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"Your eminence, what is your opinion on that child?" Vaclav spoke finally as he stood in front of her desk as she looked over some papers.

"I don't know. We have no hint as to who she is, where she's from or why she is here. At this moment she is an possible enemy until we know more," Caterina spoke harshly as she looked up at Vaclav. "What is even more confusing is the fact that Father Watteau reacted to seeing her face then disappears..."

There was a quiet knock on the door interrupting Caterina.

"Come in," Vaclav called as he moved around the desk to stand behind Caterina.

The door opened and William walked in, an arm around the young girl's shoulder and under her arm, holding her up. She seemed to be limping as she walked but the habit she wore hid her feet and dragged as she moved. Once they were in front of the desk, William let go and stepped back a foot or so.

"Your eminence," the girl bowed slightly. "I am told that you were the one who sent men out and found me outside the city then brought me back here. My name is Kaiya."

"Well Kaiya, why are you in Rome?"

"I'm no enemy ma'am," Kaiya spoke calmly as she looked at her. "For the past eight years now, I have been a prisoner. I only ever saw two men, a scientist and a man dressed in a black suit and they were not kind men. Is it possible if I could sit?"

Kaiya stumbled back and William caught her and held her up. Vaclav hurried forward and grabbed a chair and set it near the desk before helping William as he helped her walk to the chair and sit down. Caterina watched silently as the young girl's head fell forward as she gripped her left leg and gasped.

"Kaiya?" William knelt next to her, one hand on her shoulder and the other on her knee.

"It will pass in a moment," she whimpered, her voice filled with pain.

"What's wrong with you?" Caterina demanded as she stood and walked around her desk to stand in front of Kaiya.

"She has a lame leg," William replied. "She cannot walk on it or use it in any way. It grows normal so I'm assuming she can still feel pain..."

"You assume correct," Kaiya sighed as she lifted her head and took a breath. "The muscles spasm quite often, unsure how they need to be used so it just causes pain. I sometimes wonder if taking the leg would be better."

"What did the two men want who kept you captive?" Caterina spoke impatient.

"They kept saying that I had a brother and that they needed to find him. I don't ever remember if I have family or not. They kept injecting serums and different medicines, trying to make me tell them something they thought I knew..." The girl's pale eyes seemed to go distant. "I don't remember much from when I was captured except that it was always hot and everything was red. I don't know how they accomplished it but they had me chained up inside a volcano, above a river of lava. All the pathways were metal and the chains burned all the time..."

"How'd you escape?" Vaclav asked after she trained off.

"I didn't," she frowned as she focused on him. "The scientist finally were told to let me go. They had one of their prototype agents unchain me and bring me here. He was supposed to erase my memories but he didn't."

"Any names mentioned?"

"...Lohengrin," she said after a minute or to. "Whoever that is had ordered them to let me go."

"Lohengrin...? Why does that name sound so familiar?" Caterina frowned as she stared out the window. "So tell me Kaiya, what do you think you are going to do now since you are no longer a prisoner?"

"You believe me?" Kaiya frowned as she sat there.

"Lohengrin is a name I remember even if I cannot remember from where," Caterina spoke as she looked back at the young girl. "Besides, the wounds on your wrists are proof that you've been chained up for some time and got burned. Your feet are covered in burns as well and when you were found, you were covered in soot and dirt. How could any one make up a story like that just for spite? So let me ask you again, what do you think you are going to do again?"

"I... I don't know ma'am. What am I supposed to do?"

"Any thought of becoming an AX member and work for me?"

"What does that entail?" Kaiya's eyes narrowed.

"Do you know about Methuselah?"

"Unfortunately too well."

"I see, well the AX does many things from small jobs for the church to missions to Albion to help try and get Methuselah and Terran to coexist."

"Would I ever get to kill any of those monsters...?"

"They are not monsters," Caterina interrupted irritated.

"Maybe not the ones you know, but they are my nightmares and don't deserve to live," Kaiya snapped as she got to her feet. "There are worse things than just monsters acting like they are like us. They don't hesitate to hurt, to kill Terrans just out of spite. I hate them all, every last one, no matter how innocent they pretend to be!"

"Kaiya..." William frowned as the golden haired girl, hopped slightly as she left the room.

"Let her be for now," Caterina sighed.

"Your eminence?"

"She acts as one who has had loved ones taken from her by their kind or got herself hurt. Sister Kate, do you copy?"

"I am here," Kate's voice reached the three in the office before she appeared before Caterina.

"What is the status on Father Nightroad's location?"

"He has just arrived at the Vatican gates, do I need to contact him?" the captain of the Iron Maiden asked.

"Tell him that the girl he found has awoken and wandering the Vatican. I want him to watch over her."

"Very well, I will notify him right away," Kate smiled before disappearing.

"Professor, is there anything you could do for her to help her be able to walk again?" Vaclav asked quietly as Caterina sat back down.

"I don't know, Vaclav," William sighed. "She said that she lost the use of it when she was two and no matter what doctors said, none could help her."

"What if we could contact Professor Gepetto Garibaldi?"

"No one has been able to find Gepetto since Father Iqus was first sent to us," Caterina sighed. "Why did you ask that Vaclav?"

"If you're wanting her to become an AX agent, we got to help her some how otherwise she'll just be a burden," Vaclav replied. "If we could contact him, then maybe he could help her. We don't know who else could really help her to be able to walk normally again."

"Maybe we could send out Father Iqus to find the Professor," William suggested as he walked towards the door. "Anyway, I need to get back to my office. I'm behind on my work again."

"He does have a point, your Eminence," Vaclav spoke after William left. "Father Iqus's search mode has always succeeded. His programing has finally been perfected."

"Very well, send him out," Caterina sighed and closed her eyes. Vaclav bowed then left the room to find Tres.

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