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Found?

"What the fuck…" Kyra groaned as she rolled over, her sore muscles burning as she moved. "Where the hell am I?" She lay on her back and suddenly memories came flooding back and her hands frantically looked for the hole that the spike in the Necromonger throne room should have left. It was gone.

Ignoring all pain, she lifted her head and propped herself up on her elbows and realized she was still in the clothes that she had been wearing when she was in Crematoria. She tried not to think too hard about what was happening and just observe her surroundings.

Kyra pulled herself into a sitting position, noting that her pain was rapidly disappearing. She rubbed her neck, realizing that the scars from the Necromonger conversion were gone. The one thing she really tried not to concentrate on was that fact that she should be dead and wandering around in the Underverse.

"Hello?" She called out, shakily standing up. "Hello!" She shouted this time and there was still no answer. Glancing around, she realized she was in a very large field and there was a dirt road winding through it. A few trees stood out on the otherwise continuous landscape.

"Hi!" A voice at her hip made her jump and turn around and she stared at herself. Herself, but herself at about eight years old. Her hair was wavy instead of curled like hers, but her eyes were still the same and her skin still tan.

"Uh, hi." She said back, vaguely realizing that this smaller form of herself slipped her hand into hers and held tight.

"What's your name?" The younger one asked.

"Kyra. Yours?" She grinned down at her younger self.

"Jack!" She said proudly.

"Nice to meet you, Jack. Can you tell me where we are?" Kyra asked, glancing up again. But this time she found herself looking for any threats. She had barely met Jack and was already protecting her.

"You don't know?" Jack asked, making Kyra look down at her. "We're in my dreams, silly!"

"Woah." Jack said after a few minutes of silence. She leaned against the tree trunk, feeling Kyra watch her from her branch above her.

"Couldn't of said it better myself." She replied, stretching out on the thick branch.

They had been talking for a very long time, but neither really had a sense of time, so they could only guess. Kyra had broached the subject of her being Jack but older carefully, after they had settled down at the tree. Knowing herself, she had pointed out how she had the exact same scars as Jack had. There were other things like how she was double-jointed with one hand, but not the other. Jack had believed her, but then tested Kyra with memories that she could easily answer.

"And…you're dead?" Jack asked, looking up into the tree.

"Well, I think so. I think that instead of my soul going to the Underverse-"

"You mean that creepy place with Lord Mushroom?"

"Lord Marshall," Kyra corrected, "and yeah. I think instead of my soul going there it went here, like, I am reincarnated as…myself? Have you ever seen me in your dreams before?" She asked.

"Na-uh, never. Well, I think I might've heard your voice…but that's it." Jack looked deeply thoughtful.

"My voice?" Kyra cocked her head to the side and wondered what she was talking about.

"Yeah, you see, I used to have this nightmares about this dark planet…with scary monsters, with big-" she looked up at Kyra who looked suddenly very pale. "You have them?"

Kyra nodded.

"Well, this big guy…reminded me of the earth monkeys I saw at a zoo once…he had these weird goggles and instead of hands he had like…claws or something. He would get rid of them and then I would have nice dreams."

"I know who you're talking about." Kyra said, smiling softly.

"And then I would hear someone singing…it was your voice I think. I can hum it! Wanna hear?" Jack was bouncing with excitement.

"Sure." Kyra said, grinning at her younger self. Her grin faded into a thoughtful look as she heard the song. She knew it very well, it was something her mother had sung to her when she was little and the same song she sang to herself when she was in Crematoria.

"Know it?"

"Sure do." Kyra swung down from the branch and leaned against the tree, raising her eyebrow as Jack scrambled onto her lap. She lightly hugged Jack to herself and she could feel the calm contentedness coming from her.

"I think someone's trying to wake me up," Jack said, looking vaguely annoyed.

"Alright, you can go wake up. Just do me a favor, ok?" Kyra asked, smiling at Jack.

"You betcha I can! What is it?" She asked.

"Listen to the news of what's going on in the universe, if you hear anything about the Necromongers, remember it and tell me, k?" Kyra ruffled Jack's hair who grinned.

"That'll be easy!"

"Good. See you later then." Kyra stood up and glanced at the endless fields, looking down to see Jack gone. "Well, time to explore."

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