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The brothers silent followed Sebastet down the spiral staircase, their eyes glowing as they followed her. Julius seemed anxious about where they were going, yet Ishmael seemed relaxed as they quietly walked. When they reached the bottom of the staircase, Ishmael noticed the door. His hand glowed blue as he punched the door, practically ripping it off the hinges and preventing it from being able to close. He gave her a sadistic grin, as if asking her to try some more tricks on them.

Lio was not too lost in thought as he felt someone approach, he turned somewhat to face someone he had never met but knew somewhat about from Sebastet.

As the young woman introduced herself he looked her over and wondered why she was so nervous.

Before he could say anything, she went into another bit of talk and explained how she and her twin were Sebastet's godchildren. Now that was a bit of news he didn't know about, but it didn't matter. She was godmother to an interesting chatting young woman.

When she finished, he fully faced her and offered her his hand.

"Pleasure to meet you Blade. I am Lio."

As they shook hands, he felt sebastet in his mind, sending him love. It brought a smile to his face until he realized that this was different than her usual sendings of her love.

"Not to be a downer on such a encounter, but I am needed. Will you watch the tower door? Do not let anyone in..."

He let go of Dancers hand and entered the tower and felt that she was downstairs in the one room he had only seen once.

He shut the door behind him and hurried down the stairs.

Blade lead the way downstairs to the lock-up room. But once they were down there, she put a finger to her lips to advise him to be quiet so they could hear what was going on inside.

Then she started pacing, her steps totally silent as they waited for Dancer and the others to get here.

Blade looked up as she heard the door to the tower open and paused her pacing as she listened to the quiet footsteps on the staircase. It was Desha that arrived first. He moved down the stairs quietly and gave her and Michael a simple nod then moved to stand to one side of the landing where he wouldn't be in the way.

He'd left the door upstairs open, though, so there wouldn't be any sounds when the others arrived.

Maybe it was the fact that her hearing was very acute, but Blade was the only one to hear when Valick and Vince arrived and started down the stairs, then heard Cassius just outside of the tower trying to tell Dancer to go sit down somewhere before he headed inside anyway.

She shook her head ruefully when Dancer followed the Siren down the stairs and sat himself between Michael's feet.

Cassius ignored everyone else as he moved over to the door and considered it carefully for a moment. There were several ways he could open it, though only one of them would be quiet.

He turned back to the others and spoke quietly, knowing they would be able to hear him while no one inside the room would be able to, "I can do this quietly or quickly, but not both. There's no telling what will happen if I do this quickly. So I'm going to take the quiet option. It won't be fast, though. So prepare yourselves to wait," he told them all quietly before he turned back to the door.

He took in a deep breath and sat down in front of the door in a graceful movement, crossing his legs as he set the three small carved gemstones between himself and the door in a triangular formation then began to whisper something under his breath, his lavender eyes focused on the door.

After a few minutes of waiting, Blade finally turned and shooed everyone else up the stairs, knowing they could all wait better up in Dancer and Michael's rooms. And Cassius would likely work easier without them all staring at him.

Dancer rubbed his head against Michael's leg then lead the way up the stairs, knowing that Blade had a point. Besides, Cassius still had the spell in place where he could communicate telepathically with Dancer, so finding out when the door was open would be very easy.

((Exit all but Cassius))

Michael, Vince, Andy, and Valick grabbed there weapons and fallowed after the others, Michael right behind Dancer as they were lead by Blade rushing down the stairs. Letting Blade do the honors of opening the door and leading them in knowing that she wanted a good fight, they all could see it in her eyes. Andy stood close with Desha in the back as Vince and Valick stood behind Michael as they worked together on heading in to help Sebastet and anyone else that was in there with her.

Cass finally raised one hand towards the door, his lavender eyes focused on it intensely. His long hair began to move around him as if it was floating in water. After a brief moment, the door rose until it finally 'clicked' back into place. After he lowered his hand, he turned to head up the stairs, his task completed.

Blade was the first to run into the room....