The bed was a comforting cocoon. It sank deeper and deeper with each passing minute.
It had been 10 minutes since Kaelen jumped on the bed, and both of them had lost their sleep since.
The moonlight was streaming through a window and shone on Nevyziel's hair. It made her hair like Lyne's, but thinner.
"What would you have done if Aurelion had never saved you?"
She grabbed a pillow and gripped it against her chest. "If Aurelion had never saved me? I would still be part of the evil my dad was doing."
Kaelen looked at her reflection by changing the identity of the wall in front of him. "Did you always know what he did?"
She grabbed the bedsheet and pulled it towards her side. "My dad? Yeah, I did. I tried killing him many times, but he never let his guard down, even while sleeping."
"So you always had this hero complex?" He pulled back the bedsheet.
Nevyziel turned towards Kaelen and gave him a gentle punch on the back, grabbing his coat. "I never wanted to be a hero of justice, but my father, I couldn't live with the guilt of not doing anything. He was worse than the villains superheroes face; he had no greed, no lust, and no pride. To him, it was his duty to do what he was doing." Her breath went across the room, loud and scared.
Kaelen turned towards Nevyziel. "What about a partner? Don't you want to leave this place and live with the person you love and your kids for the rest of your life?"
Their eyes had locked again, shaking.
Nevyziel looked away at the ceiling. "I am sure I will find someone I whom like in this never-ending life. But kids are a different topic; unless it's my partner's wish, I won't."
"The guy you like, what is your type?"
"A guy who would hate everything around him except me. Strong enough to take on gods. What about you?"
"Me? A girl who would love everything around her and love me the most. With a father who is one of the richest men alive and secretly works with a hidden evil organization."
Nevyziel put one of her legs on Kaelen's legs and held his waist with her hand.
The silence had developed a heat that burned through skin.
Morning came with a burning sun. When Nevyziel woke up. Kaelen was looking at her with his elbows sinking into the bed and his hand supporting his head.
She backed up, covering her body with the blanket. She looked inside the blanket and loosened her guard.
Kaelen mumbled something with his eyes closed, most of it in an alien language.
They looked at the clock. "Ah, fuck."
"We are late."
They both rushed out, their clothes rumpled and their hair disheveled.
Workers inside the warehouse were gossiping in a low voice, most of which was hardly audible. But they understood the bones of it. The Infiltrator's partners were about to get caught while working.
"Rumor," Nevyziel lightly murmured.
"Or something; we will tag a rumor to comfort ourselves," Kaelen said, sitting at the table. "It doesn't matter if it's a rumor; we have to do something quickly anyway."
Nevyziel sat down on a chair next to Kaelen and picked out a page and a pen.
"We are doing it now; this is our best chance. Silas will come running for help if something happens."
Nevyziel wrote something in the paper and turned the page towards Kaelen. A word glowed on it with a bright crimson font "Suppressed.".
Kaelen slammed his hands onto the table. "What do you mean by suppressed?"
The word glowed again, "Suppressed."
No matter what question he asked related to the mission "Suppressed."
In frustration, he opened the window. Preparing his chain to get out without the workers noticing.
On the other side of the base, he saw a face he recognized in the middle of a plain field stretching till the entrance. Their eyes met.
A synced nod came from both of them.
Kaelen jumped through the window and started attaching chains to the edges of roofs of buildings nearby. And pulling the chains to flash his way to the watchtower and collapse the buildings.
Somewhere in the center of the base, near the meeting room, something exploded. It was unclear what had happened because of mist covering it all.
He sent the chain flying into the detector, which looked like an eye burning in pain, bleeding. It identified someone near the explosion and alerted every follower with the location and necessary information to catch the infiltrator.
On a sharp look from the top of the watchtower, a few vice-captains and soldiers had cornered Silas. He had a smirk on his face and hid his hands inside his cloak.
Kaelen's shadow shook when he felt everything had happened without casualties; he traced it back. He had got to the watchtower without any fights. Multiple buildings collapsed, yet no sound of members came from inside. He realized it: in the middle of this chaos something was missing, or rather someone.
It didn't matter now that Kaelen was in front of the detector. He swung a small portion of the chain into the detector without looking at it.
No sound came from the chain hitting the detector, nor did he sense energy flowing wild.
It was strange that his clock ticked twice per second at that moment. Kaelen couldn't determine whether it was a signal or not.
The chain he had used tightened up, and he got sent flying, slamming into a wall blocking the exit of the base.
The chain that he had used earlier hanged onto the walls of the watchtower. Using it Kaelen slowed down his fall and rested his legs on bricks sticking out more than the others.
Then a bell rang many times, screaming throughout the city. It had come from the mines, blocking the entrance with complete darkness. It was creeping out of the mines. Workers fled from their location and grouped inside houses near them.
Kaelen took a moment to look at the watchtower he had been on. the captain stood on it with a fresh coat this time it had something written on it, Kaelen focused a bit to see it.
Upon understanding what it was, Kaelen bit his tongue and spoke, breathing from his mouth, "Solmar".