Final Fantasy: Ancient Divines

by Diran Jiru

History's dangers return. Bereit and his companions must fend against a rising anomaly that is returning long forgotten dangers.

9. Chapter 9

p class="western"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: large;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Chapter 9/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"1/span/span/span/span/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: xx-small;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"st/span/span/span/span/span/span/span span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"person/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Reichtum, the city of the rich. Of the fancy. Of the powerful. If you weren't any of the former, you didn't belong./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"It got its name from the rich that always travelled here on vacations, or just inhabited the area. The city lights, the cool air, despite being in one of the hottest places in the world, it was one of the key parts of what made Reichtum the city that stood above all./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The Casinos, though, was the biggest part of it. Gambling was a massive source of income for the city. Call it rigged machines, or the people were just unlucky, but that's just how the slots and tables are. And they laugh all the way to the bank at the end of the day./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"3/span/span/span/span/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: xx-small;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"rd/span/span/span/span/span/span/span span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"person/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"So they're here?" Vanessa asked, as they group stood on a mountain of sand, looking over the sunlight covered, wall surrounded city./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit nodded. "Yeah." He answered. "Sure, the Assassin told me, and he isn't a trustworthy source, but what choice do we have?"/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Imbir stood in front of Bereit. "What choice do ME and Vanessa, have. You're not going in there, Bereit." Imbir said, looking at him./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit raised an eyebrow. "Why not?"/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Think. If any member of the Ehre family saw you, what do you think would happen next?" Imbir pointed out./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit thought about it, and he was right. But he didn't want to just sit there and do nothing./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Vanessa and I will get the info, since they don't know we're with you. But there's a place you can wait for us, while we find information about Fallen. The sewers." Imbir explained./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The sewers? Why there?" Bereit complained./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"You'll be closest there, and you'll be able to catch a break." Imbir pointed out. "Zelkova will accompany you, just in case anything does happen."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit sighed. "Fine. If it means we rescue Fallen." His intentions were set in stone./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Is there a specific spot we should be in the sewers?" Zelkova asked Imbir./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"You'll come across a manhole that has four paths, and has graffiti that says, 'Freethinker.'" Imbir answered. "You'll know when I'm there."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit looked down for a moment, thinking about how it was possible he would screw it up. He always did get lost easily. But then again, he was just waiting for the info to be given. How could he screw that up? He looked at Imbir and nodded. "Alright. How do I get to the sewers?" Bereit asked./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The edge of the city, where the ocean is. They toss their waste in the ocean, but they have water purifiers. They clean the garbage out of the water." Imbir explained./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit nodded, and then looked at Zelkova, and motioned his head. "Alright. Let's go be ninjas and hang in the sewers."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Zelkova raised an eyebrow in confusion. "Umm, I don't understand what joke you're trying to make... If there was any." Zelkova said, as he followed Bereit, to the direction of the city./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"3/span/span/span/span/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: xx-small;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"rd/span/span/span/span/span/span/span span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"person (Imbir)/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Imbir looked at Vanessa, as he saw a smile on her face. He didn't know where the smile could possibly come from, but he wasn't going to question it. Vanessa was actually excited to see the inside of this city. "Alright. Let's talk game plan. Who exactly are we looking for?" Vanessa asked./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"A woman with purple hair, and looks around her forties. She might be wearing something different then the last time, so it won't be as easy to find her." Imbir answered, as he walked down the sandy path that lead to the entrance of Reichtum./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"So, we're staying together for this?" Vanessa asked./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Imbir nodded. "Yes."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Imbir could tell that Vanessa was excited, despite this being an information gathering for Fallen's location. But, he had to be honest, he actually was happy to be back in this place. He remembered coming here before for a bounty he was requested for, and he enjoyed the night lights, the people that were always cheery, and even the occasional mad ones that had recently lost in gambling, and, his favourite part.../span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The food. Boy did he ever love the food here. They had everything, and it all was made to perfection... though the prices could be better./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"They approached the entrance, seeing it was an elevator that was inside a tube that lead to the top of the walls and into the city, guarded by two soldiers holding rifles. "State your business." One said to Imbir, both soldiers holding their guns firmly, aiming them in the air./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"We're here for business, a request from a client. ====/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"We're here on vacation./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Just finding a place to rest for a while./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"And that business is?" The guard asked./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Classified. Personal information." Imbir answered./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The guard took a look at their attire, and seeing what they carried for weapons. They seemed like the mercenary type, so their answers seemed legit./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Umm, you don't plan on robbing anything, a-are you?" The other guard asked, his shaky voice showing this was his first day, and he seemed really nervous./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The guard smacked his chest. "You don't-"/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"If we were, we'd be pretty stupid to." Imbir spoke up to cut him off, just wanting to get inside, the two guards turning their heads to him. "Plus, with security at top notch here, the two of us would get shot down in a minute." He added./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"You've been here before?" The nervous guard asked Imbir./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Imbir nodded. "And I can't say I'm in any hurry to test it."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The guard nodded and motioned his head to the elevator. "Alright, you're in. Just keep your finger off the trigger, and we'll get along just fine." The guard warned./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"You don't have to worry about a thing." Imbir said, as he walked past him, as Vanessa followed./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The nervous guard looked at the other. "That girl looks... too young for this kind of stuff."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The guard was about to argue, but he looked at Vanessa for a moment. "I wouldn't worry about it too much."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The two walked into the elevator, the doors closing and the elevator went up. Imbir and Vanessa got an overhead view of the city. Vanessa walked to the side of the elevator, seeing a part of a huge colourful signs and buildings, until she stumbled a bit when it stopped at the corner of the tube, and went over the wall, then down the wall, to bring them inside./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The door opened, and they stepped out of the elevator's floor, to the concrete, decorated grounds of Reichtum. The elevator then made its way back to the outside of the wall./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Houses and shops surrounded them, Imbir seeing Vanessa's amazed expression. "Whoa... how long do you think it took them to build this place?" Vanessa asked./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Maybe we can visit their museum. They ought to have an answer." Imbir answer, though sarcastic./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Vanessa nodded. "I'm sure we don't have time for that, so maybe another time." She said, knowing she wouldn't be able to. "Hey, how do you think Bereit and Zelkova are holding up?"/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"3/span/span/span/span/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: xx-small;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"rd/span/span/span/span/span/span/span span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"person (Bereit)/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Ugh, f- argh." Bereit said in pure disgust, as him and Zelkova were entering the path to the sewers, through the water purifying station. Though seeing the purifier was pretty amazing, it was all rendered mute to the horrid smell and sight of what trash and waste was coming through it./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit looked at Zelkova, to see he was holding up fine, Bereit holding his nose to block the smell. "Stomach made of steel..." Bereit said to him./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Well, I am a Healer. I've seen the insides of men, women and children, and had healed them. So, comparing this to the sight of organs, it's nothing bad to me." Zelkova commented./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"So, you were more than just some Healer." Bereit said./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"My healing is beyond anyone has seen. It's Holy Healing. I can almost save people from death." Zelkova explained./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Almost?" Bereit asked./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Zelkova fell silent for a second. "I have yet to learn the Life spell. A spell that can bring the dead back, though the body must be fresh, not rotting or anything."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Only you're capable of that?" Bereit asked./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"I wish I knew. Perhaps when we save Fallen, we can find out where I can learn such a spell. It might even be possible that she knows. After all, she is a Summoner." Zelkova suggested./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Let's hope we even get a lead." Bereit said. Though such a spell would be very helpful. In case if somebody had a... 'mishap,' to put it lightly, Zelkova could bring them back in an instant. It was definitely something he'd have to keep in his head. Though, he knew it would be no easy feat for even Zelkova./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"3/span/span/span/span/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: xx-small;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"rd/span/span/span/span/span/span/span span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"person (Imbir)/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Imbir and Vanessa kept looking around in Reichtum, coming across all sorts of shops and stands. Despite the whole reason they came here was to find the lady that sent the Assassin, Imbir could see Vanessa was intrigued by every little thing she came across. "We're not here for sightseeing." Imbir reminded her./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"I know, I know." Vanessa said, in a slightly annoyed tone. "I just haven't seen anything like this before, you know? I just feel... free." Vanessa explained./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Question. ====/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Agree./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Free?" Imbir asked./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"You remember what I told you, right?" Vanessa asked. "About how I joined the Terror Bringers in the first place because I didn't want to run my dad's store. That wasn't the life I wanted to live."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Express interest. ====/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Let her explain./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Cut the conversation short./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Then what was your ideal life to live?" Imbir asked./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Vanessa thought about for a moment. She had an answer, she just didn't know how to put it together. "I guess like Bereit. A life of adventure around every corner. I joined him for that reason... hoping he could give all sorts of adventure for me to have." Vanessa admitted, telling him her real reason of joining./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Well, you've seen where his 'Adventures' take him." Imbir pointed out, hardly calling this an adventure. More of a search and rescue./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Vanessa laughed. "Yeah. Not my idea of one, but hey, presents comes in different sizes." She then turned to look at Imbir and smiled. "You know, I figured you the anti-social type, considering your low tone of voice and tough act. But, you're pretty cool."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Imbir felt a bit of heat in his cheeks, looking away a little. "Think nothing of it."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Aww, are you embarrassed?" Vanessa asked, giggling. She then stood properly and then looked at where they were going. "But... for real, thanks for listening to me." Vanessa said, putting her hands together, behind her back. "It's nice to know somebody is willing to hear what I have to say."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"I'm sure the others would have done the same. I'm no different." Imbir said. "Now, let's get to what we came here for."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Vanessa nodded, excited. "Right."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"And so began their search throughout the city. Every corner had all sorts of strange attractions and people. Small stands for food or little knick knacks, or stores that held all sorts of things you could buy, though it was all quite expensive, so not a single gil was spent while they were on the search./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The two were checking by the large casino, as they saw there were people normally coming in, while there was a V.I.P line. He guessed the V.I.P got some sort of special access or some perk to being one. Coincidentally, there was a sign right next to the line that read, 'Not a V.I.P? Be one NOW for only 1000 gil! Get 10 free spins, and drinks!'/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Imbir crossed his arms. "It wouldn't hurt to look inside." Imbir said, telling Vanessa where they were going next./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"I guess we could just walk in, right? I mean, there isn't a line." Vanessa said, putting her hands on her hips./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Imbir nodded. "Right." He walked forward, along with Vanessa, walking on the wide red carpet that lead to the door, though the V.I.P was a lot more fancy with a gold colour to it. They were then stopped by a bouncer, the bouncer being as you would expect, big, and tough looking, with the business suit and the shades. Though he was mostly stopping Vanessa, since he stood in front of her./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Identification." He said, in his brooding voice./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Why? How come everybody else gets to go in without showing it?" Vanessa asked./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Anyone under eighteen is not permitted to enter." The Bouncer explained./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"UNDER EIGH-" She snapped, but stopped herself. She got the idea that she looked too young, because of her height. Vanessa sighed. "I don't have any ID..." She said, leaning forward with her head low./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Imbir looked at the bouncer. "What about me?" He asked./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The Bouncer looked at him. "You look old enough to me. You may enter. But..." He then patted his holster. "No weapons."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Imbir looked at it, and figured he had no choice. Though, if he could cover it beforehand, he could have kept it. He undid the belt that held it to his side, and then handed it to Vanessa, along with the machete. "There. Now can I go in?"/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The Bouncer nodded, as he moved out of the way. "Yes. Enjoy the casino, sir."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Imbir looked back at Vanessa. "Wait at that bench over there." He said, one that was by the side of the road, near the V.I.P line./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Imbir then walked in, to find the inside was massive. People gambling on machines with titles like, 'Blackbeard's fortune,' 'Golden Chocobo Eggs,' and 'Machina Madness.' And there were waitresses all around serving drinks and wearing uniforms that showed a lot of their legs, the uniform being a bright yellow with a feathery tail at the back. From the looks of it, the uniforms were chocobo themed./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"And the lights. It almost made the outside look dark, as it was all bright and blinking./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"As nice as this was to see, he was here to find Fallen's mother. "Purple hair, late forties." Imbir reminded himself. He began his search inside The Casino, to find this woman./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"3/span/span/span/span/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: xx-small;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"rd/span/span/span/span/span/span/span span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"person (Bereit)/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"They continued to go through the sewers, Bereit in absolute disgust while Zelkova has an expression as straight as he stood./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit heard a squish under his foot, his face cringing at the sound. He brought his foot up, as he looked at it. "Ugh, what the hell? What's under my boot?" He asked, showing Zelkova./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Zelkova looked at his boot, to see what it was he stepped on. "Bloody... feces." He answered, trying to find a word that wasn't gross./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit gagged and wiped his boot on the wall, to only see it smear on it, making it even worse./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"3/span/span/span/span/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: xx-small;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"rd/span/span/span/span/span/span/span span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"person (Imbir)/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"While searching for Fallen's mother, Imbir came across the Blackjack, Poker and Roulette tables. He saw some small celebrations, hypes, and people groaning from losing. It was kind of refreshing for Imbir to be on his own, and to see people have fun like this. To be out of the hard work of a mercenary./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Something out of the corner of his eye caught his attention, to see a woman in a deep purple dress, and purple hair. It might not be her, but he had to check anyway, to really make sure./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"He approached the Roulette table, to get a good look at her, though tried to play it off as if he just came to watch her play. As he did, standing tall over her, he watched her purple coloured nails drop a stack of 5, '5' chips on a black 21 spot. "It's my lucky number." She commented to the dealer./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Let's hope it's your lucky shot too." Imbir commented, to catch her attention, looking at her. The make up on her face through him off for a moment, seeing the blue eyes and purple hair, it definitely was her. He recognized her based off of Fallen's appearance alone. This had to be her mother./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"She looked back at him, and gave him a grin. The ball rolled around the wheel, along with the wheel spinning. They both watched it roll and roll, until it landed on 14, Fallen's mother sighing. She then looked at Imbir. "Care to give it a try, young man?"/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Give it a shot. ====/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Let her try again./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Imbir looked at the table for a moment, and put his hand out. "Seven 10 chips." Imbir said./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen's mother raised her drawn eyebrow, though her purple lips gave an intrigued grin. She handed him what he asked, and watched him drop the stack right on red seven./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Lucky number seven." Imbir commented./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Dealer nodded and then launched the ball, as the wheel began to spin. A few deal silent seconds between them, and the ball landed right on red seven. "Well, what do you know." Imbir said, surprised that he got it./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen's mother looked at Imbir, with an impressed smile. "You've got the lucky hand there, young man. What's your name?" She asked, leaning on the table, her purple dress revealing a bit of cleavage./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Say your name. ====/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Make a different name./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Imbir, ex-Frozen Heart." Imbir said, thinking to bring up Bereit, since he knew she sent the assassin./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Frozen Heart?" She asked, raising an eyebrow./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"I remember coming across you during The Terror Bringer shooting." Imbir clarified./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen's mother looked down, thinking on what he said for a moment, then had an expression of realization. "Yes, you were the fellow that showed up after that brown haired boy nearly killed me. I knew I saw you somewhere."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Let's test my luck again." Imbir said, leaning on the table, as two other people took the table for now. Imbir put his hand forward, saying that they could. "You were the one that sent the assassin, that put him down like the cocky mercenary he was." Of course, Bereit dying was a lie, but he wanted to play it off as if it happened. To win her trust./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen's mother laughed. "He's a boy, of course he stood no chance against a battle hardened assassin."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Frankly, I was sick of his attitude, so you can think of the gil I won you as thanks." Imbir said, faking a smile./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The pleasure's all mine. Oh, where are my manners?" She then shook his hand. "Selbst." She introduced herself. "So apparently he was travelling with a purple haired girl. Is that true?" She asked./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Imbir nodded. "A summoner by the name of Fallen."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"She laughed. "Ah yes, my daughter. That's too bad."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"How so?" Imbir asked, hoping to bring the topic of what she did with her, though it was going to be tough./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Selbst sighed through her nose. "It's a bit barbaric, if I'm being honest, but I can only care for one child, because it would only drive me crazy with three." She turned to look at him. "You see, reputation is all that matters to me and my family, so I had three daughters in one birth, and gave them all one task. Become famous, and they'll win their spot as my daughter, and one that will continue my lineage. Sadly, she had already lost."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Imbir found this absolutely horrid to listen to. She pitted her daughters against each other? How could she do that? Well, he had the answer. Reputation. "Barbaric, yes. But I can see what you mean. Children can be a handful." Imbir said, trying to be the understanding person./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"So you understand where I am coming from." Selbst said./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Imbir nodded. "So, if she lost, and from what I saw, she was taken from Bereit, where is she now?" He asked, in a curious tone./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"I'm not certain. But she was definitely taken somewhere far from here. Perhaps I'll ask her when-" She then turned, to see a young girl, that looked about Fallen's age approach them, with a V.I.P card on her shirt. "Ah, Tier, there you are, I'd like to introduce you to Imbir, somebody who... really knows how to make a good first impression." Selbst complimented, showing her hand to him./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Imbir looked at the girl that approached them, seeing her black, messy hair that almost looked like a wolf's mane, along with her unzipped black vest and torn shirt that showed some of her belly. And with the black pants and combat boots, it gave Imbir the idea that she was more than she seemed to be. Something... dangerous./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Tier's deep brown eyes looked at Imbir, looking at his attire. "He looks like an amateur." She rudely commented./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Looks can be deceiving." Imbir said, crossing his arms./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"So I've been told." Tier said sternly, then looking at Selbst. "Alright, Mom. Sis is dead and buried." She said. "Well, as I like to put it." She added as clarification./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Imbir noted her saying, 'As I like to put it.' "Sis? Fallen, I take it."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Selbst laughed. "Fallen. How cute that you refer to her as someone she is not. Well, Ex-Frozen Heart.. I'm not surprised that one of my daughters is such a filthy.. Liar. Her name.. is Rein. You know, like how you would say 'reign'. Quite fitting for an Ehre, if I do say so myself. But, that was unfortunately when I thought she had a chance at topping her siblings." She explained, then turned her head to Tier. "If I didn't know any better, I'd say those Assassins raised you, not me."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Assassins? What twisted family is this?" Imbir thought to himself. But he needed to know her location. But how would he do it without raising their suspicion? He would just have to figure it out. Maybe he would question her work./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"How. ====/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Where./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Why./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"If I may ask, how did you... dispose of your sister?" Imbit asked./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Tier raised an eyebrow. "Why would you care?"/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Let's just say I had my own fair share of... let's call it, disposing jobs." Imbir answered. "I just want to make sure you did it right."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Maybe my work is none of you business." She replied sternly./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Now, now, Tier. Remember that boy I talked about, the one that stole the shard? Well, he's dead now, and Imbir was a witness, and came here to thank me for it." Selbst explained. "The least you can do is show him, or at least tell him how you disposed of her as a means of kindness."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Tier sighed. "Fine." She then turned her body to Imbir. "Though I have questions. Who took my daughter away from your group?" She asked, in a tone that showed she was testing him. "If you're really him, than we'll know you're legit."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Her suspicion was admirable to Imbir. She was really keeping Fallen's location a secret. "The Impostor in the Shrine of Ifrit." Imbir answered. "He disguised himself as The Elder in the temple. And since you weren't there, nobody would suspect you had a deal with her disappearance, along with The Impostor disappearing, nobody could be interrogated for info." He added, to make it sound like he was a professional, though he did know his way with work like this./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Tier hummed. "Alright. At least you figured out I sent him. Impressive, I might add." She then crossed her arms and then stood up. "You want to hide somebody, you take them far, and in an unpopulated place. And that impostor could get the job done."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"How far did he take her?" Imbir asked./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Tier snickered. "Ozean. Sure, it's populated, but it's the least populated, and nobody's bound to find her where I put her."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Ozean. Bereit wasn't going to like this. He just really hoped that she was still alive./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"3/span/span/span/span/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: xx-small;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"rd/span/span/span/span/span/span/span span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"person (Bereit)/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit and Zelkova finally found the spot, and were waiting for Imbir to come in and give the information on Fallen's location. Though, unknowingly to them, Imbir had kept Fallen's true name under wraps, alongside the gruesome information concerning her family's lineage. The only sounds were the sludgy water moving along, with the sounds of footsteps from the people above, and Bereit's whistling./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit whistled and read his book, while Zelkova was slowly pacing forward and back, nervous. He looked at Bereit, surprised of his calm nature. "I figured you'd be nervous as well."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"If Imbir's as good as he is with his gun, I'd say we have nothing to worry about." Bereit said, turning a page on his book./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"3/span/span/span/span/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: xx-small;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"rd/span/span/span/span/span/span/span span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"person (Imbir)/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Having the information, though not a direct one, he figured that'd be good enough to find Fallen./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"He didn't want to ask anything more questions to raise suspicion. Though they sounded like they trusted him, he didn't want to go too far with her trust. Not only that, leaving immediately would probably give off the vibe that he was going to rescue her, so he stayed with them for a little while longer, for at least 15 minutes, playing tables and conversing./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Imbir looked at the clock, seeing it was almost noon, so he figured now would be a good time to go. He looked at Selbst. "Well, it's about time for me to leave. I have places to be."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"You still don't want to be a personal bodyguard? Final offer." Fallen's mother said, in a happy tone, to try to get him to accept it. She brought it up before during their time together./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Imbir shook his head. "A bird can't fly if he's in a cage." He said, as a wise style of a farewell phrase. He then walked off, waving./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Selbst waved, and then turned her head, her lip curling into a smirk./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Imbir looked at Vanessa and motioned his head, telling her to follow. He then pulled out a notepad in one of his pouches and a pen with it, as he wrote 'She's in Ozean. We need to get to the airship NOW.'/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"So, from the time it took you, I take it she was in there?" She asked./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Imbir nodded, standing on a manhole and tore the paper out. He then knocked on the manhole and slipped the paper through the small hole, then stood up. "We'll wait for Bereit and Zelkova outside. Fallen is in Ozean."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Imbir and Vanessa then quickly walked back to the entrance./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"3/span/span/span/span/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: xx-small;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"rd/span/span/span/span/span/span/span span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"person (Bereit)/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit looked up, as he heard the knocking and saw the paper come down. He reached out and caught it, leaning over the mucky water. He sighed for a second, happy he wouldn't have to grab it from the sewer water. He opened it and read it, to see what it said, having a shocked expression./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Zelkova saw the expression. "What is it?" He asked./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"We need to get to the entrance. Now." Bereit said, as he ran forward, tracking back to the entrance of the sewers, as Zelkova followed him. They left the sewers, and made their way to the entrance to meet up with Imbir and Vanessa. As they came together, Bereit stopped in front of Imbir. "She's in Ozean? Who brought her there?" Bereit asked, in a worried tone./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Tier, her sister. I think that's what The Assassin meant by, 'Competition.' I'll explain on the way." Imbir said, as he started quickly walking his way back, the others following him./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Though travelling on foot wasn't the quickest nor wisest way, but they didn't have a choice./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"They quickly made their way back to Stahl, fighting monsters along the way, and quickly boarded the ship./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The Captain looked at them, seeing their rushed entrance, and Bereit worried expression. Before he could even say anything, Bereit ran to him. "We have to get to Ozean! Now! Fallen's been kidnapped and taken there!"/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The Captain didn't question nor ask about anything. He simply nodded and looked at his crew. "Alright, men! We're off to Ozean!" He shouted, as they all got the ship set and ready to fly./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"During the flight, The Captain figured now was a good time to ask him what was going on. He went to Bereit's side, seeing him by the edge of the ship. "So, Fallen was taken? What happened?"/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit took a calming breath, and looked at The Captain. "Some Elder Impostor grabbed her while she was unconscious and just disappeared without a trace. Imbir was able to get some info on her location, though we don't have a precise one. I know Ozean like the back of by hand, it shouldn't take us long to find her." Bereit explained./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The Captain nodded, and crossed his arms. "I hope she's okay."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit nodded, and looked towards the ocean. "Yeah... and it's all thanks to her family..." Bereit said, clenching his hand into the railing, accidentally using fire, burning his hand a little. He winced and shook his hand, looking at it for a moment, before sighing./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Her family?" The Captain asked./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Listen. I'm freaking out right now, I can't really explain it without getting furious." Bereit said, looking at The Captain./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The Captain understood what he meant by that. Him getting furious was never a good thing, especially with his fire magic. "I understand. Just try and keep a calm state of mind. Then you can think clearly, and figure out places where she could be hidden." The Captain suggested, wanting to help in any way he could./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit nodded, as he then looked at the passing ocean again. "Yeah... I'll try." He said, not really sure if he could. Fallen was in danger, and god only knows what's happening to her as of now. It just gave Bereit so many bad thoughts, he felt like he was overflowing. But like The Captain said, he had to keep a clear mind. He couldn't think straight if he wasn't calm./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"During the flight, Imbir wanted to explain what the situation was about this 'Competition,' but Bereit declined the explanation. He needed time to clear his head, and not lose control again. So the whole time, it was just pure silence for the group, as they made their way to Ozean./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Now being sunset, thanks to the long travel, and the timezone of Ozean, they arrived on the shore, Bereit getting off immediately, while the other got off quickly, though carefully off the latter./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit looked around for a second, thinking about where he should start looking. Places came to mind, so he had places to check. He turned to the others. "We'll split up and call for her." Bereit explained briefly./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit... hold on." Imbir said. "Her sister, who I came across at the casino, she used the term, dead and buried. For all we know, sh-"/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Don't. Say it." Bereit said, clenching his fists. He then ran off, beginning to call Fallen's name./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Imbir watched as he ran off. The fact that he interrupted him for saying that, he figured he was trying to not think of Fallen being dead. He came to regret even speaking of that in the first place./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"So... I'll get to searching." Vanessa said awkwardly, walking backwards for a moment, before walking off to search for Fallen./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Zelkova and Imbir did the same, as they all searched through different directions./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen!" Bereit shouted, cupping his hands around his mouth. He kept calling out, hoping to just hear a response. Anything. He was calling out for her so much, he could feel his throat growing tired, and his voice getting raspy. But he didn't want to stop. He wanted to find her. Just have some sign of knowing she's somewhere here./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit kept running past tall grass and palm trees, calling, and looking everywhere, until he tripped in a pothole and fell to the ground. He pushed himself back up, seeing he got some dirt around his forearms, and looked forward. "Fallen! Where the hell are you!?" He screamed./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"3/span/span/span/span/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: xx-small;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"rd/span/span/span/span/span/span/span span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"person (Fallen)/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen was in a fetal position, gently sobbing. In place of her Summoner's cloak and uniform, was a long, sparkling purple dress with Shiva's see through cloak wrapped around her arms. She had no way out. Though she was sad to die this way, apart of her had come to terms with this. Maybe with her death, she wouldn't have to deal with her family issues anymore, or just have to try a survive. She could just... disappear./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"But the thoughts were brushed away as she heard that familiar voice, shouting her name. Fallen looked up to the small hole, hearing it was coming from there. "Bereit!? Bereit! I'm down here!" She shouted. Hearing his voice, it all came back to her, the fact that they were on a mission to save the world, from those cracks that showed up in the world. She couldn't die now./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"3/span/span/span/span/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: xx-small;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"rd/span/span/span/span/span/span/span span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"person (Bereit)/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit's head shot up as he heard the faint voice, and turned his head to the right, where he heard it. He called her name out again, as he heard his being called back. He did it over and over again, until he found where it was coming from. He peeked his head over the metal bars of the hole, though he lived here all these years, and he never knew about this. "Fallen! Is that you!?"/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen looked up, as she saw the brown hair, she heard the voice. It was him. "Bereit... I thought you'd never come." A shy smile appeared on her lips as she tried to reach for his hands through the bars. Even just a touch would bring her back to reality./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen, of course I would. I'm your Guardian, remember?" Bereit reminded./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen's heart raced as she heard that. She at such a state of lost hope, that she forgot about her Guardians. She held her chest for a moment, feeling overwhelmed by her excitement for having a way of getting out of there. To be saved. "Thank you... Bereit. Thank you so much."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit smiled. He was so glad to hear her voice again. To know she was okay. He placed his hand on the bars, and used fire magic to melt it, to make space for her./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Actually, Bereit, come down here. I recognize this decor down here." Fallen said. "There's a Summon here. Though my path is blocked, I was hoping you could help me."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"A Summon? But there aren't any Temples here in Ozean." Bereit pointed out./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen had a shocked expression for a moment. "So that's where I am." She whispered to herself. She then looked back at him. "There are some forgotten Divines, ones that have been remembered by history, but not by Summoners of today. We have to get it, if I am to become a Grandmaster Summoner."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit thought about it, and she was right. She was on a Pilgrimage after all. Bereit then melted the whole manhole off, and then jumped down, landing right in front of her. Just then, he felt Fallen hug him tightly, pushing her head against his chest. "Thank you... thank you so much." She repeated, wanting to say it again./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit slowly brought his arms to her, hugging her back. "I'd go through hell if I had to." Bereit commented./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen then pulled away, taking a deep breath to regain her composure. "Okay... okay, I'm ready to go."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit nodded, and looked at both paths that were blocked by rubble. He turned to her. "Which way leads to the Divine?" He asked./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen looked at the pattern on the floor, as she then pointed to the path behind Bereit, and touched the rubble for a moment. "This way."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit nodded, and charged lightning in his hand. "Stay back. I'll break it."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen was a bit unsure of the idea, but she wanted out as soon as she could. She stood behind him, looking at his lightning emitting hand./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit brought his hand back, and then shot a bolt towards the rubble, as it exploded, dust flying around, blinding them for a moment, before it all cleared up and showed a long path to a decorated door, with a woman that had wings on her head and a harp in her hand, resting on a rock./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen looked at it, putting her hands together and gently placed then on her chest. "The Siren."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Funny... I lived in Ozean for years, and I never knew this was down here." Bereit said, placing a hand on his hip./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen approached the door, as she placed a hand on it, nothing happening. She tried putting her hand on it again, and it still didn't respond. "Something's not right. It won't open." She stated, looking at the door, confused./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit tilted his head, as he then looked at the bottom of the door, to see there were small grates that had small puddles of water in them. He then turned his head to the other path blocked by rubble. "Hmm. Hold up." He said, as he charged lighting in his hand and fired it to the rubble, as water then rushed towards them, the rubble having overflowing water behind it./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The water then reached only to their feet, as he looked at the water fill the small grates, then the door began to glow, The Siren on the door glowing a bright yellow. "There, try opening it now."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen nodded and then gently placed her hand on it, as the door rose up, revealing an old, crumbling shrine. Moss, hanging grass, and vines grow all over, along with two rooms that didn't have doors, and were completely empty. Fallen looked at every detail of the room, along with the broken Siren statues, some not even together anymore. "I heard about forgotten Divines, so I guess the Siren must be one of them."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit examined his surroundings as well, absolutely astonished by this place. And to think, this was near his home. After all these years. "You know, my friends and I explored every inch of this island, and we never came across this place."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen turned to Bereit. "It's good that you didn't. Remember when I said that only Guardians and Summoners were allowed in the Shrine Trials? Well, if you did enter the trial... I don't think we would have ever met."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Knowing myself when I was younger, I definitely would have walked in there because of my burning curiosity. So, I guess it's good I didn't find it." Bereit said. He then shook the thought off, and looked at Fallen. "Well, enough of that. Let's get that Summon."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen nodded, as they both walked to the steps that lead to the Trial. The stairs went down, and they went far. Maybe this was a sign of how old this Shrine was, if it had no elevator like mechanism like the other Shrines./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"After the long way down the stairs, they would find another long hallway that lead to a door with a harp that was on a pedestal, along another door, but had musical notes on it, along a carving of the Siren./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Looks like it wants it's song played." Bereit said, crossing his arms./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen looked at the song, putting her hand on it for a moment. "I know this song..." She said, as she then grabbed the harp, seeing the harp had wings on it, though it was purely decorative. She held it against her shoulder and leaned her head to the side a little, and gently hovered her fingers over the string. She took a deep breath, recalling the times she heard it./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Gently, her fingers ran over the strings, to get a read on the tone of the strings. She began to play the gentle song of the Siren. Starting with high notes, going down to medium, then back to high. After she repeated the notes, voices began to sing, as the door began to open slowly, the voices being more clear. Behind the door, glowed a bright orange light, as if it was a sunset./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen, it's open." Bereit said, but Fallen didn't stop. He couldn't believe how hypnotizing her voice sounded. She kept playing her notes, while the singing of the Siren, and the other kept going./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"3/span/span/span/span/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: xx-small;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"rd/span/span/span/span/span/span/span span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"person (Fallen)/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen felt a tightness in her throat. It was song she fell asleep to every night when she was a child. A music box she had that played the song of the Siren. She memorized the notes by heart, for it was what lulled her asleep every night./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"No matter what, she kept playing, as if she wanted to relive her childhood. To go back and see her younger self./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"After the door fully opened, Fallen's eyes open, filled with tears. She kept the harp in her hands, and walked forward, to go meet the Siren./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The door shut behind her, as she stared at the Siren's domain. A vast beach, with a bright sunset colouring the ocean, with the silhouette of the Siren, as many other were singing with her. Fallen looked at the water, as she then to a step forward, her steps hovering over the water. She took a deep breath, wiping her tears quickly, and kept walking forward, to go meet face-to-face with the Siren./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The Siren sat on a lone rock, just ahead of Fallen. Once she approached her, the Siren's appearance was revealed. The Siren turned to Fallen, her golden eyes gazed at Fallen, her blonde hair having green ends, going all the way to her back, and the wings on her head. She had an alluring smile, turning her body to Fallen, showing her bra that looked like wings. "It has been many years since we had the chance to sing our song again." The Siren said, in her deep feminine voice./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen was surprised to hear a Divine talk to her. She put her hands together, and bowed. "It is a-"/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Spare me your formality." The Siren said, putting her hand up, to tell her to stop. "I only wish to know, why would you come to see me? A forgotten Divine?" She asked, showing she was aware of her stance as a divine, or forgotten./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen thought about what she should say for an answer./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"I need to become a Grandmaster Summoner./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"I need you to help my friends./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"I need you to stop a crisis. ====/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"A crisis, you say?" The Siren asked. "Please, do explain."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"I'm not certain of what is bound to happen, or why it's happening, but if I am to stop this. I must grow strong. So... I'm on-"/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"I only asked of why you need me, Summoner." The Siren interrupted. "And I must say, it does intrigue me to know what this is. However, I need only know, do you think you're the only one who can do it?" The Siren asked./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen shook her head. "No... if anything, I wouldn't be strong enough on my own. I could hold the power... but I would lack the courage to stand and fight."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Even if it meant saving the world?" The Siren asked./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen looked down, feeling like she was being scolded for cowardice. "I lack courage in anything... until... he showed up. My first Guardian."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Go on." The Siren said, wanting to hear more./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"When he showed up... I was just stalling... looking for excuses to not take Shiva's Trial... but the day he arrived, he encouraged me to move forward. To take the Trial..." She then laughed. "Though he wasn't very encouraging, more of annoying."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Big surprises come in small packages." The Siren commented. She then looked at the sunset. "Before I consider having you as my Summoner, there are questions I have, should you be ready to answer them."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen nodded. "Of course."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"br /The Siren smiled. "Very well." She then gently placed her harp, to a soothing, gentle tone. "Your Guardians are all dying by your feet, and you're the last one alive. There is no way to bring them back, and running is the only option. Would take the chance live another day?"/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen was shocked to hear such a question, and not only that, she was scared of such a scenario. It was something that would never escape her mind. She looked down at the water, seeing her reflection./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Die with my guardians. ====/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Find a way to bring them back./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Accept my fate./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fight to my dying breath. If I am to die with my Guardians, I would die protecting them, be it for only a moment." She answered./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The Siren was happy with her answer, though there was a word she wanted her to use other than Guardian. "A Guardian turns on you, breaking the very vow they gave to you the day they joined you. Would you consider that punishable by death?"/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Another thing Fallen feared of happening. The feeling of having someone close to her betray her... it was as if The Siren was diving into her deepest fears./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Yes./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"No. ====/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Yes, but I wouldn't do it./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"She shook her head. "Never. Not... unless they did something horrible..."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The Siren nodded, liking that answer too. "One last question." The Siren then turned to Fallen, looking at her with a serious look on her face. "What do you see your guardians as?" She asked, leaving it vague to what she could answer./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen had an idea that this was the question that really mattered. The one that would be worthy of her judgement. She closed her eyes, and thought hard, and deep in her mind, on what her answer should be./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: line-through;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Guardians/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Comrades ====/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: line-through;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Nothing/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: line-through;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Useless/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: line-through;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Pawns/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Comrades. Those would will stand by my side to the very end, even if it meant their lives. But... to truly have a comrade, is to be one." She answered, and looked at The Siren. "I will be the one who protects my guardians, not the other way around!"/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The Siren had the same stare, but inside, she was surprised, and very impressed with her answers. The Siren turned to the sun, and sung a long high tone, as then, a staff came out the water behind her, and floated to Fallen's feet./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen picked it up, feeling the polished mahogany on her finger, and looked at the yellow wings that surrounded the yellow orb in the middle. "Is this?"/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The Siren nodded. "The Staff of the first Siren. My Token." She answered. "Your answer is one among the many I heard in the millennial of years I've lived. I would gladly become apart of your summons, Summoner Fallen." The Siren said, as she then sent a small symbol of light her way, as it entered the staff./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"But what about my other Summons?" She asked./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"They will still answer your call, should you need them. The staff doesn't hold the connection to the Divine, it's the Summoner itself." The Siren answered./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen nodded, and took another look at her staff, and held her cloak she got from Shiva. Two tokens of The Divines... unheard of among Summoners. Obtaining one was hard enough as it is. She bowed to the Siren. "Thank you. I will be sure to call for you when absolutely necessary."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"The Siren smiled. "Very well. Take care, Summoner Fallen. And be sure to do as you have answered me."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"br /Fallen nodded once more, and then turned around, gripping her new staff. Being called Summoner Fallen like that... it made her heart race, to finally be known as something other than... an Ehre./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"She stepped through the door, as then it shut behind her. Her excitement took her, as she jumped for joy. "Bereit! Look! I got a-" She then saw he was asleep, with the book over his face. She gritted her teeth and brought her staff up, swung and down to hit his head, but she stopped herself, and breathed deeply. "That's not what Summoner does to her Guardians..." But a smirk rose on her face. "But friends however..."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western"br /br /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"3/span/span/span/span/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: xx-small;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"rd/span/span/span/span/span/span/span span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"person (Bereit)/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit felt a blunt jab against his belly, gasping and flailing his arms. "Gah!" He shouted, as he then looked at Fallen, the book on his face landing on his left leg. "Oh... it's you." He said, relieved. His breath hitched slightly in his throat as he gazed up at Fallen./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen smiled. "You looked like you were having a nightmare." She said, in a fake caring tone, finding a bit of fun in teasing him./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Well, I wasn't." He answered, picking his book up and putting it away. "Wait... is that a new staff?"/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"br /Fallen presented the item to him. "The Token of the first Siren." She answered./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Wow. So your old staff... I guess you won't need it." Bereit said./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"br /Fallen shrugged. "I don't even have it anymore. But this... I feel... stronger. Like a real Summoner."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit placed a hand on her shoulder. "You sure?"/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen looked at him, with a confused look, wondering what he meant./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"I thought you were a Summoner the day we met." Bereit complimented./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen blushed a bit. "Oh shut up, you know what I mean." She said, quickly walking past him. Though she really did appreciate that compliment./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit chuckled, and walked with her. "Dropping the formal act again?" He asked./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen realized it, seeing she was being more playful than just the way she was before. "I... I guess I'm just... not into the act anymore." She answered, not sure how to put it. "Though... I guess you know why."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Family approval, right?" Bereit asked again./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen remained silent for a second, and nodded. "Yes... sadly it's because of that."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Support her. ====/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Scold her family./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Hey, don't worry about them. You don't need them." Bereit said./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"I don't... but... it hurts when your parents don't love you for who you are." Fallen explained. "When they just want to change you, like a doll. Or like a mold."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"As of now, you're the sculpture, Fallen. You'll form the statue how you please." Bereit said, playing along with her metaphor./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Fallen looked at him, her hurt eyes changing to happy, knowing that he really was supporting her. She wasn't used to it, since it was normally people trying to get her to do as her mother says. "Thank you... Bereit. That really means a lot. Especially from my Guardian."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit brought a thumb up. "It's a Guardian's job."/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"They followed the path that was previously flooded, seeing there was water coming down a small hole from the waterfall above the ground. They came across one last obstacle, a full wall of rock. Bereit scoffed. "This won't take a second." He charged lightning in both hands, brought it together, and brought it behind him. The lightning flashed blue, and he shot it to the wall, blasting it wide open./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Dust cleared out of the way, and they stepped out, to stand under a cave, with a waterfall coming from the exit. Though what they heard was only the sounds of safety being switched off of firearms and cowering voices. Bereit was shocked to see what stood in front of him, as was Fallen./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;""/span/span/spanspan style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Bereit! Help us!" A boy shouted, among others./span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Save your game up to this point?/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-variant: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 120%; text-decoration: none;" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"Yes/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 120%;"span style="font-variant: normal;"span style="color: #000000;"span style="text-decoration: none;"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"span style="font-size: medium;"span style="font-style: normal;"span style="font-weight: normal;"No/span/span/span/span/span/span/span/p