Leo rolled his eyes and huffed, setting his chin in his hands. Chatting blah blah blah blah. The same ol' cliche stuff. Parents died mysteriously, somehow connected to this thing, and she wants to go in as a spy.

His lip curled before he let out a short scoff.

"Uh, hello? What am I? The responsibility?" Leo stood up and huffed, nearly stamping his feet. "I'm still here and quite frankly, that's going to take too much time and I'm pretty sure they do know who you are."

"They attacked the school--literally obliterated it--which means they know who was in the school. Me, you, all of them."

His eyes flashed dangerously.

"Spies isn't going to work," he finally stated. "We're going to have to just confront them up and up and just work with it. They're going to kneel down for us rather than trying to fight and pick our way through the ranks and all that."

His ruby red eyes flickered before he squared his shoulders. "Quite frankly, I've listened to absolutely none of what was just said because I don't care. It's the same family secret and all that stuff that the old people hide from the kids but then it turns out that this whole thing is connected and blah blah blah," he raised an eyebrow.

"Quite frankly, it's boring," Leo stated and rolled his eyes. "Spies takes too long and it's not helpful. We're going to take them out one by one until we have them kneeling at our feet."

Leo set his hands on his hips, raising an eyebrow. "I didn't mean that literally," he rolled his eyes and placed one hand on his forehead, letting out a short sigh through his nose. This was going to be a long journey. "What I meant was to be the bigger threat!" He waved his hands.

"We can go around in circles saying how bad each idea is but until we actually start doing something, it's nothing!" He added. "Great, we think like the Ender. Now what? We're like them? We've got to be bigger than they are," he waved his arms with his words, pacing in a line. "I don't care what the council says, they're just a bunch of old senile people who haven't got enough brains to just retire yet."

Apelios finally squared his shoulders.

"If there's one thing I've been taught through my whole life," he faced the pair. "It's been the single sentence; 'When presented with a problem, be the bigger problem.' Don't let your problems control you, what's the Ender? A problem. So you know what I'm going to be? A problem to them."

He sucked in a quick breath. "Might not make a lot of sense to you two but it makes sense enough to me."

Leo shrugged loosely. "Sometimes we don't have an answer right away," he stated and crossed his arms. "We've just got to get going and all east work on going the right way before we get stuck in the circle. If we're moving then it's something, innit?"

His ruby gaze flicked between the pair for a long moment before Leo shook his head.

"There's only two of us, well, would it kill you to at least look on the bright side? We're shifters. We don't actually know the full extent of our abilities. Which means there's a possibility that we could be the keys to taking it down!" He waved his arms and then grinned. "Why let them stop us?"

"Well for one," Leo jut his hip out and huffed. "You're still alive."

He looked toward the window and squared his shoulders before his posture fell. His shoulders sank down with a soft sigh that escaped from his lips. The young man bit down on his lip and struggled to stifle the emotion that rose in his throat.

Finally he shook his head, lifting his hands and turning around to face the two again.

"It's not easy to look on the bright side, trust me. I know," Apelios sighed quietly. "But if you're not going to help then I'm going to do this on my own. We can stay here and keep chatting on an one sided conversation while I just hang around awkwardly like some third wheel or we can actually do something."

Leo almost refused to admit that he was feeling... well... left out and bored. Nothing of the information actually pertained to him. In fact, he didn't think he could care less about it. It was a struggle to stifle those emotions and what little slipped out came out in frustration.

"Then for bloody sakes would you listen to me?" Leo snapped back at them, his eyes blazing. The tips of his fingers turned a bit golden, struggling to contain himself to one form. "Sweet Nyvus, you two have done nothing but chat and bicker like an old married couple while I putter around absolutely bored out of my mind and you two are completely oblivious to it!"

His ruby red gaze flared as he finally shifted, wings folded but his tail was lashing from side to side. "You want to help? Well why not start listening to me?!" Apelios snarled, his voice raised in frustration. "You stare back at me with that stupid look on your face and then you tell me, you tell me, that my idea is somehow stupid? Well, y'know what? At least it's better than trying to take decades to try and infiltrate the Ender which, by the way, they already know you. And hello? Your PARENTS died because they attempted to be spies in this very organization. That didn't ring any alarm bells did it? Hello? They know everyone who is connected to the council."

He stalked toward the door, struggling to twist the doorknob with his claw on his wings. "Bloody--" he took a step back, leaning on his tail while his prosthetic foot twisted the doorknob and then stalked out the door. "I'm going now. You can either keep chatting or follow me."

Apelios spread his wings out, stretching in the dappled sunlight.