Selket was helping clean up the ice cream bowls when Yuugi pulled her aside. "Umm…that stuff you wanted to talk to me about…how long will it take? Can you tell me now while they're busy?"

"Yeah, whatcha gonna tell him?"

Selket blinked as Jounouchi thrust his head around the corner and almost straight into her face. "They're not going to let me get a moment to talk to just you, are they?" she asked Yuugi, gesturing towards his friends and his grandpa.

He smiled the full innocent smile that only one so young and pure could give. "Nope."

She sighed, her face contrasting greatly with his. She seemed suddenly so much older, so unnecessarily intense. "Then I guess I can tell you all, provided they don't get in my way."

+

They sat in a circle as Selket sighed and began. "I guess, to start, I am a direct descendant of the pharaoh who locked away the shadow games."

Yuugi sucked in his breath sharply. "So it was true," he murmured.

She nodded. "Not only am I of his lineage, but I am the reincarnation of his high and favored sorceress, just as you, Yuugi," she paused, turning her piercing gaze on him "were once that honored pharaoh."

"WHAAAAAAT???"

"That's right, Jounouchi. Only, Yuugi doesn't remember. Somehow, I haven't lost my memories of those times."

Honda leaned back and smirked. "She's crazy." Anzu scowled at his manners.

Selket looked sad. "No, I'm not. Sometimes I wish I were, though."

"What do you mean?" asked Yuugi.

She reached for his deck. "May I?"

He nodded. "Just don't hurt anything."

Drawing the black magician from the top of the pile, she stood and dropped the card from an arm's length. It floated down and then stopped a few centimeters from the floor. Suddenly, it glowed a brilliant white-blue and elongated into a humanoid form. Yuugi blinked. Standing before him was the full size black magician. Slowly, he reached his hand out towards it. The magician inclined his head slightly in respect and acknowledgement and extended his staff towards his master. Yuugi touched it with slight apprehension and then gasped. "It's…it's solid!" he exclaimed. "It's not a hologram!"

Selket smiled at his wonder. "No, it's real as can be." She stretched out her hand, and suddenly the black magician was gone and only its card remained. Yuugi picked it up slowly and returned it to his deck. "You see," said Selket quietly, "I'm not crazy."

A stunned silence answered her.

"Why…are you here?" Anzu managed to ask.

"For Yuugi."

"Me??"

She nodded. "Yep. I'm seeking out all of the bearers of the millennium items. Yuugi was the first one I found."

Jounouchi's eyes narrowed. "I won't let you hurt Yuugi!" he said. "We're a team, and you're not gonna harm him while I'm here!"

Yuugi smiled. "Thanks, Jounouchi."

"I'm not going to hurt him!" protested Selket. "I'm not even going to try and take his millennium puzzle, like some people have tried."

"Then…what do you want?"

"Yuugi, it has nothing to do with what I want. It's what I'm destined to do."

"What's that?"

She was silent for a while. "Maybe I'd better start with the beginning."

"Yeah, I wanna know what's goin' on!" put in Honda, still thoroughly nonplussed.

"Yeah."

Selket nodded. "It started the night I turned thirteen. I had a dream then. Before me, I saw the Yami form of every holder of a millennium item. Each one removed their millennium item, or in a one case, items and laid them at my feet. The items melted together and became a beam of light that was sucked into my heart. You yourself, Yuugi, spoke to me and told me of what I would do one day. It was your Yami that told me to start by seeking out the bearers of the millennium items."

"I…he…did?"

"Yes."

"An' den?" asked Jounouchi.

"The rest can wait," said Selket, bowing slightly. "I gotta go now."

"But…"

"The rest will be explained later, Yuugi." She was gone.