hel die out here than waste more people and resources, unless that one kid was extremely important to a cause,”[/color] the boy explained, using logic to decipher the pieces of information he’d collected, [color=#A2A2A2]“Plus, Hel is already looking a lot better since we took her in. And she’s absolutely terrified of the idea of going back. You saw what they did to me - they called that science. Imagine what their ‘treatment’ looks like.”[/color]