Aunt Hayate is furious at me. She has been fuming ever since we escaped from the communications room. We are now hiding in some kind of weapons cache, and Aunt Hayate is angry.

"What the hell, Vivio!" she finally bursts out.

"I am sorry, Aunt Hayate," I still don't understand but apologize just in case. "I did everything like you told me. I activated the controls, put in the address you gave me, and sent out the message to an officer of the Bureau. What did I do wrong?"

"That 'officer' was your mother, for crying out loud!"

"No, she wasn't," I am confused. "My mama has purple eyes and brown hair. That officer's eyes were brown and her hair was blonde."

Hayate gives me a sudden horrified look and quickly looks away.

"What is it, Auntie?" Her uneasiness transfers to me. "Are my memories false?"

"No, Vivio, they are not false," she says after a while. "Just… incomplete. You see, Vivio, you are not an ordinary child. Ordinary girls have a mama and a papa, but you… you have two mamas."

"Two mamas? How can that even…"

And then a memory hits me. I am small, much smaller than now, and I am running towards Nanoha-mama across a freshly cut lawn. I stumble and fall, and then another person helps me up. She has beautiful brown eyes and lush golden hair. I have two mothers. The strict but warm Nanoha-mama and the soft and kind…

"Fate-mama," I whisper.

"Yes, Vivio," Hayate doesn't meet my gaze.

For a moment, I feel like banging my head against the wall. Why did I not recognize her earlier? Why do my memories only come back now, instead of then? I haven't recognized my own mother. I feel sick.

Then something else dawns on me.

"Aunt Hayate, if that was Fate-mama… Then where is my other mama?"

Hayate opens her mouth to answer, but closes it without a word, and looks away.