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It was cold on the dark island of Baaj. Fog and cloud made day and night almost indistinguishable. An inhospitable place, always cold and wet. It was then as Anima held her son close to her in the cold to keep him warm that she heard a sound in the distance. She turned her head, ignoring the noise at first. But then she heard it again, the sound of a boat horn.

Anima stood to see the lights of a boat as it came to the island.

"Mother, what is it? Has a boat come for us?" Seymour said to his Mother hopefully.

"A boat here? No one comes here. Could it be?" She said sounding slightly alarmed. The horn of the boat sounded as it turned closer to the rocks. Soon she saw a figure disembark from the vessel running over the ruins towards her. It was a young woman clad in a long dress.

"Anima!? Anima!?" a panicked voice came searching. Anima knew the voice as she heard it; she hadn't heard this voice in a very long time.

"Meena? Could it be?" she said in disbelief running towards her. Seymour followed closely behind her shyly holding onto the folds of her blue dress.

A young woman came running out of the fog to her. "Sister!" she screamed as she spotted her. She ran to her and hugged her tightly. She looked very much like Anima, like she could have been her twin, they both shared beautiful long ebony hair, and blue eyes but she was noticeably younger.

"Anima! You are still alive!" she said starting to cry.

"Meena…I didn't think I would ever see you again." Anima said back slowly while still holding her sister.

"When my letters to you in Guadosalam went unanswered I wrote to Lord Jyscal himself, he told me that you were here."

The two sisters shared a moment happy to be reunited after long years of separation.

"I missed you Meena." Anima said smiling.

It was then Meena spied Seymour shyly hiding behind his mother. As she looked at him he hid his face.

"Anima…your son?" she asked trying to get a glimpse of the child. "I've been so anxious to meet him, ever since you first wrote me to tell me you were pregnant."

Anima nodded as if afraid to show him off.

"His name is Seymour." She said touching his blue-haired head gently.

Meena knelt down.

"Seymour, please don't hide. It's alright, I am your Aunt."

The frightened child looked up at his Mother. Anima nodded to him and slowly pushed him out from behind her.

"Oh," she said in awe as he shown himself. He looked much like a human child except for his long arms and fingers. His hair was sapphire blue and small branch like growths came off of the top of his head. It was unlike anything Meena had seen before. Seymour braced as if waiting for the worst.

"Anima, your child is so beautiful; he has the features of an angel." She said reaching out to him and taking his delicate hand into hers.

Seymour looked confused at his Aunt's remarks; he wasn't used to being called beautiful much less like an angel.

"It is so good to see you Seymour, I've waited so long to meet you." She said smiling at him.

Seymour nodded with a small smile. "It is nice to meet you too."

Meena smiled and hugged the child.

"So why have you come all this way to Baaj to see me?" Anima asked her sister.

Meena stood up and took her sisters hand. "I came to take you and your son back home, sister."

"You know I cannot go back there, you know that Seymour cannot go there." She said looking away with a feeling of hurt.

Thunder rumbled in the distance. A cold wind swept through the island and Seymour shivered and got closer to his mother.

"I wouldn't have come if I had known it would not be safe for you and your son. It's different now Anima."

Anima stared off into the fog, recalling heated past events with her Father about her marriage to Jyscal.

"Different?" She asked.

"There has been a strong change of belief in the village." Meena continued. "So do not worry about Seymour. Father wants you back most of all. He chartered the boat and sent me here to get you after I found out where you were. He also wants to meet his grandson." She said looking down at Seymour.

"Father…he wants to meet my son? He called him…grandson?" she said in disbelief. "He told me to never come back after I left to marry Jyscal, he said he didn't want me anymore." She said as if internally bracing herself.

Meena looked down as if hesitant to share her next piece of information.

"It was not very long ago, Sin attacked our village. It must've been something about that night, as the families around us lost so many loved ones, that he realized how much you meant to him. He came to me and told me he felt as if he had tossed away a precious treasure, and he wanted me to find you."

"That is wonderful. Hard to believe, but wonderful. You haven't forgotten though… my condition…I" she said starting to tear up.

"Anima, we want to take care of you and your son. We know of your illness, and you know your son should be in the hands of family to take care of him…when." She ended her sentence not wanting to say the dreaded truth. She knew of her sister's terminal illness, but she didn't want to even speak of its existence.

Meena leaned close to Anima and whispered. "You wouldn't want your son to be alone out here were something to happen to you. I wouldn't want to know my nephew was all alone out here."

Anima said nothing but nodded.

"You must grant me one wish though." She said looking sternly at her younger sister.

"Yes Anima?"

"When my time is nearing, you must take me and Seymour to Zanarkand."

"…I will sister." She said at the strange request, speculating at what her sister wanted to do.