"It's my fault, I let this happen. I should have been holding her the whole time."
"There's nothing you could've done." Instructor Blithe tried to convince him. "The matriarch wanted her. She was going to have her no matter what. I guess she decided to destroy the Euphoria in the process."
"Don't give me that 'there's nothing you could've done' crap." He hit the table once more.
"She's right you know. She's just trying to help, so don't get pissed at her!" Faith scolded him. Trae scowled at her.
"We have to find her," he said as he stood up. "I have to save her."
"How, with what resources? You have no money. You have no experience in the matters."
"I'm not completely unprepared." He held his Crystal tightly.
"Look, I'll send the last group to go get her."
"NO! I'm not going to trust her life in the hands of anyone but myself. I'm going to get her."
"I'll go with you." Kyra volunteered.
"So will I." Edea said as she turned toward them.
"Please listen to me! None of you have proper training."
"Then you train us as we go." Kyra suggested.
"I could get fired for this." She finally agreed.
"Instructor Blithe!" A boy came running, "are you Instructor Blithe?"
"Yes, who might you be?"
"Andrew Duncan, I have been reassigned to this team. They also told me to tell you that you are to go find the kidnapped student along with your students."
"Yeah!" Kyra cheered. The instructor now had no choice
"Well, I guess I'm stuck helping you after all. You got your wish. Be polite. Introduce yourselves."
"Hi, I'm Kyra McGrath."
"Edea Gainsborough."
"Trae Kisaragi."
"Why did you get reassigned?" Kyra asked Andrew.
"One of the members dropped."
"What are you guys talking about!' Faith finally butted in.
"You can't know, I'm sorry." Instructor Blithe told her once again.
"So I guess we're all out to find Aurora." Kyra established for the fiftieth time.
"Oh yeah, I was told to give this to you." He gave the instructor a card with 3,000 gil on it.
"Everyone you may take a break. Meet me her when you are ready to leave."
Trae walked down the long hallway until he reached his room. He in and sat down on the bed. He hit the mattress and then stood back up. He walked over to his closet and pulled out his leather trench coat. He put it walked out the door.
"Why won't you let me go?"
"Because your not one of us."
"And what are you exactly. We can't have a friendship like this. I need to know. What terrible thing will happen if you tell me."
"That's just it! I don't want to find out. They might comeback and torture you until you tell them. There would be no hope left."
Faith walked off never to be seen by Kyra again.

Edea walked to her room only to find that it was completely destroyed.
"It better still be here. I don't know what I would do without it."
She looked frantically, but she still couldn't find it. She cleared the chunks of rock from her bed and sat down. A tear fell from her left eye. It landed on her lap then slid down on the slick leather. Then she saw a tiny shimmer of light in the corner of her eye. She turned toward it. There it was, the only memory of her mother, the purple crescent moon-shaped Crystal suspended on a chain.
"Thank god!"

I'm going on a mission with complete strangers. I have no clue what I'm doing. Should I just quit? I don't know. Andrew was sitting on the steps in the foyer. This was all so new to him. Then again, it was new for everyone involved. Sure he had seen some of them around, but he hung out with a different crowd. Edea was with the cheerleaders. Kyra was with the prissy girls. Trae, well, he doesn't really talk to anyone.
"Hey," Kyra said as she sat down next to him.
"Hey."
"You seem like a quiet person."
"Yeah, I guess I am.3'
"So I guess we're out to save Trae's sister." She attempted to start a conversation.
"Who's that?"
"Aurora Kisaragi."
Andrew sat there in amazement. Aurora was one of his really good friends, Now it was personal.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing, it's just that she was one of my best friends. I hoped for the best, but I got the worst."
"Oh I'm sorry. I don't really know her, but when she was kid napped I saw her cry for help. It's been eating my inside."
"No one every really cares until something happens to them."
"Well, I'm not everyone. At least, I try not to be."
"I thought you were all the same." where.
"Well, the only reason I hang out with them is because they say I'm 'cool'." "I figured that none of you cared."
They stopped at that. They realized that the conversation was going no where.
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