Irene

Dear Dais, Cale, and Sekhmet,

In all my 17 years of living on this earth, or, to be more exact, in the Realm of the Mortals, my cards have told me many things. Sometimes, my cards have predicted pleasant things, but many times, my cards have predicted unpleasant or bad things as well. My cards did see Loren in danger, but my cards did not show me the driving force behind the danger she was in.

Now that I look back on my experience, perhaps all of us, including you three, were naive about "reality" and even people in general. From what I learned, you three and your deceased friend took so many innocent lives and tore so many families apart that I began to wonder if you four had ever thought that the pain you had inflicted would come back to haunt you.

There is an old saying: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Now I don' t know if this is true or not, but perhaps you four never thought that your past would come back to haunt you. But then again, maybe you four were so entrenched in your victories that you began to believe that you four were not subject to human emotions.

400 years old or not, what in the world made you three think that no one could hurt you, break your hearts, or make you cry? Why in the world would you three believe that any of you are smarter, stronger, or wiser than any other human being?

But then again, after living together for 400 years, you tend to believe that nothing can break the brotherly bond you four shared. At least, that's what you believed, until you lost Anubis.

I can understand why you would want to bring your friend back, but I think that after 400 years of terrorizing people, you three finally realized that you couldn't always get what you want. I know you three would've done anything to keep the bond you once had, but I think for the first time in your lives, you realized how fragile that bond was.

You three tried so hard, but in the end, you failed. I think you failed because you never realized how fragile life and friendships are; but I don't blame any of you for wanting Anubis back. If it were one of my friends, I'd do everything in my power to keep all of us together.

There is another old saying: "What Goes Around Comes Around." I guess every sin and crime you three had committed in the past has now come back to haunt you, but even with your blood soaked past, you three proved also proved something to me. Despite all the killings, torture, and suffering you three had caused, you acted like any normal human being would when you lost your friend. Your anger at the Ronins for taking Anubis was natural. So, despite what your former boss had told you, there was humanity in you; it may have been warped, but there was still humanity in you. I guess, if there is a lesson to this letter, it's probably this: no person is simple to explain. Every human being is more complex than any scientist, psychologist, or doctor can fathom.

Irene Tomas