Liana turned her head slightly, trying to follow the presence behind her "you are afraid of him" she said and immediately the laughter stopped and then the figure stepped back into her view "afraid?" it repeated "no, we are simply ahead of him." The words settled heavily into the space between them, Liana held her ground "you keep saying 'we,'" she said "who exactly are you?" the figure became still and then slowly It answered in an unnatural voice "we are the ones who decide, what happens next" Liana exhaled slowly as she looked from her angle how this figure spoke and stood with so much confidence. "If you wanted information," she said, "you would have asked for it already." "Correct," the voice replied " this is not interrogation, it was never an interrogation from the very s

