Before the group could do anything, the Ash turned to Bo. Looking quickly back towards the Sister, "Sorry to intrude on your business her, but I need to know if Aife is taken care of." The Ash spoke in a gravely voiced, "I need to know if she is still out there trying to start a war."
"She has been taken care and she will be of no threat to you. I have personally taken care of her, and for now is under my protection." Gaia answered before Bo had a chance to. As she first looked at the Ash then Bo and finally to Trick. "She is suffering from a madness that is affecting her mind. I have told Bo, I may know someone that can help her. So you will have no further threats from her."
"I see, well I wish you would have brought her here for trial. But I am not going to go against a Sister of Life." Turning towards Bo, he noticed that she was taking of the Kershoung necklace and handing it back to him.
"As promised, I am returning the necklace to you." Bo stated giving the neckalce to the Ash. "I will go see Lauren when I get finished here." More stating a fact than asking for permission, nothing could stop her from helping the doctor.
"That is fine, I will leave you to your business then." The Ash replied, as he turned to leave the group. Walking towards the doctor's to status updates about the elders that had just came out of surgery.
"Now lead on to where this man you think is my friend Edwick." Gaia ordered, while silently she hoped that is would be true. If this was Edwick then she was one step closer to finding her daughter. As she followed Kenzi to a door not far from where they were.
"Here we go, this is the room." As Kenzi opened the door, for everyone to see. As they peered in they could see Eddie walking back and forth muttering under his breath.
As Gaia walked in the door, the smile that came to her face was clear this was her friend. This was her companion for so many centuries, this was the man that knew who her daughter was. As she took a step closer to him, she saw him turn and stare at her as if trying to figure out something. "Oh Edwick, my dear friend."
"Mother?" Edwick asked, getting the feeling of being in the presence of his mother, but not able to bring the memory. "It is past dinner time." As he turned away looking for something but not able to remember what it was.
Gaia could see the emptiness in her dear friend's eyes. She turned to Kenzi to ask what was wrong with her friend, but the young woman had already anticapated the question before the Ancient could ask.
"He is suffering from a form of alzehiemers and dementia, at least according to the doctor's. Can you help him get his memory back?"
Gaia turned to look at her old friend and was saddened to see the once noble and knowledgable person that was friend reduced to this. She shed a tear for her friend's loss of knowledge and memory. She was so overwhelmed that she took a sit and just watched her friend move about aimlessly. She felt Kenzi's arms come around her to comfort her, as she looked up into her eyes she could see recognization in them.
"My Uncle Ivan, has the human version of it. He use to tell all these great stories to us kids when we were little, but he started to forget them. Sometimes he would get these moments of clarity and you could in eyes he knew, but then it would be gone and he would just be lost again." Kenzi stated trying to explain she understood Gaia's feeling, although she felt there was no way to compare her uncles short life when compared to knowing someone for over two thousand years.
"Thank you childe, this is Edwick. You need not fear your oaths, neither has been broken." As she waved a hand towards Trick releasing the hold she had on his gifts. "You can go back to the Dal if you wish, I would like stay with my friend for awhile."
"Gaia, perhaps there is something we could do to help him remember. Surely there is a spell or something that could help him." Kenzi stated trying to help.
"As I told Bo earlier, the mind is tricky. I have no powers when it comes to healing the mind." Gaia pointed out, thinking that she was once again back to square one. But if nothing, she knew that if Edwick survived then her daughter had as well.
"I am sure that we can find something, Gaia. Perhaps someone will know where he has been, we can track his movements now that we know he survived. I have a friend in the police department that can look in to it. I will not give him the specifics or the reason just see what he can find out. With your permission of course." Trick stated moving to stand in front of Gaia.
"Yes of course, that would be fine." Gaia stated her voice twinged with an edge of defeat.
"Have you seen my juice?" Edwick asked the woman that was sitting on his couch. As he sat down in his chair, mumbling under his breath.
"No my friend, I have not seen it. Perhaps I can get it for you." As Gaia stood to look about the room, looking at the life her friend was reduced to. She watched as Trick and Kenzi both left the room, Bo having left earlier once the trouble was over with. "You seem to had a good life my friend."
As Edwick turned to watch his guest, he saw her moving around and picking up his glass of juice and handing it to him. He watched as the older woman walked around picking up things around the room. As he watched her pick up a red glowing crystal that was behind a few other objects, his eyes widened.
"Gaia, is that you?" Edwick spoke, not quite believing if what he saw was real or not.
"Yes old friend it is me." Gaia turned to walked quickly over to him. "Tell me where my daughter is."
"I don't know exactly." the frustration in his voice the Ancient could clearly hear. "When I made it out of the tunnels, I was followed. I tried to get as far away as I could, but no matter how far I went they followed. For months they tracked me, I knew I had to do something. So I used my blood to put her to sleep and in statis so she wouldn't age and hid her with her father. No one ever went there. His tomb became her crib, I sealed it with blood magic. But something went wrong, when I wrote the spell in my blood I could not stop it and paid the price. My memory and knowledge started to fade and her essence is in that crystal. But then the child woke too soon. I went back to get her but someone had found and opened the tomb. I don't know where she is, but I know she is in this city."
"What is she that will help what did you name her? Anything will help my friend."
"I named her after my daughter Aslaran. And she is exactly like her father...did you find my juice?" As the clarity left him leaving him lost again.
Handing him the glass of juice, she looked at her old friend with a smile. "Thank you my friend, you did well." As she grabbed the red crystal and placed it in her pocket. "Rest my friend, I shall come to see later."
As she walked out of the Edwick's door she turned to head back to the main door, deciding to take a walk to clear her head and to think on things. Her daughter was here in the city, and she had the magic essence of her. She knew that she could give the essence back to her daughter if she found her. As she opened the door, she looked back to see Bo sitting on a chair near a patient. She walked towards the succubus only to see her duck under the bed. As she approached she saw Bo parting the lips of the blonde patient and giving her some of her chi. Tears were flowing down the succubus' cheeks.
"Are you alright childe?" Gaia squated down to see the succubus leaning her back across the bed posts and gently stroking the blonde woman's cheek.
"Just tired, this is Lauren. She was hurt when my mother attacked, she saved the Ash. And I love her more than anything. And I was too stupid to tell her that before this. And now I am afraid I waited long to tell her and might not be able tell her. Can you heal her like you did me?" Bo ask her voice low and almost a whisper. As she continued to stroke the blonde's cheek.
"I can do a little but not all childe. If Sisters have there limits it would seem. And healing was never my strong suit, now if Nintu was here she could do it. She had a gift for healing. But I might be able to help some." As Gaia stood, the succubus also stood to watch. Gaia touched the only part of blonde that was not in the glasslike structure her head. She sent a small amount of healing into the blonde and Bo could see the burns start to heal and fade. The ones on her scalp healed completely and her hair grew back, the ones on her back healed partially but stopped before fully healing. "I am afraid that is all I can do childe. The burns on her back are deep, deeper than the medic even thought. But she is out of danger now, I think we you given her your chi she should heal just fine."
"Thank you so much for helping her." Bo stated, the tears flowing out of her eyes freely. "I give you my Blood Oath, I will help you find your daughter." As the sound of thunder cracked over the compound.
"Oh childe, why did you do that. I did not ask for payment in helping your friend."
"You helped me twice now, I will help you." Bo answered matter of factly. "We will talk to tomorrow though, I want to stay with Lauren for a little bit okay."
"As you wish, childe. Tomorrow we will talk, I need to see if an old friend will come to help you mother anyway."
