Chloe hadn't exactly been happy as she was dragged along with these three strangers and into a bookshop, but her curiosity about the others made her comply. When the boy, who she'd hoped was just a gloomy emo waiter, called them by the names of [i]hydrogen, helium[/i] and [i]chlorine,[/i] however, she had to suppress a shudder. She had assumed for a long time that she had some sort of connection with the element, but for another person to say it so bluntly? 

She was silent, however, as she watched the exchange between Aura, Aria and Jaden, but a bitter thought of [i]I should never have bothered with that shitty café[/i] tumbled through her mind on repeat, though with slightly different wordings each time. 

And after that weird man pointed them out in a language she didn't recognize or understand, Chloe really didn't enjoy being dragged behind the counter and then under a false floor; the only reason she tolerated it was because the look of the guy sent a chill down her spine. It was cramped, but once they were in the tunnel she felt a little better. Although it was getting hard not to huff out chlorine fumes, she resisted the wave of annoyance that had come over her and listened in almost complete silence as they emerged onto the evening street. 

Quietly her angry thoughts about the coffee shop were replaced by another: [i]I may have killed someone,[/i] she thought, some of the blood draining from her cheeks, [i]but I am not a devil.[/i] She cast guarded looks at Jaden, then at Aria and Aura. She didn't want to share her story, and she certainly didn't want these people even knowing that she somehow represented the seventeenth element. And the growing darkness unsettled her. Soon the sky would be the same hue it was as when she had hyperventilated an insane amount of noxious gas into some pervert's lungs. "Thank you all very much for the chat, and for getting us out of that situation with the who-knows-what-language-he-spoke-guy, but I have to go home."