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"What else did she say?" Soren didn't look at his commander; he was so concentrated on a bunch of papers on the table, in front of him.

"She told me that her father knew my father" Ike responded, waiting for some reaction from the tactician, but the mage only nodded.

"What else?"

"That someone is going to kill her father"

"You already told me that."

Ike sighed, impatient, trying to put his thoughts in order. Last night he didn't sleep because he talked to the girl, Aqua, expecting to get good information out of it. But he didn't remember much.

"Are you sure you are right?" asked Soren, finally looking at the young commander.

"Yes, I am."

Soren buried his deep red eyes on the mercenary; Ike could feel them making a hole on his head.

"What's wrong?" he insisted. Ike shook his head; he couldn't answer. "Ike, while sleeping that girl turned more than twenty men in beasts. I imagine what's going to happen now that she is awake."

"Are you one of those who think Aqua is a demon?"

"Aqua, that's her name" he said, pressing his finger on each side of his head. "I do not think she is a demon, but I don't think her an angel either. And you are NOT gay or blind." Ike tried not to gasped, but he started to feel how his checks burned. "Listen, I will not get mad, but I think is really important for you to tell me, or someone else like Titania or Mist, if you start thinking about doing things you are not supposed to-"

"No!" yelled Ike.

Soren, as calm as always, was about to respond, but the shouting of men outside the tent interrupted him.

As Ike went out, he saw how Aqua punched a man, right on the nose. But another guy grabbed her, holding her hands on the back as other men what they weren't allow to.

"Let her go!" Ike yelled and the people obeyed immediately. The man who had Aqua pushed away so hard that the young woman fell to the sand, face first. "Go away. Now."

Ike tried to help Aqua, but she moved away, when the young mercenary looked at her eyes he realize that they weren't purple, but a mixture between blue and purple; indigo. "Don't touch me, I'm fine" she said, walking away.

"Wait, Aqua…I need to talk to you."

Hesitant, the girl turned and faced the mercenary, her eyes look purple again.

"Tell me" she said, looking at his as if he was some weird bug.

Ike didn't get mad, but he felt some kind of pressure in his chest. "Come with him."

When they entered the tent, Soren was concentrated on his paper work; he just looked at Aqua for a brief moment.

"Tell me, Aqua" Soren said. "What were you doing with those soldiers on green armor?"

"Those soldiers on green armor are part of the army of Benetnasch. My father, as general, ordered them to guard me" she said, with pride shining on her eyes "But your beasts killed them all, they weren't prepare to fight…another army because no army was suppose to attack us."

"We attacked because they were enemies" Ike said, remembering what Nailah said about the soldiers that had killed her people.

"My soldiers didn't do anything against you!"

"We were sleep" Soren said, with his normal expression on his face. Aqua looked at him, if her eyes were knives, the tactician would be on the ground, bleeding to death by now.

"But I knew them…I knew them all" she mumbled.

"What about the queen that betrayed your father?" Ike asked. He noticed how Aqua's eye color changed from purple to indigo. "Was she the one who…contacted my father?"

"…Have you heard of…the Eyes of Dawn?" Aqua asked, nervous.

"The what?"

"An Eyes of Dawn can see the past and the future" she explained. By that time, she was whispering, Ike and Soren had to get closer to her. "My father is the most powerful man in Benetnasch; my family is wealthier than the King himself. That's how we could pay for the service of an Eyes of Dawn. She told my father that he had to send me to Daein; she also said that your father, sir Gawain, was going to help me. Then…Then!" she exclaimed, Ike kind of jumped on his sit from the unexpected outburst of the girl. "That stupid woman, the queen, said that she wanted to help us, the Eyes of Dawn told us that we could trust her."

"You trusted a woman that claims to see the future" Soren said, as if he was analyzing Aqua's words. "Idiocy"

"Idiocy?!" she yelled. Ike could only look how frenetically her eyes went from one color to another. "You and all your people are nothing but a bunch of idiots! The Eyes of Dawn were born after the Dark Era in my continent! They have the blood of the Soulless and the Bloody Eyes running through their veins!" her eyes were purple again, her lips curved into a smirk. "And you? What are you? A simple Branded, the son of a beorc and a dragon laguz".

"That's enough!" Ike finally was able to interrupted them, but he had to repeat to himself to not look at Aqua's eyes, they made him stupid, numb. "Don't ever say that again, Aqua, or I'll-"

"Commander!" Titania came in, before Ike could finish, sweating, breathing heavy. "We're under attack!"

So now you probably are confused and I apologize for that. Ok, the prologue is different, new, and necessary for the story, so there is that new prologue, and the old prologue became chapter one…so yeah, I will continue this, and you must read the new prologue…I'm sorry for all the troubles.

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