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[color=#4AC948]"Emotional manipulation."[/color] Lawrence spoke to Rena as Olivia stared after the man in confusion much like Angel.

[color=#4AC948]"Say the right words and act a certain way and you can convince people that they like you."[/color] He had stopped fiddling with his stupid puzzle cube to talk to the Chrono. [color=#4AC948]"Personally, if I'm close enough to manipulate my mark, I'm doing something wrong."[/color] He looked over to Olivia and frowned, and a rush of thoughts and images hit her like a freight train. 

[i]She was standing outside the Room.

She tried to shake her head, but she was stuck. No, she couldn't be here. She had left that place years ago. She had proven herself able to be trusted. Why was she-

[color=#4AC948]"She's never going listen to you. She surged and killed her captors, she's going to fight you every step of the way."[/color] Lawrence spoke, but Olivia couldn't see where he was. All she could see was a man in a suit holding a clipboard. He was looking through the window into the room.

"We can fix that. Why do you care? You've been killing other rogues for how long now?"

[color=#4AC948]"Never children,"[/color] Lawrence seethed. Strange, Olivia had never heard Lawrence angry. [/i][color=#4AC948]"I[i] have standards."[/i][/color]

[i]The man barked a short laugh. "A noble rogue, how quaint." He cleared his throat and consulted his clipboard. "Very well, if you think you can get her to cooperate with us be our guest, but if we think she's going to be a threat to you, we will put her down in an instant. A sharp knife is better than a broken one." 

click, click, click, click.[/i]

The familiar sound of clicking brought Olivia out of whatever hallucination that was. Lawrence had once again started working on his Rubik's cube. Olivia never understood why Lawrence bothered playing with that thing, he already knew how to solve it without even looking at the thing. Her head was throbbing.

[color=#4AC948][i]Are you okay?[/i][/color] Lawrence was staring at her, his hands moving over the Rubik's cube. Soon all the colors matched and Lawrence paused to take a look at puzzle cube. As soon as he stopped, Olivia was hit with an uncontrollable rage. Her hands clenched into fists and she wanted to punch or strangle the nearest person. Lawrence mixed the colors up, and the rage dissipated.

Olivia nodded. [color=#8E8E38][i]Yeah, fine. I'm just getting a headache[/i][/color]

[color=#4AC948][i]Okay. Seems like...[/i][/color] Lawrence's mental voice cut out, and Olivia understood what was going on. They were experiencing a link disturbance. Though that raised a few questions for Olivia. As she waited to figure out where to go one question burned in her mind.

What was Lawrence so angry about?