"We have most definitely been here before." Tal said.
"So which way do we go then?" Kain asked.
"Um..that way!" Tal said.
"Straight?" Kain asked.
"No, Kain, we have to find the false wall and go fight that Nemisis guy you talked about..." Tal sarcaatically muttered. Kain caught the little fairy in his hand.
"Don't get smart with me, fairy. I could crush you right here and now!"
"I seriously," Tal paused to casually yawn, "Doubt that. Because I'm all the way over here!"
Tal had disappeared from Kain's grasp and was hovering by me.
"Damn all fairies!" Kain muttered.
"Hey, I heard that."
Kain led us to the very room I'd been trying to find for...it seemed years, but really could only have been a month or two.
"Who disturbs me?" I heard the Beast call out, feebly, "Not one of my captors...Kain? And...it can't be!"
"It is." Tal said flatly. I wondered why.
Kain and the Beast talked about destroying the Device. For a moment I was afraid Kain was going to hurt him, but he didn't. They talked a little longer, a door opened, and Kain came over to me.
"Let's go." he said, softly.
"No, I'm staying here. When you go to destroy the Mass, I'll go with you then. But I'm staying here until then."
"Are you..."
"Kain, I'm sure. Now hurry and go."
Well, it goes without saying he did. Tal went with him, too, to provide a distraction to the guards. That left me alone with the Beast.
"I...told you I'd be back..." I said softly.
"Yes...you did."
"I missed you, ya know."
He chuckled, tried to move, and groaned in pain.
"Don't move if it hurts you!" I called out, rushing as close to him as I could get. He seemed to be...was moved the right word?
"Lie still," I gently ordered him, "I don't want you to hurt yourself."
"Aryasei..."
Kain didn't understand that girl. She had no reason at all to stay there, with that...that..thing. He needed her help here...with that crazed vampire around...