[Comprehensive British and American] Backbones League

"My child, what are you thinking?" Lei Xiaoaogu said.

"I'm thinking about how to kill you." Salas said indifferently, "Should I cut you into pieces bit by bit, or cut off your head."

"Hahahahahaha." Hearing what Salas said, Lei Xiao Aogu was not only not angry, but a little appreciative, "You really deserve to be a child of the Aogu family."

"I am not a child of the Aogu family." Salas said coldly, "I have been expelled by Aogu, don't you remember? Lei Xiao Aogu?"

Lei Xiao Aogu smiled arrogantly: "Of course, you were very cowardly at that time, and you didn't deserve to be a child of the Aogu family."

Calm down, Salas, calm down.

Salas suppressed his emotions repeatedly, and the uncontrollable rage rose in his heart. If this is not Arkham... No, even if it is Arkham, he can't help but want to kill now up.

He wants to kill someone, kill Lei Xiao Aogu.

For the League of Assassins, Salas didn't have any extra emotions, only hatred.

He hates them for creating themselves, and hates them for abandoning themselves.

If they hadn't started it all, Salas wouldn't be what he is now.

If Thalia hadn't sent him into the Lazarus Pool...Saras wouldn't have had such a lunatic's head while losing a pair of legs.

So he hates the League of Assassins, and the League of Assassins is the culprit for what he has today.

If the League of Assassins hadn't appeared in front of him, he might still be able to control himself, and he could still pretend he forgot.

But they just appeared, without warning, in the world where Salas had gone mad.

How should he comfort himself, only hate and hatred are left in his mind.

He didn't even want to talk anymore, he just wanted to kill at this moment, he wanted to kill like crazy.

Kill Thunderog, get revenge for what he did to Sarah Wayne, what Talia did to him.

But in truth, Salas couldn't even say what Talia had done to him.

For the alliance at this moment, how normal it is to abandon a crippled waste. Abandoning him is a kindness, otherwise he should die in the Assassin alliance, so he should not even have the right to complain.

But so what, he still hated, hated to the bone.

Salas's eyes deepened, and at this moment his eyes were already glowing green, with wolf-like depth, madness and despair.

But Lei Xiao Aogu is not afraid of him, even the more Salas is like this, the more Aogu admires him when he looks at him-not the appreciation of his descendants, but purely looking at a knife appreciate.

A weapon, a cutting-edge weapon.

Salas was nothing more than that to Lei Xiaoaogu.

But this kind of gaze is not enough to make Salas feel angry, on the contrary, he is quite used to such a gaze without any emotion.

Instead, it was Bruce who looked into his affectionate eyes every time, which made him feel even more stressed.

If Bruce and the others hadn't looked at him from the beginning, Salas would probably have become an excellent knife for the League of Assassins, invincible and without any emotion. He was even better than Damian, because Damian didn't Not so aloof, but he is.

The fact is such a teaser, Salas, who was suitable to stay in the League of Assassins, failed to stay in the League of Assassins, but Damian stayed in the League of Assassins.

So is it ultimately about correcting this mistake?Send Salas, who is suitable for the League of Assassins, back to the League of Assassins, and Damian stays with Bruce as he wishes?Salas was not reconciled.

"Come to me, Salas." Lei Xiaoaogu said arrogantly, "Batman is not suitable for you, my child. I know you, you are a complete Ogu family."

Salas lowered his head and did not speak for a long time.

Lei Xiao Aogu looked at him, as if he knew what he was thinking, and continued: "I know what you are hesitating, you haven't fully understood that Batman is not a necessary part of your life, and Aogu That’s right, it was you who made a mistake with me before, but now we can make up for this mistake.”

mistake?He said it was a mistake at Bat's house?

Salas also felt that it was a mistake, but he did not regret this mistake.

Never regretted it.

Salas laughed lowly, his lowered head couldn't see any expression, but his voice was light and light, almost as if he was about to dance.

"Yes, a mistake." Salas said with a smile, "It's a mistake, but why should I correct it? Mr. Augu, are you too confident?"

He looked directly into Lei Xiaoaogu's eyes, and his green eyes were filled with a smile after extreme anger: "Are you taking yourself too seriously?"

Almost at the same time, his back was suddenly broken.

The white-haired son of the sun god and the black-clothed vampire grand duke came at the same time.

"It's a pity, I wanted to wait for Batman to tell him that I have recovered." Salas narrowed his eyes slightly, and the assassin in Arkham's prison uniform sat firmly on the spot, with his hands folded on his lap, "Now I'm afraid It's going to be early."

When will you recover?The day Batman sent him into Arkham.

It's ridiculous, as if foreshadowing that only by becoming a madman can he return to normal, he restored his Chaldea on the day he entered Arkham.

But he didn't leave, he still sat firmly in Arkham, not because he liked Arkham, but because he wanted to surprise Bruce.

However, Lei Xiao Aogu broke his plan. Salas didn't want to get entangled with Batman now. He wanted to kill Lei Xiao Aogu, the leader of the Assassin Alliance first.

Seeing someone suddenly appearing behind him, Lei Xiao Aogu was not only not surprised, but his eyes became more excited.

"Spiritual life... a constantly changing body is spiritual immortality..." he murmured.

Salas couldn't hear what he said, and even if he heard it, he didn't care. His mind is now killing Lei Xiaoaogu, killing him.

He has absolute confidence that when he wants to kill someone, that person will die.

He has never had such a strong desire to kill anyone. Lei Xiao Aogu is the first one, and I am afraid that he will not be the last one after today.

Salas knew he should control it, otherwise he would start a journey from one to countless murders, but for the first time he didn't want to control.

He didn't even want to care about what he had to pay for it. He just wanted to kill people and revenge.

Take revenge on the League of Assassins, take revenge on everyone.

Send everyone to hell, everyone will be black, and no one will care who is cleaner than whom.

Just do it like this.

The Impaler gave himself a [Trembling Undead], Lei Xiaoaogu is the undead under the Lazarus Pool, he is the blood-sucking undead.

The son of the sun gave the other party a [Poverty's Insight], he is the son of God from the sun, and the other party is an assassin living in the dark.

Salas uses two bodies at the same time... No, including the one sitting on the chair now, it is three.

He uses three bodies, but he does it with ease.

No, not just with ease, at this moment he felt that he could use four, five or six, as long as he wanted, he could become an army, the most powerful army in the world.

He didn't notice that a golden cup slowly appeared in the deepest part of his body. The golden cup shone with the most dazzling golden light but had the blackest mud spots attached to it, as if it had been infected.

The cup was filled with a green liquid that swayed slowly, as if alive.

Salas didn't notice that at the moment his eyes and thoughts were full of Lei Xiaoaogu, the League of Assassins.

Lei Xiaoaogu obviously didn't want to die in the hands of Salas. He quickly called out the assassins he had prepared for a long time. He fell to the ground, impaled limbs and became a complete cripple.

But Salas didn't kill him because...

The first one, Salas thought to himself, he wanted to leave the place of the first person he killed to Lei Xiaoaogu, only his grandfather was worthy of being the first person to be killed by him.

Since ancient times, the fall has always started from the blood of relatives. Cain killed his brother and was cursed by God. Lucifer betrayed his father God and fell into hell.

This is a ritual, a ritual that symbolizes that Salas has completely taken off his shackles.

Therefore, the first person killed by him must be cautious and meaningful. It cannot be a random soldier, it cannot be...

Salas looked at Lei Xiao Aogu quietly, and then he heard Lei Xiao Aogu say: "Salas, don't you really want to know why you became like this? Is it just because of the water in the Lazarus pool? "

Salas stopped suddenly, Lei Xiaoaogu waved his hand and the members of the Assassin League did not hesitate for a moment, they all backed away, leaving him alone to face the two bodies in Salas' hands.

He seems to have already figured out how to deal with Salas, what kind of thinking to use, and what method to adopt.

Salas shouldn't follow his train of thought, but Salas also hesitated.

He looked at Lei Xiao Aogu, thinking about what he was talking about, why did he become like this?

"Saras." Lei Xiaoaogu smiled slightly, and he stretched out his hand to Salas, "My child, haven't you realized yet? The League of Assassins has never easily let go of abandoned 'waste' In practice, we can only destroy them, do you understand? You should have been destroyed directly, no matter before you entered the Lazarus pool or after you entered the Lazarus pool, we should not easily put you in a certain In a corner where people can easily pick it up."

"So should I be grateful for your kindness?" Salas said mockingly, he just covered his chest, realizing that the following words might not be what he wanted to hear.

Lei Xiaoaogu sneered disdainfully: "Of course not, the Assassin's League won't do such benevolent things, so I might as well tell you that I did it because I needed to do it."

"Yes, Salas, I need to do this, and you will come back to me eventually."

wrong.

The moment Bruce caught up with Thalia again, he realized something was wrong again.

He sent Dick to Arkham to find Salas, and then went after Thalia himself, trying to catch him and ask him what they were trying to do.

But soon he found that Thalia seemed to be avoiding him consciously, and was deliberately leading him in circles.

She was trying to take his time, she must have something else going on.

Bruce stopped, and at the same time, Talia stopped.

She turned her head and looked at Bruce with a half-smile: "Did you find it? It seems that Batman is not really omnipotent, and he didn't find out until now?"

"What did you do, Thalia?" Bruce whispered.

Thalia took a step in the direction of Bruce in turn: "It should be done by now, so it's okay if I want to tell you."

"My father has gone to Arkham."

In an instant, countless thoughts flashed through Bruce's mind, and finally converged into one sentence - I was fooled.

Not from now, but from the day he joined the League of Assassins.

What did Lei Xiao Aogu go to Arkham for?Definitely wanted to take Salas away.

But will Salas go with Lei Xiaoaogu?No, not only would he not, he might break through the bottom line and kill them.

He thought that the Assassins League didn't understand Salas and mistakenly thought that Salas would go with them, so he made this stupid decision. Such a stupid person.

So at this moment, he suddenly thought of one thing clearly - what if the League of Assassins knew about Salas?What if Lei Xiaoaogu knew that Salas would never go with them?

Does that mean one thing?

Lei Xiaoaogu has something that Salas can't refuse, so he has absolute confidence that Salas will go with him.

What is that thing?What else in this world is more important to Salas than the hatred in his heart?

It could only be about the secret that Bruce didn't figure out about Salas, about his ability, about his beginning...

"Nightwing." Bruce turned around quickly, he changed direction and started running in the direction of Arkham, "Where have you been?"

"Don't worry, Bat, I'm going to Arkham soon." Dick said quickly.

"No." Who knows that Bruce changed his attitude, and he said decisively to Dick, "Don't go into Arkham, don't see Salas, go quickly."

"What? Bruce, but I'm in Arkham... Batman... bat... bat... hiss... hiss..."

Finally, there was only a busy tone on the intercom.

Bruce paused for a second, quickly took out another communicator, and sent a message to the Batman.

"Ye Yi lost contact, now, everyone get ready, everyone gets ready." He paused, controlled the pain in his heart like being pierced, and said calmly, "We lost the magician. "

Salas put Dick down slowly.

"You should kill him." Lei Xiaoaogu said.

"I didn't even kill you." Subtext, why did I kill him even if you didn't die?

Salas had a gentle expression, but his eyes were very cold: "Let me see."

He said so.

Lei Xiaoaogu said, "You want to go back to the League of Assassins with me."

Salas sneered: "You aroused my curiosity, so we temporarily reached an alliance, but that doesn't mean we're really at peace, Lei Xiaoaogu, I'm not that magnanimous, and neither are you. , so we don't need to pretend to each other, my dear grandfather."

"The best gifts come to those who are patient, Salas."

Salas snorted, but did not continue to ask, but followed Lei Xiaoaogu out of Arkham.

Arkham's guards are not within Salas' attention without the addition of Batman.

And the only Batman at the scene was lying on the ground waiting for someone to take him away.

Salas himself didn't understand how he was persuaded by Lei Xiaoaogu, but the leader of the Assassin League succeeded, making him temporarily put down the weapon in his hand and follow behind him.

He wanted to see what that person said, and also wanted to know where his self-confidence came from, so he could be so sure that Salas would definitely go with him.

Well, maybe it's because he really wants to know what happened to make him the way he is alone.

He wasn't afraid of Lei Xiao Aogu, Aogu couldn't kill him, so he didn't have any fear even if he followed him to the League of Assassins.

The only regret is that he ended up breaking his promise with Bruce - he was supposed to be in Arkham.

Of course, Salas didn't regret his decision at the moment, even if he did it again, he would still come out.

I just don't know if Bruce is extremely disappointed at the moment, because his son finally lied to him.

A few hours later, he and Lei Xiaoaogu returned to the League of Assassins.

When he saw that ancient building for the first time, he felt as if he had been here before—or, he had just left here.

"Do you want to see the Lhasa Road Pool?" The first time he came, Lei Xiaoaogu pointed to his secret and said to Salas, "A lot of what you want to see is in this pool .”

Salas took a deep look. Of course, he knew very well that Lei Xiaoaogu had a conspiracy. The leader of the Assassin Alliance couldn't let Salas touch his secret for nothing.

But Salas was not afraid. He even felt that this is how people get along with each other. You plot against me and I plot against you. In the end, neither of us loves the other, it's just a relationship of plotting against each other.

This kind of getting along is much simpler than getting along with emotions and energy.

"Okay." So he replied calmly, as if he hadn't noticed Ao Gu's thoughts at all.

Then he saw the pool of green water, the same color as Salas's green eyes.

Salas asked himself countless times why he was crazy, why everything became like this.

Now he saw the answer.

Because of this pool of eternal water.

What a precious pool of water, the pool of water that can bring the dead back to life and the living can live forever.

Everyone coveted the pool of Lazarus, but for Salas it was just a cursed nightmare.

He hated the pool of water.

"Did you see, Salas, such a beautiful green, such a crazy green." Lei Xiaoaogu grabbed Salas's shoulder from behind and said frantically.

Salas looked at the pool of water quietly, not feeling the beauty, but the man-eating green color, as if it wanted to swallow him up.

Suddenly something in his body began to churn, and the green pool water also changed with the fluctuations in his heart.

It seems that there is something under the water trying to get out of it.

Salas took a step back subconsciously, but Lei Xiaoaogu quickly grabbed his body and prevented him from taking a step back: "Look, Salas, look, look at what you look like. "

Then Salas saw an amazing scene - he saw a baby's corpse floating from the water with a cup-shaped object in its arms.

This is the original Sarah Wayne.

"It's unbelievable, Salas." Lei Xiaoaogu said, "I know you have many bodies, and there is a disabled one, the blood of the Wayne family. You think it is your body, but it is not. Yes, this is you, you died, died in the Lazarus Pool, and then got soaked in the water, you are not the son of Batman, you just borrowed Sarasway who was abandoned in the Lazarus Pool It's just a body of En, and you are not crazy because of the water in the Lazarus pool, but you are like that!"

"Saras, you are the pool of Lazarus."

Shocked, Lei Xiaoaogu pushed Salas a step, and Salas fell back a step.

Just when he was about to fall, suddenly a spider thread stuck to his abdomen, and one forcefully pulled him up the wall.

Salas flew into the sky.

"Who?!" Lei Xiao Aogu roared angrily.

The spider hanging upside down in the cave trembled, but did not let go. Instead, it grabbed Salas's clothes even more forcefully and led him to run outside.

"Peter!"

"Don't talk, Salas." Peter hurriedly explained that he didn't have time to continue talking to Salas, so he could only quickly drag Salas towards the door he had long been optimistic about.

Lei Xiaoaogu didn't expect such a bold spider to get into his web, not at all.

So it was so smooth for Peter to hold Salas.

Salas was very cooperative, maybe because he was still affected by what Lei Xiaoaogu said to him, or maybe he didn't expect Peter to come here to look for him after the last call.

Peter pulled Salas, he just wanted to run, and he didn't intend to get entangled with anyone at all.

But if the Assassin League is so easy to break through, then Lei Xiao Aogu is not Lei Xiao Aogu.

He quickly reacted, waved his hand, and directed the members of the Assassin Alliance who were ambushing outside to enter.

But at this time, Salas also reacted.

Almost without thinking, he released the body of Karna, son of the sun god.

"Saras, didn't you understand what I said?" When the two sides approached, Lei Xiaoaogu said to him angrily, "You are not the son of Batman, nor are you a human being."

"I know," Salas said.

"Then why did you..."

"I don't know," Salas replied.

Lei Xiaoaogu paused, with a gloomy face, and stopped the assassin.

Salas was protected by Peter, or he left the League of Assassins with Peter.

They ran for a long distance, and stopped when Peter was sure that the League of Assassins would not catch up.

And Salas also allowed Peter to do this, even though he knew very well that if Lei Xiaoaogu hadn't stopped temporarily, they wouldn't have run so easily.

But he didn't intend to talk about it with Peter, he just looked at Peter.

Peter was nervous for a moment, and quickly said: "Don't think that I care about you, I just saw him push you into the pool, I couldn't see it, so I pulled you."

Salas told him that way before, and he was also a little angry.

"No, I just want to ask how long have you been with me? Didn't you just follow me and Lei Xiaoaogu? Are you hiding on our plane?"

"I, I, no, I saw you fainting Dick, and I followed you because I was afraid that you would do something bad." Peter said nervously, with a stubborn expression on his face.

"Oh, that's it." Salas turned cold, turned around and was about to leave.

"Where are you going?" Peter grabbed him subconsciously.

Salas pulled his arm, but he didn't pull it out, so he stopped and said, "This matter has nothing to do with you, you can leave."

"You're going to do bad things, I can't let you go." Peter said stubbornly.

Salas said with a half-smile: "You think you can stop me?"

Peter looked at him with a stubborn expression on his face.

Salas turned around, and the body of the Impaler suddenly appeared behind him: "Do you know what this is?"

Peter shook his head.

"This is my doll." Salas threatened him, and he deliberately manipulated the piercer to move, "I can make a doll that can only obey my orders, maybe I can also make you a doll , then you can only obey my orders."

"Do you want me to make you a puppet?" Salas licked his lips and said with an ambiguous expression, "Do you know what I will do to you after I make you a puppet?"

Peter swallowed, unable to speak.

"You can't disobey any of my orders, so I'll dress you up like a doll, change you into beautiful clothes, or simply leave you naked." Salas said word by word, "Oh, maybe it's too much At one point, I will let you kneel at the door every day to welcome me home, and then..."

He didn't say anything next, just squinted his eyes to see Peter's reaction.

Peter couldn't react, he could only look at Salas with horrified eyes.

He couldn't make any other expressions!

"You're right, I'm a bad guy, I don't like to do good things, I can even sell you." Salas said, walking up to Peter and picking his chin as he spoke, "You don't even know—"

"—How many people in this world like a cute little boy like you."

With a click, Salas, who was close to Peter, was covered in spider silk all over his face.

The smile on Salas's face gradually disappeared, and his expression was stained with haze.

"What are you doing?" Salas said sullenly.

The look of spider silk all over his face made him look ridiculous, but neither Peter nor he thought it was funny.

"I'm sorry." Peter subconsciously apologized, and he immediately reacted after the apology, and said to Salas with an expression of "you're so embarrassed that the villain will sue first", "You've said such perverted things, why do you ask me? "

"Who taught you to do this?"

"Mr. Stark." Peter said without hesitation, "He said that if anyone from the Wayne family dared to approach me, he would treat him like this."

Salas thought gloomily, Tony Stark?He remembered.

Halfway through the harsh words, someone covered his face with spider silk. Even though the current body is only one of his bodies, Salas felt extremely ashamed and humiliated-he was not even a little bit defensive.

"Don't move, don't move." Peter hurriedly took out the potion for dissolving spider silk and rubbed it on his face. Although the spider silk would decompose after a while, it was obvious that Salas was definitely not the kind who would endure such embarrassment The guy who's out there doing bad things, so Peter had to give him a little rub.

Salas stared at the boy's pretty face, and after a while he said calmly, "Stark really raised you very well."

Peter blinked.

"Have you ever thought that I am not a good person?" Salas said lightly, "If you use the potion that dissolves spider silk in front of me, it is equivalent to giving me my weakness, then I can really treat you Do whatever you want."

Peter froze for a second, apparently not thinking of what Salas was talking about.

He paused, then continued to apply the lotion to his face.

"So what." Peter said calmly, the spider webs on Salas's face disappeared under his hands, "I knew you were a villain a long time ago, you and I have repeated it countless times, so I answer you, I get it, you're not a good person."

Salas looked at him and asked lightly, "Then you're still here?"

"Who knows?" Peter said calmly, "Maybe I'm curious, why do you say that doing bad things is your hobby every day, but I haven't seen a day when you are happier."

Salas paused for a moment, then suddenly smiled.

Under his influence, Peter twisted his hand, and the potion in his hand rubbed into his hair.

Annoyed, he increased his strength a bit, as if he was a little angry at how he ran here after being rejected like that.

Salas grabbed his wrist: "Did you hear what Lei Xiaoaogu said?"

His topic changed so quickly that most people couldn't keep up with his train of thought, but Peter understood him right away.

But Peter didn’t want to answer his words, so he said decisively: “No.”

"You heard it." Salas said firmly, "Do you think what Lei Xiaoaogu said is true?"

"Then how do I know?" Peter felt a little regretful after he finished speaking, because Saras quickly looked at him with "you really heard me".

So he quickly shut his mouth, but it was too late.

"He said that I'm not Bruce's son, and that Salas Wayne is just a body I borrowed." Salas said lightly, "Do you think he's telling the truth?"

"I think..." Peter looked straight into his eyes, "If you have an answer in your heart, you shouldn't ask me, you don't really care if you are related to Batman by blood, you just want him to love you, so This question and this answer are meaningless, and you didn’t think it through last time, haven’t you already thought it through now? To be your bad guy, a free bad guy?”

He used what Salas said to block Salas, and the spider became bad.

But Salas's heart suddenly relaxed.

Whether it is true or false, it has no effect on his relationship with Bruce. Even if it is true, the body of Sarah Wayne is also the son of the Wayne family.

Lei Xiaoaogu made the wrong choice. He thought it would affect Salas, but it didn't work.

"Okay." Peter wiped away the last piece of spider silk, and said to Salas, "It's finished."

Salas touched his face, and sure enough, there was no sticky spider web like Peter's on his face.

Very clean, he paused for a moment, inexplicably distracted.

"You..." What do you want to do next?

Peter hesitated for a moment, not wanting to ask the rest of the question. Last time Salas said that he didn't think clearly about his previous closeness. This sentence hurt Peter, so he shouldn't continue to struggle.

But ever since Salas entered Arkham, he couldn't help but think of him.

Obviously Salas has already entered Arkham, it is impossible for him to go out and do bad things again.

Peter struggled and struggled until Salas left Arkham again before he couldn't help jumping out.

He just cares about what Salas is going to do. He is a superhero and he has the responsibility to protect the world.

Thinking of this, Peter became confident again.

But before he asked again, Salas came back to his senses and said first: "I want to go to Lazarus Pool and steal that thing from the pool."

"Which you?" Peter regretted again, revealing once again the fact that he had indeed heard enough.

But fortunately, Salas didn't tease him again because of his words, but nodded calmly: "Yes, I want to steal it out."

His expression was calm, and he didn't have any emotional fluctuations when he saw the baby's corpse before.

It's all just a plan, or a decision.

"Okay." Peter replied decisively, "Then we'll go and get him back."

Salas turned to look at him: "This is very dangerous, are you sure you want to go with me?"

Peter said as a matter of course: "I am a superhero, and I have to watch you not do bad things."

In fact, he has a little guilty conscience, but this is the most honest reason, and he doesn't want to abandon it.

Salas stared into his eyes, clean and sincere, with a touching tenderness.

He thought Peter's reason sounded very funny, and he wanted to laugh at him, but for some reason, his heart beat faster and faster, and he suddenly felt that the person he thought was stupid might not be stupid.

On the contrary, he thought he was smart, like an arrogant fox, but stepped into the hunter's trap step by step.

He was caught, his ankle was impaled, but he tried to struggle.

"Peter, if what Lei Xiaoaogu said is true, then I will never get better." Salas said with a smile, "This kind of madness, this kind of despair, you..."

"Okay." Peter said without hesitation.

"Listen to me clearly..."

"I heard clearly, Salas." Peter said, he knew what Salas wanted to hear, and he knew what he could give, not hesitation and temptation, this was their last chance for each other, "I heard clearly, I know you will never get better, but I also know that you will stick to that bottom line. Maybe you will never get better, but you will never be so bad. I can accept it, I can accept that we pull each other Go on like this, I am your spider thread, Salas, if I can hold the broken bridge, I can hold you."

"Saras," he said, "I rejected you once, you rejected me once, and we're even."

Salas blinked, and the next second he saw Salas getting closer to him, the distance had exceeded the safe distance that Tony told him.

His heart was pounding because he knew what Salas wanted to do.

"Close your eyes," Salas said.

Peter closed his eyes obediently, and then felt the moisture on his lips.

A magician's lips are warm.