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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"1/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"st/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;" person (Bereit)/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"To think our enemy became an ally. Well, you know what they say; "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." Too bad they weren't my real friends. Otherwise I'd be saying this positively./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"3/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"rd/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;" person (General)/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"The entire party stood by the entrance of the Ehre Family Residence. And what came to their sight was a residence unlike any other. The building a was tall right in the middle, taller than anything the party has ever seen. Nothing like a castle, however. The left and right sides of the building were shorter in height, but they were a lot wider than the middle part of the building. It all looked plain from the outside, with the mix of dark red and white for the colour along with the windows. And this all was right at the very top of a small mountain. And anyone associated with the Ehre family knew why./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Tier turned back to the group, having that usual grin on her face. "Now, if you guys don't want to get shot, stay with me and do as I say. Alright? Rules are pretty strict in the Ehre family residence. Especially to those who aren't associated with them." She explained to them, mainly eyeing Bereit, Vanessa, Zelkova, Kurve and Imbir./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"You said it yourself that you need all the help you can get. You better not have anything happen to my Guardians." Fallen said, narrowing her eyes at Tier./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Don't you worry, sis. They'll be safe. Just don't try your luck, is all I'm really saying." She clarified to the group, before she went right to the entrance. There was a small box right next to the door, and a button underneath what looked like a speaker. Tier's finger pressed against the butto, leaning to the speaker. "Mother, I've brought Rein and her Guardians… actually, they came here on their own, if you'll believe it. Wanna take us to the elevator?"/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Bring Rein down to the bottom floor. I wish to speak to her personally. As for the Guardians, they stay in the Landing floor." The voice spoke through the speaker./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Very well, mother." Tier said, before the front door opened, sliding to the side. She motioned her hand to let everyone in, for them to see the first room in the Ehre Residence./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"And what they all came to witness was a big open room with many white stone pillars that held up the second floor above them. Or what let to it. Two sets of stairs that were carpeted with red that lead to said second floor, with a finely carved wooden railing. And between them was a big elevator that was closed by a reflective black sliding door./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"3/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"rd/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;" person (Bereit)/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Despite the rather fancy decor, Bereit was still pretty nervous about things. About Fallen's mother. Even if he wasn't going to see her./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Everybody walked past Bereit, as he quickly caught up with them, being lead by Tier to the elevator./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Hey, keep cool." Scharf told Bereit. "I know you and Fallen's mother aren't on agreeing terms, but you heard Tier. She ain't gonna kill us."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"So you say. -/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"I guess so.../span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Let's just say I'm skeptical." Bereit told him./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"You have every right to be. Just, work with them for now, alright? It'll all be fine." Scharf told him. "They aren't as bad as you think when it comes to business."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Right." Bereit said under his sigh, the party soon stepping into the elevator./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"From the buttons that the party could see, there were five floors below, and Tier pressed the 3/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"rd/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;" button, with L in brackets. The sliding door soon closed, as they would feel the elevator make it's way down, Zelkova, Kurve and Vanessa stumbling a bit from the sudden movement./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Ms. Animal Lady?" Kurve spoke up, looking at Tier./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Animal Lady?" Tier asked, raising an eyebrow./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"There aren't any sciency guys that'll try to cut me open to look at my innards, will they?" Kurve asked, sounding nervous./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Tier shook her head. "I mean…" She then had a smirk on her face. "Unless I want them to."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Kurve stepped back from Tier, hiding behind Imbir and Scharf who were standing near each other./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Imbir quietly sighed, keeping his eyes down, not wanting to say anything./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"The elevator soon came to a stop, with the sound of a ding being heard. The sliding doors opened, as the party was introduced to another unfamiliar sight, to a good portion of the party. But Fallen was all too familiar with this place./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"All sorts of airships were on flat parts of ground, all in order and organized. And they were almost identical to the one that Bereit and Cid stole during their escape. Many people were inspecting said vehicles, running tests on the engines, along with the motions of the moving parts of the airships./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Lots of lights were around the place as well, brightening up the dark area./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Have fun looking around. Just don't touch anything." Tier told them sarcastically. "Especially you kids." She said, eyeing Venessa and Kurve. And once that was said, Tier pressed one of the lower buttons, as the doors slid to a close./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Kurve pouted when he heard what was said about him, but Vanessa simply shrugged./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"3/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"rd/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;" person (Fallen)/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Fallen had her usual look, before her face made a last second worried expression, as if her confidence was beginning to waver. Especially since her guardians weren't gonna be with her./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"The elevator was silent with the two sisters. Fallen had her eyes looking the other way, with a hand on her shoulder. She wasn't sure what she was going to say. The fact that she was getting ever so closer to her mother, all what she thought of saying was beginning to leave her mind. As if she never even thought about it in the first place./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Sis." Tier spoke up./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Fallen jumped a bit, as she looked at Tier./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Thanks for not killing Folgen." She told her, Tier's eyes looking to Fallen's. "Don't worry about mother. There was a reason I stood by her side all this time."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Fallen was rather surprised by Tier's sudden comforting tone. Never in her life had she seen her like this. They had been separated for a long time. Maybe there's been some change. But what? "Sister… so all the times you've caused me trouble? And to my guardians?"/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Tier grinned. "You catch on quick. You really are the smartest one out of all of us."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Fallen couldn't help but smile. But it came to a frown once the elevator came to a stop. The doors slid open, and the first sight they came to was a big open room with a long table, with seats surrounding the table. The windows were right at the end of the room, the bright blue sky being visible just above the bright green trees./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Mother." Tier said, stepping forward. "Your dearly beloved is here." She informed her in her sarcastic tone./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"What did I tell you about that tone?" The all too familiar voice spoke up, soon turning to face the sisters./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Fallen's eyes were surprised to the see how much time had affected the looks of her mother. The few new wrinkles she had that rested on her circular shaped head, along with her now short blonde hair, and her deep purple dress she wore that matched the high-heels./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Sorry, mother." Tier said, with a small shrug, as if she didn't really care./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Fallen's mother sighed, before she approached Fallen and Tier, her eyes mainly on Fallen. "Rein Ehre. How much you've changed since I last saw you." She stated, noticing the change in her daughter. "You look like a mislead lamb. Slowly being brought to it's slaughter."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"People change -/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Nice to see you too, mother/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Sorry I'm not perfect/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"People change, mother." Fallen simply said./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Indeed they do. Not necessarily for the better." Her mother commented. She eyed her daughter some more, before she turned on her heel, walking away from her daughters. "I suspect you came here expecting help from me? About that dragon?" She asked, not knowing what it was truly called./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"The Erpel, yes." Fallen said. "And… well, we sure as hell can't do it ourselves, given the situation. The Erpel made a fortress of stone. So, I want to know if you can help us out with this." Fallen was expecting her mother to ask for something in return./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Well… I am well aware that there are more. And with what happened to Reichtum…" She went silent for a moment. "Rein… I know you wish to save the world from these things. And frankly… I see the stakes. I'm not that stupid."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"What mother is trying to say is, yes." Tier said, having a hand on her hip. "She'll help."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Yes. I am." Fallen's mother said, narrowing her eyes a bit at Tier. "I will help you and your guardians fight the next few Erpels."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Fallen kept a normal stare, but she was happy to hear they'd have some legitimate help against the Erpels./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"On one condition."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"And there it is…" Fallen said in her head, in her inside disappointed tone of voice./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"When this all ends, you will return to me. You will abandon this summoner nonsense, and remain where you belong. With your family." She told Fallen. "Do I make myself clear?"/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Fine. Whatever." Fallen answered quickly. "There's no point in arguing with you…"/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"You will watch your tone, child!" She raised her voice. "I am your mother, you will respect me as such!"br /br /"Respect!?" Fallen snapped, her face showing nothing but anger. "You pitted all three of us against ourselves just because you didn't want to raise three children! What respect do you deserve!?"/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Rein!" Tier shouted. "We didn't come here to fight among ourselves. If you've got things to say, save it after we finish… whatever nonsense is happening in this damn world." Tier explained to her. "It can wait. And I know you can wait until then."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Fallen clenched her fists. But Tier was right. It could wait. She just wished she didn't get into the argument. Or how she was ready to let it all out. "Sorry…" She said quietly. It really made her upset having to stop herself mid-scolding./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Fallen's mother walked right past her, leaving a feeling of hate towards her. She was tempted to tell her something that would absolutely shatter her heart, but like Tier said, there was time for that later. She stood right in the elevator. "Come. We must prepare for departure."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"You're coming as well, mother?" Tier asked, sounding surprised./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"I want to see this for myself." Fallen's mother stated. "I will command my soldiers when they arrive to assist you all."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Fallen and Tier soon stepped into the elevator, not saying another word. Fallen's mother pressed the L button, the elevator door closed and made it's way back where the others were. There was an uncomfortable silence among the three. Fallen eyed her sister from the corner of her eye, seeing she was simply looking forward, without an expression./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Our plan is to carpet bomb the stone fortress. Once it's destroyed, you and other soldiers will come in and assist in killing the beast. Understand?" Fallen's mother explained to the two./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"The door soon opened, seeing the entire group, all in different places of the current floor. And what caught Fallen's eye was Kurve, touching some of the airships with his pale hands, with Vanessa by his side./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"She oddly found comfort knowing Kurve already made a new friend. Or at least that's what it seemed to be./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Call your guardians. You will explain to them what's to happen." Fallen's mother told her daughter./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Right." Fallen simply said, as she then stepped forward, right on the platform they stood on. "Guys, we've got a plan. Come together." Already, Fallen felt like some sort of leader, having to gather everybody. It felt… weird to do /br /Her guardians soon came together, all looking up to her./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Umm…" Fallen scratched her head, suddenly getting shy. "We're gonna go fight the Erpel now. Mother is gonna get a bunch of her soldiers to carpet bomb it's fortress of stone. When that's out of the way, we charge in and take it out." Fallen explained to them. "With some extra help, of course."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Oh sis…" Tier said, thinking she was acting like a nervous kid giving their first speech./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Well, it's a start." Imbir commented, with a slight shrug./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"As long as those soldiers aren't just fodders for the Erpel, I'm glad to have 'em." Scharf commented as well./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Encouraging…" Fallen whispered to herself sarcastically. "Well, that's the plan. So…" Fallen turned back to her mother. "When we do we head out?"br /br /"Now." Fallen's mother told her. "You and your guardians will meet us back at Wuste." She explained to her. "Tier will be there to face it with you as well."/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Fallen looked over to Tier, knowing she would fight along side her sister for the first /br /"You won't have to worry about me." Tier assured. "I'll carry my weight."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Okay." Fallen said, before she turned to the others again. "Alright, let's head back to the airship. We're done here." She told her guardians, as they all made their way back up to her./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Bereit soon walked past Fallen's mother, seeing the glare she gave him. He felt his heart race a bit in fear. She really did have a scary aura./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"The party then went to the elevator. Once they were all inside of it, Tier stood in front of it, to speak to her sister one last time. She had her usual grin. "See you on the battlefield, sis. Oh, and don't leave Folgen where we left her. At least bring her to the ship so she doesn't feel left behind."/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Fallen figured that would be the right thing to do. She was ashamed to admit she completely forgot about her. With a nod, she pressed the button to go back to the main floor. "See you then, sis." The doors then closed between the sisters./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Save your game up to this point?/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Yes/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"No/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"1/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"st/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;" person (Bereit)/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"To think our enemy became an ally. Well, you know what they say; "The enemy of my enemy is my friend." Too bad they weren't my real friends. Otherwise I'd be saying this positively./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"3/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"rd/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;" person (General)/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"The entire party stood by the entrance of the Ehre Family Residence. And what came to their sight was a residence unlike any other. The building a was tall right in the middle, taller than anything the party has ever seen. Nothing like a castle, however. The left and right sides of the building were shorter in height, but they were a lot wider than the middle part of the building. It all looked plain from the outside, with the mix of dark red and white for the colour along with the windows. And this all was right at the very top of a small mountain. And anyone associated with the Ehre family knew why./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Tier turned back to the group, having that usual grin on her face. "Now, if you guys don't want to get shot, stay with me and do as I say. Alright? Rules are pretty strict in the Ehre family residence. Especially to those who aren't associated with them." She explained to them, mainly eyeing Bereit, Vanessa, Zelkova, Kurve and Imbir./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"You said it yourself that you need all the help you can get. You better not have anything happen to my Guardians." Fallen said, narrowing her eyes at Tier./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Don't you worry, sis. They'll be safe. Just don't try your luck, is all I'm really saying." She clarified to the group, before she went right to the entrance. There was a small box right next to the door, and a button underneath what looked like a speaker. Tier's finger pressed against the butto, leaning to the speaker. "Mother, I've brought Rein and her Guardians… actually, they came here on their own, if you'll believe it. Wanna take us to the elevator?"/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Bring Rein down to the bottom floor. I wish to speak to her personally. As for the Guardians, they stay in the Landing floor." The voice spoke through the speaker./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Very well, mother." Tier said, before the front door opened, sliding to the side. She motioned her hand to let everyone in, for them to see the first room in the Ehre Residence./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"And what they all came to witness was a big open room with many white stone pillars that held up the second floor above them. Or what let to it. Two sets of stairs that were carpeted with red that lead to said second floor, with a finely carved wooden railing. And between them was a big elevator that was closed by a reflective black sliding door./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"3/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"rd/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;" person (Bereit)/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Despite the rather fancy decor, Bereit was still pretty nervous about things. About Fallen's mother. Even if he wasn't going to see her./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Everybody walked past Bereit, as he quickly caught up with them, being lead by Tier to the elevator./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Hey, keep cool." Scharf told Bereit. "I know you and Fallen's mother aren't on agreeing terms, but you heard Tier. She ain't gonna kill us."/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"So you say. -/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"I guess so.../span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Let's just say I'm skeptical." Bereit told him./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"You have every right to be. Just, work with them for now, alright? It'll all be fine." Scharf told him. "They aren't as bad as you think when it comes to business."/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Right." Bereit said under his sigh, the party soon stepping into the elevator./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"From the buttons that the party could see, there were five floors below, and Tier pressed the 3/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"rd/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;" button, with L in brackets. The sliding door soon closed, as they would feel the elevator make it's way down, Zelkova, Kurve and Vanessa stumbling a bit from the sudden movement./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Ms. Animal Lady?" Kurve spoke up, looking at Tier./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Animal Lady?" Tier asked, raising an eyebrow./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"There aren't any sciency guys that'll try to cut me open to look at my innards, will they?" Kurve asked, sounding nervous./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Tier shook her head. "I mean…" She then had a smirk on her face. "Unless I want them to."/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Kurve stepped back from Tier, hiding behind Imbir and Scharf who were standing near each other./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Imbir quietly sighed, keeping his eyes down, not wanting to say anything./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"The elevator soon came to a stop, with the sound of a ding being heard. The sliding doors opened, as the party was introduced to another unfamiliar sight, to a good portion of the party. But Fallen was all too familiar with this place./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"All sorts of airships were on flat parts of ground, all in order and organized. And they were almost identical to the one that Bereit and Cid stole during their escape. Many people were inspecting said vehicles, running tests on the engines, along with the motions of the moving parts of the airships./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Lots of lights were around the place as well, brightening up the dark area./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Have fun looking around. Just don't touch anything." Tier told them sarcastically. "Especially you kids." She said, eyeing Venessa and Kurve. And once that was said, Tier pressed one of the lower buttons, as the doors slid to a close./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Kurve pouted when he heard what was said about him, but Vanessa simply shrugged./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"3/spansupspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"rd/span/supspan style="font-family: Constantia, serif;" person (Fallen)/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Fallen had her usual look, before her face made a last second worried expression, as if her confidence was beginning to waver. Especially since her guardians weren't gonna be with her./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"The elevator was silent with the two sisters. Fallen had her eyes looking the other way, with a hand on her shoulder. She wasn't sure what she was going to say. The fact that she was getting ever so closer to her mother, all what she thought of saying was beginning to leave her mind. As if she never even thought about it in the first place./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Sis." Tier spoke up./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Fallen jumped a bit, as she looked at Tier./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Thanks for not killing Folgen." She told her, Tier's eyes looking to Fallen's. "Don't worry about mother. There was a reason I stood by her side all this time."/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Fallen was rather surprised by Tier's sudden comforting tone. Never in her life had she seen her like this. They had been separated for a long time. Maybe there's been some change. But what? "Sister… so all the times you've caused me trouble? And to my guardians?"/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Tier grinned. "You catch on quick. You really are the smartest one out of all of us."/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Fallen couldn't help but smile. But it came to a frown once the elevator came to a stop. The doors slid open, and the first sight they came to was a big open room with a long table, with seats surrounding the table. The windows were right at the end of the room, the bright blue sky being visible just above the bright green trees./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Mother." Tier said, stepping forward. "Your dearly beloved is here." She informed her in her sarcastic tone./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"What did I tell you about that tone?" The all too familiar voice spoke up, soon turning to face the sisters./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Fallen's eyes were surprised to the see how much time had affected the looks of her mother. The few new wrinkles she had that rested on her circular shaped head, along with her now short blonde hair, and her deep purple dress she wore that matched the high-heels./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Sorry, mother." Tier said, with a small shrug, as if she didn't really care./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Fallen's mother sighed, before she approached Fallen and Tier, her eyes mainly on Fallen. "Rein Ehre. How much you've changed since I last saw you." She stated, noticing the change in her daughter. "You look like a mislead lamb. Slowly being brought to it's slaughter."/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"People change -/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Nice to see you too, mother/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Sorry I'm not perfect/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"People change, mother." Fallen simply said./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Indeed they do. Not necessarily for the better." Her mother commented. She eyed her daughter some more, before she turned on her heel, walking away from her daughters. "I suspect you came here expecting help from me? About that dragon?" She asked, not knowing what it was truly called./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"The Erpel, yes." Fallen said. "And… well, we sure as hell can't do it ourselves, given the situation. The Erpel made a fortress of stone. So, I want to know if you can help us out with this." Fallen was expecting her mother to ask for something in return./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Well… I am well aware that there are more. And with what happened to Reichtum…" She went silent for a moment. "Rein… I know you wish to save the world from these things. And frankly… I see the stakes. I'm not that stupid."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"What mother is trying to say is, yes." Tier said, having a hand on her hip. "She'll help."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Yes. I am." Fallen's mother said, narrowing her eyes a bit at Tier. "I will help you and your guardians fight the next few Erpels."/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Fallen kept a normal stare, but she was happy to hear they'd have some legitimate help against the Erpels./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"On one condition."/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"And there it is…" Fallen said in her head, in her inside disappointed tone of voice./span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"When this all ends, you will return to me. You will abandon this summoner nonsense, and remain where you belong. With your family." She told Fallen. "Do I make myself clear?"/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Fine. Whatever." Fallen answered quickly. "There's no point in arguing with you…"/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left" /p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"You will watch your tone, child!" She raised her voice. "I am your mother, you will respect me as such!"br /br /"Respect!?" Fallen snapped, her face showing nothing but anger. "You pitted all three of us against ourselves just because you didn't want to raise three children! What respect do you deserve!?"/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Rein!" Tier shouted. "We didn't come here to fight among ourselves. If you've got things to say, save it after we finish… whatever nonsense is happening in this damn world." Tier explained to her. "It can wait. And I know you can wait until then."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Fallen clenched her fists. But Tier was right. It could wait. She just wished she didn't get into the argument. Or how she was ready to let it all out. "Sorry…" She said quietly. It really made her upset having to stop herself mid-scolding./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Fallen's mother walked right past her, leaving a feeling of hate towards her. She was tempted to tell her something that would absolutely shatter her heart, but like Tier said, there was time for that later. She stood right in the elevator. "Come. We must prepare for departure."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"You're coming as well, mother?" Tier asked, sounding surprised./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"I want to see this for myself." Fallen's mother stated. "I will command my soldiers when they arrive to assist you all."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Fallen and Tier soon stepped into the elevator, not saying another word. Fallen's mother pressed the L button, the elevator door closed and made it's way back where the others were. There was an uncomfortable silence among the three. Fallen eyed her sister from the corner of her eye, seeing she was simply looking forward, without an expression./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Our plan is to carpet bomb the stone fortress. Once it's destroyed, you and other soldiers will come in and assist in killing the beast. Understand?" Fallen's mother explained to the two./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"The door soon opened, seeing the entire group, all in different places of the current floor. And what caught Fallen's eye was Kurve, touching some of the airships with his pale hands, with Vanessa by his side./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"She oddly found comfort knowing Kurve already made a new friend. Or at least that's what it seemed to be./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Call your guardians. You will explain to them what's to happen." Fallen's mother told her daughter./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Right." Fallen simply said, as she then stepped forward, right on the platform they stood on. "Guys, we've got a plan. Come together." Already, Fallen felt like some sort of leader, having to gather everybody. It felt… weird to do /br /Her guardians soon came together, all looking up to her./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Umm…" Fallen scratched her head, suddenly getting shy. "We're gonna go fight the Erpel now. Mother is gonna get a bunch of her soldiers to carpet bomb it's fortress of stone. When that's out of the way, we charge in and take it out." Fallen explained to them. "With some extra help, of course."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Oh sis…" Tier said, thinking she was acting like a nervous kid giving their first speech./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Well, it's a start." Imbir commented, with a slight shrug./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"As long as those soldiers aren't just fodders for the Erpel, I'm glad to have 'em." Scharf commented as well./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Encouraging…" Fallen whispered to herself sarcastically. "Well, that's the plan. So…" Fallen turned back to her mother. "When we do we head out?"br /br /"Now." Fallen's mother told her. "You and your guardians will meet us back at Wuste." She explained to her. "Tier will be there to face it with you as well."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Fallen looked over to Tier, knowing she would fight along side her sister for the first /br /"You won't have to worry about me." Tier assured. "I'll carry my weight."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left""span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Okay." Fallen said, before she turned to the others again. "Alright, let's head back to the airship. We're done here." She told her guardians, as they all made their way back up to her./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Bereit soon walked past Fallen's mother, seeing the glare she gave him. He felt his heart race a bit in fear. She really did have a scary aura./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"The party then went to the elevator. Once they were all inside of it, Tier stood in front of it, to speak to her sister one last time. She had her usual grin. "See you on the battlefield, sis. Oh, and don't leave Folgen where we left her. At least bring her to the ship so she doesn't feel left behind."/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Fallen figured that would be the right thing to do. She was ashamed to admit she completely forgot about her. With a nod, she pressed the button to go back to the main floor. "See you then, sis." The doors then closed between the sisters./span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Save your game up to this point?/span/p
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p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"Yes/span/p
p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;" align="left"span style="font-family: Constantia, serif;"No/span/p