Not wanting to stay in the presence of the crazy woman any longer, Abby hurried after the two dark-haired males. However, she didn't miss Artemis's whisper when she asked for them to chat tomorrow. Abby gave the English girl a grin. "Sure! I'll see you tomorrow then." Maybe it was a bad idea to befriend a suspected assassin of her new mafia family, but she couldn't help it. Friendship, especially female friendship, seemed to be limited in this little town. She didn't even know if she could call these crazy guys her friends yet, and Jakki was the only girl she could call a close acquaintance. 

When she reached Daisuke and Cyril, she was able to catch Daisuke's intelligent deduction on where the missing audience was. Abby shook her head in exasperation. "Let's think about it like this; what place in Trespiano can fit a really large group of people? The only place I can think of is the beach because since that's the only place I've seen so far. You guys have been here longer, what do you think?"

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Sonya saw her students scurry away under her fake smile and soon went back to her usual facial feature. For once, she wasn't actually sure what the outcome of this little exercise would be. She wanted them to be able to find the audience and prove they weren't as incompetent in teamwork and problem-solving as they were in everything else, but she still had a gut feeling that neither team would accomplish the goal.

Even if they didn't, it didn't really matter. The training regimen she had already planned was enough to be seen as a punishment game in most of the teens' eyes. No, Sonya's focus was on the two newcomers. The girl, even with her knowledge of the mafia and the Vongola, was harmless. It was the American boy she was worried about. Under her trained eyes, she could see the few forced movements Michael had made. If her calculations were correct, then he was the assassin Artemis had been spouting about...

It made the perfect first exercise. Why should Sonya make up her own life-or-death situation to throw at the Guardian candidates when one just happened to be passing by? This would be a great time to observe how the brats would react to a trained killer hunting them down. And if things got too bad, she'd swoop in.

... [i]Maybe.[/i]