[OP: "Zero"--Imagine Dragons]

"Okay, here's the deets--" Zoey held her phone in front of her face. "So there's some conflicting stories, but apparently there was this big tragedy or something around the band. I think it was some kind of accident, like a car accident maybe? I think it was hushed up, so not sure what caused it, but after that, apparently a lot of their fans ditched them, and they broke up some time later... Then, they tried to do a comeback, and after that, they disappeared." She made spooky hands and a face at that last part.

"A k-pop band just disappeared?" Rumi said, confused. "How is that possible?"

"Eh, well, 20 years ago social media wasn't as big. I guess maybe people didn't keep tabs on them?" Zoey suggested. "Or...there was a more sinister reason." Still with the spooky tone.

"Can you stop that?" Mira was finding it creepy. "So they broke up, so what? Happens all the time. I don't think most bands break up and sell their souls to the devil."

"Nah, but we don't know how it works." Zoey glanced toward Jinu. "I know who we could ask though."

"Do we have to ask him? I don't want to know how people get enslaved by Gwi-Ma." Mira grimaced.

"But...uh...that's kind of what we need," Rumi said. "I think I can answer this one, though. He already told me the patterns appeared after he made the deal with Gwi-Ma...uh, assuming he was telling the truth about that part." She realized she didn't really know how much Jinu had lied to her about.

"So, you don't know?" Mira took that out of her statement.

"Uhh...well, it must have been at least close to it." Rumi didn't think he would have twisted that part much, since he'd never corrected it when they'd argued later.

"I'm filled with confidence." Mira was sarcastic.

"So ask him." Zoey nudged Rumi.

"On a train?" Rumi said.

"No one else is that close," Zoey said.

The train wasn't too full at the moment...but the last time they'd been on a train with...anything with patterns (other than Rumi), it hadn't gone so well.

The Saja Boys were staring blankly out the window without any seeming thought in their heads, as they always did when no one was talking to them.

"They really creep me out," Mira declared. "Definitely not even cute anymore."

"No?" Zoey said. "I mean, they're still pretty fine...you know...if you ignore the other part."

"I can't ignore that part," Mira said.

Zoey wasn't quite convinced that Mira was really as immune as she said, but getting the ick from the Saja Boys after the concert was certainly understandable.

"Doesn't matter," Rumi said. "That's not our focus. We need to be figuring out the rest of it...but so far, they seem...normal...I mean...for them. No patterns glowing, nothing, other than the eyes sometimes. Gwi-Ma is so weak right now...but will he stay that way?"

"Looking at it objectively--" Mira crossed her arms. "--if they still hear his voice, he's not gone. Right? But how does that work? I've never been told that. Celine never said demons hear his voice."

"Not just demons, anyone who has shame can hear it," Rumi said. "And if the shame consumes you...so does Gwi-Ma. That's what Jinu said, that it spread until he was dragged to that realm. Not sure how much it has to spread for that..." She felt her arms. "I must have gotten very close."

Uneasy looks from Zoey and Mira. They remembered the voice as well still.

"Even the mutants heard his voice," Zoey then said. "So...no one is immune. That doesn't tell us a whole lot. But, if there was a scandal around this boy band...assuming they really are that band, but...like, rebranded in the worst possible way, then we could have the answer to how Gwi-Ma got to them. You know how we're supposed to avoid scandals."

"And our public breakup nearly cost us all our fans," Rumi said. "So if they broke up, yeah, that would be bad for them. But enough to sell your soul to Gwi-Ma?" She shuddered. "I mean..."

However, the other two could imagine it. Losing their band had crushed them enough to give in to Gwi-Ma's voice.

They realized that Rumi not finding it as bad (at least she had not been entranced) might indicate that the group was less important to her than her other shame.

Mira, at least, might resent this implication.

Zoey wasn't sure whether it was bad or just that Rumi had a different focus from the beginning from them, and they had never known why. Clearly, she'd wanted to settle her personal problems through Huntrix, so it was never wholly about them... Did that change anything?

In the end, she'd chosen them, though, so they couldn't hold a grudge...right?

But then again...her focus immediately moving to the Saja Boys was kind of a kick in the head...

They didn't want to fight over it again, but they privately both had to be wondering if Rumi's real priority was still really Huntrix.

"So did we solve it?" Zoey hastened to change the subject out loud before they could get really awkward.

Mira shook off her dark mood a little. "Not sure... They don't remember a lot about themselves...clearly. How would they even confirm it if we asked them?"

"We have to jog some memory loose," Rumi said. "We just need one of them to start remembering who they are to confirm it, and if we do, we'd get a lot closer to finding out what their deal was...and maybe then, we could break it. There has to be a way."

"It's not even like they want our help," Mira grumbled. "So much effort, and they don't even care. I don't think they even can care anymore."

Rumi didn't like that. "They have feelings, Mira. That was a lie that they didn't...well, at least that all of them don't. The former human ones feel things."

"Maybe that's just the ones who have memory," Mira said.

"Imagine not wanting to remember who you are that badly," Zoey sighed. "I almost feel sorry for them. Must have felt a lot of shame to choose it."

"But they remember how to be K-pop stars." Rumi tapped her chin. "Convenient, for Gwi-Ma...but what if, then, he couldn't take all their memories without making them useless? There is still something there... Maybe it's suppression, not removal. There's a chance then."

"And this is just a theory," Mira said. "Why did we need to put our vacation, and our lives, on hold for guys who literally tried to murder us last week?"

"It's not that black and white," Rumi protested. "We talked about this already...They didn't fully know what they were doing."

"Great excuse for anything," Mira said. "As far as I'm concerned, if they chose to become puppets, then it's just like being a drunk driver... Even if you didn't know what you were doing, you still did something that led to being in that position to make that mistake."

"Is being a demon really the same as being a drunk driver?" Zoey didn't want them to fight again. "I mean...maybe Gwi-Ma is more influential than just drinking would be..."

"Yeah, he has to be," Rumi said. "I can't believe they really understood what they were doing. Who would ever choose that?"

"You don't know that no one would. They could just be that depraved," Mira argued.

"This not getting us anywhere, Mira." Rumi felt they were just doing it again. "We agreed to try."

"Yeah, and all Zoey dug up so far is that they probably broke up, which implies a reason for it," Mira said. "So everything is pointing to them being bad people even before Gwi-Ma."

"Uh...but we broke up too," Zoey said.

Pause.

"For one day." Mira then sat back and lifted her disguise magazine. "That's not the same thing."

Uneasy silence.

While none of the Saja Boys had paid any attention to this conversation, Jinu had caught bits and pieces of it, and so had the two mutants.

Mystique exchanged a look with Morph and shook her head.

Morph supposed that Mira wouldn't change her mind so easily just because of their talk, but he wished she'd at least try to control her pessimism. It was clearly stressing Rumi out to have her keep bringing up all the cons to the situation.

And Zoey was getting caught in the middle, yet again.

"Guess they didn't work out all their issues," he said weakly.

"In one week? Who would?" Mystique said. "They weren't ready for this, I'm starting to think. You and I are one thing--what do we care if the Saja Boys nearly wiped out a city? It's nothing we haven't done...but they're still unwilling to take the blame for anything."

"Is that really what their problem is?" Morph wasn't so sure. "Do they sound like they don't feel guilty?"

"Still, they are denying being guilty," Mystique said. "But the fact is, we have no idea if the Saja Boys did anything that bad. Jinu's entire crime was getting out of poverty and leaving his family behind... That's pretty selfish, but it's hardly the supervillain level of evil. The boys probably just did ordinary sins that they felt bad enough for, and Gwi-Ma took over... Who says that they are big sins anyway? Wouldn't it be far more easy for people to fall into shame over ordinary sins than big ones? People who do great evil don't usually feel shame--they're just crazy."

"That's actually pretty insightful," Morph said. "You have a point there."

"I can hear you, you know," Jinu said, sounding somber.

"Sorry, didn't mean to make it awkward," Morph said.

"I can't believe you think what I did wasn't that bad," Jinu said. "If you think about it, I got a lot of people killed just to save myself."

"Perhaps you did become a super villain later." Mystique said that like it was nothing. "But that's not how Gwi-Ma got to you to begin with... If you'd been that callous when he first spoke to you, you wouldn't even have felt shame enough to make a deal with him. It is only because of your better qualities that he got you to become that evil..."

"Better qualities?" Jinu repeated.

"What she means is, if you hadn't felt bad because deep down you knew better, he wouldn't have captured you," Morph said. "But 400 years of that kind of poison in your mind would make you callous... Believe me, I know. But we think that it has to work that way. It's like the Lord of The Rings books, right? Gollum got the ring, and it poisoned his mind over time, but at first it wasn't that bad..."

"I never read those books," Mystique said. "I think I've heard of it, but I don't see what a ring has to do with this."

"The ring represents temptation," Morph said. "I think...I'm not sure...but also power? It's very vague. It can make you invisible, but when you're invisible, Sauron can see you and find you still. Sauron is like Gwi-ma, only...less shame, more...possessing everyone. 'One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.' "

"Stop that." Jinu didn't like the sound of it.

"It's just a book." Morph shrugged.

Then he wondered if that book could also be true in a parallel universe...huh...

[Plenty of fan fics about that idea already exist...and no, I won't write one myself. Not my cup of tea.]

"After you listen to that voice too long a time, you stop thinking you ever had better qualities." Jinu glanced at his hands. "There could be something wrong with people who give in to Gwi-Ma."

"If half the city would give in to him, I doubt it," Mystique said. "Face it, you're just unlucky. Or, you had some ability that Gwi-Ma wanted. The only reason things like him want slaves is if they are more useful than victims. Never fails. I think our mentors would say that the devil copies our natural talents anyway."

"The devil and any other evil person who wants them," Morph grimaced. "Again, based on experience."

"What did you do?" Jinu asked him. "Raven has said a lot about her past, but all you've ever said is that you turned on your friends."

"That's about the long and short of it," Morph said. "But that was bad enough. Nearly got them killed a couple times over it. I couldn't stop myself..." He looked sad. "And I couldn't protect my other allies when I was on the Exiles... I kept failing. You start to think it's some weakness in yourself after a while... Of course, it wasn't fair. It wasn't like I chose any of that to happen, but you wish you could and you can't."

Jinu nodded thoughtfully. "I'm...uh, sorry that happened to you." Awkwardly.

"Thanks...I'm doing a lot better than I was," Morph said. "Gwi-Ma did shake me up a little, but I didn't lose control... That's progress. And, I faced Sinister finally...so...the nightmares don't happen very often anymore."

Mystique rubbed her arms. "I still have them...but at least they are only nightmares now. Not reality."

"So there is no Gwi-Ma where you live?" Jinu changed to a more pleasant subject. "That must be nice."

"Not sure the things we have are that much better," Morph said. "I guess it's not the devil invading your mind...but...uh...if humans will do it for him, then maybe he just doesn't feel the need to himself. Guess laziness might be a devilish quality as much as anything else. It's a sin, right?"

"I would think it's more that humans would do it more effectively," Mystique said. "Shine and Wally have said that spirits work through us because we have more authority to influence each others' lives without restraint than they do, since we are allowed our free will. But humans can take over each other's free will, since we're equals...I don't fully understand what that means, but since we have telepaths and other ways of overriding people's minds in our world...it's very literal."

"But Shine's world doesn't have telepathy," Morph said. "I wonder where she learned all that... Seriously, her reading list isn't even extensive enough to explain it. Do you think she's just smarter than we are?"

"I think her gift gives her the ability to make connections that other people don't make," Mystique said. "And we don't have that gift."

"What is her gift?" Jinu asked.

"She calls it 'Insight'," Mystique said. "I think the real word for it is discernment or knowledge, but that makes less sense to people in the modern era, she says... I don't really care what we call it, personally... Anyway, the gift allows her to see people clearly. When she tries, she can read someone in less than 5 minutes. And when she's not trying, well, it takes a few days maybe, but she'll see whatever you fear, whatever you want, whatever you work for, and what would probably help you the most to achieve inner peace or happiness or whatever her goal is."

"I guess you have to see it," Morph said, since Jinu looked confused. "Imagine if someone just knew you before they ever met you and knew you better than you knew yourself...I guess she's made mistakes, since she's only human, but she's still way more perceptive than anyone else is. She's beaten telepaths on it... Turns out that reading someone's mind isn't the same as knowing why they feel that way or what would help them."

"Of course it isn't," Mystique said. "It's as if you said that taking a survey from people was the same thing as being able to predict the future. You might be able to get it right, but there are plenty of unknown factors that might change the outcome. Even the same group of people being surveyed might answer differently the second time, and often do, I've been told... Telepathy is like that. You just know what the person already knows about themselves, and maybe whatever is in their memories and emotions...but what they will do, what they could be...that's not the same thing. Shine's gift allows her to see a glimpse of that future based on information that only seems to make sense to her."

"She sounds impressive," Jinu said. "Is that how she won you over? Because, no offense, but you seem like you'd not be very open to changing at first."

Mystique nodded curtly. "Yes...I suppose."

"I think it was her compassion that really won her over," Morph corrected. "This is just a tool, she'd say herself. Like our shape-shifting is our tool... You have to use it the right way. I think we've kind of made a mess of it. Maybe we shouldn't have used it so much to trick you all at first, but it was the only way we knew to function..."

"Actually, I think that was the smartest thing you could have done," Jinu surprisingly said. "It was underhanded a little, but nothing else would have gotten my attention besides that...I mean, other than..." But he trailed off.

"Oh, we know," Morph winked. "Hey, you're lucky...not many people meet anyone like that. Rumi is a very unique girl."

"She has her problems," was Mystique's way of agreeing with that statement.

"I meant that she's willing to help," Morph said.

"It helped her," Mystique said. "There's nothing so surprising about that... The truly surprising thing is she was able to let go of her shame enough to flip the tables on Gwi-Ma. I wish I knew the secret to that."

"If we did know, we could free anyone else who was under his control, not just me," Jinu mused.

A letter suddenly appeared in Morph's hands.

"Well, speaking of our mentor," he said.

"That...just appeared out of nowhere." Jinu gave them a strange look.

"Get used to it." Mystique offered him no explanation beyond that.

Morph opened it. "A short one... Ah, she says she had to run to church, so she didn't have a lot of time, but wanted to try to address our questions about the Saja Boys..."

"She already got that message?" Mystique was surprised. "It's been only one day."

"Eh, I wrote her about them before we found them too, after our other talk with them," Morph said.

"Oh," she nodded.

Morph sped read over the letter. "She says it's the same as before, probably, like we thought. We have to figure out how they ended up this way. So I guess we're on the right track. But I did ask her why they were so confused. I wanted to know if it was a spell... Oh, here it is--"

He read out loud.

"'It's possible they already agreed to Gwi-Ma's offer, as you say...but that may not be irreversible. The enemy's power is never absolute. God's is always stronger. Directly trying to undo it could work, but so far, that's not how your abilities have worked in this world, so perhaps we shouldn't assume it would be that simple...

"'Everything operates on shame, right? Maybe you should be asking how that affects memory.

"'I have a passage that may be useful here:

"'"Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron." (1 Timothy 4:1-2)

"'In other words, over time you can stop noticing what you do causes guilt. If you believe lies long enough.

"'I hope this helps. Not a lot of time now to write more.

P.S. You may also want to ask them more about what drives them. If they don't remember it...then who are they now? I look forward to hearing about your progress--but stop asking me to do all the work--Shine.'"

"She called us out on that," Morph said after reading this. "We are relying on her a lot. I just feel so lost is the problem."

"What drives them?" Mystique repeated. "They can't even form a coherent sentence without us practically walking them through it for 10 minutes straight. How would they know?"

Jinu glanced their way.

They were still just staring into space.

"They only seem to want attention," he said. "And that could just be Gwi-Ma's influence. More attention equals more souls."

"Hmrph, well, it seems to me that we'll never get anywhere if we keep assuming everything about them is because of Gwi-Ma," Morph said. "They have to have something in them that isn't, just like you."

The train stopped right then.

"That took longer than I thought." Rumi got up and stretched.

"I found a really obscure place so that no one would see us." Zoey got up. "Also since we're looking for authentic and old, the more obscure, the better."

"Great, can't wait," Mira said sarcastically.

* * *

The music shop had a name that Morph couldn't (and Mystique didn't bother to) read. They just went inside.

"I've been thinking," Zoey addressed Mystique. "I know you said we could call you either name, but, uh...since your mutant name is so close to Mystery, can we just stick to Raven permanently?"

"Fine," Raven said. "Why does it matter here anyway?"

"Eh, well, K-pop idols often don't go by their real names, but we just didn't feel the need for that." Zoey waved her hand. "I didn't want to make you uncomfortable, though".

[And personally I just think it will be easier for everyone if I stick with Raven while she and Mystery are going to be in the same scenes. It's too easy to misread it.]

"Wow, this place takes me back." Morph was looking at the CDs. "This is like a shop at home finally. Everything isn't digital."

"Wow, vinyl." Mira eyed the wall. "Classy."

"Vinyl is in." Zoey shrugged. "Aren't we licensed for it too?"

"But I've never used one." Rumi picked up a record.

"Wait, are those...for record players?" Morph was surprised.

"Kinda. I mean, it's newer, but this trend came back in the last several years to have everything on vinyl," Zoey explained. "Classic... vintage...retro. Hipster people are super into that."

"I'm gonna need a translation for everything you just said," Morph said.

"Hipsters...people who are known for their niche interests, being counter cultural, and being sarcastic and thinking their better than anyone," Zoey said. "I saw a few people like that in Cali, but not my thing either. But my point was they'd totally buy this kind of thing, probably."

[I think it's not specifically a hipster or retro thing, but to each their own, I guess.]

"I think we can stick to CDs." Rumi picked up an actual CD. "But this is going to be like looking for a needle in a haystack... Does this store have an online catalog?"

"I think they have an online and physical catalog..." Mira glanced at the front of the store.

The person at the desk was eyeing them without much interest.

"Hey, Rumi, look at this." Zoey picked up something. "Sunlight Sisters... There's your mom... This is a really old album, wow. I'm not sure I even had this one in my collection."

Rumi stared at it a little strangely.

"Rumi, you have listened to their music, right?" Mira said.

"Uh...a little," Rumi said uneasily.

"What? A little?" Zoey was shocked. "You're kidding me. I was a huge fan of theirs."

[Fun fact, if you didn't catch this, in "Golden", Zoey is shown holding Sunlight Sister merch, so this is canonically true.]

"I mean, to learn how to sing..." Rumi said. 

"But...that's it?" Zoey said. "I was obsessed with this for years!"

Morph cleared his throat. "Zoey."

"Yeah?" She looked at him blankly.

Morph jerked his head towards the Saja Boys and then mouthed, "Demon? Remember?"

Zoey had forgotten that Rumi might have avoided thinking about her mother that much after what Celine had told her.

She cringed at her own carelessness. "Uh, okay, let's look over there... We need to find older music."

"Actually, this would be about right, wouldn't it?" Mira picked up another CD. "But it's a wild goose chase... We're not finding anything here... Did we not think to check the website before we came?"

"Uh, yeah, duh," Zoey said.

"Don't underestimate Zoey's skills at looking up information," Rumi said, more lightly.

"We could have saved ourselves this entire trip if she did that first," Mystery spoke, startling them.

They hadn't thought he was listening to or understanding a thing they said, but apparently he was.

"FYI, I did." Zoey got a little annoyed.

"Then why are we here?" Baby asked, just as annoyed.

"It was Jinu's idea," Zoey said.

They all glared at him.

"You were...all there when I said it," Jinu said.

"We were?" Abby said blankly.

"Yeah, that tracks." Mira was so done with this. "Let's just see if we find something here before they forget how to walk and talk also. Not that that would be so bad."

"She is so mean," Romance muttered. "I can see why we tried to fight them."

"I thought we fought them because Gwi-Ma said to?" Abby said.

"Abby, are you brain dead or just naturally dumb?" Romance was testy.

"They said nothing at all on the train, and now they're fighting?" Rumi was a little put out. "Why did they have to pick when we were about to do something to start up?"

"That's probably why," Raven said. "They're like toddlers."

"Or--" Morph had a detective cap on again. "--listening to us talking is what stimulates their minds enough to make them act more human, even if we're not talking to them. And I'm not so sure they weren't kind of listening on the train too. They just don't think they need to say much."

"We can hear you," Romance said.

"Then speak for yourself," Raven said. "Don't just stand there like a mannequin."

"You're the ones who're holding us hostage," Baby said. "What do you expect us to do?"

"Tell us if anything feels familiar?" Zoey suggested.

"I feel as if you took us hostage before," Baby said.

It took Zoey a second to realize he was purposely saying something unhelpful and not just being dumb, and then she frowned.

Mira put her hand into her fist menacingly.

"Let's just...look around," Rumi pleaded. "Please? This idea was one we agreed on, so..."

"It was a dumb idea," Baby said.

Jinu frowned. "You didn't have a better one."

"I didn't want to do this at all," Baby said.

"Move it." Raven seized him by his collar before he could move out of her reach. "I'm taking you away from the others."

"Why?" Baby tried to break out of her grasp without success.

"Because you're clearly a negative influence on them." She dragged him away.

"She's not going to shoot him, is she?" Romance worried.

"Nah." Morph put his hands behind his head. "She just doesn't like whiny brats. He seemed so calm before, but I guess this must be what he's really like...sort of."

 "At least he's not saying goo goo ga ga," Rumi said, with a shudder.

"I'll take this row on one side, and, Mira, you take the other." Zoey decided they needed to stop wasting time. "Morph, you can take the wall. Rumi, Jinu, you take that other row. I think that's the oldies section too."

"Sure," Rumi said.

"And break," Zoey said.

"What do we do?" Abby asked.

"Oh...I guess just look around if you want." Zoey wasn't trusting them with anything focused. They would forget what they wanted as soon as they walked away anyway.

"Don't steal anything," Mira said.

"Why would we steal something?" Romance asked.

"I don't know. Jinu stole something from Rumi before." she crossed her arms.

"That was just to mess with her," Jinu said. "We don't normally steal."

"Oh, great, the one crime you wouldn't commit, petty theft." Mira threw her hands up melodramatically.

"Mira, that chip on your shoulder is going to keep you from going through the doorway without turning sideways," Morph said, walking away.

Mira frowned after him.

"What did that mean?" Abby asked.

"I don't know, but it sounded poetic," Romance commended it.

"I think he meant that she's being grumpy," Mystery offered. "Like a pitbull."

"Says the guy who barks at people." Mira looked at him furiously.

Mystery looked confused.

"Why do you bark at people?" Abby asked him.

"I don't know." He shrugged.

Mira walked away in disgust and joined Zoey in looking over the music.

They needed to find the rare section, but that was not so easy to do in a shop this small, where things were less organized to begin with.

Rumi scanned her aisle pretty quickly, keeping one eye on the Saja Boys, but they did nothing except look at some of the CDs in a bored way.

Raven had Baby near the cash register, but she was only talking to the clerk there. (It was her way to ask people for information, not just look it up... She was old enough to not find it weird to do this.)

The clerk didn't seem to be answering her very favorably though. They looked disinterested.

But then the owner of the shop came out and started talking to her.

Rumi reflected that that might be better--

She looked back at the row of music and almost by chance her eyes lighted on something that looked familiar.

She picked up a CD case.

There it was...Stellae.

And there was a picture of the group on the back... She peered at it.

"It does look like them." Jinu almost made her jump out of her skin by coming up behind her without any warning whatsoever.

"Don't do that!" Rumi whirled around, which nearly put her face in his chest directly...

She reddened.

"Sorry." Jinu backed up, but he wasn't really that sorry. "I just wanted to see... Is that the only one?"

Rumi looked around. "Looks like it... They only made one album, maybe?"

She read the back. "Yes, it says it's the full collection...after their debut... That's not really a lot of songs. Makes me wonder why Dr. Han had their picture at all. I guess he has a thing for obscure artists."

"Maybe just ones who visited him?" Jinu suggested. "They probably did once, right?"

"I guess so." Rumi wished they'd asked him about that now.

She studied the picture. "They look so innocent, if this is them...in their human forms... Their hair  is still less weird, too... Maybe they did a new look when they tried to comeback. I guess we did..."

She took the CD to the front desk.

Raven had been asking the owner questions about the band.

"Not many bands just fade into obscurity like that," he was telling her, in Korean notably. "The one you're talking about had a decent following, if I remember right, but they lost it after some scandal... Sometimes the agents are able to make a comeback if they play their cards right, have the members do some charity or some promotional things that win people over again. If that doesn't work, they can lose everything. That's just the celebrity world."

"But you don't remember this group in particular?" Raven pressed.

"Not personally, no, but I was following other groups back then." The owner shrugged. "Sorry I can't help you more."

Baby was sucking on a lollipop...that Rumi had no idea how he'd gotten.

"We should just take this and go," she told Raven, sliding the CD onto the counter.

The owner glanced at her. "You look familiar."

Rumi realized too late that a music store might be the worst place for the most famous K-pop artists in the world to walk into incognito.

"Oh...uh..." she began.

"You mean she looks like Rumi from Huntrix," Raven said, making Rumi want to strangle her.

"Yes, that's it," the owner said.

"She gets that all the time," Raven said, with a impish grin at Rumi. "She imitates her well, right?"

"You must be a fan then," the owner said, relaxedly. "Yes, that last show they did was really something else, wasn't it?"

"Oh...yeah, it was great." Rumi made an awkward thumbs up.

Raven rolled her eyes at her when the owner couldn't see her.