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Signless sat in one of the pews on the huge cathedral-like floor, waiting for his message to be noticed and hoping that those he called would show up.

He knew he had to get this going, anyway. He didn't need that fishy bitch to shame him into it, so it's not like he only came here because she was disappointed in him. It stuck in his wind-tube that she'd probably interpret it that way, though.

Taiki entered the thirteenth floor nervously. He was still wrapped in Gyousou's cloak, despite the fact it looked silly, being so big while he was so small. But it was the only reminder of his king he had, so he was wearing it.

He looked around and saw the man he was meant to meet. He was a troll, an adult one like the troll that had tried to kill him. Taiki bit his lip and walked forwards nervously.

Signless sat up in the pew as he sensed someone coming towards him, then got up and shrugged his own cloak back to bare his shoulders as Taiki approached. The child looked incredibly nervous, and he was pretty sure he could guess which one this was.

He tried to smile to put Taiki at ease, though he did have a lot of very sharp teeth, so it might not have worked.

"Taiki, I'm guessing?"

Suzaku entered the cathedral and found Signless easily. He was more at ease around his roomates now, and though he still felt guilty about trying to harm Psiioniic he was focussed on making sure nothing like that happened again. He held his fathers pocketwatch in his pocket as a reminder. A reminder that they had to stop this.

He nodded at his roomate, glad that they were finally going to try and put Signless' plan into action.

Taiki nodded slowly. "Yes... I'm Taiki..." The teeth didn't scare him actually, he was used to Youma and Shirei, "Pleased to meet you SS...sorry is that... your real name?"

[Ed noticed the message pretty damn quickly. He was definitely ready to get to work.]

Hey. Signless, right?

He blinked, then laughed. "No, that's not my real name. You can call me Signless. Or SS if you prefer, but generally only Psi calls me that. I'm guessing you've been talking to him?"

"Hey," he said, looking the blond kid up and down. "You've got to be Ed, right?"

Signless nodded to Suzaku in greeting. He was pretty comfortable around the human boy, now, and didn't blame him for his part in attacking Psiioniic.

He settled back and scratched his nose. "So we're going to try to get into the service elevator with one of the staff, and follow it down. Or up. Or wherever it goes."

Suzaku nodded standing straight and to attention, as if he were back in the military and recieving orders. "Good idea." He already knew that there was no way they could break it, so sneaking in seemed the best way. "What is your plan?" Because from what Suzaku had heard, the staff had overpowered every person who had ever tried to go against them.

"Oh... sorry that is just... what I saw some others calling you... I don't know Psi sorry..." He shuffled his feet. "Sorry... Pleased to meet you Signless."

"Huh, I thought only Psi called me that. You sure you haven't met him? Lisping bugger with four horns. Taller than me." He held a hand over his head about half a foot. Okay, maybe only four inches. He didn't like to think about how goddamn short he was.

He grinned and gestured to the pew where he'd been sitting. "Pleased to meet you, kid. Have a seat."

"Well, I'm not exactly sure," Signless admitted. "We have Psi now, and his powers, which is a bonus. We also have a kid who claims to be able to walk through walls, and another kid who claims to be able to make anything out of anything else. Between those two, I think we've got a chance."

Suzaku nodded, "Those sounds like useful skills." Suzaku blinked, but really after a few months in the tower nothing really surprised him anymore.

"I looked for harnesses, but they must be locked away somewhere we can't go, because they are no where to be found." He and Link had spent an entire day searching, and checking for false panels, to no avail.

"Sorry..." Taiki said shuffling his feet again, "I never met anyone like that..."

He sat down nervously clutching his cloak around him. "Thank you."

"You know, you could have jutht TOLD me what you were planning, inthtead of messaging me and waiting for me to see it," Ψiioniic commented as he emerged onto the level where Signless was waiting. "Considering how difficult it ith to get at the network. Thtupid lack of computers." He and Sollux really needed to get on building one of their own, somehow.

"Well, you probably will," he said with a shrug, sliding into the pew next to the kid and leaning back comfortably. "And you'll probably get along with him."

He paused, then glanced at Taiki. "I want to try to get you into the elevator, so you can open the door from the inside and let the rest of us in. Then we have to figure out a way to get it to go down. If you're still willing to help, that is."

"What a pain," Signless said, but he wasn't that surprised. "Okay, no harnesses. We'll just have to make some. I can probably steal some extra bedsheets out of the infirmary, and we can maybe just knot them together to make ropes." He frowned. "Is that the lamest idea I've ever had or did it just sound that way when it came out of my mouth?"

"Sorry. I got into a pissing match with That Bitch," Signless said, unrepentant. "And I figured I had better get the word out instead of going to knock her on her excessively pompous ass."

There was no question who 'That Bitch' might be.

Ψiioniic's mouth twisted in something that was almost a smile. "You too, huh? She'th riding my ass for something, I don't know what, yet. It'th hard to tell her 'no' when I know you need her behind you on this, but I don't want her to get the idea that I'm thtill at her beck and call." That, and it was still difficult for him to tell her 'no' at ALL, but he was hoping it wouldn't come to that.

It depended on what it was she wanted from him, exactly.

Signless scowled suddenly and sat up, twisting around to face Psiioniic squarely without getting up from his seat. "Don't you dare give in to her for that stupid reason. Really, is your thinkpan working, or do I need to rattle it up a bit? You actually think that I would prioritize being allied with that piece of slitherbeast meat over your safety? If hurting you is the price, then our alliance is over right now."

"Calm down, SS, I don't know WHAT she wantth me for," Ψiioniic soothed him, moving over to his moirail and setting his hand on Signless' shoulder. "It could be thomething innocuous for all I know. We'll see. Just becauthe she'th a bitch and my former owner doesn't mean I should automatically refuthe to do anything she wants of me without even finding out what it ith."

"Maybe it does mean that. Didn't you ever think of that?" Signless said peevishly. But he calmed down a little at the papping, scowling at the wood back of the pew in front of him. He didn't like working with the Condesce, even if he did feel it was worth the price. Hopefully. It just pissed him off, out of principle.

"I've thought about it," Ψiioniic said, as levelly as he could manage. "But it'th my choice to make, in the end. Isn't it?" It HAD to be, because otherwise he'd just traded one sort of owner for another, and he knew that Signless would never do that to him. Protectiveness might make him want to shelter Ψiioniic 'for his own good', but in the end Ψ was confident that Signless would allow him to stand on his own two feet.

"I'll try to make sure you don't have to rethcue me from her too often, though," he said, trying to sound like he was teasing instead of being serious.

If you were to look at Minato, you could tell he's had better months than the last one, but hadn't they all? The good news, or whatever one wanted to call it, was that he was as stable as any member of his team could be deemed considering their circumstances.

At least he's recovered since the incident with Suzaku and lacking his Suppressors. He's bit paler than normal, but otherwise, Minato showed no signs of the paranoia that had so badly plagued him not long ago. His arrival is fairly prompt, and for once he is quite serious, headphones hanging around his shoulders and not slouching at all. This is business, and as a leader, there is something he knows far too well: how to be serious when the time calls for it.

"... Signless-san." A nod. Even now, he is still formal, perhaps overly so. ... The loss of Chidori had put him at a major disadvantage--without Medea, he had far less ways of telling what went on in the Tower, after all.

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