Siana

Frustrated, she got up from the bed with difficulty and put on her sports clothes. It was summer, so the weather was quite hot, so she wore black leggings and a white tank top, through which one could clearly see her black sports bra. She then tied her hair in a high ponytail. If Cain were to see her dressed like this he would definitely fume, but she couldn"t care less now: it was hot, and she knew it was going to get even hotter when she started running. And anyways, the places where Kalix chose for her to run at usually lacked any people, so she didn"t need to worry about "exposing too much skin" as Cain would put it.

As she exited the living complex, she approached a man with brown hair and brown eyes. Though the man had a great built, he had really average looks.

"Tsk, his skin mask sure makes his life easier."

However, only Kalix knew how he hated to put on skin masks, because his skin easily got irritated from those. But the boss didn"t allow him to complain to Sia because he knew full well that the moment she learned about his dislike, she wouldn"t allow Kalix to continue wearing the masks, more realistically she would use this excuse to ditch him to avoid the trainings. Because of this a great misunderstanding was created, whereas she thought that Kalix actually enjoyed putting on different skin masks and thus she had no way of ditching him to slack off, ahem train, on her own.

When teaching, Kalix turned to his stern soldier self, and wouldn"t allow her to laze around as she wished. So without giving her a leeway for excuses, he started the warm up exercises with her. After a while they started running in the nearby park, where there were only a few people there.

Though today only involved jogging, Sia could already feel all her muscles hurting after an hour of running, and neither stretching nor taking a hot shower helped her much with the pain afterwards.

She ended up going to the hospital in her stiffly state, and as she arrived earlier than usual, she decided to go to organise her paperwork which has been piling up for the last few days, completely oblivious to the storm that was brewing outside...

- Somewhere in Ribekia -

Luke had three goals to fulfil with his arrival in Ribekia. Firstly, he needed to find the hacker to have him completely under his control. Secondly, he needed to investigate the Dragon"s movements. And finally, he had to find out the agenda of the Herondales in the city. He was pretty sure that the Herondales weren"t here just for holidays, as that Archie claimed. Taking into account the rumours regarding Jason Herondale"s health, was it possible that he was...

His thoughts were suddenly interrupted by Paul, who pretty much barged in with a rarely seen excitement on his face:

"We have located the Herondale head!"

His words surprised even Luke, and a smirk formed on his lips:

"Finally, I am going to catch your tail."

He looker up to Paul, waiting for more details. Understanding his intentions, Paul didn"t let him wait for long,

"Actually, there has been a commotion in the Central Hospital lately, though the staff have been told to keep their mouths shut and the information confidential, there naturally were some loose mouthed ones."

He stepped up and unblocked his phone to show a video from a bar. In the video, a few young men were chatting and drinking. He skipped straight to the end of the video, and one could clearly hear the conversation between the young men:

"I wonder who the big shot today was, hic," one of the men who was in his 20s slurred while chugging on a mug of beer.

The other man who was sprawled over the table raised his head and said sluggishly, "tell me about it... if the president didn"t give a live speech today ... I"d think it was the president ... operated on. I mean ... 5th floor of the hospital ... on ... lockdown? And the neurosurgeons... even my G.o.ddess..."

Paul stopped the video here, and taking a breath explained,

"We have investigated the hospital, and the 5th floor, where the high end surgical theatres are, has really been on lockdown for the past 5 days, today included. However, the weird thing is that no surgery was recorded on those days on the fifth floor, but none of the neurosurgeons cancelled any of their surgeries. Nonetheless, the head neurosurgeon Dr. Brown, who is a world famous neurosurgeon, was absent most of the day 5 days ago. But what is even more out of place is that some of the doctors and scrub nurses returned home much later then their shifts ended, this Dr. Brown included."

As if catching on his thoughts Luke continued with a sly smile on his face,

"They operated at night, but didn"t account for the part where their departure times are recorded, thus leaving a loophole in the plan."

"They actually did account for that: the data was tempered with, and all the registry information was rewritten." As if thinking of something, Paul continued, "additionally, on the second day, some recordings were not simply concealed, but were completely erased, and nothing could be recovered. The intelligence team claims that this could only be done by hackers of SSS level, and there really are not that many of those species around. "

"The sly lizard," Luke chuckled.

Paul hummed slowly in agreement, "I guess they thought that we would never think of looking for them at a public hospital. However, wether it was the Dragon or not, one thing is clear, that there is a person of high standing in the hospital. Moreover, Mark Herondale has been seen in the vicinity of the hospital, so it should be them."

"Haha, I get that," Luke laughed in delight. "Have the team investigate which doctors other than that Dr. Brown have been in the hospital that night. Also, find information on the supplies used in the hospital. If you cannot get this done in a day, just interrogate one of those people. We really have those loose mouthed trashes to thank."

At the mention of those interns, recounting their conversation, Luke asked abruptly, "So who is that G.o.ddess?"