Rei waited patiently on her chair, in the meeting room, silently wondering why Falcon had wanted to see her. She never sumoned one of her guards unless it was something very important and she needed there speacial skills.

But that couldnt be it, the guard had told her Falcon was talking to the new guests when she had sumoned a guard to get her and had the guard escort her to the meeting room using the back entrance...away from the courtyard.

Standing up at the creek of the door being opened, Rei wasn't surprised to see her friend..Sere as she was called in private and only by her friends.

However she was surprised to see her in her hunting outfit, which consisted of tan suede knee high boots, leather skirt that ended below her knee but had splits going up the side to make it easier to run nad fight in, a green halter neck and her all seeing blue madalion hung from around her neck. She said it brought her luck and so far it had proved to do so.

The story went that it was a gift from a village that she had saved from Morgans band of soliders. It had used to belong to the chieftans family but as she had saved him along with his family in the battle, they had adopted her and so she recieved the pendant as a sign to all that she belonged. She had a family, if not by blood then by something more important to them at least.

There was more to the story, Rei thought to herself when she had heard it. There was something she was leaving out, something that changed her into the person she was today.

Rei broke out of memory lane and listened as Sere told her something that she had sensed not long before. Her husband was near, but it wasnt confirmed were.

Not all the people in the village knew of the generals speacial gifts as they liked to call them and they had felt it best not to frighten them with them. As it was, they had enough problems trying to master them, without worrying about how there people would react.

I mean its not every day, they come into contact with a physic, a telepath, and a fire reader and two witches or if not witches then medicine women without stoneing them, or killing them.

Sere considered on speaking even though Rei wore the look of a person that wasnt paying attention. Like many of her guards they had all mastered the arts passed down to them from the females in there family, namely doing two things at once. Somebody could be talking to you and you would be taking in and relplying to everything they were saying while at the same time planning on what you were going to do with the information or what you would be doing later on. It was a handy gift and one that they used often.

"Now i have sent one of my spies to the place that he is staying to see if they can find out more about him.

Rei from what i can sense from one of his guards or friends of that i am not sure yet is that he has been looking for you since you left and he isnt about to give up. I need to know do you want him to find out your dead or are you prepared to confront him and get rid of this baggage that has lane on your shoulders since we have known each other. You can not keep living a half life, not when you have the choice to fix it."

Rei took her time answerning her. She knew that she had to make a choice and soon, if not for herself then for her son, he needed a role model and she needed a husband. But was she really prepared to face him , with the chance that he might not let her go after?

As had happened many times before Sere answered her unspoken question.

"My friend, you are not the same person you were five years ago, you have grown stronger on mind and body. I have no doubt that if it came down to it you would be able to break free, but if it will help you i will go with you, in disguise of course."

"Thank you my friend, yo are right. I need to get this over with, i can not keep onliving my life in this limbo. One thing, i will not ahve him know about his son, if he knew there is no way he would ever let me go, so i was wondering if we coudl send him to Harukas, he likes her and on the plus side it will now be easier for Michi to get away to train Hotaru(did i spell that right?)."

Seres face took on the look of a sesoned commander, "Then that is all the needs to be said, we leave at first light. YOU go as your self and i will go as your personal servant. You may think of a story to explain were you have been for that last while tonight. After Ami's little party. She is planning something speacial for our new guests.

"It is a little weird but our dear Ami does not like the look of one of the new soliders and has done her own little reading on him.

I think Minako is ubbing of on all of us..."

Together both laughed, nobody was as bad as Minako and that was partly why they all loved her but knew when to stare clear of her, she may be the most loved friend of all but when she got that look in her eye there was only one place for her.

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fillers are a hell to do but the good thing is the next few chapters will be alot longer and will be full of fighting and laughter..

enjoy

willow1986