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For some reason that night Faris could not sleep, she lay in bed looking out at the night sky of Lindinblaum as the occasional air-ship floated past, and thought about everything from Limit Breaks to the colour of the last few rays of the day's sunlight reflecting off the clouds. But still she could not get to sleep, she tried listing in her head all the afflictions one could get in battle and their clues, but still sleep eluded her.
After a while she decided that a glass of water would help her get to sleep she slid out of bed in her nightgown and slipped padded out of her room and into the darkened halls of Lindinblaum castle. She could see in the dark almost as well as at day thanks to garland's "improvements" she could also smell and hear phenomenally better than a normal being could, and her reaction time was astounding, why Garland did this, no one was sure, but Mikoto reasoned that the changes were probably left over from an earlier batch of genomes he used unsuccessfully to try and attack Gaia, he had at one point mentioned that he was an old knight, and tried to take Gaia by force once, but been defeated, by whom even Mikoto did not know, it was one of his many secrets he took to his grave.
She noticed that in the corners of the castle's halls there were many guards standing deathly silent watching everything and listening for anything, she was almost impossible to hear but they were the best of Lindinblaum's heavy guards so she assumed they had been briefed on what to do if any of the genomes were fund wandering through the castle, she got to the kitchen, the area where that had eaten and fixed they're meals earlier, Mikoto must have told Cid to lay off the servants or they would have been waited on hand foot and tail.
She had her glass of water, put the cup back and left the room quietly, however on the way back she must have taken a wrong turn and she ended up in some place she did not know, she looked around for a guard to ask, and strangely they were none, odd she thought, but no cause for alarm.
She thought that something was strange, and mentally reviewed the route she had taken to her room before, and no faults in the way she went this time, she turned around to go back the way she came and started in surprise, standing behind her was a man in a velvet purple cloak he had a hood covering his face with shadow, which for some reason, even Faris could not see past the shadows inside his hood.
"Who are you" she asked in the usual flat voice of Genomes "I am . . . one who should be else where" the figure replied in a slightly echoing voice, which Faris chalked up to the acoustics of the room. "Are you lost?" she asked logically choosing the most likely option. "To put it like that . . . yes" the figure replied "Why are you here" she asked seeking more information "who are you?" he asked with a note of sadness in his voice "no one even remembers me any longer . . ."
"Why would I remember you?" said Faris slowly searching through her memory banks for anything relating to this person in a velvet purple cloak. "Do you really want to know?" he said slowly "I haven't told anyone since that spiky haired girl and that was years and years ago . . ." there was an uncomfortable silence "Well, yes I would like to know" she said after a while "well then, follow me" said the man turning and walking away from her without further talking, she followed him as he walked through the eerily empty halls. As she followed him she thought of all the possibilities of who he was, but to no avail and she came up with nothing, which was odd, she had read several history books on Lindinblaums history but, she still had no knowledge of this man.
He walked up to a solid wall and to Faris's mild surprise passed through, there was a clanking sound and the wall ground open just enough to let her through, with a moment of hesitation, she followed him, the wall ground shut again behind her, the stranger was standing beside her, and she went to ask him a question "What-"but the silenced her with a shaker of his head, as there was a flicker of candle light around the room, the light came into the room, and it was two rather greasy looking men who went and sat down at the table in the middle of the room, completely ignoring them,
By now, Faris had guessed that this was, some sort of a spirit and that it was a dangerous situation, he was probably showing her the way he died, the men, at the table stood up and looked right through her and the spirit, then they moved away through the tunnel they had come through "47 long years ago . . ." there was a Cid in rule" began the spirit "He was a just and honest man, fair to all, and the people loved him" he began to walk after the men slowly and Faris followed him "He had, a loyal advisor and best friend, his name was, well, it is unimportant now, but his best friend, had a disease festering inside of him, jealousy, jealousy and hatred for the man, he had known from such an early age, for always being better that him"
The tunnel turned into a small crevice then just large enough for a tal man to fit through, luckily, Faris fit through with ease, while the wall seemed to bend to let her spirit friend through, it eventually opened up into a small chamber, the two men were already there one of them lying on the floor with a weapon looking through a small crack, which Faris could see through "So, his best friend, the traitor, decided to kill that man, he took a crowbow, and a hired killer, and they waited for the time when he would be vulnerable, day they waited eating drinking and just waiting till . . ." through the crack a small figure distorted from the distance, walked out for a second from behind a building on his way to some destination, there was a snap of the bow and the man below straightened up for a second before he crumpled to the ground blood seeping from his side "then, the friend killed the man" continued the ghost "he killed him an . . ." it paused, ad Faris looked away from the dying man to look at the hood "the other man killed him" there was a cry from behind her then a snap, then quiet again.
Faris didn't turn around fearing what she would see, instead she tried to see through the shadow on the hood, but could not to her annoyance. As she was looking at him, the background shifted and changed and she was back outside her room "I know who you are" she said quietly "really?" said the spirit with a bit of hope in it's voice, "You were the traitor weren't you? She asked. "Yes" was all he answer she got. "I was Milion" the spirit said sadly fading away. Until there was an empty corridor
Faris stood there for a few moments filing the information away for a later date, she had never run into a ghost in Black Mage Village, but then, City's had blood soaked history, you just needed to know where to look.
She went back in her room, and soon fell asleep.
For some reason that night Faris could not sleep, she lay in bed looking out at the night sky of Lindinblaum as the occasional air-ship floated past, and thought about everything from Limit Breaks to the colour of the last few rays of the day's sunlight reflecting off the clouds. But still she could not get to sleep, she tried listing in her head all the afflictions one could get in battle and their clues, but still sleep eluded her.
After a while she decided that a glass of water would help her get to sleep she slid out of bed in her nightgown and slipped padded out of her room and into the darkened halls of Lindinblaum castle. She could see in the dark almost as well as at day thanks to garland's "improvements" she could also smell and hear phenomenally better than a normal being could, and her reaction time was astounding, why Garland did this, no one was sure, but Mikoto reasoned that the changes were probably left over from an earlier batch of genomes he used unsuccessfully to try and attack Gaia, he had at one point mentioned that he was an old knight, and tried to take Gaia by force once, but been defeated, by whom even Mikoto did not know, it was one of his many secrets he took to his grave.
She noticed that in the corners of the castle's halls there were many guards standing deathly silent watching everything and listening for anything, she was almost impossible to hear but they were the best of Lindinblaum's heavy guards so she assumed they had been briefed on what to do if any of the genomes were fund wandering through the castle, she got to the kitchen, the area where that had eaten and fixed they're meals earlier, Mikoto must have told Cid to lay off the servants or they would have been waited on hand foot and tail.
She had her glass of water, put the cup back and left the room quietly, however on the way back she must have taken a wrong turn and she ended up in some place she did not know, she looked around for a guard to ask, and strangely they were none, odd she thought, but no cause for alarm.
She thought that something was strange, and mentally reviewed the route she had taken to her room before, and no faults in the way she went this time, she turned around to go back the way she came and started in surprise, standing behind her was a man in a velvet purple cloak he had a hood covering his face with shadow, which for some reason, even Faris could not see past the shadows inside his hood.
"Who are you" she asked in the usual flat voice of Genomes "I am . . . one who should be else where" the figure replied in a slightly echoing voice, which Faris chalked up to the acoustics of the room. "Are you lost?" she asked logically choosing the most likely option. "To put it like that . . . yes" the figure replied "Why are you here" she asked seeking more information "who are you?" he asked with a note of sadness in his voice "no one even remembers me any longer . . ."
"Why would I remember you?" said Faris slowly searching through her memory banks for anything relating to this person in a velvet purple cloak. "Do you really want to know?" he said slowly "I haven't told anyone since that spiky haired girl and that was years and years ago . . ." there was an uncomfortable silence "Well, yes I would like to know" she said after a while "well then, follow me" said the man turning and walking away from her without further talking, she followed him as he walked through the eerily empty halls. As she followed him she thought of all the possibilities of who he was, but to no avail and she came up with nothing, which was odd, she had read several history books on Lindinblaums history but, she still had no knowledge of this man.
He walked up to a solid wall and to Faris's mild surprise passed through, there was a clanking sound and the wall ground open just enough to let her through, with a moment of hesitation, she followed him, the wall ground shut again behind her, the stranger was standing beside her, and she went to ask him a question "What-"but the silenced her with a shaker of his head, as there was a flicker of candle light around the room, the light came into the room, and it was two rather greasy looking men who went and sat down at the table in the middle of the room, completely ignoring them,
By now, Faris had guessed that this was, some sort of a spirit and that it was a dangerous situation, he was probably showing her the way he died, the men, at the table stood up and looked right through her and the spirit, then they moved away through the tunnel they had come through "47 long years ago . . ." there was a Cid in rule" began the spirit "He was a just and honest man, fair to all, and the people loved him" he began to walk after the men slowly and Faris followed him "He had, a loyal advisor and best friend, his name was, well, it is unimportant now, but his best friend, had a disease festering inside of him, jealousy, jealousy and hatred for the man, he had known from such an early age, for always being better that him"
The tunnel turned into a small crevice then just large enough for a tal man to fit through, luckily, Faris fit through with ease, while the wall seemed to bend to let her spirit friend through, it eventually opened up into a small chamber, the two men were already there one of them lying on the floor with a weapon looking through a small crack, which Faris could see through "So, his best friend, the traitor, decided to kill that man, he took a crowbow, and a hired killer, and they waited for the time when he would be vulnerable, day they waited eating drinking and just waiting till . . ." through the crack a small figure distorted from the distance, walked out for a second from behind a building on his way to some destination, there was a snap of the bow and the man below straightened up for a second before he crumpled to the ground blood seeping from his side "then, the friend killed the man" continued the ghost "he killed him an . . ." it paused, ad Faris looked away from the dying man to look at the hood "the other man killed him" there was a cry from behind her then a snap, then quiet again.
Faris didn't turn around fearing what she would see, instead she tried to see through the shadow on the hood, but could not to her annoyance. As she was looking at him, the background shifted and changed and she was back outside her room "I know who you are" she said quietly "really?" said the spirit with a bit of hope in it's voice, "You were the traitor weren't you? She asked. "Yes" was all he answer she got. "I was Milion" the spirit said sadly fading away. Until there was an empty corridor
Faris stood there for a few moments filing the information away for a later date, she had never run into a ghost in Black Mage Village, but then, City's had blood soaked history, you just needed to know where to look.
She went back in her room, and soon fell asleep.