- Aetius Barak - I stepped behind a huge tree and shifted back into my human form, the shirt and pants I was wearing earlier were still tied to my leg but I had no intention of wearing them back, nor was I willing to throw them away. "We thought you were dead!" Derek cried in agitation and handed me the clothes aggressively behind the tree. I took them without a word and wore them, finally happy to have something clean covering my body. "Don't be so dramatic now, you should have known better than to think that. My bond with y'all was still there." Although I couldn't contact them because of the silver lined walls around me, they should have felt my alive senses through the bond. I emerged from behind the tree now fully clothed. However the gross feeling was still crawling over my