Author's Notes: PLEASE READ THE NOTES TODAY! You know, I decided today that I was going to work on the prologue for the next installment of the Curse of the Mercale series. So, I wrote it all, you know. And I decided, 'hey, before I type this I wanna check it against a few facts from the epilogue of Reyning Down. So, I get on to read the epilogue and I find it isn't even there. Thus began the frantic search for the notebook I wrote this all in. I find the notebook, and the epilogue is GONE! So I search EVERY piece of paper and my book bag twice! Yes, it takes a missing ending to clean that book bag. After about 40 minutes I have finally found it! I had to edit a teeny bit, but I think it's good. So now, my dear friends, is the lost epilogue. I am SO sorry to have been withholding loves. Enjoy! Oh, P.S., Corin gets kinda mysterious towards the end, something you won't understand at first unless you've read Origins of Odin. But just trust me and bear with me huns.
Firefly-Dreams: Thanks hun. Enjoy this a lot, I hope.
Epilogue: Picking up the Pieces
Corin
Though we left this world a year ago, the battle that threw us into the past was half a year ago. At first it was rather odd to be sure that time had passed when it had not, but we got used to it. We were six months older than everyone else, and few believed our story at this point. Sure, Nida, the healed Headmaster, was writing about it, a book that would not be published for years. All of us were older and wiser now, o tar least we thought so. Reyn had been placed in charge under Nida once again, and I had transferred to the mobile Balamb Garden. The rest had pretty much remained at their Gardens. It was only a few weeks ago that the SeeD forces had been ready and I had taken Rinoa's head once and for all, insuring our peace in the future with little incident. Once Drew had been released from the joint spells of Ultimecia and Rella he had proposed to his sorceress and they are due to be wed next month. Suijin and Jason are now closer than ever, and Ward is going out with Ishuna, who is in medical school. Rhiale spends most of her time at Reyn's side. Sure, I may have Fiera, but my heart doesn't belong to her.
I watch as the sunset paints the sea red with its glory and sigh. Since that time in Time Compression I have been very different. Mom and Dad support me, but people distance themselves now. I still have the fiery clothes. The trench coat with the phoenix is now a constant in my life, as is the Katana I stole from one of Ultimecia's servants back in Compression, and people say my skills will soon rival Jason's. Of everyone who was in the past, I have changed the most. Sure, Drew and Reyn are more like their parents, and others are stronger too, but I'm not really Corin anymore. I am the 'Phoenix of Balamb' as Squall was once its lion.
Once the sun is finally set beyond the horizon I turn away from it. Fiera stands there, waiting for me. I must travel to Esthar for Reyn said he needed to talk to me. This shall be our final good-bye, for he is tying his life to Rhiale's. Still, he will be back one day, during the Awakening, as my mind has termed it. Since the day that the odd dreams began, I couldn't move on, couldn't let him go. The odd dreams come more often now, and just last night I realized what they really are. They are memories of past lives and the truth of my future. This was the first time since Prince Drewel's time that I wasn't completely sure of the future. Soon Reyn and Drew's pilgrimage will begin, and it will be because of me… I will show them the way back to what we always knew, and know now, deep within. Soon we will be whole…