Chapter 10 - A Little Story Cleaning
Lina watched the two silently, puzzled, confused, surprised, even angry. She couldn't tell what was what right now. Why had Xelloss cried out? What was his connection with Aleinas? Why did he call him, uh, her, Sarah? Who was Aleinas? -What- was she?? This was all too frustrating! Too confusing! Too much of a headache!
"Ha! Finally! Her identity's been revealed! Hahaha! Hey, Seliana, tell one of your people to cut me down. My job's ended, I don't want any part in this anymore. Come on, let me down!"
Oh boy...right...with the fight and now this, everybody seemed to have forgotten the hanging mercenary. Well...better cut him down...wait, Seliana? Now what was that!?!?! "Hey! Tirrem! You knew Aleinas, Sarah, Seliana, whatever, and you didn't tell us anything!?!"
"Does it matter, Inverse? Leave the man alone. And let him hang there for awhile.."
Lina turned around to meet the other's gaze while Tirrem kept on shouting in the background. After a considerable number of censor beeps, the author decides to just shut him out completely by freezing the scene and popping in then slapping two pieces of tape on the 'poor' guy's mouth. Then she turns around to wave at the readers, pops out, and let's the story continue, starting from Lina's turning around.
"You're wounded, you're weak, and your true identity has been revealed to all of us. So I think that you are in no position to boss me around right now. Or any of us for that matter. In fact, I think you're in more of a position to answer some questions and do a whole lot of explaining."
"Then ask your questions, I will answer as truthfully and as much as I can.."
"Well first, Aleinas? Sarah? Seliana? What is that? Which one's your real name!?"
"Seliana was my birth name. Sarah is the one I changed it to. Aleinas Lisill Enkis is a scrambled variation of Seliana Lillis Senki. So all three can be considered my real name. My present, or preferred, full name is Sarah Lillis Senki."
Sheesh, Lina never thought anybody could make even that little fuss about a name: birth name, changed name, scrambled name, full name.. "Okay, then who...no, what are you?"
"If you are asking of my race, I am a chimera. But unlike Graywords, I am made up of four different species. Dragon, Mazoku, wolf, and golem. And I shall press the fact that I am not human and never have been. I press that fact because I consider being called human an insult to me."
"Dragon? What kind of dragon?"
"..."
"What? You can't tell us what kind of dragon you are? Come on, spit it out. Golden? Ancient? Maybe white? What?"
"A race of dragons of which none of you know of...except for Xelloss..."
"Why is that? Is it some rarely seen dragon?"
"...No, it's more like a race of dragons not meant to be known. Xelloss is probably the only being outside of my race that knows of it.."
"Your race? Gah, who cares! Spit it out already! I'm going to make you tell me anyway!"
"...You really are stubborn..." She sighed while Lina just kept getting upset and annoyed. "Silver Dragon..."
"Eh..." Lina blinked. So did everybody else. Something was wrong...there was no such race..
"I have never heard anything more ridiculous! Being a dragon myself, I should know about any other races of dragon, but I have -never- heard of any Silver Dragons!"
"Then can you explain the color of my blood? Can you explain the healing spell I used before? What about the silver of my hair and eyes? Or perhaps my dragon form? Would you be able to explain that?"
"No, I can't. But there can always be another possibility. And you haven't shown us any dragon form. So you can't prove that."
"I cannot show it to you. 'Tis restricted. 'Tis restricted to even tell you anything about my race. To even mention the name of Silver Dragons. If ever that happens, 'tis a rule, a law of my race to erase any memory of it. And that is what I plan on doing...later...after this job is done.."
"You're not going to erase my memory, no way! And job? What job?? And I have a few more questions, like how you and Xelloss know each other. Why are you helping us? How do you know about the temple? What's between you and Dynast? And even though I can understand hiding your appearance and race, I can't understand why you pretended to be a guy!"
"...It's all a long story...but....I guess I'm willing to tell the lot of you.. Sit down, I doubt any of you want to stand during the whole of my story." Lina sighed as if breathing out some stress and then she sat down near Sarah who had slowly backed away to lean against a tree. Looking around, she saw that Zelgadiss and Amelia sat down nearby also, Filia sat down on her left, also next to Xelloss, Jeffrisce next to Sarah, and Gourry sat on her right. "Well... My story starts from when I was two.. You know that story Xelloss told you about the ghost priestess? That...story...is partly based on my own past... I was that little girl, a two year old Silver Dragon in human form, living with my parents in a human town. We were living there instead of the underground temple nearby because my parents were both chosen observers. People who kept watch over a specific location and gave a daily report on it. 'Tis our way of keeping track of the world, so that we would know if there was some plot to go against LoN's plans."
"Lord of Nightmares...?"
"Us Silver Dragons exist only as her servants, her eyes and ears of this world. We keep her informed through prayers, and very rarely she would pass on a demand, an order to the temples. I, however...am a bit different. And no, the temple you are looking for is not of the Silver Dragons. Even I do not know of its history though. Nobody does."
"Then what are you?"
"You'll find out if I continue my story."
"Then keep going."
"Well, that day, my birthday, a Mazoku showed up in our town. Gesnar, yes, that was true. The Mazoku was Sherra...Dynast Grausherra's general. My parents died there, even though they could have fought and won easily, they died. They had always put the secret of the race first, their own lives second...but they wouldn't put mine in danger. They helped me get away, helped me figure out the location of the temple so that I could teleport there. But I didn't do that until after I watched my house burn to ashes...the whole town eaten up by flames... I had gone to our backyard...the tree was still green...but then it was killed by her...It was because of the tree that Sherra had come. For its leaves and nuts. It couldn't be found anywhere but there, a special tree. I don't know its meaning or purpose, but I loved that tree...Heh. That's how I met Sherra, that's where my hatred for Dynast and any of his servants started. And that is how us two know each other.We met several times afterwards, after I became a grown woman, fought several times also. Also with her brothers, Grau and Grou. I've met Dynast once also...
"Well, to continue, after that drastic trauma in such a young time in my life, I changed. Learning almost everything that I needed at the temple, I ran away one day, with this longsword that I forged." She gripped the silver hilt of her sword. "A compound of silver and steel, magically induced light weight and extra strength, and also has the ability to fuse with certain spells, or enforce them. It helped me numerous times when I ran away. But I still ended up in a laboratory. You can guess what happened in there...I was turned into a chimera. But seeing as nobody knows of Silver Dragons, when my experimenters checked what I was, they thought of me as a failure because of the unknown part of my being. Just being a what I once completely was saved my life.
"They dumped me in the desert, a wild, lonely, scared, and partly insane little girl, too weak to even crawl, burning in a desert." Sarah chuckled a bit before continuing on. "Luckily for me, a certain Val Agares found me. Later transformed into ValGaav. And now, Valteria, as I hear it." Everybody looked at either Sarah, the baby Valteria, or both. "He helped me back to health, and his family and other Ancient Dragons made a necklace for me. Its pendant helped me calm down, return to a normal state of mind. I still wear it now." She pulled something out from behind her shawl. It was a small marble like stone, black, a very deep black. But when Lina looked at it carefully with eyes squinting, she could see something glittering..no, sparks, blue and yellow sparks inside. "Without it, I would gradually lose control of myself and my wolf instincts, plus the aggression of my Mazoku part would be out in the open, and I would once again be a wild chimera girl.
"I lived with him and his family for quite a long time. Then later when I left them, Val gave me a little gift." She pulled out her sword and quietly mumbled something, then her sword suddenly transformed into a long and sleek staff of ebony. At the top was a large transparent crystal. "This... I was fond of staffs also so he gave me this. Watch, it even has a function." She tapped the sharp bottom tip on the ground and the crystal glowed with a white eery and ghostly type of light. Then tapping again, it turned off, then Sarah spoke something again at it turned back into her sword, which she puts back into her sheath.
"That's...interesting..." Lina blinked. Then Amelia seemed to argue somewhat with herself, then gave up and asked something.
"Alei-I mean Sarah-san. Then is it true that you were in love? Xelloss- san mentioned that in his storytelling, is it true?"
Lina half noticed a glare in Xelloss's eyes, but she was focused more on Sarah.
"...Yes...and no... It is true that I loved him, I still love him now, I'd have stolen that baby and taken care of him myself if it weren't for my own morals and my...service...but I have no way of knowing whether he loved me back, I never told him, and he never mentioned anything of the sort."
"Oh...I see. That's just sad though.."
"..... Well, to go on.. I became a mercenary, I took any job. Yes, what Xelloss had said about the jobs is also true. And princess, before you start going all Justice on me, I shall remind you, I am not, and never was, human. And that incident with my town and family changed my personality and way of thinking so drastically, I've almost become a completely different person. Yes, I was two, and it does seem very strange, but it isn't. I was mature enough to have a sure personality of my own... Anyway, forgive my rambling.
"During this period of my life, I found what is called a Nightmare Prayer. You may have heard of it, then again maybe not."
"The Nightmare Prayer? A piece of LoN herself, containing her knowledge, her wisdom, and a small fraction of her power..."
"Hm... Seems you have. Yes, all of that is true. It is well known among Silver Dragons, and I found it. But what I found out, was of a battle between dragons. Ancient and Golden..." Lina thought she saw a small flicker of fire in Sarah's eyes, but it was gone before she could make sure. "I remembered Val and went out to the Kouma War, helped the Mazoku get rid of Golden Dragons. I made sure that I saved as many Ancient Dragons as I could though. And if there were any injured but not yet dead ones, I would heal them. That's when I met Xelloss here.
"Being the most dangerous and powerful of the Mazoku fighting in the war, I stuck to him like glue. He could probably kill off both races easily. Fortunately, he likes to play. So that's what we did, play games. And a considerable number of Golden Dragons died. Ancients did too, but less than others. It was when he asked me for my name that I switched my named. Sarah. He later found out about my birth name though. Didn't really matter. So sticking in the war, sticking to Xelloss, and living out my human-like life was how I spent half of my lifetime. Around a thousand years."
"Okay, then what's the deal with you...dying? And what happened to Xelloss before?"
"I...A thousand years ago, I was with Xelloss...I learned to help him on some of his jobs when it benefited me. That was what I was doing....demo... One of many of our plans was foiled. We were after Gaav's servant, but had bumped into Gaav himself. Xelloss was going to die but I...the blast....." She fell silent. Lina waited a couple moments before continuing for Sarah.
"You took the hit instead."
Sarah nodded slightly and took a moment before continuing.
"I didn't die immediately. I was bleeding to death, but was too weak to heal myself. And Xelloss, being a Mazoku, couldn't help me. Knowing I was going to die.. I had to erase his memory of me and Silver Dragons. Everything, completely. And there I was dying alone. When I lost concious, I thought that was the end of me, but I was wrong. Soon I found myself in a deep black abyss. It could have been the Sea of Chaos, it could have just been my blacked out mind. I don't know. What I do know is that I met LoN there and made a deal. In return for a second chance at life, I would pledge my service directly under her. So that's what I've been doing these past thousand years. Doing jobs for her, being her personal spy, maybe even her little toy."
"Not her toy. LoN doesn't do that, she's not like Mazoku, she's their mother, as she is ours." Ours? Lina was going to ask about that but Sarah spoke first.
"Ha, mother? I am a slave to her... She does not even give me freedom... I am a messenger of LoN...eternally... So now I can see why she chooses very few of us, and very rarely..."
"Wait, wait, wait... So there are others with your same job? And Jeffrisce is also a Silver Dragon?"
"Hai. But Jeffrisce is a little different. Just as humans each have their own magic capacity, we are born with different abilities. Luckily for me, I was born with several of those. Jeffrisce, however, was born with very few. He cannot cast our silver magic, in fact, he cannot cast any magic at all, even human's. He does, however, carry the ability to control dreams and the unconcious. That is why he created the Forest of Dreams as his home. That forest isn't actually real wood you know. 'Tis made up of his own imagination. 'Tis a dream, not reality. Even though it is a very real and physical dream."
"Gah, you Silver Dragons seem to be just as complicated us."
Sarah chuckled at her with an amused tone. "No, actually. Only some of us...most of us are just stuck up in those underground temples doing nothing. You have only met me and Jeffrisce. If you meet any of the priests or priestesses, you would swear that they were just moving statues. That is how our race is. We are originally born without a natural ability to feel. Some of us get lucky and are. Some others get lucky and learn to."
"Eh, that's just...weird... Must be really boring in those temples of yours."
"Hai... That's one reason I left." Jeffrisce chuckled this time. "Anyway, I think we should all get some sleep. Seliana is still weak, and even though she looks it...she's not well yet. Also, we've just come out of a tiring fight with..zombies, apparantly. If there's anything more to ask or talk about, save it for tomorrow. For her sake."
"Yeah, sure." Lina yawned. "I have no problem with that anyway. Well, goodnight then."
Everybody claimed a spot on the cold ground, not bothering to remake the campfire that went out during the fight. But Sarah and Xelloss stayed where they were.
"Seliana, aren't you going to sleep?"
"No, Jeffrisce."
"Well...okay."
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Lina watched the two silently, puzzled, confused, surprised, even angry. She couldn't tell what was what right now. Why had Xelloss cried out? What was his connection with Aleinas? Why did he call him, uh, her, Sarah? Who was Aleinas? -What- was she?? This was all too frustrating! Too confusing! Too much of a headache!
"Ha! Finally! Her identity's been revealed! Hahaha! Hey, Seliana, tell one of your people to cut me down. My job's ended, I don't want any part in this anymore. Come on, let me down!"
Oh boy...right...with the fight and now this, everybody seemed to have forgotten the hanging mercenary. Well...better cut him down...wait, Seliana? Now what was that!?!?! "Hey! Tirrem! You knew Aleinas, Sarah, Seliana, whatever, and you didn't tell us anything!?!"
"Does it matter, Inverse? Leave the man alone. And let him hang there for awhile.."
Lina turned around to meet the other's gaze while Tirrem kept on shouting in the background. After a considerable number of censor beeps, the author decides to just shut him out completely by freezing the scene and popping in then slapping two pieces of tape on the 'poor' guy's mouth. Then she turns around to wave at the readers, pops out, and let's the story continue, starting from Lina's turning around.
"You're wounded, you're weak, and your true identity has been revealed to all of us. So I think that you are in no position to boss me around right now. Or any of us for that matter. In fact, I think you're in more of a position to answer some questions and do a whole lot of explaining."
"Then ask your questions, I will answer as truthfully and as much as I can.."
"Well first, Aleinas? Sarah? Seliana? What is that? Which one's your real name!?"
"Seliana was my birth name. Sarah is the one I changed it to. Aleinas Lisill Enkis is a scrambled variation of Seliana Lillis Senki. So all three can be considered my real name. My present, or preferred, full name is Sarah Lillis Senki."
Sheesh, Lina never thought anybody could make even that little fuss about a name: birth name, changed name, scrambled name, full name.. "Okay, then who...no, what are you?"
"If you are asking of my race, I am a chimera. But unlike Graywords, I am made up of four different species. Dragon, Mazoku, wolf, and golem. And I shall press the fact that I am not human and never have been. I press that fact because I consider being called human an insult to me."
"Dragon? What kind of dragon?"
"..."
"What? You can't tell us what kind of dragon you are? Come on, spit it out. Golden? Ancient? Maybe white? What?"
"A race of dragons of which none of you know of...except for Xelloss..."
"Why is that? Is it some rarely seen dragon?"
"...No, it's more like a race of dragons not meant to be known. Xelloss is probably the only being outside of my race that knows of it.."
"Your race? Gah, who cares! Spit it out already! I'm going to make you tell me anyway!"
"...You really are stubborn..." She sighed while Lina just kept getting upset and annoyed. "Silver Dragon..."
"Eh..." Lina blinked. So did everybody else. Something was wrong...there was no such race..
"I have never heard anything more ridiculous! Being a dragon myself, I should know about any other races of dragon, but I have -never- heard of any Silver Dragons!"
"Then can you explain the color of my blood? Can you explain the healing spell I used before? What about the silver of my hair and eyes? Or perhaps my dragon form? Would you be able to explain that?"
"No, I can't. But there can always be another possibility. And you haven't shown us any dragon form. So you can't prove that."
"I cannot show it to you. 'Tis restricted. 'Tis restricted to even tell you anything about my race. To even mention the name of Silver Dragons. If ever that happens, 'tis a rule, a law of my race to erase any memory of it. And that is what I plan on doing...later...after this job is done.."
"You're not going to erase my memory, no way! And job? What job?? And I have a few more questions, like how you and Xelloss know each other. Why are you helping us? How do you know about the temple? What's between you and Dynast? And even though I can understand hiding your appearance and race, I can't understand why you pretended to be a guy!"
"...It's all a long story...but....I guess I'm willing to tell the lot of you.. Sit down, I doubt any of you want to stand during the whole of my story." Lina sighed as if breathing out some stress and then she sat down near Sarah who had slowly backed away to lean against a tree. Looking around, she saw that Zelgadiss and Amelia sat down nearby also, Filia sat down on her left, also next to Xelloss, Jeffrisce next to Sarah, and Gourry sat on her right. "Well... My story starts from when I was two.. You know that story Xelloss told you about the ghost priestess? That...story...is partly based on my own past... I was that little girl, a two year old Silver Dragon in human form, living with my parents in a human town. We were living there instead of the underground temple nearby because my parents were both chosen observers. People who kept watch over a specific location and gave a daily report on it. 'Tis our way of keeping track of the world, so that we would know if there was some plot to go against LoN's plans."
"Lord of Nightmares...?"
"Us Silver Dragons exist only as her servants, her eyes and ears of this world. We keep her informed through prayers, and very rarely she would pass on a demand, an order to the temples. I, however...am a bit different. And no, the temple you are looking for is not of the Silver Dragons. Even I do not know of its history though. Nobody does."
"Then what are you?"
"You'll find out if I continue my story."
"Then keep going."
"Well, that day, my birthday, a Mazoku showed up in our town. Gesnar, yes, that was true. The Mazoku was Sherra...Dynast Grausherra's general. My parents died there, even though they could have fought and won easily, they died. They had always put the secret of the race first, their own lives second...but they wouldn't put mine in danger. They helped me get away, helped me figure out the location of the temple so that I could teleport there. But I didn't do that until after I watched my house burn to ashes...the whole town eaten up by flames... I had gone to our backyard...the tree was still green...but then it was killed by her...It was because of the tree that Sherra had come. For its leaves and nuts. It couldn't be found anywhere but there, a special tree. I don't know its meaning or purpose, but I loved that tree...Heh. That's how I met Sherra, that's where my hatred for Dynast and any of his servants started. And that is how us two know each other.We met several times afterwards, after I became a grown woman, fought several times also. Also with her brothers, Grau and Grou. I've met Dynast once also...
"Well, to continue, after that drastic trauma in such a young time in my life, I changed. Learning almost everything that I needed at the temple, I ran away one day, with this longsword that I forged." She gripped the silver hilt of her sword. "A compound of silver and steel, magically induced light weight and extra strength, and also has the ability to fuse with certain spells, or enforce them. It helped me numerous times when I ran away. But I still ended up in a laboratory. You can guess what happened in there...I was turned into a chimera. But seeing as nobody knows of Silver Dragons, when my experimenters checked what I was, they thought of me as a failure because of the unknown part of my being. Just being a what I once completely was saved my life.
"They dumped me in the desert, a wild, lonely, scared, and partly insane little girl, too weak to even crawl, burning in a desert." Sarah chuckled a bit before continuing on. "Luckily for me, a certain Val Agares found me. Later transformed into ValGaav. And now, Valteria, as I hear it." Everybody looked at either Sarah, the baby Valteria, or both. "He helped me back to health, and his family and other Ancient Dragons made a necklace for me. Its pendant helped me calm down, return to a normal state of mind. I still wear it now." She pulled something out from behind her shawl. It was a small marble like stone, black, a very deep black. But when Lina looked at it carefully with eyes squinting, she could see something glittering..no, sparks, blue and yellow sparks inside. "Without it, I would gradually lose control of myself and my wolf instincts, plus the aggression of my Mazoku part would be out in the open, and I would once again be a wild chimera girl.
"I lived with him and his family for quite a long time. Then later when I left them, Val gave me a little gift." She pulled out her sword and quietly mumbled something, then her sword suddenly transformed into a long and sleek staff of ebony. At the top was a large transparent crystal. "This... I was fond of staffs also so he gave me this. Watch, it even has a function." She tapped the sharp bottom tip on the ground and the crystal glowed with a white eery and ghostly type of light. Then tapping again, it turned off, then Sarah spoke something again at it turned back into her sword, which she puts back into her sheath.
"That's...interesting..." Lina blinked. Then Amelia seemed to argue somewhat with herself, then gave up and asked something.
"Alei-I mean Sarah-san. Then is it true that you were in love? Xelloss- san mentioned that in his storytelling, is it true?"
Lina half noticed a glare in Xelloss's eyes, but she was focused more on Sarah.
"...Yes...and no... It is true that I loved him, I still love him now, I'd have stolen that baby and taken care of him myself if it weren't for my own morals and my...service...but I have no way of knowing whether he loved me back, I never told him, and he never mentioned anything of the sort."
"Oh...I see. That's just sad though.."
"..... Well, to go on.. I became a mercenary, I took any job. Yes, what Xelloss had said about the jobs is also true. And princess, before you start going all Justice on me, I shall remind you, I am not, and never was, human. And that incident with my town and family changed my personality and way of thinking so drastically, I've almost become a completely different person. Yes, I was two, and it does seem very strange, but it isn't. I was mature enough to have a sure personality of my own... Anyway, forgive my rambling.
"During this period of my life, I found what is called a Nightmare Prayer. You may have heard of it, then again maybe not."
"The Nightmare Prayer? A piece of LoN herself, containing her knowledge, her wisdom, and a small fraction of her power..."
"Hm... Seems you have. Yes, all of that is true. It is well known among Silver Dragons, and I found it. But what I found out, was of a battle between dragons. Ancient and Golden..." Lina thought she saw a small flicker of fire in Sarah's eyes, but it was gone before she could make sure. "I remembered Val and went out to the Kouma War, helped the Mazoku get rid of Golden Dragons. I made sure that I saved as many Ancient Dragons as I could though. And if there were any injured but not yet dead ones, I would heal them. That's when I met Xelloss here.
"Being the most dangerous and powerful of the Mazoku fighting in the war, I stuck to him like glue. He could probably kill off both races easily. Fortunately, he likes to play. So that's what we did, play games. And a considerable number of Golden Dragons died. Ancients did too, but less than others. It was when he asked me for my name that I switched my named. Sarah. He later found out about my birth name though. Didn't really matter. So sticking in the war, sticking to Xelloss, and living out my human-like life was how I spent half of my lifetime. Around a thousand years."
"Okay, then what's the deal with you...dying? And what happened to Xelloss before?"
"I...A thousand years ago, I was with Xelloss...I learned to help him on some of his jobs when it benefited me. That was what I was doing....demo... One of many of our plans was foiled. We were after Gaav's servant, but had bumped into Gaav himself. Xelloss was going to die but I...the blast....." She fell silent. Lina waited a couple moments before continuing for Sarah.
"You took the hit instead."
Sarah nodded slightly and took a moment before continuing.
"I didn't die immediately. I was bleeding to death, but was too weak to heal myself. And Xelloss, being a Mazoku, couldn't help me. Knowing I was going to die.. I had to erase his memory of me and Silver Dragons. Everything, completely. And there I was dying alone. When I lost concious, I thought that was the end of me, but I was wrong. Soon I found myself in a deep black abyss. It could have been the Sea of Chaos, it could have just been my blacked out mind. I don't know. What I do know is that I met LoN there and made a deal. In return for a second chance at life, I would pledge my service directly under her. So that's what I've been doing these past thousand years. Doing jobs for her, being her personal spy, maybe even her little toy."
"Not her toy. LoN doesn't do that, she's not like Mazoku, she's their mother, as she is ours." Ours? Lina was going to ask about that but Sarah spoke first.
"Ha, mother? I am a slave to her... She does not even give me freedom... I am a messenger of LoN...eternally... So now I can see why she chooses very few of us, and very rarely..."
"Wait, wait, wait... So there are others with your same job? And Jeffrisce is also a Silver Dragon?"
"Hai. But Jeffrisce is a little different. Just as humans each have their own magic capacity, we are born with different abilities. Luckily for me, I was born with several of those. Jeffrisce, however, was born with very few. He cannot cast our silver magic, in fact, he cannot cast any magic at all, even human's. He does, however, carry the ability to control dreams and the unconcious. That is why he created the Forest of Dreams as his home. That forest isn't actually real wood you know. 'Tis made up of his own imagination. 'Tis a dream, not reality. Even though it is a very real and physical dream."
"Gah, you Silver Dragons seem to be just as complicated us."
Sarah chuckled at her with an amused tone. "No, actually. Only some of us...most of us are just stuck up in those underground temples doing nothing. You have only met me and Jeffrisce. If you meet any of the priests or priestesses, you would swear that they were just moving statues. That is how our race is. We are originally born without a natural ability to feel. Some of us get lucky and are. Some others get lucky and learn to."
"Eh, that's just...weird... Must be really boring in those temples of yours."
"Hai... That's one reason I left." Jeffrisce chuckled this time. "Anyway, I think we should all get some sleep. Seliana is still weak, and even though she looks it...she's not well yet. Also, we've just come out of a tiring fight with..zombies, apparantly. If there's anything more to ask or talk about, save it for tomorrow. For her sake."
"Yeah, sure." Lina yawned. "I have no problem with that anyway. Well, goodnight then."
Everybody claimed a spot on the cold ground, not bothering to remake the campfire that went out during the fight. But Sarah and Xelloss stayed where they were.
"Seliana, aren't you going to sleep?"
"No, Jeffrisce."
"Well...okay."
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Okay, yeah, I know, I'm confusing ya'll up lol Gomennasai, minna-san. Hope it's still understandable enough lol reviews please!You can even criticize me!lol anything, just leave something for me to read!Thanks for reading my fanfic though!^_^
