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The room was dark. He loved this darkness. He felt like it was the only one who could understand his pain, his tortured soul. Everlasting darkness, just like the one that was submerging his heart. No warm, no light, in this cold room of his. Just silence. Just the sound of something cutting through.

'' Ne… Claudia… Why don't you just die already? '' the man said as he marked the ground with his weapon. '' You know… I used to be a test just like you… I had friend… A family. We loved each other. We supported each other. And then… '' He plunges the weapon into the surface. '' And then, you came in. You took everything! We were rejected! All because of you and your mere existence! You became even more important than any of us! But still… I had my family. We were fighting to survive. Though… You killed the last one of us! You were just unable to get one… me. I fought and I lost. But… I was able to take the most precious thing to you. To make you suffer just like I SUFFERED! '' He laughed, so much his lung hurt. '' And it make you so mad that even in your slumber, your thorn are trying to trap me. But it wasn't me… It was him. Oz Bezarius. You messed up this other world in order to kill me. ''

He took the knife out of the ground and look at it without seeing it.

'' Here, you were praised like a queen. Again. Now, it is my turn to save this world from you! I shall save them from the Will of Abyss! Free those you've chained for your own purpose. And If I have to die to do so, I will. And I'll bring Xeno down with me as my docile servant man. Don't you fell it? Me being so close to your beloved one? You can't stop me. No, Claudia, you can't stop this revenge. ''

From deep down the abyss, the Will was hearing him. She was mad. She wanted to crush him down just like she was doing with her dolls, but he was out of reach. Damn him.

Running away wasn't an option, even if it was what Gilbert and perhaps a few others wanted to do. The tension between Break and Rufus was hard. But, before the Barma could even raise a hand on that hated fool, the Hater was gone. Rufus could have held him back, however for this time, he let him go. Other things were more important at the moment. Things that couldn't be left running away from him. He wanted to know, he wanted the truth.

Since he had no choice, Oz took the first move. He had a plan. He knew he had no choice to give Rufus some information, but at least nothing obligated him to say everything. And, nothing obligated him not to ask something in return. So, in the end, the Duke and the young Bezarius really did exchanged information like they were supposed to, without stealing the Dodo.

Luckily things didn't go so bad. Oz explained that Lace, Melissa and Robbin were coming from a world connected like them to the Will of Abyss. He also says that there was a girl in this other world looking exactly like Alice and that she had been reincarnate as someone in their world. To conclude, he vaguely terminated his sentence by saying that the reincarnated one may have something to do with the tragedy of Sablier. The young Bezarius left some time for Rufus to think about all he says before asking him what he really wanted.

'' Do you know information about a man named Oswald…? '' questioned the blond.

'' Oswald…? ''

The Duke took his time before answering.

'' Obviously, he was the replacement for Glen's soul after Revis, the head of the Baskerville family back then… He is also his son and the last Glen. ''

This conversation was making Gilbert uncomfortable, somehow, he felt uneasy about something, perhaps it was because he didn't like so much the Duke… As for Alice, she already had enough of all this talking and let herself fall to sleep. Elliot even though he was curious about all this story and didn't want it so much to be known… Left with his servant, he had matter to talk. However, he still insisted that Oz should keep him on news of what was going on. After all, they were the one who dragged him into it.

'' Could he… I mean Glen… Could he not be the only cause to the tragedy of Sablier…? Perhaps he is not only the bad one in this tragedy… '' said Oz, more to himself than to anyone else.

'' And Jack would be responsible in so way…? Why would you ask? You… You didn't tell me everything, don't you? '' Rufus gives him a suspicious look.

The blond smiled.

'' I wouldn't put it that way… It's just this whole story doesn't make sense… In the first place, why would Lacie be sacrificed and why would he… '' He paused himself, finally getting the main idea. '' Ne, Duke Barma, could someone be brought back for the Abyss…? ''

'' Well, you are a main prove of it. ''

'' But such a tragedy didn't happen when I got back. And something still doesn't make sense… He wasn't there an easier way to bring her back? I mean, it wasn't quite hard to make me come back… And…'' Oz turned to face Claudia's friends who were trying to stay put on their chair. '' Ne, would Xeno go as far as killing so many people, to bring Claudia out of the Abyss? And if he was… Why would he have let Lacie being sacrificed so easily? Wouldn't he had run away from his family, tried everything to save her, if she was really someone that important to him? ''

Oz words echoed in the room. Claudia's friends were left in silence. They understood his point of view. It was truth that some of the fact they had been given didn't work together.

'' Perhaps, they didn't remember each other as they reincarnate in this world… '' Gilbert advanced, running away from an eye-contact with the other.

Perhaps, just like him and Vincent, they had forgotten about their past self.

Note: Yay! I'm back after a year of emptiness I left you in. Sorry for that! But with the new info on the plot in Pandora Hearts, I had to review a few things. Okay, got to say that I slack it off a bit… But, now I'm back with two new chapter and other coming 'cause now I have so many idea about this story :D Hope you still enjoy it!