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Time and Place
Isabel Night

Prologue

In the Koji household, Loren Morris was sitting in front of a low table in the living room, teaching her boyfriend, Sekhmet Yamanouchi, to read English. As she was helping Sekhmet with grammar, the phone rang. Sage walked in the kitchen and picked up the phone, "Hello."
"May I please speak to Loren Morris," a female voice asked.
"Sure," Sage replied, "Loren, it's for you!"
Loren got up and took the phone from the bearer of Halo, "Hello."
"What have you been up to, Sunshine?" The female voice laughed, "I haven't heard from you in two months."
"Tara," Loren smiled, "How's things in North Carolina?"
"Fine," Tara replied, "I was wondering when you were coming home."
"I won't be back until April of next year," Loren sighed, "I thought I told you and Irene that."
"Are you in the mood for company?" Tara asked.
"I have some new friends," Loren admitted, "but I would like to see you two again."
"Then you're in luck," Tara smiled, "because I'm calling you from an airport in Southern California. Irene and I are about ready to make the next flight to Japan."
"WHAT!" Loren yelled, startling everyone in the house.
"We're going to be at Tokyo International Airport tomorrow at 11 AM," Tara grinned. "And I can't wait to meet your new friends."
Loren knew she couldn't tell Tara and Irene to go back to North Carolina. They were both like her, once their minds were set on something, they stuck with it. There was only one problem: how she was going to explain the nine armors to her two friends? She knew that Irene and Tara didn't carry any of the virtues, because if they did, she would've sensed it a long time ago. "I'll be there at 11 AM," Loren sighed.
"Good, see you then Sunshine," Tara smiled as she hung up the payphone.
'Great,' Loren thought, 'now my two best friends from home are coming to pay a visit. How am I going to explain the nine armors, Sekhmet, the Ronins, and those two assholes, Dais and Cale, to them.'
Loren went back to the living room where Sekhmet was sitting and kissed him on his forehead, "I have some friends coming over," she told him, "I need some help on how to explain what happened two months ago. Do you have any ideas?"
"We could always steal the memory erase drug," Sekhmet suggested.
Loren glared at him, "That's not funny."
"I was being serious," Sekhmet said.
Loren smiled, "well, at least we don't have to worry about Cale and Dais. You put them in their place two months ago."
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Cale would have laughed at that comment, if he weren't hiding in the shadows of the Koji Household. After the embarrassing defeat at the Botanical Gardens, the two ex-Warlords began to watch Sekhmet and Loren in the shadows or invisible. Dais and Cale were still determined to bring Loren into the Dynasty, but things had become more complicated when Sekhmet placed Loren above them. Cale had been and still was angry with Sekhmet, but he was also jealous. Sekhmet had found the peace that all three of them had been looking for after Anubis died. But now Cale and Dais had discovered a way to bring Loren and Sekhmet back into the Dynasty. Letting a silent chuckle escape his lips, Cale teleported back to the castle to tell Dais what he had discovered.