"Yeah," Axel agreed, "You bet I'm ready." He looked down and raised his foot as one of the little robots hurried past him to the German's side. "It looks like Adrian's getting treated pretty well, so he should be okay to move soon. Lily went out to speak with Kojuuro, but I think they'll be ready too. They've been gone a while though..."
Glancing out, Axel was about to make his way to where Lily had headed to see if everything was alright when he noticed Marie making her way over. He gave her a grateful smile. "Hey. Thanks for coming to help, I didn't really think he was going to make it for a second there. I'm Axel." He offered her a hand. "This is Soren, and that's Tony. Or Don Tony if you don't want to get whacked."
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Marcus glared at Emilena. Rising slowly from the chair, he stalked over to her. "Whoever you pray to, thank him that you won't get to see everything we've got." Pulling his knife from the back of his belt, he pressed the blade against her face, just enough to drawn a thin line of blood. "Yet," he growled, as he raised the knife and cut the rope connecting her to the pulley, his mouth twisted in a snarl as he watched her collapse to the floor.
Sheathing the knife, he yanked one of her arms up behind her back and grabbed a fistful of her hair, pulling Emilena up. "We're getting her to the cells," he said lowly to Aaron. "The sooner we're done with her, the sooner I can make her really scream."
Marcus dragged her out of the room, and down the maze of corridors leading to the cells. He stopped outside the one marked C3. Motioning for Aaron to open it, he leaned down to Emilena's ear. "We'll see you later," he growled as he tossed her in and slammed the door behind her. He looked sideways at the German Shepard. "That was a first. But at least you got her to start talking."