**Lupin:** And I'm telling ya. There was gold coins, too! Stacked up to **here**!

*Lupin gestures with his hands, pointing upward at the ceiling. All the Penitent One does is simply... stare.*

**L:** ...Not a talker, huh?

**Constantine:** Don't bother with it either.

*Constantine adds, lightning a cigarette, cupping the flame with his other hand.*

**Constantine:** I've tried talking to him... he doesn't speak.

**Lupin:** Well, that's boring. I expected at least **somethin'** from him.

...Wait, who are you?

**Constantine:** Me? I'm John Constantine.

**Lupin:** Well, pleasure meeting you, Johnny boy! I'm Arséne Lupin III, the gentleman thief himself.

*Lupin does a mock bow. Constantine looks totally uninterested.*

**Constantine:** Oh, I can just *tell* I'm going to hate you...

**Lupin:** D'awww... how mean.

**TPO:** ...

*The Penitent One looks between the two, unsure of how to act. Who are these people? Why do they dress so... weird? How did he get here? Last he remembers is-*

**CRNSCH-**

*Someone crashes through - a tall man. Tan, blue hair, and entirely bare-chested. He seems to be frozen solid.*

...

**Constantine:** Looks like we've got a new guest...

*Constantine begins to walk up... until something odd happens.*

**JRRRRRSSSSSCH-**

**CHING-**

**Lupin:** OW!

*Chains come from the shadows of a nearby area. Using the Eye of Horus spell, Constantine protects himself from it just in time, and the Penitent One cuts the chains away from him. Lupin, however, is bound in them, restrained to his knees.*

**Spawn:** Keep away from the ice.

*Al Simmons walks out, most of the chains, sans the ones around Lupin, retract.*

**Spawn:** ...The amount of sin in this room could fuel Malbogia himself...

**Constantine:** Well, aren't you just a ball of sunshine?

**Spawn:** And aren't you about two seconds away from that cigarette going square up your ass?

**Constantine:** ...Would you at least get rid of the chains, Mr. Tall, dark, and edgy?

*Constantine furrows his brow.*

**Spawn:** And why should I?

**Constantine:** Because otherwise, we might not get ans-

**Lupin:** Hey, cool cloak.

*Lupin is somehow behind Al, holding up K7-Leetha with a grin. The chains he was in are loosely bunched up on the ground. Spawn, reasonably, is shocked.*

**Spawn:** HOW DID YOU-

**Lupin:** Ah, I'm a thief. I've been tied up too much. Really gotta work on your knots.

Initial greeting