So Harumi and Morro are going to get the book, fun times.

Bree and Harumi started packing and preparing early before dawn, both realizing that they hadn't left each other's side for months, pushing a year now. And now each had an enormously difficult and in Bree's case dangerous task ahead. While knowing Bree saw her and Harumi's children playing together in the future could be in a way comforting. It was also increasingly scary to know if the fates chose they could wreck a person's future for their own personal gain. And a happy future was not necessarily theirs. Most of the rest of the temple was asleep when Bree and Wu saw Morro and Harumi off. Taking a small air ship and moving off into the distance Bree and Wu watched till they were but tiny specks on the growing horizon.

"In all seriousness, what does Morro get out of this. Other than himself uncursed. He is not the type of person to turn around and hurt Harumi or the rest of us is he?" Bree asked. This was one of the few times Bree started off a civil conversation with Wu.

"Morro made many choices. Some of which had disastrous consequences. I feel like he has more than learned the error of his ways. But nothing in life is set in stone" Wu replied. Wanting to say so much. But also not wanting to push his luck and Bree's patience with him.

"Lloyd still wants to tear him to pieces. There is history there. And with Harumi as well. I know bits and pieces. But not everything. I can't tell if Morro is interested in Harumi for herself or just to expressly make Lloyd angry" Bree said.

"Would it concern you more or less which way?" Wu asked.

At that moment Lloyd came out of the temple. Not quite dressed and drinking coffee straight out of the coffee pot. Both looked at him with a range of annoyance and disgust. Now Bree thought she'd have to wash the whole machine, pot and all before she made any coffee for herself.

"I'd be thrilled if one of the two children I am trying to raise makes it to adulthood without dieing. I am concerned she will make poor choices and suffer for it" Bree answered before turning and going inside to make something for Alanna for breakfast.

In cloud kingdom

Harumi and Morro moved quietly and quickly. The book was stored with some other artifacts in a large temple in the main city. Well cloud center to be exact.

"We are either doing everything right and avoiding detection. Or this is one big trap we are walking ourselves right into" Morro whispered to Harumi.

"The lack of guards tell you that" she whispered back. "It feels like for a supposedly populated realm this one is rather empty".

Harumi was correct. Where Morro had seen a busy city before. With floating boats and monks everywhere. Students going back and forth to classes and far below the temples level food shops and market stalls. All was now fairly quiet. Occasionally a boat could be seen moving along in the distance. There were monks on guard here. But so few that Morro and Harumi were able to slip past them with no trouble at all. They scaled another floor. Here people people were writing out fates. Well some writing. Some coping others scrolls. And then a few people at the front of the room were overlooking work. Some scrolls went back to the basket. Others occasionally went straight into the fireplace. When that happened the man up front shouted at the writer that brought it up.

"Re write it. That fate is wrong. It will lead to a disastrous outcome" the man snarled.

Staying in shadow Morro gestured onward. Once the made it up another floor and into the softly carpeted hallway he spoke.

"That was Fenwick. One of the master writers" Morro said still at a whisper. "It appears he is still altering fates as he sees fit".

"But what happens to the person if their scroll is burnt?" Harumi asked.

"Nothing good I suspect" Morro answered with a shrug of his shoulders.

They came to the end of the carpeted hallway and carefully slide the doors open. Once in the room it looked like a garage sale. Books everywhere. Junk everywhere. Just stacks upon stacks of things. Once it was possibly in order and planned. Not it looked over filled to the brim with things. What once looked like protective shields and casings were just dark and unlit. Harumi gestured for Morro to come. She had found the book. Once it might have been heavily warded with magic it was now dark like the others. Pulling a copy book out of her bag she handed it to Morro to stitch out. Bree had helped Harumi glamor an old comic book to look like a close enough copy of the spell book. At least on the out side. Morro exchanged the books and they held their breath. The last time Bree had tried to do the same thing it had set off boat loads of alarms. And now nothing.

"Something is really fucking off in this realm" Morro growled. We should have had it all hit the fan by now.

Harumi nodded in agreement. The last time Bree came here she nearly got herself hurt. Or captured. And who knows what the master writers or fates as Bree called them would have done to her. That was after her mother and husband had just died. Now with the copied book in place Harumi brushed some dust onto it and they left the same way they had come and quickly headed home.

Back at the temple.

Bree headed down and around to the kitchen. Alanna still drowsy and curled against her. Pixal was the only one up yet. Both ignored the other. Bree could hear others in the temple and around the grounds getting up now. She got some fruit and cereal to feed Alanna.

"Does she not eat other foods on her own yet?"Pixal asked cautiously.

Surprised by Pixal addressing her Bree took a moment to answer. "She has started on solid foods. I am trying to take them slowly in case she is allergic to anything. In the never realm there was not a whole wide variety of foods. So I am starting with things other babies have had for a few months" Bree answered.

Pixal had started food for the other people who actually eat. It unsurprisingly took a whole lot of food to feed as many people as the temple currently held. Bree took her wrap that she used to carry Alanna and used it to make a makeshift baby chair. Alanna took the chance to feed herself. Well mostly grab handfuls and squeeze them with screams of glee before shoving it in the general direction of her face. Bree then moved to help Pixal with the actual cooking.

"Just because you don't have to eat or sleep exactly like the others does not necessarily make you the cook you know" Bree said.

"I do not mind. I also do not require the same amount of down time as humans do for sleep." Pixal answered.

"I didn't know souls could be used as a power source. Or split in two. Or that Machines could be made with code that mimics human DNA." Bree said steadily. Really hoping that Pixal would know what she is talking about and explain further. Because Bree was genuinely curious.

Pixal stopped in her tracks, Bree wondering if she was somehow malfunctioning. Apparently Pixal was just in the dark as she was.

"You didn't know I take it?" Bree asked. Bringing Pixal out of her shocked state.

"How would I, or more accurately how do you?" Pixal asked.

Bree looked at Pixal closely. And tried flipping thru a vision or two. Her eyes changing color from their blue gray to the flat white. "I can sometimes see things others can not. But I can't explain all the how's or the why. Just what is" she said. Bree handed Alanna some more banana chunks. Which the baby promptly grabbed and rubbed in her hair. Bree laughed at that. And noticed Pixal watching closely.

"I am guessing most nindroids don't have... nindroid children?" Bree asked.

"No we do not" Pixal answered shortly. Turning back to the food on the stove.

Bree could hear Odell and Flora playing some game outside. Without turning to look she said "It's always possible to adopt children. And it's also not like there won't be enough orphans with the wreck this realm usually is".

"Why does that matter at all. It's not like a nindroid can adopt a child" Pixal said unsteadily.

A crash from somewhere around the ground caused the young women and young nindroid to look up. Kai's voice was raised. Also Jay's. Bree didn't recognize the other voices well enough to match them with faces. Cole and Zane came in the kitchen from the outside first.

"I am totally not getting tangled up in all that" Cole said to Zane.

"I agree none of the parties will remain logical in that disagreement. And I don't enjoy getting zapped or lit on fire" Zane agreed.

"Who the hell likes getting lit on fire?" Bree said half laughing.

She handed Pixal a few plates and when they bumped into each other in the crowded kitchen Bree's eyes went solid white. She didn't move or speak. But hit the floor with a solid thud. Pixal, Zane and Cole looking on in shock. Brees's eyes shifted back to their usual color and she blinked and opened them in annoyance. Her visions always came more often around next people and places. Standing up unsteadily she grabbed a towel to wipe Alanna's face. Cole went to steady her.

"Not you. Absolutely not you" Bree snipped at him. Once again Bree saw a future vision with Cole in it that she was unhappy about.

"Could you excuse me" Bree said. Grabbing the baby and leaving the room quickly. She used a quick brush of purple magic to push the door open.

Pixal shot up and followed Bree out of the room.

"I hate having visions I have no context of" Bree said miserably.

"Whatever was that one about?" Pixal asked curiously.

"The same as before. I'm in a large kitchen that I have never seen before. Other women there. Children and I do recognize or can guess who they are. Children I have no idea who they are. Another little boy this time playing with my and Harumi's children." Bree answered.

Bree did not explain the rest of the vision further. This time more than one of the children had called her mommy. Leaving her to believe that obviously she had more children. The two little boys that she had seen before, one of them turned and called Bree mommy. She was so shocked she had fallen on the kitchen floor. The new blond little boy Bree had never seen before...one of the girls called him by name. Cyrus. Bree didn't know if the name should have meaning or context. The vision then abruptly changed then to a scene between herself and a certain master of earth. An expressly intimate scene. Bree's face and all the way to her ears turning a bright red from embarrassment and discomfort.

Pixal said nothing but waited for further explanation.

"I don't see how it comes to be, I only know what eventually happens. And I don't always like the outcome" Bree supplied.

Looking up Pixal saw a small airship coming into view. Bree saw it then as well. Harumi and Morro both alive and well tell it looked like at least.

"Either something went horribly wrong or very right. They are back hours before I thought they'd be" Bree mused.