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"No..." Goetic admitted. "But I heard that there was a country to the south with plains of sand. Not like the beach, but..." His eyes scanned the horizon and he didn't see one. No lake. No ocean. No rivers. No grass. "A place without water."

"Things can survive even in a place like this," The Devil explained. "You'd be surprised at how tenacious living creatures can be. Human or not... I have an interest in all of them."

Goetic stood up as his surroundings shifted again. Now he was in a darkened corridor. A cramped and somewhat scary place filled with cobwebs. And he was sure there were monsters and traps around the next corner. He thought about his gun and wondered if it had come here with him. It had. "Where...?"

"You may want to silence your voice, here, and speak only with your mind," the Devil warned him.

He began to do that. Somehow his words were forming in his mind but they had reached that Devil in the distance. His eyes, which had always shown he was an Abnormal, were glowing in the dark here. "Where did you bring me?"

"It's where you wanted to go, isn't it?" The Devil inquired. Cain's Estate.

Goetic wanted to know what happened here, yes. He was curious to know if the Devil had been in contact with Avel or Cainas or anyone else from these lands. Before he could ask those questions he was more concerned about something else. He sure as hell didn't want to be here alone. "Is it really safe?"

"I can protect you," the Devil told him. "I can reunite you with your friends... if you wish."

"Friends?" Goetic wasn't sure about that. He'd never been good at making friends. He wasn't human, after all. There wasn't a person he could get along with easily. And his own kind, like Ignael, tended to be mean and put him away.

"Heh. Heh heh..." the Devil chuckled. "Well, if you don't want to be alone, you may be happy to know that I'm going to stick with you for a while. By the way, Bright Eyes, why don't you call me Gray?"

"Something between light and dark," Goetic blurted out. "Is that how you view yourself?"

Gray was scanning the area, though Goetic didn't know how he knew that. The guy didn't answer his question. Instead, he totally changed the subject. "For now, they may not be your friends, but I'll find you a group of pawns to keep you safe."

"It'll be annoying if this body gets killed," Gray explained

Goetic wondered if he had any value beyond that, but he was sure he wouldn't get an honest answer to that kind of question.

[End]

8. Where will Gray send Goetic?
A. Lower entrance.
B. Front Entrance.
C. Collapsed Wall.

Note; Goetic's placement determines chapter order. Goetic's group will always go last in the chapter order. He will not appear again until chapter 11, and the same goes for the group he is placed with. I won't explicitly spell out which group is which but it should be pretty easy to figure it out.

The Ditch Party
Dismas the Guilty - eddv
Maria Taylor - nfun
Abom, the Chained Man - decider
Cata Spade - Cata

The Shell Party
Torin Gemmason - Mana
Lancer Aaron - FB
Enoch the Wanderer - crazy
Jen Lowell - pk2k
Leone the Cat - CPU

The Moth Party
Captain Punch - xey
Owen the Coward - stan
Beastkin Zephyr - ermine
Matsuda - trdl
Fakeru - fake
Gunslinger Kidd - drak

We're still waiting on Maniac to get caught up and give a placement to Inspector Jamison as well, but he has until Sunday morning-ish to do that. Lefty doesn't get to place Goetic directly, but the group as a whole can decide where Gray might choose to send Goetic against his will.
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