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her will. I made the mistake of touching her when I found her on Earth. Without warning and entirely by reflex, she ripped my Awl self right out of my shift. If I didn't look so horrifying in that state she might have killed me right there. Fortunately, she remembered me from her previous incarnation, when I was still a Sentry. So I got a hold of myself again and grabbed her quick and brought her back through the Gate. But Kenshe's army was waiting when we returned and we were separated. She utilized one of the True to reach the Atrum and rescue us."
    A howl went out from the True in the distance. Nafury wondered if they could hear this far. "If she wasn't right there, I wouldn't believe any of it." He focused back on Xirel's unreadable eyes. "How do you know so much?"
    "Awls were once Sentry on Earth. I once watched Hino kill one of her previous incarnations before my very eyes. It was on that day that I made the choice to come to Aster. Asteria once granted you and the other Three Generals a soul and a place on her world. Similarly, the Great Dragon allowed me to live in a body that the Chimera Mother had killed in her fury. The will of the Caelestis within the Great Dragon makes Him merciful."
    "Next to your sickly appearance, what was your flaw?" Nafury asked, curious. He remembered bits and pieces of the Last War when he was Damek. The chimeras had retaliated for being slaughtered for their imperfections and the Feharin had won the War, but lost their Golden City and the Third Continent. More importantly, they had lost Sybl when she was Asil.
    Sadness darkened Xirel's purple eyes and he didn't answer him. Instead, he looked at Ubi. "Time is against us. We only have until all her memories return to save her, and there is another problem as well."
    "Like the entire Suzerain Continent now hunting us down?" Nafury said.
    "Your adopted father is still alive. In saving Ubi, I also unavoidably opened the Gate for his return here. He is going to come for her."
    "Oh just great," Nafury replied. "Of all the damn problems we have to deal with as it is, that bastard has to still be alive." He looked at Ubi as she slightly tilted her head their way. She was likely listening in on their conversation while pretending to be asleep.
    "Mind your words, Fallen Prince, for Simera has been keeping her safe until I found her. He will come for her. If she falls into his hands on Aster, he will use her to burn the Suzerain Continent to the ground."
    "Then let him, why should I care if he does? Kenshe would have seen us killed in a cold corner of his spire. Then he would have dumped our bodies amongst a heap of garbage."
    "Yes, but with Ubi things have changed. Kenshe will have likely guessed by now who he was attacked by. Then there is the matter where I do not believe that the Simera I fought was the same dragon king who left Aster," Xirel said.
    "What do you mean?"
    "He seemed different. If not, out of touch with himself. If something has overcome Simera, you would likely spot it much easier than myself."
    "So we can't run to Toria, and we can't stay here or at the Efereal Mountains. Just where are we to go?" Nafury asked.
    Xirel looked to Ubi as she sat up and let out a huge yawn.
    "All right, I'll ask her," Nafury said and looked at her. "Where are we going, Princess?"
    "I'm not a princess," she replied. "So spare me the little girl talk."
    The side of Nafury's mouth twitched at her razor-edge response. He gathered up his cloak from the snow to momentarily disengage himself from the war spark before him. Then he looked towards the trees on sensing someone watching them.
    "Kenshe's Pack is back, which means they are here to finish what they started," Xirel said as he got to his feet.
    Nafury caught sight of the slender wolf-cat like form of the ayame. It was now their biggest problem, as a Call from her could send the Pack into an unstoppable killing frenzy. "I don't suppose you can take her on?"
    Xirel didn't answer, as