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moment to count the legs under him, they hastily made their way for the trees.

FIVE

    Nafury opened his eyes and glanced around the rubble they sat amongst. It was all that was left of the Sanctus now. A part of him regretted not seeing the Temple in its glory before the Phoenix burned it to the ground.
    "You humans sleep far too much."
    Nafury looked across from him, where Xirel held the sleeping girl in his arms. Nafury's once-white, now-battered cloak covered her. She seemed perfectly content to make the chimera Awl into her personal pillow. He checked that the fairy pendant on his neck was still there, and let out a breath of relief as his cloak was all that she took. "She's like Sybl, isn't she?"
    Xirel pulled some of the almost-black hair from Ubi's face and studied her closer. "She looks just like Kas, but she has her mother's character."
    So this was Xirel, the chimera's leader. He would never have guessed such a frail looking Awl to be capable of achieving much. His long white hair, purple eyes, and bone-thin physique left a lot of questions to how he led anything.
    "How insulting of you. Your sister thought that I was truly beautiful," Xirel replied nonchalantly to Nafury's thoughts. He stared at him now with purple eyes that were hard to read. "It would seem that the memories you retained after Daath's exorcism are limited."
    "I try to not think about how I nearly destroyed two realms too often. Has a rather depriving affect on my mood," Nafury replied, trying to not let it get to him.
    "And so it should. I would have seen to it myself that you were killed for what you did. Sybl was irreplaceable, both as a Fay and who she was."
    "It wasn't my choice to stay alive, it was hers," Nafury replied, trying to keep his tone neutral. An Awl was not something he could fight and hope to live. He looked at Ubi for a change of subject. "This Fay can only be her daughter. But how?"
    "Her soul is of the Fay who was born to Erebus and Asil on the first Aster. As such, she is also Sybl's daughter," Xirel explained, his tone once again neutral.
    "If this is true, then why are we finding her now? She must be at least fifteen."
    "Her past is a tragic and complicated one."
    Nafury rubbed his cold arms as he gave a quick look to the Threads around them, sensing for any danger. "She was reincarnated on Earth?"
    "Indeed. But she has been made fragile and hateful. Earth's Sentries have slaughtered her countless times over the millennium. Everyday a bit more of her dies as she remembers the injustice done to her."
    Nafury looked at Xirel. "Kas supposedly had all his memories of his life on the first Aster as Erebus. Why didn't he do something about that?"
    "Because Kas was the one who banished her there," Xirel answered.
    "Why would he do that? Who could do that for that matter?"
    "Her power is very dangerous, and while she is a human now, I cannot speak for how she may have been as a complete Fay. I do know, however, that Kas never did anything without carefully calculating its repercussions. He was the exact opposite of his soultwin in that respect."
    "Does she know who I am?" Nafury asked and finished with a gulp.
    "Yes, I told her while you were asleep."
    "Does she blame me for what happened?"
    "No. I told her that you were possessed and Sybl saved you. That's all I told her of you," Xirel replied.
    Nafury relaxed a little. The rest of the story could wait, for now. Or forever.
    "She believed that Sybl purposely left her alone and motherless. Only, it wasn't your sister's fault. Kas took the memories of their daughter into death with him. It was why he never became close with Sybl, lest that memory return to her."
    "But why would he do something like that? This is their daughter we're talking about!"
    "Erebus was the one to cast out Ubi from the first Aster and send her to Earth. She was an abomination; a threat to the stability of the planet and considered a monster. As you have already seen, she can bend shifts to