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didn't reply immediately. "I died minutes after he was born. I was not given the chance to love him when I was alive, but I loved him enough to keep him alive as long as I did as his shift."
    "Only you don't die," Nafury added.
    "Everything dies, Damek, except hate and love. The human form I had taken on Earth was killed. I returned to being what I am now. This Sentry form would have never worked well with Simera had I remained."
    "So you became Cirrus' shift, forcing him to remain a dragon till he was a teen. Then your hateful attempt on Sybl's life forced Gei to separate you from him."
    "I forced that on Gei, not the other way around. I knew that eventually Cirrus would be pitted against you in battle, and I had no intention to ever harm you. Moon was stronger for the task as well."
    "So you chose to be potentially imprisoned for all eternity rather than harm me? I'm touched," Nafury mocked. He looked briefly at Ubi who was content to watch them debate it all out.
    "Believe what you will. I don't waste time with lies," Alexia replied.
    "So what do you get out of helping me?"
    "I get what I always wanted," she replied.
    "Which is?"
    "You."

EIGHT

    Nafury didn't believe the devastation that Kenshe had caused at the Efereal Mountains. The bodies of dozens of different animal variations of chimera lay strewn about. The smell of death was unbreathable while blood seemed to cover everything. The phelan left nothing that came within reach of their teeth alive. 
    Ubi knelt silently before the giant bear before her and looked to the spirit that hovered nearby. It was a casualty amongst dozens.
    "Please do not despair, Ubi," Xirel said as he appeared behind them in the tunnel. "You did not do this."
    Ubi sprung to her feet and charged Xirel so fast, he nearly fell over in his weakened state. "Xirel! Are you alright?"
    The Awl smiled and set a gentle hand down on her head. "I will be fine. I told Nafury to run with you while I held Simera off, but flying worked as well." Xirel looked then at Nafury. "Assuming our latest and most unexpected help doesn't have anyone left on her list to kill?"
    "I'll have to check it over twice later on," Nafury said and looked to where Alexia drifted along the wall. The Sentry pretended to be unfocused and passive.
    "How could that bastard do something like this?" Ubi demanded to know. "Wasn't Kenshe close to my mother?" Her anger continued to build.
    "Kenshe is no longer a child, and your mother only had so much time with him," Xirel replied.
    "I should have had his own shift bite his head off," Ubi said as she patted a place on the bear's fur that was not splattered in blood. "He must have been magnificent when he was alive."
    "He will be missed," Xirel said solemnly and looked away from them both.
    "Kenshe has to pay for this," Ubi said as she gripped the bear's fur.
    "No, Ubi. There has been enough bloodshed as it is, and I fear that there will be much more to come. Nafury has already killed what can only be one of our enemy's strongest assets, Simera. They no longer have you and they will think twice before striking out at us again," Xirel said. 
    Nafury could feel Xirel's need to protect Ubi from the lingering darkness in her mind. He wanted to do nothing less himself.
    "I'm calling the True. I want every phelan shifter who spilled blood in this mountain tracked down and killed," Ubi said.
    "Ubi!" Nafury said in concern.
    "Will you try and stop me?" Ubi challenged. "I know you want them dead as well."
    "Kenshe will get what's coming to him soon enough, but not like this," Nafury said.
    "I saw how he humiliated you all these years. They constantly tormented you for what you had no control over to stop--I saw it all from Xirel's psi. How can you forgive him so easily? Geolan was one of the many who tried to surrender. Just like you, he didn't want to fight, but those bloodthirsty savages wouldn't let up!"
    "Will killing the ones responsible make you feel better?" Nafury asked,