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	The SUV took a hard right on the slick asphalt.  Lex, sitting in the left passenger's seat, hit his shoulder on the side of the door with a thud. His right hand braced Uná's limp body in her seat as the vehicle continued to move erratically. "[color=929292]What the hell are you doing up there,[/color]" he shouted, chastising the driver.

	"Sorry, boss," was the meek response. This wasn't his usual wheelman.  Just one of the men who happened to escape Avalon alive. 

	[color=aba000][i][b]...So I urge you to leave where you are hiding, find others like yourselves out there. Tomorrow I will guide you to where we can all meet. Under a new light...[/b][/i][/color]  

	Lex blinked his eyes a few times before rubbing one of his ears with his free hand, attempting to get the voice out of his head.  He looked at Uná to see if there was any reaction, but there was none that seemed significant.  Even the driver seemed undisturbed.  [color=929292][i]Great[/i][/color], he thought to himself.  [color=929292][i]More of them being herded[/i][/color].  He started thinking back about the monster at the club, Ashford's... The creature seemed to have been focused on them and Lex still couldn't forget the flash of blackness in Uná's eyes before it had appeared.  It wanted her.

	"[color=929292]Red, Red, Red,[/color]" he mused to himself as he looked at her once more.  "[color=929292]I knew you'd be interesting.[/color]"  Her unconscious body began to squirm a little, her mouth looking as though it were trying to speak.  "[color=929292]Are they in your head, too?[/color]" he asked rhetorically, recalling his own psychic invasion moments ago.  He leaned slowly to her ear, bared his teeth and whispered, "[color=929292]Tell them to fucking bring it.[/color]"

	He looked up then, as if something clicked. "[color=929292]Change of plans,[/color]" Lex announced sternly.  That creature was large and didn't seem too bothered by bullets.  It would be foolish to lead the bull to the china shop.

	"What's that," the driver asked.  "Not going to the manor?"

	[color=929292]"We're going to Nocturn,[/color]" Lex said as he pulled out his phone and began furiously tapping it.  "[color=929292]I'm telling them to shut down early and clear the people out.  Pull into the back by the loading docks and get ready.  I've got a feeling that thing's coming after her.  If not that, then maybe it will lure out some of her peers.  Either way, we're spilling blood.[/color]"  Lex looked at his watch and then back out the window at the moon.  Time was fleeting.  He'd have to do this quickly before he became... his other self.

	The SUV pulled into the loading docks just as the bay door opened up.  They slowly rolled inside, the door coming down behind them.  Several men rushed the SUV as Lex stepped out.  "[color=929292]Take the girl upstairs to my office.  Open up the armory and get suited up.  Someone get my guns.  A fight's coming.[/color]"