Chapter 56: Discrete Information

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As Alex disappeared into Nina's room with both her and Zander, Mallix opened his phone seeing Alex had sent him more than just the image of the Hound. On top of that, Alex had sent him everything he had found out in case Mallix had forgotten. For the next ten minutes or so, Mallix sat left to his thoughts as he re-read the information over and over again not wanting to miss anything.

He read it until he had the entire thing memorized. Scratching his chin, he began to configure out how to incorporate this newfound information into his already established plan. Getting up and leaving into his room to revise the plan, he passed by Nina's room hearing the commotion going on inside.

Her door was left cracked open. Inside he could hear both Alex and Zander laughing hard while he could make out Nina's figure through the crack seeing her acting out a random scenario.

Pushing the door open slightly he looked in seeing them all sitting on her bed. He watched as Nina passed over a timer to Alex while Zander grabbed a card from the middle of her bed, smiling at it, and putting it down. "Go!" Nina clapped as Zander got to his knees and began waving his arms around wildly.

"Wind!" Alex shouted to which Zander shook his head too.

"Waves!" Nina attempted getting the same response as Alex.

"Surfing!...Noodles!...Jellyfish!" They shouted out a continuous line of random objects that seemed to relate to Zander's action. It wasn't until the timer ended did he see Zander pumping his fists into the air in celebration, as Alex and Nina groaned.

"What was it?" Alex asked.

"An..." he dragged out creating playful suspense within the group. "Air dancer!" He broke into laughter nearly falling off the bed as he hung low from laughing so hard.

Both Nina and Alex gasped over the realization of the simplicity of the answer. Clearing his throat and pushing the door open wider, Mallix stood arms crossed in the doorway watching as their easygoing cheerful faces tensed up.

"Hey Mallix," Nina forced a friendly smile while waving him into the room. He entered shutting the door behind him, and took a seat in an empty space besides Alex.

"Want to play?" Zander asked as he sat back down properly on his butt with still a lingering smile on his face from his turn.

"I, uh, actually I wanted to talk to guys about something." He said with concern all over his statement. Both Nina and Zander looked at him waiting for whatever new information Mallix was going to drop on them, meanwhile Alex sat with curiosity.

'M just said he wasn't going to tell them about James?' He thought waiting patiently for his good friend to begin explaining himself. Before Mallix had a chance to start, Alex reached over to his side pulling Zander closer to him. The younger man instinctively clinging close to his side.

Clapping his hands gently Mallix looked over at Nina, "so I was hoping you'd be willing to do me a favor and use some of that costume design skill you have and make me two of these..." he grabbed his phone out and showed her the picture of a Hound uniform.

She raised her eyebrow with suspicion already knowing where this was leading. "Of course, but what's that?" She pointed to the man in the photo.

For a brief second Mallix paused choosing his word choices very carefully. "An outfit I think we'll need to get Lain and Kaila back." He stopped abruptly leaving Nina wanting more.

She was about to ask for more information, but was stopped in her tracked when she caught wind of Alex's glare to leave it as it was. "Yeah I'll make two of them. I'll have to stop by town to grab the supplies, but they'll be done in say two days if I put in overtime." She looked smiling at Mallix who had a look of relief on his face.

"Thanks Nina," he internally checked that box off his list as he looked towards Zander who had snuck his way into Alex's lap. As each day passed, both him and Alex would spent time getting adjusted to their new relationship. One of Zander's new personal favorites was being trapped within Alex's arms whilst being seated in between his legs. Paying no attention to their new seating arrangement, Mallix went straight to business. "Z, think you can give us some tips on being stealthy." Mallix's eyes widened with hope.

The smaller man looked up at Alex as if looking for confirmation. Once Alex nodded in approval, Zander looked back at Mallix and nodded. "Were sneaking in aren't we?" A childlike grin appeared on his smile as scenes from action movies played in his head.

"Yeah something like that Z." Mallix chuckled seeing how bright Zander's face became at the thought of being able to live through a movie scene.

"Come on Mallix, what's up with all the secrecy it doesn't take a genius to realize what your talking about. Just tell us straight up." Nina couldn't contain herself anymore as she actively knew Mallix was withholding information from her.

Not wanting a repeat of the last time the men decided to keep information from her, she continued prying at Mallix to spill what he knew, ignoring Alex's continuous glare to drop it.

As Mallix was screaming to himself for not being discrete enough he knew there was no way he could get what he needed from them without raising suspicion. He sighed wishing things could have gone to plan and kept the details between him and Alex. But seeing the desperation on Nina's face from her urge to know everything, he complied much to Alex's surprise.

Spilling all the information he had spent ten minutes memorizing, Nina and Zander nearly dropped their jaws hearing of the Hounds and barcodes. The rest of the information was just as shocking, but after hearing such crazy news prior they seemed like mere add-ons.

As Mallix was mid way into a sentence about the designs of the Hound uniform with Nina, and Alex was explaining the layout of the facility to Zander all of them got quiet extremely fast when there was a knocked on the door.

Seeing as only one person wasn't in the room, everyone knew who was standing only feet away from them. While Mallix didn't reveal to them his concern about James loyalty, by the way he described their current situation it was apparent the brothers were not on good terms. Their heads all instinctively turning towards the noise, the small group all looked at Mallix questioning what to do.
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Let me know what you think. Thanks Lexx signing off

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