Swamped

"Ah. Thank you for your help, I'm afraid I never got a chance to before."

Sunflower smiles.

"Yeah, you were still out cold when I brought you in. Was planning on asking about you tomorrow, but I guess there's no need for that now."

Still nothing from Black. You think they want you to drive the conversation, if only to see where you take it.

"Speaking of people with strange masks, I've run into a few since waking up. One of them tried to blow up the hospital. And another mask was left by the emergency exit. The strap was broken, so I thought there might have been a struggle."

Now Sunflower doesn't say anything. Maybe they want to hear more?

Wait. There's something he should know if he brought you in. Maybe he wants to know you're not trying to hide it.

"Seems there was a mask with me when I was knocked out, though. Doesn't look quite the same, but perhaps it's connected somehow."

"Black?" Sunflower asks.

"Well, he knows more about it than he's letting on," Black says. "But he's not stressed about whatever he's hiding. It's more like how it is when you talk about your job, and someone asks for details, but you'd really rather not get into it."

You find that analysis more than a little unsettling. Which is probably the point - they're making clear it's not worth hiding anything important.

"I see. Well!" Sunflower steps a bit closer. "Don't take this the wrong way, but I'd just as soon not get involved in your business either. Except where it happens to cross over with our business. Namely, with regards to Mortimer Flame."

"Why do you want to find him?" you ask.

"Now, now, can't go telling you that unless you're willing to share why you do. And there's no time for that sort of business when we still haven't found Mr. Flame. So let's just start with the fact that we all want to find him, and then focus on how we're going to do it."

You suppose that's fair. You're curious about the talents these two have displayed, but it's not as if you don't have your own share of secrets.

"Well, I was trying to find out what I could, but then you two ambushed me. So I'm afraid I haven't gotten any leads. But if you share what you know, perhaps I'll notice something about it you overlooked."

"Don't know about that. Sunflower's pretty clever," Black says. You get the distinct impression Black isn't too shabby in that department either, and just doesn't feel the need to say so.

"Well, it's worth a try," Sunflower replies. "I'm afraid we don't have much to go on, though. Between the two of us..."

"Us!" the lizard squawks suddenly.

"Three of us," Sunflower continues, "so far we've only managed to find one thing that was clearly a clue."