As Le Frey's form glowed, so too did boiling red veins begin to pop up over Val's body. The transformation was still painful, but the pain felt good as his anger fed on it and in turn twisted and merged with Mercy's own violent urges. Only the strange actions of the smaller wild stopped him from leaping to the attack, the call for peace resonating within Val as he took a breath and stopped his posturing with Le Frey.

[b]"What of Mercy and Inu? You bind to human but... Does heart still follow the call of Wild King?”[/b]

"Mercy does as he pleases, he looks forward to our deaths so that he can eat our corpses," Val said, shaking his head as it filled with dark laughter from Mercy, "he follows the King simply because the King is a superior monster.... no offense." He added the last part while looking at Mimi. Not every Wild was a monster, after all, despite their appearance. The veins across his body cooled, though he could still feel the burn radiating through him. Mercy howled in frustrated denial, more demands for the deaths of Ghost Corp spiraling through Val's mind and starting to give him a headache.

[i]You are violating our deal human. You will never know peace. All you will know is blood and death and violence and I will FEED![/i]

Val felt like his body temperature was rising again, and this time Mercy's protection wasn't helping him adjust. It almost felt like Mercy was simply going to boil away all of his flesh to be freed once again. To feed on these Ghost Corps minions and howl victory to the stars. 

[i]You want to feed? Trust me, I'll be in pain soon enough. Poeple who rule with an iron fist know only one way of answering such disobedience.[/i], Val thought, wincing as he brought up a memory of his training. The first time he had held his rifle and failed to his a glass bottle in a window nearly 500 meters away. His 'uncle' had beaten him for nearly a half hour, and then heated the spent cartridge in the fire and burnt him with it, a constant reminder of the price of a missed shot. He let the old pain radiate within him instead of stuffing it away, coaxing Mercy back into a state of calmness with the negative emotions. He only snapped out of it when he heard VV's voice.

[b]”A… A, let's leave. The doctors won't find anything good. It's just Umbra all over again. I'll destroy this door, and we can just… get away…”[/b]

Val kept his eyes on Le Frey, fully knowing that any move against Ghost Corps would put them right back where they were before Mimi's interruption.

"Say the word. And we walk or we die," Val said, rolling his neck and looking over at VV with a slight grin. Despite the morbid statement, his confidence was nearly unshakeable when it came to fighting. What did death hold for him that could be worse than the Dust?

[b]”Guardian, report to the inner courtyard for your… ass-kicking.”[/b]

Val looked up at the intercom, not really surprised that the General was monitoring the situation. Still, he was lawless, not Ghost Corps.

"Sorry, General, my deal is with the Fallaways," he said, "if they say walk, we walk. If they say stay... then I'll apologize in person for delaying my punishment."

"Unless you want to start things off Greenie?," Val said, raising an eyebrow as he looked at Le Frey.