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your name, tell me, who are you?”
    “Seles Daevon, a
lieutenant, and head of the mobile suit team,” she said. “Why are you asking me
this?”
    “She’s asking
because she wants you to remember who YOU are,” Mira said. “You’re thinking
about this way too much.”
    “Really?” she
asked.
    “Yes, really,”
Mira said. “You’ve been caught up in his dream so much in the last few years
you’ve forgotten your own.”
    “I see,” Seles
said before smiling. “Maybe it’s time to fix that problem.”
     
    * *
*
     
    Brian’s
silhouette passed over the streets of Dega Jul. The people walking along
watched as he darted from building to building with Lances in pursuit. The ground
forces chasing him found the crowds of Kalaidians dominating the area
resistant. The emergency alarm sounded in the districts around them as more Confederation
forces deployed to arrest him. He looked to the sky and saw a number of
additional Lances entering orbit to tighten the encirclement.
    “I know, they’re
really pissed about this,” Brian said.
    “You can still
surrender,” Siata said over the com.
    “So you’ve
hacked my exoskeleton’s systems,” he said while dodging a mobile suit. He flew
inside an old and abandoned skyscraper. Darkness surrounded him as he flew into
the middle and away from the lights. “Now I understand why you were so vigilant
on checking every week.”
    “I can guarantee
your life will not be taken,” she pleaded. “The Mylor have the power to do
that.”
    “To live in the
comfort of a prison, no matter how luxurious, is to still live in a prison,” he
said. “We survived Siata, all of us. We saw evil in its purest form and brought
back the evidence. But since we returned all we’ve gotten is skepticism. If
people don’t changed, if the Confederation doesn’t change, it’ll die. They’ll
destroy everything you love.”
    “What are you
trying to say?” Siata asked.
    Brian paused
before flying down an elevator shaft until he reached the sub levels of the
building. Using his rakna , he tore through the rusted doors and entered
the storm sewers.
    “You’re fighting
the wrong person,” he said. “Tell you superiors I’ll never surrender
willingly.”
    He flipped open
his wrist computer and reprogrammed the communication system in his
exoskeleton. As he wandered into the sewers he noticed a single Kalaidian woman
with shoulder length blue hair waiting patiently. She wore a pair of raknas .
One was on her belt while she tapped the other one on the wall. She wore a
silver and blue exoskeleton. As she opened her eyes he could see they were
green, glinting in the low light of the tunnel lights. She looked at him with
wonder in her eyes.
    “It’s been ten
years sir Herald,” she said.
    Brian smiled as
he recognized the young girl he met on Kalaidian prime a decade prior.
    “You’re prettier
than I remember,” he said.
    “You look the
same to me,” she said with a smile. “I’m your escort out of this place
Commander Peterson.” She drew her second rakna before leading him
through the metallic tunnels.
    “It’s Kyli,
isn’t it?” he asked as he followed.
    “I’m glad you
remember,” she said.
    “Celi mentioned
you recently,” Brian said. “I wasn’t surprised when I heard you joined the crew
of the Freedom.”
    “It’s the
Maiden’s fate to such a life,” she said. “At least, that’s what I’ve been told.”
She noticed Brian staring off to the side. “What?”
    He shook his
head. “It’s nothing, nothing at all.”
     
    * *
*
     
    Zae sat in the
commander’s chair on the bridge of the Avoni. Baed sat at the right side
console, opposite of the one she used for years. Baed looked like Seles’s twin
save for her hair being platinum blonde. She wore a rank circlet with a single
leaf, showing her to be a lieutenant commander. At the left console sat lieutenant
Vae. She had shoulder length pink hair and green eyes. The three of them were
busy preparing the ship