"Hey, miss..."

Velvet stirred as she slowly opened her eyes after the long sleep she had with Innominat, never realizing that he was now gone. All Velvet thought about was that this had to be a dream that seemed so real because it felt as if she was shaken awake. Her vision was blurry for a moment before seeing a man with brown hair and deep green eyes staring at her with concern and her eyes snapped opened wide in realization.

The therion tries to stand up but didn't have the strength for some reason and crawls back, noticing that she didn't have a weapon or even clothes on her body which revealed the true form of her daemon arm. The black arm with red streaks that seemed like it had been there since forever. The man seemed unfazed as Velvet glared at him, not keeping her guard down.

"Are you okay?" The man asked and Velvet growls.

"Why would a human like you care? I am a dangerous person after all." Velvet pointed out as she covered her chest with her normal arm. The man smiled in understanding.

"Of course since you're a hellion, judging from your strange arm." The man concluded, surprising Velvet while the man observed her body while he had the chance as he was somewhat confused. "Strange though, hellions usually takes on forms of monsters rather than stay in human form. You're very different from them."

"So daemons are called hellions now..." Velvet said hushed to herself without noticing that the man had taken off his brown cloak that had an opening by his right side and was handing it out to her.

"Put this on." Velvet looked at him strangely and looked at his clothing, a blue shirt and dark brown pants plus a sword on his back and a white fingerless glove on his left hand that seemed to have been covered by the cloak. "There's a village not too far from here and a good friend of mine lives nearby, there we can ask for some clothes for you. Don't worry, I've been taking care of a girl that was almost like you."

Velvet hesitated but took the cloak and puts it over her upper body. Once she was done, the man hold out his hands to help Velvet up on her feet but she stumbled forwards and the man catches her and hold her arms in order for Velvet to walk without her tripping out of balance. They didn't have to walk for long before they began hearing voices of laughing children just a mile away, there was a big house that sounded like an orphanage because of the sounds of many kids playing at the back of the house.

The man knocked on the door and a woman in her late 40's with dark blue hair and light brown eyes opened it.

"Simon, hello!" The woman exclaimed happily and now Velvet knew the man's name. "What are you doing here?"

"Well, I was going to visit you on my trip back to Camlann but took a shortcut through the forest and I sort of found her on the way." Simon explained as he turned his head to Velvet and the woman crossed her arms with grin.

"Picking up pretty girls, now?" The woman asked and Simon begins to panic as Velvet just watched the scene.

"Amanda, it's not what it looks like?!" Simon yelled in panic. Velvet began to giggle of the similar scene that happened to her and Phi a long time ago and the two stares at her.

"I know, you should at least ask about her name." The woman, Amanda, pointed out and Simon chuckles in embarrassment. "Who are you?"

"I don't remember much but my name, Selene." Velvet lied in case if someone knew who she was which was a high possibility.

"Poor you, having amnesia isn't easy, come in so we can get some clothes for you." Amanda said as she began to help Velvet inside the house, the interior of the house was exactly like what an orphanage would look like with a few toys here and there.

The blue haired woman help the therion up the stairs as Simon goes out on the backyard to greet the children, Amanda lead Velvet to the bathroom which the tub was already filled with water.

"Go and relax as I get you a change of clothes, one of my daughters will come and check on you later." Amanda explained as Velvet walked in.

"Amanda, was it." Velvet asked.

"Yes. What is it, Selene?" She replied.

"Do you have any bandages or a long glove?" Amanda looked at the girl with confusion.

"Yeah, I think we have some bandages but don't mind me asking, what are they for?"

"It's because of my left arm, I don't want them to be scared of me because of it." Amanda nodded before closing the door.

Velvet gasps in relief from the situation she was in and decided to relax like the woman said and takes off Simon's coat before going in the water. While she's in there, Velvet recollected her thoughts about what happened. The first thing she had in mind was Innominat, she was supposed to be in an endless sleep together with her reincarnated brother without a way to wake up as they were in an endless cycle, devouring each other. But ended when Velvet suddenly began to think about her friends and how long she had been gone from her home, it wasn't like in her era as Velvet had visited almost every place twice. She knew that it had been a long time so Rokurou and Eleanor was dead since they were enemies as exorcist, probably called Shepherd now, and hellion. Magilou and Bienfu, she didn't know but probably have their mark on the world. Eizen is still alive but he must have turned into a dragon by now, after all he still has his curse. The one that she was worried and missed the most was Laphicet, the malak friend she cared for so much and she didn't know what he was doing now after all this time.

Her thoughts was interrupted by the knocking on the door, which made her jump a little because she was so deep in thought.

"Is it okay if I come in?" The voice of a girl asked behind the door.

"Y-yeah." Velvet replied and the door opened for a girl with wavy brown hair and emerald green eyes coming in with a tray with soap, clothes, towels and a roll of bandages.

"I'm Lizzy, one of Amanda's adopted daughters." The girl introduced herself.

"Adopted? This is an orphanage, right?" Velvet questioned as Lizzy placed the tray on the bathroom cabinet and nodded.

"It is but me and my little sister are officially her daughters, everyone here treats each other like family." Lizzy explained and Velvet looked down at herself as it reminded her of her old life. "You maybe haven't noticed but Simon comes by this place often whenever he takes a trip somewhere, the kids loves him."

"Until he betrays you..." Velvet mumbled and Lizzy heard that.

"Simon wouldn't do that." Velvet looked up at her in confusion. "He's too kind and selfless for his own good or else he wouldn't have helped you from the start. He's the one who brought the children here after all."

"I didn't know…" Lizzy took a brush from the tray before walking over to the therion and begins to take out Velvet's hair from the water. "What are you doing?"

"I'm fixing your hair, silly. You shouldn't let your hair in the water or else you'll get split ends, your hair is really beautiful so you should keep it up whenever you're bathing." The girl started to brush it while it was wet before braiding it and Velvet felt a little embarrased of the situation. While Lizzy was braiding Velvet's hair, she noticed her left arm and gasped a little of its appearance. "Did you get in an accident?"

"Huh?" Velvet glanced at her side to look at Lizzy's eyes in question.

"Your arm is full of scars like if you had reached out it in fire, burning it." The therion gets shocked and looks at it.

'So normal people can't see my arm's true form nowadays?' Velvet asked herself inside her head. 'Magilou did say that once the Empyreans was awakened, people would start to not seeing the malakhim anymore except those with strong resonance. Then, does Simon have that?'

"I don't wanna talk about it, they're bad memories that is hard to forget." Velvet finally said after thinking of a good thing to say.

"I apologize for asking."

"You didn't know, I just remember bits and pieces after all."

"I'm finished with your hair, when you're done you can go downstairs and eat something."

"Okay." Lizzy left the room and Velvet washed her body before getting out. She was impressed by the girl as she managed to make her long thick black hair into a single slim braid going down her back.