Alina steps out on her floor and taps another button, floor 3 as we were on floor 4.
"Remember give that box to Mary its important." Alina said, as the doors close on her as she finished.
The doors open and i was greeted to a hallway shining with light, one side was gleaming light to the room while the other was pure green like a forest. On the right with the foliage was a door with the word 'Garden' on it, i opened the door and someone was tending to a patch of dirt. The person turned around and it was Mary with a trowel in her hand.
"Alina gave you the poison i see, here i'll take it" Mary takes the box from my hands and drops it next to the patch of dirt, inside were bags of seeds all different colors and varying sizes or appearance.
"Are you a gardener now Mary?" I asked as Mary took a handful of seeds form one of the bags and digs a hole, she pits the handful of seeds in a hole she dug and quickly buries it.
"No i make poison and what you just carried were the seeds of poisonous plants. This is Goldhedge, a very deadly plant only deadly if touched. Grind it up right and you can make great medicine or terrible diseases either way, its a two way plant." Mary takes out another bag and pulls out another handful of seeds, these ones were blue in color and shaped into balls like pellets.
"You do this all the time?" I asked, Mary gestures her hand at me telling me to go near her. I crouched next to her and she looked at me.
"Get a canister from that wall that has no contents whatsoever." Mary asked, i stood up then walked to the wall with canisters inserted in holes. I found one without any label and pulled it out, it was light to carry with a transparent interior.
I handed it to Mary who was now standing up with leaves in her hand.
"Bloodbase, known for its bloody texture and red liquids." Mary points at the balls that were on each leaf, "Pop any of these and you have a cloud of gas coming." Mary begins putting in the leaves inside the container.
"You do this all the time?" I sat down next to her as she sorted the bags of seeds.
"No I'm actually a supplier for one of the arcanes, one of them gets poison from me for research or something. I just mail it to them monthly, why? I don't know but I get payment for just cultivating it." Mary replied. Mary handed me a trowel and pointed at a square patch of dirt that wasn't touched.
"So you plant poison for arcanes now?" I asked while digging a small patch with Mary planting seeds in the small hole that i made.
"It seems boring but i do other things, they gave me a second job to do in the instance they don't need poison." Mary stand up and goes to a blank wall opposite of us, she puts her hand on it and a door opens.
I went inside with her and inside was machines and tools, "I make the gas for them just less refined, they strengthen the gas while i make the standard. But i do make grenades that contain poison i grew along with other things, that gas you saw at the attack in our school was made by me, just refined to what they choose."
"So how were you chosen by them? Did they see you create poison?" I asked, Mary went to one of the machines and turned it on. Green gas shot out of one of the tubes on the top of the machine, a vial with red liquid in it was dispensed and Mary took it.
Mary handed me the vial with red liquid, "My parents lived near a forest once, there were poison plants next to our house. Since it was the only thing i was fascinated about i studied them, cultivated them, and even made homemade bombs, i placed them in a stack outside our house in boxes, why? i don't know i like throwing them in a pit close to the house. Turns out terrorists were hiding there and attacked our home, i presume a bullet hit a bomb I made and the area was covered in poisonous gas so my father dragged us down the cellar with us. Once we got out, corpses lined the front of my house, when my parents got out to check. The gas was gone and the crates with the poison were destroyed along with the wall that was next to it, all the bodies had blood on their mouths and other parts of the body. When i enrolled in Parabellum they saw my potential, and when i became a huntswoman they immediately made me a supplier for the arcanes and scientists." Mary explained, another vial was dispensed out of the machine and this time it was green.
Mary went to a smaller machine that had 2 slots, both big enough to hold the vials. Mary puts both vials in the slots and turns the machine on, the liquids from the vials drained and went into one singular lab flask, the resulting mixture was brown and gases were fuming out of it, it was quickly covered though with a lid as Mary places it aside.
"Follow me i got something else to show you," Mary puts her hand on another wall in the lab which in turn opens, inside was a dark room illuminated with circles of varying colors. Mary walked in with me following her, the walls were lined with these circular containers of colors, all of similar size but different variations of color.
"These are the concoctions i hold, they are refined version of the poisons i grew. All different plants i grew beyond the months, some i just transferred here while some i never heard of. I create the gas that killed countless lives, you may have heard of it already but.... I was responsible for the Shulsi assault of the terrorist camp, Zeroma Bombing where the gas blew up in an unmanned truck inside another camp, and a couple more." Mary explained while walking inside the room with me following her.
"So many types of poisons yet so little use," I stated while looking at the balls of liquids. Mary stops at one of the containers and puts her hand on it.
"Purpleblood, one of the deadliest poisons i have here. I forgot i have to do a test for one of these," Mary grabs something under the ball of liquid next to the Purpleblood ball. She hands it to me, it resembled a grenade but had a transparent look. It was made of glass with gas moving around inside the grenade, on top was pin, probably to release the gas.
"Next mission we could use this, i never used it but its a fairly deadly poison so try it on our next enemy," Mary pats me on the shoulder, "You feeling well? I don't like it when my friends are ill and keep it from others." Mary asked with a concerned look on her face.
"No no, I'm ok I just have to recollect on what I'm looking at." Mary laughed, "That's what I thought, well take your time. These few days you were good, especially when I got hit in the leg and you treated the wound, thanks for that." said Mary.
Mary leaves the room and i follow her out as well, she pulls out a piece of paper from her hand.
"Oh shit we gotta go you can follow behind, planning room same room we went to for the overseas mission." Mary began running out of the lab, out of the garden, and to the elevator with me chasing after her as she runs to the elevator. Mary hurriedly ran into the elevator as it opened, she pressed the 14th button then the doors close.
The doors open and we were back to the planning room, nothing changed as we walked to the planning room. Mary opened the door and inside was the man that we met for planning and, Sebastian who was sitting on a chair close to the table.
"Take a seat you two." Said the man with his arm reached out aimed at two chairs, we sat down on the chairs along with Sebastian who sat opposite of where we sat.
"It just doesn't work like that sir, the raid will cost many lives." Sebastian stated to the man.
"Casualties happen either way, we just make sure that we don't lose the most. Anyway we can throw gas onto the camp before hand, we have protective equipment and the gas dies fast." The man replied, his hands both on the table, Sebastian looks at us.
"We have a mission in a week so use this time." Sebastian said.