[No one]

"Has anyone seen the pile of papers that was here like five minutes ago?" Meadow asked, turning to look at the rest of people in the library.

"There are many piles of papers. I haven't paid attention to any certain one," Tatton answered without even raising his hidden eyes from the book he was holding.

"I saw the pile there, but didn't do anything to it," Xenex answered from the bookcases where he was currently looking for something.

"⍑ᔑ⍊ᒷ  ||𝙹⚍   ᓵ⍑ᒷᓵꖌᒷ↸   ╎⎓   ᓭ𝙹ᒲᒷ𝙹リᒷ ⍑ᔑᓭ   ᒲ𝙹⍊ᒷ↸   ╎ℸ ̣    ℸ ̣ 𝙹   ᔑリ𝙹ℸ ̣ ⍑ᒷ∷ 
ℸ ̣ ᔑʖꖎᒷ?" Friede questioned, running her red eyes over all the paper piles that were in the room.

"I have looked through all the piles here, non of them is the one I need," Meadow answered with a sigh as she leaned against the bookcases on the wall behind her.

"Were those papers something really important?" Xenex asked, turning to look at the crimson haired Rookie. "We'll help you look for them if they were."

"They were just copies of some old reports. ᔑꖎ↸ᒷリ's making me write copies of the histories of the servers that ended drastically. For example Evolution, which was the one those missing papers were about," she answered. "I'll just have to write those again, but well, it's not like I have anything better to do anyways," she continued with a shrug.

"ᒲᒷᔑ, I'll throw ⚍!¡  to(n) be your problem," Mao said from the office. "I don't have any use for him right now. You can make him write the papers with you."

"Yay, an unpaid child worker," Meadow smirked.

"⚍!¡'s 21, you're 19. You're both adults, he's older than you, and you're calling him a child worker?" Tatton pointed out, even though he found it kinda hilarious.

"He's on his way, prepare the paper and reports you need because I don't know how long you can use him for," Mao informed from the office.

"Got it," Meadow answered through the open door next to her.

"By the way ᒲᒷᔑ, you have to go meet up with ꖎᒷᓭᓭ╎ᒷ when you have the time to. ᔑꖎ↸ᒷリ's making her a Lead soon and then you'll be taking her place as the Rookie leader," Kasen mentioned as he walked past the office.

"Alright!" Meadow answered.

"I'm here. What do you want from me?" Upton groaned as he stepped into the office.

[No one]

          They buried their bleeding hands into the dirt again, digging the dirt. Their clothes were ruined and the rain was making the dirt muddy. The place didn't help either, or the gravestone that was in front of them.

The darkness was bothering their eyes since they weren't wearing their mask, but they didn't care. The mask made them feel sick, they hated it. It reminded them of the fact that they were just a slave. They had been a slave for ten years and it didn't seem to be enough still. The Hell would go on and on.

          The mud was cold and the rain was making their short, sandy blonde hair stick to their face. The darkness made it almost impossible to see anywhere and they were slowly sinking into the mud as they continued to dig.

Suddenly their hand hit something. They quickly pulled it away, but placed it back to wipe away the mud to see what they had found.

In the mud was a rotting face of a female. The parasites had been eating her away slowly and there were a lot of bones visible in her body that they had dug visible.

"It wasn't supposed to be a female, was it..?" they muttered to themselves, looking up, trying to see what the grave said. Without their mask they obviously did not succeed, but since the body was wrong they knew they had made a mistake.

          After spending a good amount of time throwing all the dirt back into the grave, they turned to look at the other graves. They bit their lip and tried to figure out which one was the right one.

"This one missed a ship, let's see if this one will sink it," they muttered and started to dig the grave next to it. "Too bad these are oneshot ships," they sighed.

"I really wish someone would play ship sinking game with me again someday.." they mumbled, knowing it would never happen.

          Hours later their fingers finally met flesh again. They wiped the dirt away, only to see that now the body was a male, but it wasn't a Watcher. They missed again.

The rain continued to fall as they stood up and climbed out of the grave. In front of them were a pair of black, heeled boots. They raised their eyes to see a female with long, ginger hair and naturally purple eyes with a curious look in them.

"What's a Watcher like you doing out here, digging up graves?" she asked with a mysterious tone in her voice.

"I'm trying to find something, but I haven't dug up the right one yet. It's too dark to see the names," they answer.

"Who might you be looking for?" she asked, snapping her fingers. They spun around to see that the grave had been filled by the snap of her fingers.

"-------," they answered hesitatedly while analysing the appearance of the female, who seemed to be a witch.

"Well, looks like you were only one too left, this is his grave!" the witch sang and pointed towards the grave next to the previous one.

"Thank you for your help," they nodded quietly and began digging.

The witch didn't say anything. She just disappeared into the darkness, leaving them to continue the digging alone.

          Their hands finally hit the familiar material of a Watcher's mask. Looking down at the body, they immediately knew that they had found the right one.

They placed their hands on the mask and pulled it off from the face, tearing some of the skin that had remained in his face with it.

The mask had snapped in two from the middle, but otherwise it looked pretty normal. It had a few bloodstains that were most likely from its owner, but the condition of the mask didn't really matter to them.

[No one]

          She looked at the papers in her hands. They were shaking. She knew that technically she hadn't done anything wrong, yet, but she wasn't a fan of doing stuff like it anyways.

She folded the papers and slipped them under her dark red cloak before anyone could see her with them, even though no one would have questions anything since they all walked with papers all the time. She was just afraid that it would be Meadow who would walk in on her and recognise the papers she had written by herself.

Voices began echoing through the hallway along with quick footsteps. She quickly began moving, trying to look as natural as possible.

"ꖎᒷᓭꖎ╎ᒷ! ∴ᔑ╎ℸ ̣!" someone called out for her. She stopped and turned around to see Winslow hurrying towards her.

"∴⍑ᔑℸ ̣  ╎ᓭ ╎ℸ ̣?" she asked with a smile on her face. A smile that she hid her guilt behind.

"ᓭ𝙹, ╎ℸ ̣ 'ᓭ   リ𝙹ℸ ̣    ᒲ||   ⎓ᔑ⚍ꖎℸ ̣ ,   ʖ⚍ℸ ̣    ꖎ||リ ᔑリ↸   ╎   ᒲᔑ↸ᒷ   ᔑ   ᒲᒷᓭᓭ   ╎リ  
ℸ ̣ ⍑ᒷ    !¡⚍ʖꖎ╎ᓵ   ꖎ╎ʖ∷ᔑ∷||    ᔑリ↸    ⍑ᒷ ⋮⚍ᓭℸ ̣    ⊣𝙹ℸ ̣    ᓭℸ ̣ ⚍ᓵꖌ   ╎リ  ᔑ
∷ᒷ↸ᓭℸ ̣ 𝙹リᒷ   ᒲᔑᓵ⍑╎リᒷ    ᔑリ↸    ᔑꖎᒲ𝙹ᓭℸ ̣  ʖ∷𝙹ꖌᒷ   ⍑╎ᓭ   ʖᔑᓵꖌ, ᓭ𝙹  ⍑ᒷ
ᓵᔑリ'ℸ ̣  ⍑ᒷꖎ!¡   ᒲᒷ   ᓵꖎᒷᔑリ ╎ℸ ̣  ⚍!¡. 𝙹ꖎ╎ ∴╎ꖎꖎ   ꖌ╎ꖎꖎ   ᒲᒷ ╎⎓  ╎ ↸𝙹リ'ℸ ̣  ↸𝙹 ╎ℸ ̣ , ᓭ𝙹 ᓵᔑリ ||𝙹⚍ ⍑ᒷꖎ!¡ ᒲᒷ?" Winslow explained with a sheepish look on his masked face.

"⍑𝙹∴ ↸╎↸ ꖎ||リ ⊣ᒷℸ ̣  ᓭℸ ̣ ⚍ᓵꖌ ╎リ ᔑ ∷ᒷ↸ᓭℸ ̣ 𝙹リᒷ ᒲᔑᓵ⍑╎リᒷ ╎ᓭ ∴⍑ᔑℸ ̣  ╎ ∴ᔑリℸ ̣  ℸ ̣ 𝙹 ꖌリ𝙹∴," Leslie answered. If she was honest, she had expected something like this, but also she hadn't expected anything exactly like this.

"∴ᒷ ∴ᒷ∷ᒷ ᓵ⍑ᒷᓵꖌ╎リ⊣ 𝙹⚍ℸ ̣  ᔑリ 𝙹ꖎ↸ ᓭᒷ∷⍊ᒷ∷ ᔑリ↸ ℸ ̣ ⍑ᒷ∷ᒷ ∴ᔑᓭ ᔑ ⍑𝙹⚍ᓭᒷ ∴╎ℸ ̣ ⍑ ᔑ ∴𝙹𝙹↸ᒷリ ⎓ꖎ𝙹𝙹∷. ℸ ̣ ⍑ᒷ ⎓ꖎ𝙹𝙹∷ ʖ∷𝙹ꖌᒷ ᔑリ↸ ⍑ᒷ ⎓ᒷꖎꖎ ℸ ̣ ⍑∷𝙹⚍⊣⍑ ╎ℸ ̣  ℸ ̣ 𝙹 ᓭ𝙹ᒲᒷ ᓭ𝙹∷ℸ ̣  𝙹⎓ ᒲᔑᓵ⍑╎リᒷ ℸ ̣ ⍑ᔑℸ ̣  ∴ᔑᓭ ᓭℸ ̣ ╎ꖎꖎ ∴𝙹∷ꖌ╎リ⊣. ℸ ̣ ⍑ᒷ ʖᔑᓭ╎ᓵ, ||𝙹⚍ ꖌリ𝙹∴," Winslow continued to explain.

Leslie sighed, "╎ ⊣⚍ᒷᓭᓭ ℸ ̣ ⍑ᔑℸ ̣  ╎ ↸𝙹リ'ℸ ̣  ⍑ᔑ⍊ᒷ ᔑリ|| 𝙹ℸ ̣ ⍑ᒷ∷ 𝙹!¡╎リ╎𝙹リᓭ, ↸𝙹 ╎?"

"╎ ꖌリᒷ∴ ℸ ̣ ⍑ᔑℸ ̣  ╎ ᓵ𝙹⚍ꖎ↸ ℸ ̣ ∷⚍ᓭℸ ̣  ||𝙹⚍!" Winslow exclaimed, clapping his hands together. Leslie felt her heart stop after hearing it.

'I trust you.' That's what they all always said to her. They all trusted her, but she wished they didn't.

[No one]

     "So, are you going back to Hermitcraft today?" Kasen asked, tilting his head.

"Yeah, the base has to be finished before we can start the fun part: the fighting. I can't let Iskall finish it off all alone, plus I'm the one who has the design for it," Xelqua answered and he slipped his black, fingerless gloves off his hands.

"Remember to take breaks and be careful with your hand. We wouldn't want it getting worse, would we?" Kasen said with his playful smile on his lips.

        The glass behind a blurry figure broke as a body flew through it. Glassy, purple eyes stared at him. The lips were bloody and there wasn't even a hint of the playful smile.

         Xelqua shook away the disturbing image. He didn't know why he saw it, but it felt familiar, too familiar.

"Yeah, don't worry about me," he answered to Kasen, so he wouldn't start worrying because of a too long pause. "I'll be fine."

         That had been a lie.

On the floor of the G-team base laid something that made his breath hitch and heartbeat fasten. Something that he wished he wouldn't have seen ever again.

On the floor was a Watcher mask. Taurtis' Watcher mask. The mask that had been on his face when he had been buried.

He didn't know which one was more creepier: the fact that the mask was there, or the fact that someone had dug Taurtis' grave to get it.

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[4.2.2022]

(So much going on here-)

(Anyways, it's Meadow's birthday!)

(Is it just me or are these drawings starting to look better? I'm actually finally starting to spend more time on each of them-)

(Anyways, Mea's 19 now, I think. I keep getting confused if that's her age in the book she appeared, which was like The Fallen Council (?). But well, that's her age in 2018 now.)

(5 facts:

1. Mea was the first of the Original Rookies to appear and she made her first appearance in TFC chapter XVIII.

2. Her name is Zaleria Evilian (First name and last name), but her full name is Zaleria Auria Meadow Evilian. She chose to use her 3rd name instead of 2nd name because she likes it more.

3. She's going to be the Rookies' leader after Leslie. (I actually can't remember if Leslie became a Lead yet- But I'm assuming she didn't yet?)

4. She's from the Original Nether and had some Nether burns on her skin.

5. She's one of the people who break the clothing rules. (The rules say to wear a black collared shirt with long sleeves and long black trousers.) She wears only the black trousers (In the drawing she has dark grey trousers, but black marker ruins everything underneath it and I don't have a darker grey marker-) and her shirt is a cherry coloured t-shirt.)