"You're coming with me." Without another word Nancy scooped Sakura underarm, figuring that if she wanted to be trained to be a better fighter then this was her chance. The schoolgirl could protest all she liked, right now she wasn't in the mood. Nancy had allowed her son's kidnapping to affect her long enough, it was time she did something about it.

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"Nothing from fingerprints," Jessie mused, thinking. "If they were professionals that would stand to reason." Which seemed to indicate that Mina was in on it, one way or another.

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"I think we've finally broken him." The jailers holding Lucian had been hard at work trying to turn Lucian against his mother and her beliefs when Mina walked in. "Hey, good news. Even if Nancy does come for her son he'll be unrecogniseable." Her reply was to give an impassive look at some of the material used to brainwash the boy. "Don't you know what this means? Imagine how crushed she'll be, not to mention how we can turn others to our ways."

"You forced him to turn on his mother?" Mina asked.

"Don't put it like that. We showed just how bad a woman she is." Since she had become involved Mina was able to provide better conditions for Lucian, justifying that prisoner or not he had to be treated humanely to ensure that he didn't gain sympathy. Clearly that was something she didn't have to be concerned with.

"You forced him to turn on his mother?" she repeated, sounding like it was rather distasteful.

"You gave us the idea." Mina glared at the jailer. "Arn't you all into that corruption..." he trailed off under her intense gaze.

"We need to move Lucian to another location." Mina began moving to get Lucian. "Now. If we fail to kill Nancy she will be gunning for us."