"Hm…this sure is a beautiful place…so bright and so…unpolluted." Zoey sighed as she gazed across the beauty that was Dren's planet. She leaned against the balcony and smiled as she spotted some young children in the nearby meadow. Playing, like they didn't have a care in the world. Zoey remembered being like that when she was little, playing with other children and having such fun doing so. "Hm…children, they are so innocent and have no worry at all that is until their parents drag them into their adult problems, and then the child is forever tainted and no longer has that sweet child-like innocence." Zoey watched several of the bird-like things flying through the sky and smiled as one of them came and landed right beside her on the balcony ledge. "Oh, well, hello there…don't I wish I could speak to birds like Corrina…" "You…I understood that!" Zoey looked around "Hello? Dren? Was that you?" "No, no. It was me!" Zoey suddenly looked at the little bird creature "You…you speak human…and you understand me!" "I can understand you! Though I have no idea as to why…we Ava usually cannot speak with Cyniclon…" "Well, that might be why, see I'm not a Cyniclon, I'm human. Do you have a name? Or shall I call you Ava?" the creature smiled beautifully "Ah, well that explains it; though there have only ever been 2 humans we have been able to converse with." "2? Who are the 2?" "Oh, well the Lady Layna Hizashi and her daughter. Oh, and my name is Suna."
"Lady Layna? Who's she?" "You must be new to the planet. Lady Layna Hizashi was the ambassador of Earth and represented all the humans upon that god forsaken rock. She was a delight, and gained the trust and love of many of this planet's natives…sad how she died really…" "How did she die? If that's not a secret," "Why, not at all. The stuck up natives here tend to keep everything hush, hush, but we Ava, we do not agree and are often spilling tales that were supposed to be secret. Zoey nodded "Alright, then what happened to her? How did she die?" The Ava looked at her and sighed "She was slain, the day she gave birth to her beautiful child. Slain as she lay in her birthing bed." "Oh, that's awful. To never see your newborn child…that is sad." "Quite, and to this day, they still know not the truth of who killed the woman, only that there were two suspects. A Cyniclon, named Indigo Depe and a human called...eek!" The Ava suddenly shrieked as a dagger came flying towards it. Zoey whipped her head around to see Dren. "Dren…" "Ooh! Master Dren! You mean child! Do not forget, that it was this incident that led you and the young child to…ack!" "Be gone Ava! Leave the palace! Now, and leave what is not known kept that way!" The Ava sneered, but flew away.
"Hey! No wait! You don't have to go…aw…" Zoey glared at Dren "Why did you have to be so mean to her? She was only answering a question I'd asked her!" "That question, is not to be known by a human…" "Though it was a human who more than likely killed her?" "Leave it alone Zoey…" "I will not! I want to know if it really was one of you or if I've been lied to my whole life about who killed…my aunt!"
Dren just stared at her, wide eyed. "Yo…your aunt?" "Yes, Layna Hizashi was my aunt, and I didn't realize that she was the same one the Ava was talking about, until I heard how she was killed. By either a human or a Cyniclon. My mother always told me that she was killed by one of you. I wanted to know the truth! From someone who knows it!" Zoey shouted, tears on the verge of spilling from her eyes. "Zoey…" "I want to know if I should become like Elliot and hate your people or become like my aunt and love your people." She said, looking out over the balcony. Dren thought and sighed "What do you believe happened?" "Hm…mother always shot down my theories, but that didn't stop me from coming up with them…" "What were your theories?" "A human killed her…a human that probably wanted her for himself, but learned that she was in love with a Cyniclon and so in a blind a rage of pure passion, killed the woman he loved, so no other man could have her ever." "…WOW! Good guess!" "Is…is that really what happened?" "Almost exactly to a T…Zoey, how on Earth do you know all that?" She shrugged "It's just something I thought might have been the cause…though, the human must have forced his 'love' onto her, fore she did in the end give birth to a human girl, right?" "…Yes…she did…Zoey…ha, if I tell you this, please swear to me that you will never tell another human soul as long as you live, alright?" Zoey nodded "I promise, I'll keep what you tell me to myself and no one else will hear it from me." "Alright…well, sit down on the bed; this is not going to be an easy story." Dren said, pulling her gently to the bed and sitting her down. "Alright, now, I'll begin."