Another mainly filler chapter. Some key info, but mostly filler to get to more important chapters. At least more breakthrough with Talia hating people. More soon, sorry for the delay! I have up to chapter 14 finished, I just have been too lazy to type them. ^^;

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-Sarah-

"Why are ye standing so close t' me?" Talia asked slowly. I broke myself free of my fear of Drew and pulled away from Talia. She glanced back at me with a very annoyed look and then turned back around. "What are ye so jumpy about?" She seemed reluctant to look at me while speaking with me. She was on some sort of mission. Typical Talia, I would have smiled, had I not been still somewhat terrified of Drew.

"…He threw a knife at me and tried to kill me." I answered her. She barely acknowledged that she even heard what I was saying. She waved one hand and continued walking briskly.

"Oh…so that's what that noise was." She murmured, looking around. All of a sudden, she stopped dead and spun around. "Tell me I'll never have to see that man again," She snarled. I was very shocked at the sudden turn of events, so it took me a moment to answer. Actually, I took Talia's time to shake me by the shoulders to answer.

"…As much as I hate to say this, that isn't possible."

"What do ye MEAN, that's not possible!?" She hissed. Her eyes were changing from black to red. That probably wasn't a good thing.

"Captain…Drew is the one who knew, in the past, where your brother was."

"He what!? Ye said you knew where he was!"

"I know I did!! The fact of the matter is, even though I knew where he is…well…that might have changed since this timeline was altered," I cringed. Talia was getting angrier and angrier-looking. "and Drew will likely know his whereabouts no matter what the change is."

I hated defending that traitor, that back-stabbing demon, but…well…it was somewhat necessary, though I hated to admit it.

"…I think we should kill him." She turned back around huffily. We continued on in silence for a while, just her looking around, occasionally stopping, and me listening to the sounds of nature and t he murmur of the populous.

"You called me Pandora," I commented while stopped in front of a house. She turned to me again and raised her eyebrows.

"Aye. Something wrong with that?"

"No…it's just sooner. Last time, you were still calling me 'wench' at this point." Talia nodded sardonically, acting as if she actually agreed with me on the subject.

"Oh, and I suppose the reason is because of these…memories," She looked down at her fingers. "that I keep regaining?" Her smiled was more joking than evil, unlike usual. I, too, smiled slowly.

"Aye, indeed. That's exactly what I was going to say."

"f course. I'm always right, ye know." We both laughed (well…sort of), then Talia continued walking at a steady pace. "…So I'd imagine that yer wonderin' why I brought ye with me instead of Asher," She said, a few moments later. I nodded slightly.

"Yes, actually, I was."

"…Then ye'll be pleased t' hear that the reason is because, in one of me flash-things, I saw this town. I was in this town being driven crazy by that man." She motioned backwards to where we had been earlier. "I'd figured he was that guy ye kept telling me to avoid, so I brought you along to deal with him." Hm. Well, it hadn't been what I was expecting, but sure, why not. Any memory to me was a good one--or rather, the prospect of someone remembering was good, but some of the actual memories were bad.

"I see," Was all I said. I couldn't tell if Talia was beginning to believe me or not. I decided not to press the subject further.

Things were looking up, it seemed.