Chapter Six: About Kratos
Deciding that he wanted to talk to hsis father about the sleeping girl, Lloyd began to climb the stairs to the girl's room. It was silent as usual, so he opened the door. Kratos was asleep in his chair, but the girl wasn't sleeping in her bed where she usually was. Instead, she was sitting in the windowsill with her legs dangling out the open window. As she heard him come in, she turned her head and looked at him.
"Oh." she said in a quiet voice. "You must be...Lloyd, right?"
"Y-yeah." Lloyd stammered, taken aback that this woman knew his name. He opened his mouth to speak, but closed it again as the girl said,
"Kratos told me about all of you." Lloyd looked at his father.
"Kratos?" the girl nodded. She looked at Kratos, then at Lloyd, then stood up and walked over to him. Holding out her hand, she said
"I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Aura." Lloyd slowly took her hand and shook it. Aura smiled. It was a warm, kind smile that made Lloyd feel like he'd seen it before. "Did you wake up today?" he asked. Aura nodded, then said,
"We talked shortly after I woke up, but he fell asleep a few minutes ago." Lloyd looked back to Kratos. "I don't really want to wake him." Aura said. "He doesn't look like he's slept for a while."
"Not since we found you, three days ago." muttered Lloyd. Aura was silent for a moment, then asked,
"Did you come up here to talk to him?" Lloyd nodded. Aura smiled, the said, "He talked a lot about you."
"He did?"
"Yeah." Aura told him. "He regrets that he dragged you into everything and he still can't forgive himslef for everything he's put you through." Lloyd stared at his father. The angel of Cruxis was asleep with his arms crossed and his head flopped down onto his chest, his mouth slightly open. It was impossible to see his full expression however, because his dark red hair hid his eyes. "He told me everything that happened." Lloyd said nothing. "So everything about Martel and he angel was just set up by Cruxis abd Yggdrasill..." She looked at Lloyd, studying him. Seeing the exsphere on his hand, she said, a bit angrily,
"But the thing that gets me the most is how exspheres are made! I can't believe they're made fro human lives!" Lloyd sadly looked at his feet.
"Yeah...just like...Just like Mom..." Aura put her hand on his shoulder. Startled, Lloyd looked up at her.
"Kratos also told me about what happened to Anna ." she said softly. She was silent for a moment, then said, "I'm sorry." Lloyd averted his gaze back to his feet. The regret in Aura's eyes made him feel ten times worse. Before he could do or say anything else, Genis' voice echoed up the stairs, calling for Lloyd.
"You'd better not keep them waiting." Aura said gently. Lloyd nodded, then left. As the door closed, a sharp pain shot through Aura's head. Bringing her hand up to her forehead, she watched the scenes that flashed through her memory. An exsphere being ripped from a human hand. A monster roaring and bursting through the wall of a Desian human ranch. Then, everything went black and a familiar sounding male voice cried out in pain and terror. Shivering, Aura shook her head to clear it, then looked at her right hand, which was covered by a light blue glove. She shook her head again, then said to herself,
"Wait...what am I...remembering?" She put her hand down and returned to her place in the windowsill. And although she didn't look, she now knew that on her hand, there was a small scar, where a small red exsphere had once been.