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Wara tried opening her eyes. All she could see was that dark space one sensed when their eyes were closed.

Then she heard another voice and this time, she could see herself.

She was sitting on a throne, someone who looked similar to her was bowing to her and begging her.

There was blood on her hands and a passive expression on her face. Then she stood up and walked up to the man. She grabbed him by the face and then the body of the man exploded into miniscule pieces.

Wara was puzzled greatly. She was shown so many things her head hurt. Then she came face to face with herself, or what looked like herself.

"So she did do it?" The image spoke. The image was of a woman older than Wara's current appearance. Her hair was worn short, only to her jaw and she seemed to be dressed in men's clothing, although more revealing.

Wara was immediately disgusted.

"What are you?" This could not be her. She had seen and remembered so many things related to magic that she remembered that before the veil, people could create illusions or apparitions.

The image laughed.

"I was you." It then smiled at Wara. "But you will not make the mistake I have made. Your brother holds something that is your birthright, seize it. Don't allow an outsider in the guise of blood steal it from you. You are born royalty from both your father's and mother's side. seize it."

The apparition disappeared after that.

Despite all she had seen, Wara was the most puzzled. The voice of the apparition was a bit too similar to the one that had appeared inside her head recently.

Wara decided to ignore it and focused on all she had seen. She remembered the time with Zelda, The time with Pax and Frenvir, The time in the cage...

Wara's expression turned steely and cold. She remembered everything...

***

Wara opened her eyes. Zelda was floating in the sky, talking to two kneeling figures and a wolf.

She seemed to be smiling. Without such as a warning, she directed her silver gaze to Wara and her smile impossibly widened.

Wara stared for a while, feeling her heart churn before turning to stare at the kneeling figures.

She immediately did not like what she saw. Her lips curled up in distaste as she spoke.

"What are they doing here?"

She watched as Sica froze still. Why was his eyes closed? And why did Pax look like she had been tortured?

Someone touched her shoulder. She did not need to look back to know it was Zelda who had touched her. From the ice-cold touch which slightly hurt, it was quite obvious.

"Welcome back Khari." Zelda greeted breezily in her ear.

Khari was the name her mother had given her. It was the name all first daughters from her family bore.

And now it was hers.

She watched Sica slowly open his eyes to look at her, only to shut it back, immediately stand up and run away.

Pax mirrored his movements but the wolf simply walked towards Zelda and licked her leg. Then it placed its head on the floor.

This puzzled Wara. what was going on?

Then the voice whispered to her. "You are Chaos. All living beings fear Chaos. But Animals fear Death."

The explanation was vague and Wara was further confused even though she understood. The voice didn't tell her anything anymore.

She was cleared from her haze when Zelda immediately yelled. "Get on. Let's go find your son."

She gestured to the wolf she was sitting on and after fighting her reluctance, Wara got on the wolf.

she gasped and immediately grabbed Zelda's waist as Cloelia shot forward with speed. It ended as quickly as it had begun and Wara immediately got off, ignoring the weird tingle in her palms from touching Zelda.

Wara immediately saw Sica packing up things into a bag. It did not concern her so she did not ask. Pax approached her and gestured to her, meaning she wanted to talk.

"I've decided. Wherever you go,I'll follow you."

Wara almost choked from shock. The events since the Dies Lucis had been quite chaotic and confusing. Ever since she had crossed the veil, nothing made sense anymore.

Why on earth was Pax willing to follow her to find her son?