Lady Morgana paced. The setting sun cast golden lights and reddish shadows over her smooth face. Lord Karkus was fidgeting and occasionally firing off an arrow.

"Momma!" a familiar voice called. "Momma!"

Kayi's form appeared over the hill, silhoutted by the sunset.

"Kayi! Where have you been?" Morgana raced out to meet her daughter. She did not bother to halt the flow of rain from her eyes. "Oh, I missed you so much... Where were you? Are you okay? Did you get hurt? Are yo-"

"Mom, I was in good hands," Kayi assured her.

Morgana scowled. "Starkin and Bruno are old. They can't protect you-"

"I had friends!"

Dasmon was first to climb up the knoll. "Ah, the little lady'sss parentsss," he commented, his eyes unreadable under the Defender mask. "Ssso we finally meet." He bowed and stumbled a bit.

"Who are you?"

"Old friend," Bruno explained, coming up the knoll.

Layfette and Maria raced up the hill at a mad sprint and skidded to a halt miliseconds before crashing into Karkus.

"Pleased to meet you sir!" they both chorused at once. Maria attempted to salute but swacked her friend's forehead as Layfette accidently elbowed her gut.

"Ow!"

Lief hopped up the hill merrily. "Hi!"

Finally, Starkin and Layla came last, with Layla helping Starkin up the knoll.

"You just happened to build the estate on a hill, eh?" Layla asked as they reached hearing distance.

Morgana shook her head. "Oh Kayi, Kayi... You have so much explaining to do..."

"So, it started when Kayalie rushed a bit to hastily..." Kayi began, but stopped and hugged her parents again.

"Let's go inside," Karkus suggested, but then looked around. "All of us. Just to make sure that it's pretty close to the real thing," he added.

"Sure thing," Kayi agreed and croaked like a frog and then warked like a chocobo.

Everyone laughed.

"Come inside now," Lady Morgana said, her arms around her two daughters' shoulders. "You two have a lot of explaining to do."

Everyone laughed again as the whole procession followed each other inside.

As soon as they were seated around the huge table in Karkus and Morgana's Audience Chamber, Kayi began.

"So, as I was saying... Kayalie was rushing in the morning..."

The End

So there you have it. A tale of a little viera growing up in one single adventure, right before your eyes. A story of how dreams that are long gone are still here... In bits and pieces scattered in the sky. I hope that you enjoyed this story, and please- leave a review.

The path shades under the darkness from here. It speaks of a tale long in the waiting, a story shrouded in darkness, blood, and mysteries of the past. The path here along Arrow Hunt was a light, brisk one... The sequel triology speaks to one about... Not as light things.

But there will be another parrallell story about Kayalie and Kayi's two clans- that one is light.

But the main sequel triology is the Moon Triology... And it's not as innocent as that.

Look for:

The Moon Triology Book One: The Blood of the Moon.