Angels of Death

Chuami gaped at the red samurai. The man who emitted so little words from his mouth, yet every word he said spoke enormous volumes. He could have turned Yuna's pilgrimage the opposite direction, away from the Final Summoning. He could have caused conflict if he chose to repeat the truth about the Final Summoning before he let Yuna's crew decide for themselves. Auron knew this. And thus, he remained silent. He wanted things to unfold directly in front of him before he opened his mouth. If it were the opposite way, things could have been different. They could have been better, they could have been worse, but they would most definitely have been different. If this were any other case, besides unlaying the reason behind his absence to his daughter, then he would have held his tongue. He would have left the information for the birds.

But he didn't. He decided that he was done leaving people in the dark. Chuami's knowledge of why he chose the path he did was suddenly important to him. He wasn't sure what to feel after he said it.

Chuami's lower jaw was moving, but no sound could be heard. She blinked a few times and stared at him. She must have been thinking of plenty things. She might have been confused, angry, or as unsure about what she should feel as he was. Auron was starting to rethink his decision the longer she was unresponsive.

She paced from one corner of the room to the other, occasionally shooting a look with a mixture of astonishment and perplexity at the man. The man that she'd only heard of in stories told from the common folk, or her mother. Her mouth continued to move silently, as if she was forming arguments with herself over the truth.

"I..." She finally managed to say. "I don't know what to say..."

Auron inhaled. "You don't have to say anything." But he was more than aware that she clearly did. That had to be the reason she was here in the first place, risking her life on a dangerous mission with the only people who had ever been in contact with the legendary man.

She stared at the ground as she took a couple of steps forward, carefully, as if too many steps would shake the airship.

"You mean to tell me..." she breathed. "That my mother... your lover... told you to follow Braska? She wanted you to throw your life away for the sake of this pointless tradition?"

"That's correct." He responded without hesitation.

"That... doesn't make any sense..." she said. "Why wouldn't she have wanted you there... with us? With me?"

She looked at him with glassy eyes. She was holding back a few tears. The same look Yuna used to have occasionally. And just like Yuna, Chuami refused to let them fall.

Auron turned to gaze out the window, where the hours were turning the day to night.

"She had lost people, too," he continued. "People dear to her. Same as you. And I."

He thought of everyone he had tried to save before. Braska. Jecht. Himself. The things he didn't want to fall victim to weren't a tangible substance like Sin. To him, they were something even worse: his remorse. The fact that Chuami was right about his decision, how foolish it had been of him to think he could end Sin without ending his summoner. To think he could return safely to his family afterwards. It was practically a death sentence for any guardian, not just because of Sin.

"She wanted it to end," Auron continued. "The suffering, the cycle, the fear. She wanted a more carefree life for you. We both did. Braska and her were good friends, and she trusted me with his life. She believed that he could bring the Calm. Forever."

"And she sent you with him?" Chuami said. "Thinking you would come back?"

Auron sighed. "If all would have gone smoothly, then I would've been by her side again. I would have protected her from Bevelle. I would have kept her safe."

"But you didn't..." she replied.

His fist tightened. "Yes."

He saw her eyes flash with anger, something her mother had done before. "There's nothing I can't stand more than people who think they're helping their kids by martyring themselves. Yuna's father, those summoners, you. And for what? To prove a point? To send a message about it somehow being better than just sticking by your family's side through this whole shit show?" Auron looked into her eyes. "What kind of a message is that? What kind of a story are they all leaving their kids?"

He was considering defending himself, but he decided not to.

"You're right."

She seemed surprised by his response. "If it happened any other way... we would have all been together. Mom would have still been alive. And..." she lowered her gaze. "And..."

"The cycle would have went on." Auron finished for her.

Chuami did not make the argument that Sin was still here, and now its even worse doppelgänger was terrorizing more than just the living. Because even she knew that something far bigger than the endless spiral was occurring. Auron would not have been here if it were any other kind of situation.

And Auron took her words in, but he could not picture a happier life for his daughter and her mother if things were different. If he did not follow Braska, he would not have encouraged Yuna to continue on without a second look. He would not have fulfilled an old friend's promise and Tidus would not have ended his story the way he did. Sin would have casted its shadow. The way it had for one thousand years.

"You should know..." Auron said. "That I kept her safe from terrible dangers before... before you."

Her head perked up.

"Bevelle. They kept a bounty on her. She once belonged to a man of power. We were never supposed to happen, and neither were you. But it did, and I took her as far away from that place as I could, where she could safely have you."

Chuami didn't say a word at first.

"How... how did she die?"

Auron was silent, and his gloved hand reached up and removed his glasses, revealing the scar directly over his eye, and the pained look on his face. The dead were never truly gone from their living loved ones. Auron had walked the Farplane many times, and he could still hear the sound of her laughing. He listened to Yuna's speech, he heard Tidus boasting on Besaid Island. He wasn't completely gone because a portion of him craved that of which he did not have. A loving family, his good friends, the woman he loved. And he watched those he cared for have those features in life. At the same time, he watched them when they were in pain. He had almost felt Yuna's sadness when she lost Tidus. His nonliving heart snapped in two when he watched Chuami's mother die. By the hands of treacherous people. Like in old tales told from elderly people, some of the dead truly were watching over the living, sometimes when they were in their worse of shape.

"They found her..." he responded.

"Right..." Chuami nodded as if she'd already heard it. "I figured..."

Auron walked up to her and his eyes peered into hers without the ambiguity of his sunglasses. She was uncomfortable and refused to look at him.

"I'm sorry." he said.

And the girl who was the kind of person that never forgave, nor did she forget, was did not object. She did not accuse him of killing her mother. She did not remind him that things weren't any lighter than before. She gaped at him with wide eyes.

"I wish..." he continued in a quieter voice. "Things could have been..."

"Better." She finished for him.

He nodded, and Chuami stood in her position as he turned away and wandered off. She decided it was best to give him his space.

When the day reached its forty-eight hour mark, things were starting to heat up. Gippal, Rikku, and the rest of the Council were keeping themselves awake to keep a sharp eye out for the bird.

The rapid beeping from the radar shook everyone awake. Tidus had been beside them during that entire time and he lightly tapped Rikku's shoulder.

"Whaaa...?" she said, sleepily.

"Time to wake up." he said as he rubbed the tiredness from his eyes. He slept as little as possible and told his companions he would keep a lookout.

"What's going on?" Gippal asked as he stretched. Tidus squinted his eyes as they adjusted to the bright morning lights. There was a black spot in the sky. Two of them, looking as if they were clashing against each other.

"What are those?" Tidus asked.

Gippal ordered Brother to lower the airship. Tidus could see the ground more thoroughly now. A thick layer of pyreflies blanketed a sea of ancient ruins. Old, decrepit buildings, where debris was still falling, towers half-buried in the ground. A sight he hadn't seen in some time.

Zanarkand.

Sin was there, and the black bird. They were battling each other, one slamming their body against the other. Sin was enduring the hit, and parts of its body was lost in the fight. To repair its damaged limbs, it absorbed the pyreflies from the monsters down below. The fiends that roamed the area were plentiful. A mixture of hybrid fiends, and old foes from before.

Two leviathans. Two determinants of the world's fate. The span of people's life, the time it had taken for the Eternal Calm to take place.

Some could even regard them as gods.

But Tidus would not let their massive size or the amount of lives they had taken stop him from his determination. He never did. He knew the bird was holding Yuna. He knew that she was suffering, and he intended to tear that black bird apart until it was nothing at all.

"Yuna's in there." He said.

"That's no joke, is it?" Gippal said to him.

"No," Tidus turned over to Brother. "Think you could get us any closer?"

"I know what we need to do!" Brother said. He did what Tidus asked, however and steered the ship towards it.

Rikku jumped up. "Please tell me you have a plan before we dive right in there!"

"Yeah." Tidus replied and turned to her. "We're destroying it from the inside."

"You outta your mind?" Gippal said.

"It's not as crazy as it sounds," Tidus said. "We've done it before."

"Yeah, when we were fighting Sin!" Rikku protested. "And even then, we didn't think it was gonna work! That thing is ten times scarier and way stronger than anything we've ever fought!"

"Then we'll weaken the hell out of it first."

"This is crazy!" Rikku threw her arms up. "There's no way we can pull that off!"

Tidus put a hand on her shoulder. "We will figure out a way. We have to."

"How?" She bit her lip.

"We've done it before." He said. "And we'll keep doing it again."

Despite his resolve, he was unsure. Tidus believed they could launch many attacks against the Phoenix as it took, but considering that Sin was taking massive amounts of damage just from one hit, he was growing increasingly concerned. He did not have a plan, and he was running out of time to think of one by the second. What was it that they had done before? They had struck Sin's sides, its arms, its front, every bit of it was struck while at the same time it was being kept at a docile state with the Hymn. But that was all theoretical. And now, Tidus had no space for theorizing.

"So, cap'n, what are we gonna do?" Wakka asked him.

Tidus had taken a deep breath in. He could work under pressure. He had done it in the blitzball arena before.

"I'll… think of something…" he said.

"Well you better think fast, mister!" Rikku said.

What was Onryo's end goal? Tidus had to ask himself. It was going to swallow Sin's remains. It would become unstoppable.

"Take cover!" Gippal suddenly yelled.

The entire ship was pulled upwards and several people were knocked to the ground. Gippal and Brother were arguing in their native tongue about where to steer the ship safely. The bird had managed to hurl Sin's enormous body towards their ship and the captains managed to pull it away in time.

Tidus could see his father picking himself up from the ground and shaking the damage off as if it were a small scratch. Jecht always disregarded his injuries. Even when it became bad enough that he needed to see a doctor. Tidus always berated him for it. He could still feel his father's presence, and his pain. He could hear him groaning as he dusted off the dirt and debris.

Dad…

"Grab your weapons." Tidus told the others. "We're going up."

"We're going to make ourselves an even bigger target?" Lulu said.

Tidus picked up Brotherhood and turned to her. "Yes."

"What?" Wakka said. "Why? Can't we just fire some canons 'til it gives out?"

"It's not enough," Tidus said. "We have to distract it from Sin. If we do that, then Sin can recharge its batteries, and then we'll both be hitting it 'til it dies."

"I hate to say it," Rikku said. "But I think he might be right. We gotta weaken it 'til we can cut a hole right through its chest and get inside!"

Everyone shared a look with each other and nodded.

"We can help."

Tidus turned to face Dona, Isaaru, and Father Zuke.

"We may not be able to summon," Isaaru began.

"But we can do something." Zuke responded.

Tidus nodded to them.

"I'm strong!" Barthello said, flexing his muscles. "I can fight!"

"I can do something, too!" Maroda said beside his brother.

"Great, uh…" Tidus thought for less than a minute. "I think I got it! You guys." He pointed towards the summoners. "I don't know if this is gonna work, but it's something. Band together and form a Shell over this ship. Make a force field out of all your magic."

"Over the entire ship?" Dona asked.

"Yes." Tidus nodded.

She scoffed. "That's a bit beyond our abilities, even after being the summoners we used to be."

"Maybe not by yourselves," Tidus said. "But if you all join hands, and use all of your powers, it can work."

"It's unrealistic." Dona said.

Isaaru walked forward. "We have to try."

"We don't have much of a choice," Zuke told her. "We can't protect everyone on this ship any other way."

Dona eventually nodded. "Fine, but I have high doubts."

"That's okay," Tidus said. He turned to the two fighters. "Take care of any fiend that walks this way. They can multiply really fast."

Maroda nodded and Barthello followed him.

"What about me?" Chuami said behind him.

"I think Auron would prefer you stay here." Tidus said to her.

"Seriously?"

"Yes, seriously," he said. "These people will probably need your guidance, too."

Chuami didn't argue. It was much safer inside, anyways. Tidus looked at the rest of his team, who were well rested and fired up with mutual anger and willpower.

And they headed for the roof.

Tidus could hear Jecht's physical pain a bit louder now. He could practically feel it. Jecht was holding on to every bit of his health, but Tidus wasn't sure how much of it he had left. He could see the layer of magic that the summoners casted. It would at least keep the poor civilians protected. Tidus hadn't the slightest idea what kinds of tricks this monster had up its sleeve.

He gazed at his team. Auron, Lulu, Rikku, Wakka, Gaia. Almost every one of them had been here before. Once upon a time. Something brought them together; it brought Tidus here to this world in the first place. It seemed only when they were in danger did everyone come together and overcome their differences, their prejudice, and their hatred. When Home was destroyed, when Sin appeared atop of Bevelle and every individual sang the Hymn. It was peril that could have brought people together, and peril that could have caused the division in the first place.

The Phoenix had sensed them. It turned, its massive wings blowing a gust of wind their way.

"Guys, you read me?" Gippal said over the intercom.

"Loud and clear!" Rikku answered.

"Tell me when you want the cannons."

"Oi!" Brother interrupted him. "I'm the captain and I say when we fire cannons!"

The Phoenix had straightened its form and spread its wings out to reveal a chest with purple flames poking through its skin. Its breast expanded like it was taking a big breath in and the ship was pulled forward.

"What's going on up there?" Gippal asked.

"We're being pulled in!" Tidus said as he lost his balance. He pressed his knees and knuckles against the metal surface.

"I can't redirect the ship!" Gippal said. The force was like an enormous magnet and Gippal's efforts weren't enough to stop it. The Phoenix had drawn them in until they were an uncomfortably close length away from it. Its hideous screech shook the entire vehicle.

Tidus didn't wait. As usual in the beginning of a fight, he casted Haste on himself and the rest of his friends. But the Phoenix still had first move. It dropped a creature encrusted in crystals and with darkness clouding its mouth. Two of the heroes were focused on the fiend while the rest fire off into the bird's body. It lifted its head and roared at a less heinous pitch. Then it held off on its attack.

Tidus had combined a magic spell with his sword. With a mix of the Farplane wind, he swung his sword and cast his own force against the Phoenix. It flinched, but it was still gliding in midair.

They should have seen its Poison Breath coming. Evrae had already beaten this bird to it. The Phoenix opened its beak and sprayed a noxious fume from its mouth, and everyone was Blind and Silenced. Tidus was grateful he wasn't Confused. Rikku had healed them best as she could, but the Phoenix did it again. And again, and a third time until Rikku was starting to run out of resources.

Tidus could see a spot opening amidst the bird's forehead. A third eye. His normal instinct would have been to shield his eyes away from it. Any abnormal feature of a monster meant trouble, but his eyes widened and he was completely hypnotized. He walked closer to it, completely zombified. He wasn't the only one; the rest of the crew was doing the same. The Phoenix was leading them closer to the edge of the ship where they would fall to their death.

Only Auron wasn't taken under the Third Eye's power. It might have been because he decided to put back on his sunglasses beforehand. He could not reach the third eye from where he was standing. He pulled out the only potion he had, gave it to Gaia, and she readied her bow. She struck the monster straight in its Third Eye. It did not give out as soon as her arrow connected with it, however.

"I'm firing the cannons now!" Brother's voice called over the intercom.

The ship was pulled back and the cannons went off. The Phoenix endured all of them, and still hung in the air as strong as before.

"What does it take to kill this thing?!" Tidus said.

The bird threw them back with its wings several times, it kept hypnotizing them, and its scream stunned them. It was completely unbeatable. But all the moves and fiends that the monster threw onto the crew were all distractions. It had been charging its energy for its true move. The ultimate Overdrive. A Giga-Graviton, like its preceding menace. Powerful enough to move tectonic plates. It had stung tremendously when it hit. Tidus was trying to push against it with his hands but he only ended up causing himself more physical pain and his hands felt as though they were on fire. He looked at the others once the Giga-Graviton had struck. They were all knocked out, including Auron. Tidus was the only one left and he was barely sitting on his knees. Any more hits and he would have been done for. The Phoenix looked him straight in the eye.

He swore he could have heard a whisper, or a voice from that monster's beak. It sounded almost like a growl. Its eyes peered into him, cold and soulless. And it opened its beak just as Tidus tried to shield himself from the attack.

Sin had been fully recharged, and its timing couldn't have been more perfect. It rammed straight into the Phoenix's body. Sin released its own move, a Giga-Graviton of just as much strength.

Tidus had given the others what little of his potions that he had left.

"What… what happened?" Rikku said as she opened her heavy eyelids.

Tidus turned his head to the beasts fighting.

"We can't stop it…" he mumbled to himself. "What does it take…?"

He watched his father take more damage. Enough to shake the entire ground before them.

"Think…" he muttered. "Think… think…"

He had an idea once he witnessed Sin launch another Giga-Graviton.

"More missiles coming up!" Gippal's voice said over the intercom.

"Wait!" Tidus said as he stood up. "Hold on! Don't fire them off!"

"What?!" Brother's voice squeaked. "Are you crazy?!"

He kept his eye on Sin. "Just trust me."

During the pilgrimage, he heard Sin speaking to him. Not in actual words, but in feelings and emotions. He could see what his father saw, think what his father was thinking, and see visions about him in his youth. Jecht could hear what Tidus was thinking at times. Perhaps the communication worked both ways.

"What are you doing?!" Wakka asked. "We need those missiles! That thing's invincible!"

Tidus looked at him. "Just hold off on those Sinspawn while I do this."

They were skeptical, but they believed in him. And that was all he needed.

He concentrated. Turned off his mind for a bit while he focused all of his energy.

Dad?

Sin paused. The others could see it. It stopped its fighting and through its thick layers, Jecht straightened and turned his head. Tidus saw his father's figure. Old wounds were reappearing on his skin.

Can you hear me?

Jecht nodded without a sound.

Don't fire until I give you the signal.

There was another nod.

"What's going on?!" Rikku asked, frantically moving her body while she held her claws and grenades.

"I hope this works…" Tidus mumbled.

Sin faced the Phoenix, growling intensely, readying another Giga-Graviton while the bird was doing the same. The spell was visible at the corner of its mouth. The purple-black fire aligning its mouth and the way its beak was half-open. He could see its mouth opening wider. It was about to strike again. Sin was expanding its jaws. Its own spell was ready. Tidus had to focus again.

NOW! DO IT!

The two monsters fired at the exact same second. And they stayed there with their spells locking them together. They didn't move a single inch, or a centimeter. They couldn't.

"Woah…" Rikku breathed. "How did you…?"

Her voice trailed off.

"They're locked in a stalemate," Lulu said as she walked forward. "Okay… what now?"

"We figure out a way inside." Tidus said. "Gippal, bring us closer."

"Got it."

The ship was in between the leviathans and all five heroes attempted an attack on the bird's chest. It had taken a lot to get it open while they glanced nervously at the beam of magic holding the monsters. It did not weaken, nor did they shift from their positions.

"Wait!"

They all turned to see Shinra running towards them with some gear in his hands.

"Take these."

He handed each one, all unique to their preference, to them. A bracer, a bangle, a targe, an armguard, and the last one a ring.

"Wow, cool!" Rikku said.

"I think you might find these useful in there." Shinra said. "Give one to Yuna as soon as you find her."

"Did you charm them, or something?" Rikku asked him.

"You might say that," Shinra replied. "I think being in a place full of evil ghosts and vengeful spirits, it would help to have anti-possession armor on you."

Rikku was amazed. "How… did you manage that?"

Shinra always responded with the same sentence whenever someone shot him with a complex inquiry, but it was different this time.

"I told you guys, I know everything."

And with that, they traveled inside the monster without a second thought.

It was dark, cold, uninviting, and invoked a sense of fear in each one of them. There was an unsettling ambience with the sound similar to when Tidus was practicing underwater. He could hear everyone else commenting on how disgusting the figure was. How slippery the surface felt, how horrible the noise was, but he didn't have an explanation for why it all sounded so muffled. He thought his heart was beating fast enough to drown out the sound, the way the sphere pool did when he was keeping his attention on the opponent's goal. He felt even more lifeless than when he visited the Farplane. He couldn't feel the ground below his feet, he felt as though no air entering his nostrils, and he could not see a thing. He was beginning to mistake himself for one of the spirits.

He was internally glad Rikku decided to switch on a bright flashlight. It awoke some of the senses in him. He was glad he couldn't hear the pained voices the way he used to. It spiked the anxiety in him to think of the worse things he would have heard inside of this Phoenix.

"What's the plan?" Rikku asked as she shined her light towards them.

Tidus put his hands on his hips. "The Fayth said to look for the heart." He responded. "The heart of broken memories."

"So… what's that mean?" Wakka asked. "We go to the center and smash its heart?"

"Something like that," Tidus said. "She was being cryptic. I can't tell if she was speaking metaphorically, or not."

"We need more than a figure of speech," Auron reminded him. "Where's Yuna?"

"I'm telling you she didn't tell me much," Tidus said. "I don't know where this bird's heart is. I can't even see what's right in front of me."

Auron sighed.

Tidus caught something at the corner of his eye and he jumped around, holding his sword in place. Everyone else got into their position.

"What's that?!" Rikku said.

Tidus's gaze softened and he lowered his weapon. There was a ghostly figure outlined in a light blue aura right beside another figure that was casting a yellow light from her body. Tidus recognized that figure. Shiva's faith had shown it to him. It was him. Onryo. He was walking beside the person he had lost. It had to be.

"What are we waiting for?!" Rikku asked. "Let's get it!"

Tidus kept her. "Wait… it's okay. It's not a fiend."

Onryo's spirit was walking beside a woman, presumably Yokai, and talking softly with her. Their voices sounded like the recordings Tidus had seen from other deceased memories.

"But why a bird?" The woman asked him. "Why not paint something else? There are more interesting things to make art from out there."

Onryo turned to her and laughed. "Because a bird can leave its surroundings whenever it pleases. It has the ability to be free."

Everyone straightened up and kept their weapons by their side, except for Auron.

The woman put her hands on her hips and a small laugh escaped her.

"Okay, then tell me this," Yokai said. "What does a summoner want to be free from?"

"What everyone else wishes to be free from," Onryo said. "Pain, suffering, the cycle… I wish that I could spread my wings and take you away from here. Where we would be safe."

Tidus would have pitied the man, had he not kidnapped Yuna and caused all of the trouble he had. It almost felt comforting to see this humane part of him, speaking with the woman he would have done anything for. The one he would have died for.

"That's impossible." She responded to him. "You know there's no escaping this."

Onryo had taken her hand and brought her close.

"There is a way." He told her. "We can be together here, on Spira. Forever."

Tidus had a bad feeling in his lower gut.

"We have already gotten so much," he continued. "Now there's only one step left. We are going to consume Sin. And we will absorb everything from its core."

Tidus should have known not to believe this memory could not have been a fiend. He had seen illusions, he had been one. Before he could react any further, both figures disappeared with a startling growl. Everyone moved closer together, all turning their heads to where the two shadows could have gone when suddenly, Gaia dropped to her knees and started whimpering. Her hands were over her ears.

"Hey, what's wrong?" Wakka was kneeling in front of her and trying to comfort her, but she did not snap out of it. Not when she was hearing the childlike screams and cries.

"I-I-I… I'm sorry!" she said. "I know I should never have left you… but I've found you now! We're together again! Please, stop… Stop reminding me of what I could've done differently!"

She was frozen and none of the others could find where the source of the issue was.

"I can't see a thing!" Rikku said. She was trying to balance her flashlight with her claw and mixing kit.

Tidus got on his knees in front of her.

"Gaia, where do you see it?" he asked.

She shook her head. "I can't… I can't go on… not after what I've done."

"Hey, listen to me," Wakka said. "All that's behind you now, ya? Like you said, we're together again. None of that stuff matters."

His voice was soft, yet firm, as he spoke. Gaia looked at him with watery brown eyes and nodded to him. Then she extended her trembling arm and pointed to an area right behind him.

It wasn't seen by the others, and Auron was taking a big risk at not directly striking the bird when he swung his sword at it. His sword cut into something that wasn't the ground below, and a loud screech was heard before the area became silent again. Gaia was able to stand, with Wakka's help, and she rubbed her forehead.

"You okay?" he asked her.

"I… I'm fine."

Tidus approached her. "What was it?"

She turned her head towards the ground. "I saw… I saw you." She looked at Wakka. "And I believed you when you said we patched things up, and… all that stuff that's happened doesn't matter anymore, but when I saw it… I was overcome with all of this…" she scratched the back of her head. "Guilt. It was so intense that I felt like I couldn't move. I couldn't feel nothing, except that. And I felt bad. I couldn't stop it. Sorry…"

"Don't be," Tidus told her. "I guess we know how it plans to attack us. If it can't get into our bodies, it can get into our heads."

"We'll just have to be careful about what we wanna see," Rikku said. "Maybe we should all keep a clear mind."

Auron walked in front of Tidus.

"Lead the way." He said to him.

The blonde boy never believed he would hear those words from this legendary man, considering how many people looked up to him, and not the blitzer. He merely nodded his head and Rikku handed him the flashlight. Tidus didn't want to say it, but he was terrified. His resources were several potions, an anti-possession bracer, and Brotherhood. He wasn't sure how he was going to stop this monster from ending the world with those few things. And he wasn't sure how he was going to stop himself from thinking of his own fears and faults. There was even less room for those thoughts now than before.

But he shook it out of his system, clutched the flashlight tightly, and kept walking forward with the only piece of information the fayth had given him.

Find the heart of broken memories.