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"He wants in?!!!" Rex repeated, "Victor wants in on some fabricated plot that I'm one of the Shadowed-Seven Inheritors looking to get revenge for my forsaken family. I don't even know my family!"

"Sure you do." Imani said. "Nechra, Syphen, Hassan and the Bastetians. If you'd like to avoid lying to him." Imani added as Victor silently stepped through a corridor full of sensing lasers that split up the Monkey-Vents lining The Box.

Rex looked at Imani as he leaned against the steel wall— his legs still felt like jelly, "What are you up to?" Rex asked. "What is this? Yea, you saved me with your quick thinking. But it feels like you almost regret it."

Imani eyed him, "I'm just trying to remind you who's team I'm on. I was your first teammate, you know? Before Syphen and Hassan, even."

"….are you angry about something? Beyond the Mana Flux that changed the structure of the world I mean." Rex asked.