Saya had been looking around the town on her own, remembering the life she had once lived here.

She was sitting on a bench looking at her old school. The memory of the time she spend there in lessons and with her friends in the breaks was faint compared with the memory of the night she came back to get her sneakers. And yet all of it seemed to be like a part of someone else's life, not hers. Maybe she had changed that much that she now was someone else. While she had lived with George, she had also been someone else than during her life at the zoo, and of course someone else than the girl who went mad in Vietnam. She wondered whether she could ever be the same person before and after her hibernation, and she was afraid of whom she might become in a later life.

"Hi Saya", it was Hikaru who interrupted her thoughts, leaning at a tree to her left. "You have been to the school as well?" She nodded. "I went there together with your nieces. They told me a lot about you; well…I guess that where only the stories they heard from Kai."

Saya didn't answer and for a while nobody said a word. Then the boy stepped closer and held out his hand for shaking hers. "I'm sorry, that I didn't introduce myself properly the last time we met. I'm Hikaru, Hibiki's Chevalier." Saya looked at him, still without a response.

He sat down next to her and started talking: "It's great to finally meet the aunt, they told me about all these times. To be honest, at the beginning I had imagined you to be a lot older. However that was at a time when they explained your absence with a trip around the world." He laughed and Saya joined him a little, thinking about Kai, who had told Hikaru that the twins where in the USA.

"You resemble the twins so much, it can be seen on the first look that you belong to the family", he went on, "you are even as beautiful as they are." She turned her face to the school building to hide her blushing cheeks from him. "It indeed fits a queen, like you are one." Saya still said nothing. "If you'd only live in a castle, instead of this old shabby house and if you had a nation to follow you, you'd make a perfect fairy-tale-queen." As he caught her gaze he added quickly: "Enough with those jokes. Let's face it, you are a remarkable being and I am sure you have a remarkable power."

"What do you want from me?" Saya was losing her patience.

"You are not human, but you live among them. With the powers that are given you, you can help them."

"In which way?"

"Well…if they are dying, your blood offers them a new life."

"Yes and what kind of life would that be? You know it better than I do! They would be bound to me forever and never be free again. Apart from that I can't give every person on earth an eternal life. That just wouldn't work!"

"Saya, I didn't mean it like that. Of course you can't make the world become chiropteran. I only thought that with your blood maybe new medicine and stuff like that could be developed. Therefore we would have to make your existence publicly. You and the twins would commit your lives to helping others, like real fairy-tale-queens, and in return you would be treated like queens, being admired by all those whom you helped."

"There is no way that the public will know about chiropteran!", she had shouted louder that she had intended to and hoped, that no one was around to hear it. "They will use me, as they did before. They will make me kill people and cause nothing but pain to the humans."

"Don't be stupid. Obviously we will be more careful to guarantee your and everyone else's safety. You should have some more Chevaliers to look after you."

She shook her head. "I am fine with Haji!", she yelled and added quickly "and Solomon. I would never put that burden on anyone else."

"I see it as a great honour to be chosen as a Chevalier. It gives me something I can dedicate my life to. I'm sure that others will think the same."

Saya looked right into his face when she asked: "Why do you want to do this? Why do you want to help the people?"

There were tears glittering in his eyes when he answered: "My mother was sick. The doctors couldn't do anything and I couldn't do anything either. Later on, when I knew about well…you know…I couldn't forgive Hibiki and Kanode, that they watched her die without doing anything, even though they could have helped her. I decided to never let that happen again. Now, that I'm part of this too, I won't allow people to die before their time has come without trying everything I can do. But therefore I need the twins to help and I need you." He grabbed her arm, when he said: "Pleas think about it. It would be the best for everyone."

Then disappeared, leaving her alone, confused, not knowing whether to trust him or not.