"What happened was that you formed a contract with a Chain," Break said as he walked from the door to me.
"I know that, but I'm wondering where the Chain went," I look around the room, but nothing, even the cracks in the floor from its sword were gone.
"To tell the truth, not even Pandora can understand where Chains that have formed contracts go while they wait to be summoned," Break says as he extends a hand to me which I take and he pulls me to my feet.
"How do I summon my Chain?" I ask as I look at the necklace that I was holding and saw that the pendant had the same strange engraving as Breaks'.
"Where's the fun in telling you everything? Wouldn't it be better if you found out yourself?" he asks as he sheathes his sword.
I think about Break's question before I answer, "Finding things out for yourself is more interesting and satisfying, but if it means risking my life to find the answer I'd rather be told it."
Break raises an eyebrow to my statement. "But haven't you been risking your life to find out why you were sent to the Abyss?" he asks as starts to pick up the items that fell on the floor due to the previous tremors.
I help him as I start to give my answer, "Well, yes, but escaping the Abyss and finding the answer to my question are two separate things."
"How are they separate things? The way I see it, they are actually one in the same," he looks at me with his usual smile as he finished putting the objects back on the shelves.
"One in the same? I don't it that way," I say as I move in front of the mirror to see my hair all messed up from the encounter with the Chain so I started to fix it.
As i fix my hair, Break takes a seat in one of the chairs at the table in the middle of the room and placed Emily on his lap. He then opened his side bag and pulls a lollipop out, unwrapped it and popped it into his mouth. After he did, he started to explain what he meant, "Because you want to find out why you were sent to the Abyss, you knew you had to escape the Abyss first since there was nothing there to help you, right?"
I finished fixing my hair and walk over to the table, taking a seat across from Break before I spoke, "Are you trying to say that escaping the Abyss was the first step to come closer to the answer I'm looking for?"
When I asked him that he lets out a little chuckle then spoke, "You pick up on things quickly Mia-chan. That was exactly what I was saying."
"So from the very beginning I was risking my life in order to solve everything so what's one more thing," I say as I rest my chin on the table and look at him.
"How do your arms feel?" he asks, changing the subject.
I lift my head up and put my arms on the table to see them still wrapped up. "They were a little sore when I woke up, but they feel fine now," I tell him.
Break places Emily on the table as he gets up and walks around to me. "Let's take a look at them then," he says as he pulls a chair beside me and sits in it.
"Are you sure it's a good idea to unwrap them just because they don't hurt? I was inflicted with these injures not that long ago," I ask as I look at him.
"Do you really think that we would ask you to take the bandages off if you weren't fully healed?" the high pitched doll asks as her arms sway a bit at the other end of the table.
Not surprised by the fact that Emily can move on her own, I answer her question, "No, I don't think you two would do that especially after you helped me so mush. I'm just making sure is all."
"It's only natural to be cautious, even more so considering what you've been through those seventeen years," Break says a bit surprised that I had no reaction to Emily's unexplainable movement and the fact that I was talking to her like she was not a doll.
"I guess it would be natural for me to be overly cautious about everything," I say looking at the floor.
"Do you want me to take a look at your arms or are you good?" he asks me in a soft tone.
I take my eyes off the floor to look at him and reply, "If you say it's alright to unwrap them, then I guess I'll you."
"Alright, may I see them?" he says as he reaches one of his hands out gesturing for me to put my arms out, which I do. He takes my right arm and starts to take the bandage off. "Do you get hurt by Chains often in the Abyss?" he asks me as he continues to unwrap my arm.
I place my free hand on my lap as I recall all my encounter's with the Chains in the Abyss, then I answer, "No, no I don't. When I encounter them, I run from them and hide because I know I can't fight them."
"That's smart, but how did you get hurt by the Chain that was choking you when you appeared through the path?" he questions me as he finishes unwrapping my right arm to reveal that there were no cuts on it and takes my other arm to starts unwrapping it.
"The only reason I got hurt this time was because I didn't run and hide. Before I got to the path I swore to myself that if a Chain appeared I wouldn't run," I told him as I examine my arm. I put my arm down and looked at Break to see him glance at me, then returned to my arm.
Break takes the last of the bandage off my left arm and wraps it into a ball along with the one that was on my right arm. With the ball of bandages in his hand, he stands up and heads to the door. As he reaches the door he puts the ball in the garbage can beside the desk and turns his head to face me, "You should get some rest, tomorrow will be a busy day," he says with a smile and leaves the room, closing the door behind him.
After a couple minutes I hear a voice yell angrily from the other side of the table , "I can't believe he left me behind!" I turn my head from the door to the voice to see Emily, still sitting on the table.
Surprised to see her there, I quickly make my way to her. "Emily, you're not with Break? Would you like me to take you to him?" I offer as I sit in front of her.
She seemed to cheer up when I offered and responded almost immediately, "I would love that, as long as it's not too much trouble," she makes a rattling sound as she talks.
I let out a small laugh as I continue to talk to her, "It won't be too troublesome. It's a good opportunity for me to get use to the layout of the manor, but we better go now before it's too late to catch up with him,'I tell her as I stand up.
"Yes, let's go," she agrees so I gently pick her up and head to the door.
When I leave the room and close the door behind me, I see Sharon turn a corner and decide to follow her. I run down the hall to where I saw her turn and look around the corner to see her open a door and walk through it. Quietly, I made my way to the door and peaked in and saw that Break was in the room as well.
The room was about the same size as mine, but it was not a bedroom from what I could tell even when the only source of light was the moonlight pouring through the three windows that lined the far wall. All that I could see in the poorly light room was a large desk in front of the middle window and Break looking out the one on the far right.
"You can be a cruel person sometimes," Sharon says as she stands in the middle of the room.
Because of the lighting and the placement of the door, all I could see was her back, but I could tell that she had on a different dress. This one was a navy blue and fitted one with noble states with the lace trim around the wrists and shoulders. Holding her hair up was a light green ribbon that was the same color as the bows on the side of her dress.
"Ah," Break looks from the window to her so he can continue to talk to her, "Were you still awake, Sharon?" he asks her.
Not answering him, Sharon lifts her right arm up to show Break something that looked like a piece of paper from its square shape, but I wasn't entirely sure. "This picture," she starts to talk and reveals that what she's holding is a picture of some sort, "The only thing which shows the seal, you purposefully didn't give to them," she adds.
"I thought Raven might not accept this task in order to protect Oz-kun," he says as he looks out the window and continues to speak, "Now I wonder whether they've found the girl who's on the verge of 'Game Over'," he smirks and puts his back against the window.
"Game Over? Does he mean the girl's seal in the photo has almost made its full rotation?" I think to myself.
"This is my kindness, you know. It's better to face reality as soon as possible," he looks at the door and I can tell he saw me, but continues to speak, "Oz Vessalius, he has three futures. The first is, time goes on as normal and he gets swallowed by the Abyss when his seal finishes its rotation. Unable to escape the flow of time, he will arrive at the same place all the other illegal contractors go. The second is, if he's able to find the truth, if he has the strength to find out the truth about his sin...," he returns his gaze out the window, "It's possible there may be salvation at the end of that path. And the third path," there was a slight pause in his words before he finished, "At the point when he finds out the truth, it's possible I will," he trails off not finishing his train of thought. He continues to look out the window and talk, "Remember this Oz-kun: what you have left at the end might not necessarily be hope," he looks back at the door and smirks, "And Mia-chan, it's quite rude to eavesdrop," he says making my presence known to Sharon, who is now in front of the far left window.
After being called out, I hesitantly walk into the room with my head down and Emily close to my chest. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to eavesdrop on your conversation," I apologies in a quiet tone.
Sharon looks at me with a slightly surprised expression when I walk in and apologies. "Mia-sama,, weren't you going to bed?" she asks me.
"Yes, I was, but when Break left I noticed he forgot Emily so I offered to bring her to him before I did," I reply as I look from the floor to Sharon.
Break walks from the window to me with a smile. "Thank you Mia-chan. I realized forgot her when I closed the door, but I didn't want to disturb you so I thought I would get her in the morning," he says as he walks. When he reaches me, I hand him Emily and he places her on his shoulder.
"You're welcome," I say to him to be polite. "I'm going to go back to my room now so I wish you both a good night," I tell them as I do a small bow and head to the door.
"Good night Mia-sama," Sharon says to me with a smile.
"Good night Mia-chan, tomorrow we will have a job for you to do," Break informs me with his usual grin.
I turn my head over my shoulder to give them both a smile in return as I say to them, "Ok."
When I get back to my room I put the chairs back and sit on my bed. As I sit I notice the nightgown I was wearing earlier has been cleaned and neatly placed on the bed. Thinking it might be best to change into it, I grab it and change. When I finish I fold the clothes I was wearing and put them at the foot of the bed. I then crawl under the covers realizing just how tired I was because as soon as my head hit the pillow I fell into a dreamless sleep.