Fellowship & Fairydust

That comment made me gasp as the figure vanished into the oval of black mists. Heartless? Here? That wasn’t good. Looking at Kairi, I was about to speak when I heard the man voice his thoughts. “Those monsters are called Heartless? Now, they’re the things I’ve been trying to tell you about. They keep swarming around the Black Hole and the kid won’t go with them near–” 

“Snoops. I don’t care about excuses. What I want are results, and the result I want most is that girl to find me my big diamond.” I blinked at that. The Devil’s Eye was a diamond? They have diamonds in this world too?

“But if that person knows about these monsters, maybe we should call this whole thing off. The kid brought up plenty of beauties that’ll sell for a lot of cold cash.” 

“I want that diamond. I’ve got to have the Devil’s Eye. You haven’t left her down in the cave long enough, Snoops. That’s why she hasn’t found it. You are too soft, scared by a bunch of stupid pests.”

“She won’t take orders. The water was rising and the tide was coming in and all she did was complain about her teddy bear getting wet.”
“You don’t have a way with children. You must gain their confidence. Make them like you.”
“Yeah? How do you do that?”

“You force them to like you, idiot! At the next low tide, I’m going to put her down there myself, and keep her there until she finds it, and it is as simple as that!” 

“Oh, as simple as that? Well, you’re the boss, boss.”

“Yes. Now, come along and we’ll get that cut looked at.” She told her pets as she left the room with them.

Looking at Kairi, I said, “I don’t know about you, but I say we need to get the others and make sure we get that girl out of here tonight.” 

“I agree. I don’t want her to spend another second with that abusive witch. We’ll have to use our Keyblades to get out of here though.”

“You aren’t going anywhere, Keyblade Princess.” 

BRAXTON’S POV

As the call ended I ended up looking at everyone upon hearing her suspicions. A traitor? Here? Could one of the Downtrod have infiltrated Yeller Sciences Space Station? No, something about that didn’t seem right, and yet what else could it be?

“What’s on your mind?” Johri asked. 

“What Clair said.” Looking at Gracie, I asked, “Is there any record of who sent Jason and Clair out of the station when that quake hit?” 

The girl, who had been nodding off for some reason, jolted awake when I spoke to her. “Shake sit? I never sat on a shake before.”

“No. The day of that tremor in space almost six months ago. Can you pull up the records of who sent those two out there on that day?”

“Uh… maybe? But the computers change the stored data about as much as Eini has outfits.” 

“Just do what you can.” 

“Where exactly are you going with this?” Eini asked me. 

Looking at her, I said, “Clair suspects there is a traitor in the station, and we’re going to find out who. If we know who was where on the day they went poof, and who was doing what, we can start ruling some names out.”

“What do we do if we find them?” Eini asked.

I paused at that because I hadn’t thought that far ahead. “We figure out a plan to apprehend them and turn them over to the authorities.”

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