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(Agnostos kíndynos = Stranger danger.)

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"Where is the bar?" Jasoslav asked, as Lukyan led him through the crowds in the Aexizanian streets.     

"Not too much farther, just a couple of blocks!" Lukyan insisted. "See!" He and his companion came to a stop.      

Monsters slid into the bar in a line.     

Lukyan huffed. "Well, the bouncer won't let us in. I know that for sure."  

Jasoslav thought for a moment before saying, "We can go in through there." Jasoslav pointed to the slightly open back down.      

Lukyan smiled, "Good thinking."    

The two approached the backdoor.   

Jasoslav pulled it open a little more and peaked in. He looked back to Lukyan. "The coast is clear." Then Jasoslav slipped into the bar with Lukyan following.       

They let the door swing shut behind them.       Casually, they both headed down the hallway and slipped into the crowd, trying to blend in. 

"I can't believe we got in," Lukyan said to Jasoslav, moving a little bit and nudging the person beside them.    

The person, a boy about twelve-ish with dark skin, looked over. He smiled. "Well I'll damned. There's other kids here."    

 Jasoslav and Lukyan then looked to the boy.        
The boy smiled holding his hand out for both of them to shake. "I'm Akachi Kariuki. You guys are?"      

They both shook his hand.      

"I'm Lukyan and this is Jasoslav Sklairov."    

Akachi sniffed, still smiling. "A demon and a siren, huh?"   

Lukyan froze in place. "How did you just do that?"     

Akachi then told them, "I'm a Werewolf. And we're known for our peak senses."   

Lukyan gave a quick smile to Jasoslav. "You hear that, demon?"      

  Jasoslav chuckled slightly.   

In the front of the bar, Zephyria Xenakis was giving a musical performance and the whole bar was enchanted and lost in her mystical voice.        

A voice beside the three boys cleared their throat. "Do you young men have ID on you?"   

Akachi, Jasoslav, and Lukyan slowly looked over at the bouncer.  

"How did you know we were here?" Akachi nervously asked the bouncer.   

"Well, kid, your friends over here," he gestured to Jasoslav and Lukyan, "weren't the slyest getting in here. You three are coming with me."  

Lukyan nervously giggled before starting to softly go, "Aaaa, oooh~". He was cut off by the bouncer backhand slapping him across the face.   
  
The bouncer scoffed. "I'm not gonna let any of that siren mumbo-jumbo crap fly." The bouncer then grabbed the three boys and began to drag them out of the crowd. They all tried to struggle out of the bouncer's grasp. "Stop fighting me! That'll only make things worse for you." Then he told them, "You three are coming with me and that's the end of the discussion. You're all in big trouble."    

"Let us go," Jasoslav whimpered.

"Agnostos kíndynos!" Lukyan shouted.

"We don't know this man!" Akachi chimed in. 

"What do you think you're going to accomplish? Nobody is gonna pay you any mind."    

That wasn't true. All of the shouting had caught the attention of someone with power, with status. He waltzed over. "What's going on here?"

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