Blink

09:00 - Lync

Diez. A guy not to be messed with or misunderstood. His dark hair is messed up as he comes in from the wind outside. I think a storm is brewing.

He walks towards me just as all the others have done, but something is different about him. He sighs and comes to a stop before sitting on a box to the left of me. I open another energy drink and offer him one. He shakes his head. "Once isn't coming."

I frown at his short blunt statement. Sure, he reminds me a lot of Dos in his sharp ways but this is unusual even for him. "Why?"

It's a short question and a bit of a 'get a out of jail' card but it seems to take Diez a lifetime to respond. "Unlike Seis he is too much of a coward to admit to you in person that he was never part of the twelve. You have two options, one, I give you his riddle now, along with the information I was going to anyway, two, twelve comes an hour early and tells you the riddle instead and you have an extra hour to complete the task."

"Choose wisely."

I think for a minute, weighing up my options. I don't think I need the extra time given that Seis already helped with that in his riddle. "Go with whatever the first one was."

He raises an eyebrow. "You want me to give you his riddle now, along with the information right?"

I think for a second, running it through my head again before nodding in agreement.

Diez sighs. "Okay. Here goes nothing... First, the information I have to give you anyway. As you know, both Seis and Once were never part of the twelve so instead of fourteen being in the Illuminati, there are now only twelve... If you understand what I'm saying..."

I frown at him for a minute before it sinks in fully. "Wait... Larito... Me... No that can't be right... Are you sure?" Diez nods his head. "Oh this is not good. But how can I unlock the twelve's power when we only have eleven...?"

Diez smiles weakly. "Which leads me onto the final riddle." He clears his throat. "From Once:

Once a flower grew.
Grew,grew and grew.
When it opened up,
It was blue, blue, blue.

Then The Blink found it.
Then it died and turned black.
Then a portal opened,
A portal of black, black, black.

The Blink followed the portal,
Back in time he went,
To find his dearest friend,
And save him from his end.

He returned to the flower that grew,
Grew, grew and grew.
When it's name was in the ashes,
It was True, True, True."

Diez swallowed, clearly having a dry throat after the long poem. "Go find True." he said before disappearing. Now I wish I took the extra time...