"Uh-huh.." Billy replied looking her over through wolf senses. There was something. Skye had been right, the wolf-spirit part of him reacted with despair, though exactly why, he could not say. He became aware that Kim was studying him with equal intensity.

"Wow Billy...you've changed! contacts yeah? And you've really filled out man!" she commented.To the surprise of the Crustaceans, it was Drew who spoke. "Josh Baldwin, the former White Blaster Beetleborg. He's MINE." She smiled again, wondering if that meant that Saryn had interrogated everyone in the compound in her absence. "Good," she said lightly. "I'm looking for him too."

"He's across the way," Kyril told her, his gaze sliding away as he straightened up. He moved around the counter, heading for the kitchen without another word. She passed him as she started for the door and it was like passing a ghost. There was a brief fluctuation of air, but nothing more.

"Across the way" could mean almost anything, but she assumed he would have said if Saryn were with one of the others. She probably would have been safer if he had been; Saryn didn't like causing a scene. She wondered if the fact that he hadn't tried to contact her since he'd realized she was gone was good or bad.

          Regarding his newest warrior for a long moment, Nukus nodded again. "It shall be done. And together, there is no force on Earth that can stand against us."
          In his cowering corner, Les Fortunes shivered at the mocking laughter that filled the chamber. He didn't like the way this was heading, not at all. Even a Beetleborg deserved a better fate than this. Besides, with two warriors such as Drew and the Shadowborg, Nukus had little need for monsters. How much longer would he continue to need Les Fortunes?

What she wasn't saying was how much his eyes had changed. There was a presence and maturity in him that she had never known before. That aura of vulnerability that he had initially had when they first started being Power Rangers...had gone and it wasn't just the shedding of the overalls for jeans and shirts. He looked like he had seen and done more than most adults ever had in their whole life time, and that it had left a mark of experience on his face. He had changed.