Panem

[Raven]

Alexa frowned, clearly not liking Crow talking about being with someone else. She pressed close to Crow, making sure the blanket covered her.

[Gifted]

"Raven is engaged, she hasn't had the wedding yet... umm, I was calling about Fox, actually. Have you seen the Forli International News? It just cut out. The news station has a back-up generator, this has to be more than a power outage. I'm getting worried. You have the swiftest means of transport, I called to see if you could check it out. It would take my people several days to reach there..."

[Dokeshi]

"Wait...do you mean something might have happened to Forli?" As he said this he was already in the process of getting on clothes.

[Raven]

Alexa sat up, clearly displeased Crow had seen fit to move.

[Dokeshi]

Crow turned to Alexa while he was changing,"I'll be going over to Forli...will you be coming with me?"

[Raven]

Alexa nodded. "Yeah." She got up and began getting dressed.

[Dokeshi]

He smiled somewhat sadly and kissed Alexa," Gifted I'm heading out soon...talk to you later."

[Gifted]

"Yeah, thats exactly what I mean. Alright. Telll me what you found when you have the chance," I said, and cut the connection.

[Gifted]

That night, long before the sun was duee to rise, my eyes flicked open in horror.
This was immeaditley accompanied by a searing pain in my head. I'd had migranes beore, but this was no migrane. It felt as if there was a knife being pressed againt my brain, just hard enough to draw blood and threatening to be shoved even deeper.
Beneath the haze of pain, I knew exactly what was going on. And I knew I may not get another chance like this.
I scrambled out of bedd, discovering I hadn't even changed out of the jeans and T-shirt I'd worn today -or yesterday, I had no clue what time it was and really didn't care- and hurried into the communications room.
I established an Offline connection and waited, fighting the pain that threatened to incapacitate me, for the connection to establish.
"Crow," I said desperatley, once it had connected. "I've been betrayed. One of my inner circle has-" A particulaly power wave of pain forced me to stop and clutch my head. "I brought this on myself," I murmured before looking up at the camera again. "J-just don't trust me anymore! Or anyone I s-send out there." After a second of thought, I shook my head and said. "He won't get Joan..." Another powerful wave of pain. "T-tell Raven too! I have an alliance with her!" After the most powerful wave yet, I collapsed, and the message was sent. But just before the connection cut off, I said his name quietly before I was gone. I didn't know if the LoDiCS system picked it up, but if it had, he wouldn't have been able to tell what I said.
"Emric..."
((Unless, y'know... he spent a good few hours working on it. ))

Once the connection was gone, Emric stepped into the room, his casual grin on his face. His eyes, however, were narrowed. "Well, I know not to do that again," He knelt down to me as I lay on the floor glaring at him. "I won't be making the same mistake twice, honey," he said, and pressed his hand to my skull.
There was a flash of pain, and then I was gone.

[Gifted]

The next morning Gifted called all her inner circle together.
"It's true that three of our number were almost killed in the attack on Forli. But that is not of consequence, nothing happened. We are going to need to keep movinng at it were. I will be discharging several of you to different countries in a matyter of days. I trust you'll all prepare for departure. Also, Dominic, Emric, I need to have a seperate word with you two. Stay behind, please."
"Hey, I have a question," Nicole snapped, confused. "Why the heck are you acting so diffrerent all of a-"
"I relally don't have time to discuss the matter any further," Gifted snapped. "I am getting ready to appear on the news broadcast. Come see me afterwords and then we can discuss it."
Nicole, glowering, left, and everyone followed suit, Joan feeling very uneasy about what she'd just witnessed.

Domenic and Emric stayed behind, Dominic looking very confused. "Follow me," Gifted said firmly, and led the two boys into an empty, small room. She stood in front of the door after they'd entered, closing it.

"What did you want to talk about?" Dominic asked.
"Actually, your problems with me," Emric said, and the easy grin fell off his face as he attacked Dominic.
Dominic yelled, But the room was soundproof, no one came running. Dominic set himself on fire to stop Emric from holding him down. "Help me gifted!" Dominic yelled. Emeric punched Dominic in the face, getting a second-degree burn on his hand but sending dominc sprawling on the ground, his fire going out as he howled in shock and pain. Emric kicked hi9m in the head a couple timesds and knocked him out before he could get up before kneeling down and placing his palm against Dominic's head.

[Gifted]

"This is completley ridiculous," Rakel snapped as the entire inner circle watched the broadcast. "There is something wrong with Gifted,"
"Sounds like a decent enough speech to me," Alex said, shrugging. "And she's certaintly got the crowd rilled up."
"Excecutioner, me and Gifted are almost EXACTLY ALIKE," Rakel snapped. "She's said it many times. This," she pointed at the TV screen "Is not Gifted. It's not normal,"
"I agree," Nicholas said suddenly. Everyone turned to look at him. "This isn't how Gifted would give a speech. She's very open ended. She'll give both sides of the story, and then ask the public. She reffers to the public a lot.It's always their decision, and she doesn't try to sway people one way or the other,"
"But in the end it's still the public's decision," Alex pointed out. Nicholas shook his head.
"Gifted doesn't preach," Nicholas replied. ((I COULD NOT REMEMBER THE WORD THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO GO THERE!)) "The basic messege she's giving off here is 'yeah, I'll rally you up and you'll probably agree with me, but if on the off chance you don't, too bad because I'm doing it anyways,'" he sighed. "That's not Gifteds style. Besides, she hates chants. Chants don't let people think. She wants the public as able minded as possible so they can make their own decision,"
"Eh... I still think you're a little confused about this. Calm down," Emric laughed. "So she's trying for a new angle, she's fine,"
"I agree," Dominic nodded.
Nicholas and Rakel, defeated for the time being, gave an uneasy glance at each other and shut up.
Joan kept quiet through the whole ordeal. She felt very uncomfortable about this. Something was very wrong here.

[Gifted]

As Gifted got off the phone she said. "Rakel, Nicholas, I need you," The two got up and followed her into a room where Dominic and Emric were already waiting. "Um guys, I thinkPrincess Gifted wanted us to talk with her ALONE," Rakel said, glancing at Nicholas worriedly.
"No no, we're supposed to be here," Emric said as Gifted shut the door.
And the battle ensued.
Rakel, surprised by the sudden attack, put her hands of fire to defend herself. Unfortunatley, it was Dominic on top of her, so her burning hands had no effect.
Nicholas jumped and stayed in the air when Emric lunged and threwq water at Dominic's back. "What's going on?" he asked.
Dominic howled in pain, the water hitting his flaming back, and he got off Rakel in reaction to the pain. Rakjel rolled away and shot back to her feet. "That's not Dominic's fighting style," she muttered to herself. Suddenly a mirror appeared.
"a...?" Rakel was about to make a cvonfused statement when the mirror cracked and broke into 13 sharp, jagged pieces. The pieces shot at her and tore into her flesh. she screamed in pain. "Nick, help me!"
Nicholas was having his own problems, mainly 13 black cats attacking him. Spraying water on a few he said "I thought Emric couldn't get.. the superstition power he wanted!"As he fought the cats. Finally though, they knocked him out of the air and Emric was on top of him, pinning him down while he sent more and more mirror pieces into rakels flesh until she collapsed, to weak and in pain to move. He placed a hand on each of their heads. "My power is to alter the brainwaves of my subject. When I really focus I can brainwash a person, like I've done with Gifted and Dominic," he said to them as their resistance and conciousness faded. "But messing with your vision to create superstitious beings to attack you? Now that's easy," he released them after a minute. They both got up.
Completley unscathed.

[FoxTrott]

Panem. Gifted's domain.

Not Fox's first choice, but it would do.

A glasses-less, depressed Fox managed to maneuver her boat into a suitable position at a pier. She shakily climbed off the motor boat, and collapsed, staring up at the sky. Tears welled in her eyes, and she closed them tightly before breaking into uncontrollable sobbing.

[Gifted]

Almost immeaditley, she was spotted by civilians. Some filmed her and called the news station, but still others called the palace. As soon as Gifted heard, she sent Eloise and Dominic to go get fox. Eloise teleported to an alley where nobody would see her, then went to fox. "Excuse me, please, we were sent by the Princess, excuse me please," Eloise said to the crowd that had begun to form. "Miss Fox?' Eloise said. "We are here to escort you to the palace. please, come with us. I am Eloise and this is Dominic,"

[FoxTrott]

Normally, Fox would've composed herself enough to stop crying once the civilians came, but these were not normal conditions. She sat up pathetically, and looked at the woman who talked to her. "I-I c-c-can make it on m-my--" She almost finished the sentence before sobbing again. Fox nodded, and shut her eyes before standing up. The sole survivor of Forli took very careful steps towards the two, still crying. She made a motion for them to lead, and wiped her eyes on her wet sleeve before crying again.