Disclaimer: See first chapter... only, Chrisanthy, the Official Desian recorder, is property of my good friend Christy. XD
As Capricorn awoke, every fiber of her body and mind ached. Her head throbbed before she had even moved it. Her hand flew to her forehead and carefully rubbed it.
"What the hell…?" she mumbled, starting to sit up.
"I wouldn't be doing that just yet." an all-too-familiar voice said quietly from the other side of the room. She groaned and opened her eyes.
Forcystus was sitting in her armchair without his gold-colored plate armor on under his faded red shirt; instead replaced by a clean white bandage around his torso.
"Well, are you going to tell me what happened or not?" Capricorn replied angrily, leaning against the cold metallic wall. Forcystus snorted quietly.
"Those two brats managed to escape thanks to that inferior being they were friends with here." he answered coolly, wincing slightly as he shifted his weight. "Ask Chrisanthy for the details if you must." He paused before muttering a little too loudly, "Damn humans… when I get my hands on those mother f-"
"Forcystus!" Capricorn cut in sharply, making him jump. He blushed profusely before standing up, cringing slightly from the pain in his back.
"Excuse me." He said politely; "Although I may be a Desian, I still must be polite and watch my language around ladies such as yourself." He bowed slightly before quickly excusing himself from the room.
A soft knock followed a few minutes later, and Capricorn simply replied with "enter". The door slid open and the Official Desian Recorder, Chrisanthy, shuffled in, notebook and pencil in hand.
"Lord Capricorn, Lord Forcystus said that you wanted to hear the details about this afternoon." she nearly whispered. Capricorn looked up from her book before placing a bookmark in it and putting it on her nightstand.
"Well, then, have a seat and tell me." she replied, in an unusually placid mood. Chrisanthy nodded and perched herself on the armrest of Capricorn's chair before cracking open her notebook and reading off her notes.
"Before we arrived in Iselia, one of the guards accidentally released the Exsphere on one of the host bodies. You were hit in the process, so Lord Forcystus himself carried you back up here… I don't know if he knows that I jotted that down, though." She paused, took a breath, and then continued. "After that, we went down to the village. The two humans defeated the first of the two remaining mutated host bodies, but the second was actually their "friend". It grabbed Master Forcystus and killed itself, which is why his back is bound now."
Capricorn actually smiled slightly for reasons unknown before picking up her book again and opening it to the last page she had read.
"Thank you, Chrisanthy." She said, pulling out her bookmark. The Desian Recorder nodded and bowed.
"My pleasure, Lord Capricorn."
"Alright, dismissed, Chrisanthy." The Official Desian Recorder left, closing the door silently behind her. Capricorn heaved a sigh, which put a sharp twinge through her ribs before continuing to read.
"the sun will turn to darkness and the moon to blood…" Capricorn fell asleep after reading that line, and her book hit the small rug in front of her bed inaudibly…