Nanna's name was actually Teresa. Oh, she loved children all right, and she adored little kids, but staying with them for ten days straight was more than she could bear. Children were not like engagements and clanmates and prizes and weapons. But at least she didn't need to be outside… Her whole clan hated being outside. The only time was when Teresa needed to take them out for walks in the flowery park. They needed too much responsibility and every single twitch of her senses. She sighed as she heard a loud crash from upstairs. "Lily, I hope that wasn't you," Teresa warned.

"No, it wasn't me, it was Kass," Lily explained. "Nanna, can you take us to the pool?"

Teresa couldn't say no. "Fine, come on."

Teresa sighed as the two siblings frolicked in the water hole. Of course it was easy to lose sight of them, and the Sniper uniform was very itchy…

"Nanna, I lost my marbles," Lily announced from the water.

Teresa was tempted to say that she definitely had. But caring for them was her first priority… "Where?"

"They drowned!" Lily explained. "I can't reach the bottom of the water."

Teresa nodded. She had had lessons on diving since she was a child. "Okay, I'm coming," she sighed.

But Lily shook her head. "You can't swim with your uniform," she explained.

Teresa scowled. "Watch me then."

Kass shook his head. "Well, you can just hang a net or something," he offered.

Their babysitter nodded. "Well… Duck," she commanded.

An arrow with a rope and a net attached whizzed by, embedding itself in a tree.

"Okay, I'm coming," Teresa called, climbing up the tree. But all of a sudden…

Three moogles leaped out of the leafy boughs and brought Teresa off the tree. The Sniper screamed and fell into the water.

"Come on!" Lily yelled to Kass as they hopped away, leaving the moogles' pay on the banks.

"I think we overdid it, kupo," Leroy observed as he dragged out the unconscious viera.

"She just hit her head on a rock, kupo, she'll come 'round."

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"I can't believe we pulled it off!" Lily exclaimed excitedly as the two made their way across the Aisen Fields. It was an empty place, with only a few groves of trees and a few spots of plants scattered across the wide expanse of chest-high, blowing grass.

Kass giggled as the grasses tickled him. "Well, where did you say the Silver Swords would be?"

Lily took out a parchment. "Don't tell," she said. "Pinky promise?"

"Cross my heart, hope to die, stick some random Blue Mage's saber in my eye," her brother promised, shaking her little finger with his own.

"Okay. This is a clan record I found in Nanna's pack," she explained. "Apparently, Clan Nutsy claims that they battled clan Aisen Ghosts just yesterday here in Aisen Field," she explained.

"Aisen Ghosts? But they're a clan…"

Lily nodded. "I found out. Remember when they stopped by through town, there were the exact same creatures as the Silver Swords transformed into?" she asked. "Yeah. I think that Clan Aisen Ghosts are the Silver Swords, only dead."

She may have said more if a Floateye's battle shriek had not flooded the empty, rolling grasses.

"Kass!" she shrieked. "Did you hear that?" Lily clutched her play staff. "I think that they're near…"

Kass nodded, frightened. All of a sudden, two zombies burst through the grasses, groaning. Lily caught a whiff of the awful decay smell before she ran.

Lily ran as fast as she could. The grasses whipped her face so painfully, like sharp, tan whips, but she still ran. The Floateye was behind her! She could feel the wind of its huge wings as it pursued her through the grasses.

Its claws grabbed her collar. She screamed. "NANA! NANA!" she wailed as the ground sank away from her feet.

Kass screamed too as an Antlion roared out of thegrasses, its huge gaping jaws and needlelike legs snapping and spindling away too rapidly.

There was an engraged screech as a Tonberry trundled its way towards them, knife raised.

The twins screamed in unision...

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Teresa groaned softly.

"Well, I don't believe I'm doing this, but those kids have one big allowance," the Red Mage commented, casting another Sleep over the Sniper.

Teresa let out a soft breath and "Don't worry honey.. I'll come back..." And her head lolled back.

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Kass and Teresa were scared, too scared to even be scared... Too scared to even scream...

The whole Clan Aiesien Ghosts surround the twins. The Floateye, the Antlion, two Zombies, a Tonberry, and a Vampire stood in a circle.

The Tonberry wailed, its voice full of venegence and wrath long-thirsted and starved for a lifetime.

Kass and Lily screamed.

The setting sun reflected against the Floateye.

The last crescent of the sun had gone down, and the moon was rising.

And an astonishing change came over the Aiesien Ghosts!