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Hitomi rubbed her temples as her mind swirled.
There was too much to take in- too much left unexplained.
"What's wrong Seer? You didn't See this coming did you?" Dilandau taunted from atop his horse.
"Shut up unless you're going to explain everything." Hitomi snapped, "And don't skip over the details for dramatic affects."
Dilandau scowled at her, his pink eye's narrowing.
"Like we said, Zaibach has found a source of great power." Selena said when it was apparent that Dilandau was just going to sulk, "I don't really remember how long it took them but a body was found and Dilandau was made whole."
"So they put his...mind in another body?" Van had been on the verge of saying soul instead of mind but remembered who he was talking about. He highly doubted Dilandau had such a thing as a soul.
"In a way yes." Selena smiled.
"Then what about you?" Hitomi asked, "What would drive you to Zaibach?"
"Nothing drove me." she laughed, "They took me- just like before. They changed me only this time it wasn't a huge change. They didn't turn me into Dilandau...they just awoke the side of me that held him in check. With that barrier gone I had my entire mind all to myself. Dilandau wasn't created from nothing you know." Selena's smile grew unpleasent, "He came from the darker side of a child's mind. The side that was there the whole time- unused."
"And they taught you how to access that cruelty." Van whispered from Hitomi's side. He had stepped away from his mother a few minutes ago fearing a trap.
"I guess that makes sense." Hitomi frowned and nodded to Varie, "What about her?"
"We brought her here just tear at your hearts, in truth." Dilandau swung out of his saddle and came to stand next to Varie who had her eyes focused on the ground, "Don't be fooled- it's not you're mother come back to you, just her spirit trapped here by magics for a period of time."
"How do we know it's really Van's mother?" Hitomi asked glaring at the tall slivery blonde man before her. Even as tall as Dilandau looked next to Varie Van was still taller than him by a good four inches.
"Ask her anything you wish." Selena spoke up, her eyes darkening, "She will answer truthfully. Things only she could know."
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Hitomi ran up the stairs to the room across from her's and Van's. The door opened silently and her mother smiled at her from the chair by the window.
"Sorry you've had to stay up here all day." Hitomi smiled weakly at her mum before kneeling next to her chair.
"It's ok. Rosie here has been very good company." Hitomi's mother nodded to the other chair where Rosie sat with a cup of tea in her hand.
"You look tired, my Queen." Rosie said, concerned.
"I am. It's been a rough day." Hitomi eplained about Dilandau and Selena and their recent seperation into two beings and then went on to talk about Varie.
"The old Queen!" Rosie dropped her cup, bringing her hands up to cover her mouth, "But how?"
"It's only her spirit. She's not even here physicaly but it's enough to hurt Van and that's just what Zaiback wanted." Hitomi felt herself tearing up, "Varie's eyes look haunted- like she's seen things she hoped to never see. She's in pain and I hope she fades back to the White soon. Dilandau said she couldmn't be held here for long."
"But what will she do while she's stuck here?" Hitomi's mum asked, looking down at her daughter, "Will she spend time with you and Van or is she left to wonder a palace she doesn't recognize?"
"She hasn't spoken yet. Not outloud. I could hear her as they rode towards us. I heard her inside my head. But she hasn't said anything but my name and that was only one time since they got here."
"Poor Van." Hitomi heard her mother sigh.
"Yes." Rosie agreed sadly, "Poor Van."
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Van's tenstion was eased abit when his mother didn't appear in the dinning hall. Everyone, well everyone who hadn't been in on the wedding, was shocked to find out that Hitomi's mother was there in Fanelia and would be leaving that night.
Dinner still had it's rough moments. Dilandau made sure of that. As ambassadors Dilandau and Selena insisted on dinning with the King to discuss the rebuilding of Zaiback. Selena kept her eyes on Hitomi's mother who had been introduced as the Queen's mother. No one wanted Zaiback to have her actual name and so it was left unsaid.
"Hitomi must have told you about her first visit hereto Geae." Selena finally said, "Did you believe her?"
"Of course." Hitomi's mum smiled gently at Selena and the younger woman seemed to cringe back from such a pure thing, "She isn't the only one who travled here from our family."
Aidren had entered the hall unnoticed and spoke quietly into Van's ear. The King's eye brows shot up and he glanced sideways at Selena before nodded to his Door Guard.
The Guard left the room just short of a run and returned quickly with someone Hitomi thought she'd never see again.
"Hello Allen." Van stood to greet their old friend, "Welcome to my home."
It was all just pleasentries and Allen, beeing polite as ever bowed to Van but kept his eyes on his sister.
"I was wondering how long it would take you to find me." Selena snarled.
"I actualy came to warn my friend's of Zaiback's interest in Fanelia but it seem's you beat me here." Allen glared at the two seated next to eachother.
They looked so much alike it was scary.
"You were too late as always, Allen." Dilandau smirked, "Why don't you just climb back on what ever retched animal you found to race you here."
"Hold your tongue." Hitomi's mum said in a motherly tone. The tone we have all heard- the warning you obey before you even realize what's been said.
Dilandau fell silent and hItomi and her mother stood together before the Knight.
"I've heard much about you." Hitomi's mother smiled as Allen bowed to them both.
"I am pleased to meet you, Mother of the Queen." Allen was pale and even his eyes had lost some of their life, "I have been traveling for days in hopes of warning your daughter and Van of my sister's kidnapping. I knew it ment evil was on it's way."
"Oh, are you talking about me?" Dilandau asked with glee, "I'm flattered."
"Enough." Van said, "Today has brought many twists to what was an already confusing day. I say we retire and deal with this all in the morning."
"Retire? Is that just your way of saying you wish to lay with your wife? I bet she's-" Dilandau started.
"You even finsih that sentence and you will regret it." Hitomi's mother spun on a very stunned Dilandau, "That is my daughter you are speaking about! I will rip your tongue out and hand it to you tied to a bar of soap!"
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A/N: I'm sorry it's so short. I'm still in a bit of pain and this damn computer chair is sticking to my legs. -- I promise the next chapter will be better and less rushed. please review even though this chapter sucked. Well, in my opinion it sucked but then again, everything sucks when you can't even sit down for any amount of time.