Cain, meanwhile, was back at his home, and had just unpacked everything, before receiving the text. He looked at it, before sighing.

"Urrrrgh." he grunted.

"Damn Lilim..." he said, before turning to his mother.

"Seems Lilim gave people the bare basics of information." he told her. "Just got a text from... Jordan's mother?" he muttered. "Yeah, Jordan's Mom. Anyway, seems she wants information on what I did to help Bast and Jord." he informed her.

"...and she's bribing me with cherry soda." he then added quietly.

".........you still okay without me here?" he asked her sheepishly.

Cain nodded in response.

"Cool." he said, sending a text in response.

Sure, be there in a few. What's the address again? he sent.

Desiree gave him the info, he teleported to the building, approached the entrance, buzzed them, made his way inside when they let him in, and took the elevator to the very upper floors, making his way to the unit in question, and knocked on the door.

Not seconds later, it was opened by Jaden, and he stepped inside.

Cain may have been a demonic zombie... and he was good at keeping his emotions in check... however, the excitement and glee in his eyes when he saw the drink, and heard there was more for him to take home was plain as day.

Both Desiree and Jaden saw it.

"Thank you." he said, accepting the bottle.

"Anyway." he mumbled, stepping further in as Jaden closed the door.

"What DID Llilm tell you?" he asked.

"Was it anything past 'something bad happened, but it's ok now'?" he asked further, taking a drink of the soda and relishing the flavour and sensation of it.

"That's all she said to ME." Jaden confirmed.

Cain finished the mouthful he'd taken, and then sighed.

"Of course." he muttered. "Leave someone else to give the unpleasant details." he grumbled.

"Unpleasant?" Jaden asked, concern in his tone.

"Well, relatively speaking." Cain clarified.

"Seems like the two of them were... well... they had a lot of drops of a potent Doll Daisy extract thrown on them, I guess would be the way to put it." he told them, before giving them more information, about both Bast and Jordan.

"They should be fine." he assured them. "But it was weird that they went after the two of them, seemingly ignorant of how Bast is a demonic nephilim." he commented at the end.

Jaden was silent for a moment, thinking about it.

"Yes. We do." he said. "It's... certainly plausible. Outright probable." he agreed.

"But as for your question about the lack of research, it's possible it was a crony of hers acting on their own to gain brownie points with her, or acting on some more generic orders, and THEY didn't do their research." he continued.

"...meaning that follower is in DEEP crap for their failure..." he then muttered.

"We can't say outright it wasn't some strange isolated attack, though." Cain interjected.

"It's true." Jaden agreed.

"But I'd say it's an 80/20 split in favour of... well... the greater of the two evils." he sighed.

Both just sighed.

"Only two people that can answer that." Jaden said.

"Indeed." Cain concurred.

"When WILL they awaken, anyway?" Jaden then asked him.

"48 hours at most." Cain responded. "And they'll have migraines like nobody's business when they do." he mumbled further. "I would NOT want to be them right now." he added.

"...I can well imagine." Jaden sighed.

"Still, thanks for the further info." he told him.

Cain paused for a moment, looking at the drink.

"Recipe?" he asked. "It's home-made?" he asked further.

"In-house." Jaden laughed.

"...pretty sure you now have payment for any alchemical service I can render." Cain told them bluntly. "I will do almost anything for this stuff." he admitted, taking another swig.

"There you go." Jaden said to Desiree.

"Don't give him the recipe, and we have our own personal alchemist-for-hire." he chuckled.

"Hmmm..." Jaden mumbled.

"That IS true..." he said, playing along with what Desiree was saying.

"ExCUSE me." Cain interrupted indignantly.

"Kiah is a chemist. A chemist that uses mana." he told them. "That is NOT an alchemist." he continued. "I interweave the very essence of mana, and cause it to BOND with basic elements and complex components." he said further.

"..." Jaden was silent, suppressing a smirk.

"Same thing, yeah?" he asked.

Cain was now on the verge of sputtering from sheer outrage, and Desiree could see that Jaden had a make a heroic effort to not burst out laughing.

It took Cain a moment, but he finally seemed to calm down. He breathed in and out a few times, before composing himself, and clearing his throat a little. He then looked between the two of them, and sighed.

"Indeed." he said.

"Is there anything else?" he asked.

"I should... probably head back to continue assisting with Mom's current project." he told them.

"I think we're good." Jaden responded.

"...however, pretty sure we now owe you about 4 litres of that pop just to apologise for what we just pulled." he added with a light snicker.

Cain sighed again, but it was clear he was calmer, and in a MUCH better mood now.

"Cool." he said. "Thanks." he told them.

"And... you're very welcome." he added with a small smile.

---

She looked around, unsure as to whether she should wake the still-sleeping Bast beside her. He looked like he was having a bit of a fitful sleep, but it didn't seem like it was anything TOO concerning.

She then noticed two pills on the endtable beside the bed, a bottle of water, and a note. She grabbed the note to read it, and saw it was from the son of the demon that Bast's mother was friends with; Cain.

Odds are you have a whopper of a headache.

Whipped up these pills with some help, take one. It should take the edge off, at the very least.

-Cain Callamachi. it read.