NoV: Yeah!! I'm steadily makin' the updates and doin' the schoolwork! I rock!

Lina: I don't think the fans would agree.

NoV: Well.....I am sorry that this is so late, but I have many school things to do. BIOLOGY!!! AGG IT'S KILLING ME!!

Quote of the Chapter:

Kiwi: I absolutely, positively, 100% and oh-so-certainly, just can't conceive in my tiny mind, that's it's—not monkey.

NoV: AAAHHH!! AGAIN!!

Xelloss opened his eyes to a soft candlelight glow. Thank the gods he wasn't underneath the blaring sun. He still had an awful headache. What had that been caused by again?

And, suddenly he remembered.

He only had to turn over a quarter of the way and he was face-to-face, nose-to-nose with Filia.

Gods, please don't let her wake up.....just let me get out of the bed.....

Xelloss was slowing sliding off the bed, not wanting to wake her in the process.

But, as cruel as fate is, Filia's eyes fluttered and then opened.

Xelloss froze. His face wasn't touching hers anymore, but it was only a few inches away. And they were in bed together.

"Xelloss...." she said, drowsily. Something flickered across her eyes.

Xelloss had a little time to ponder this in her confusion. Was she still under whatever spell she had been under? Was she still madly in love with him? He wasn't sure if he'd rather have her screaming at him or groping him.

Neither choice won when Filia's eyes filled with tears. "Get out," she whispered, closing her eyes tightly, letting the tears fall onto her pillow. She made no move to get up or to shrink away from him. She just lay there.

Xelloss didn't wait around to see what would happen if he tried to talk to her. He walked out the door, remembering that he couldn't teleport inside the temple.

He paid no attention to the priestesses or priests that he passed, knowing that they would only cower or cry out if he did.

Xelloss phased out as soon as he opened the door to the outside.

Back in her lonely room, Filia hugged herself, sobbing. She didn't want to believe what she knew must have happened.

Had she been under the spell and slept with him? In the dragon temple, of all places??

"No," she whispered to herself. "I would never.....never do such a thing....."

Filia tried to remember what had happened. Walking down a path, then people.....weren't they lost? Then.....Xelloss.....and her basket.

There were so many gaps and holes in her memory.

And, now that the spell was broken, she wondered why it was now after she had done the unimaginable instead of before. Why couldn't it have stopped her from doing that with him??

Filia never wanted to leave the bed. She just wanted to sleep and sleep.....until she slept away the awful thing she had done.

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