Salforge dismantled all his floating abjurations and proceeded towards a much more open circle of the library.  He raised his hand, and snapped his fingers issuing a request.

"Yo.  Heartless, come."

There was an awkward silence, as if him talking had fallen on deaf ears.  There was not so much as even a traceable smell of the feral creatures of darkness, truly this was the proof.  "Huh.  Well, I'm no Maleficent, but I'm pretty sure darkness or light has to exist in some form to warrant attraction from the heartless.  I suppose I'm fortunate to not be on the receiving end anyway."

Tucking his hands into his pockets he turned from the pedestal and approached the open door.  The was a guard waiting by the door, erect and stiff.  Most importantly, he was also human, and much like inception the mercenary sprouted an idea.  "Corporal, would you mind standing in front of this pedestal?"

The soldier pointed at himself briefly, with a nod complied.  As he stood there, there was a fast and hard punch hitting his back delivered by the mercenary.  He was weak enough, and he died instantly, a heart dispersed from the shell of his body. One of salforge's blocks quickly sealing it inside.  When he dropped, the soldier's body dissipated into speckled dust, there was hardly a chance of a nobody happening.

"Ok, now then, let's try this again." He stood at the pedestal and held up the heart captured inside his block, "Heartless, come!"

With a closed fist the mercenary demanded obedience.  The room soon began to flood inward with heartless, amassing as shadows and Neoshadows alike.  Their yellow eyes were menacing, potentially able to assess and sense the strength of the mercenary, lead by the heart he was now in possession of.

"Just an experiment, the master said the heartless align themselves with whomever is the strongest.  Seems like they'll bargain for a heart no matter if its black or white." he gave an inconsequential shrug and continued, "Find the coldest blot of darkness, and decimate everything around it.  Now go."

They shriveled inward entering the floorboards into what appeared to be black inkblots.  The darkness would be upon them soon.

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Gavin
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Things were quiet for a while and by quiet Gavin meant there was no chaos hanging thick around their necks. As Gavin sat there, he seemed almost distant in space as his mind was entrenched in subconscious thought.  He'd gotten goosebumps from the mere mention of the sibling he was ever feverishly hunting.  Eyes wide, he seemed to be drawn back to the room finally noticing yet another stranger consorting with Osa and Ace.  The red-haired cripple was quiet and seemed to remain that way for a while.

He swayed back and forth for a little bit on the stool.  It tipped just a little too far about to carry Gavin away, but he stomped at one of the middle bars and snapped it back in place.  A bit of a close call moment for him, the goosebumps trailed up his spine. Giving a quick look around the room, he smelled something...odd, but what?  Lifting his nose higher he inhaled the scent again, it was definitely familiar.

'What in the world is this scent...?' he thought

There was an unusually high volume sound of creaking beneath the wooden floorboards.  Then Gavin's eyes focused all around, suddenly there was just a spike in how uncomfortable he began to feel.  It was like having a bad itch altogether and in spite of this, he tried not to avoid it.  One of the pots in the corner sprouted a leg, then two, then four, an eye glowed yellow through the top of the lid.  Gavin panicked, about to draw breath without realizing he jerked his right arm really hard, and diverted his own scream trying to reciprocate the pain he caused himself.  He fell back onto the stool and hit the floor, 'What am I doing??'

Bubbles began to spawn left and right, black meshes of creatures that carried turbans, masks, scimitars and potently menacing yellow eyes.  Gavin had been a first time witness to this since his encounter in that alley, but he was hobbled, insufficient.  Laying there on the ground as their numbers began to expand and he could do nothing as a result of his condition.