Leaving the camp quietly as the soldiers were rushing around preparing, only for preparations to be termanded and fusion as why they weren’t going to go help the base utack, Yeni strolled iy space, and then stopped.

  “Captain….Muruk, then, yes?” Ele would ask. Yeni nodded, aails plucked at the wind before striding off. “Were…were you going to attack them if they weren’t so hospitable?” Ele would ask, looking to Yeni.

  “Yes. Though it is our wish you never learn it, people are as much a target as the Beasts. Cultists who worship them are not unon, and then there is everyone who takes advantage of the inability to deploy a certed and anized method of stopping those with the means from simply taking from those without the means”

  Ele would stay silent at that, looking at her cws. She was too young to have done anything serious like the rest of her family, but she had still lived their life. A life that discarded any thought of sanity. And then there was that man from the Bloodsoaked Orchestra. She had used her nails on him. After so much work learning to use a Zeldi, as soon as she got stressed she fell right bato what she was trying to get away from.

  “But don’t let it get to you. I will take all the work that needs doing. I brought you here, so I will take the burden” Yeni put in, seeing Ele’s fabsp;

  “I’ll back you up if you . But…I, get the feeling you don’t” Ele replied, skipping to get bato step with Yeni.

  “It is uncouth to talk about yourself. But the pressing situation has demands, which lead me to say, yes. You don’t o worry about providing physical backup to me. Your emotional and spiritual backup is plenty”

  Yeni would then pick up the pace a bit more, accelerating till Ele could keep up fortably, and moving across the try at a swift paever running, she was too elegant for that, but Ele’s swift jog by her side only just mao keep up without winding herself. It took them a few hours even at that pace, and the sun was high in the sky when they came across another base. Uhe other, this was out in the open. Almost a fort from which to ride out in any dire when called upon, they were on much higher alert than the previous camp. As Yeni approached, there was a loud shout.

  “Stand back! Any approach will be taken as a hostile a and will be fired upon!” the call came from one of the towers”

  “I see only Captain Muruk. Nobody else needs be hurt” Yeni would reply. Not shouting, but her voice carried to him anyway.

  “You have five seds to vacate the premises before you will be fired upon” the voice replied, too fast to have even sulted his superiors. Seven seds ter, after Yeni stood her ground and stared dowower, a gunsh out and smmed into the ground nearby her. She did not even flinch, though Ele did and got further from Yeni so as not to caty strays.

  “You missed” Yeni spoke, a simple word, followed by blowing the top off the tower with a Fox Fire from three of her tails. Kx out, arms rang, and boots stomped about in the fort. Pointing her fi the closed gate, a single word came from her lips, and Ele felt goosebump run across her body as her Yin spiked in response.

  “Borealis”

  The entments that solidified the gate against Aetheric attack yielded with no fight as the Yin circumvehem, freezing the gate in an instant. Reality then asserted itself, the gate crag uhe radical expansion and falling apart into shards that radiated a deathly cold. It uandably made an impact, and bullets flew out from the gate. Like a hive of blind s, the bullets flew everywhere, but failed to make any impa Yeni, as any bullet that came close simply hit an invisible barrier and deformed. Eventually the bullets stopped, and they residered their approach, whivolved a woman stepping out from the ruined gate. Four electric-blue tails swishing behind her, and arroganing off her in waves.

  “Irine” Ele muttered, her heart frozen in her chest. It couldn’t even muster the drive to thump wildly, too crushed by what it saw in front of her.

  “Is that little Enoria?! I thought you had run away to go be a statue somewhere in the forest” Irine excimed, her tails sparking lightniween them. “Certainly did something that even Gran couldn’t track you down”

  “She is not yours anymore, animal” Yeni would state, stepping up and staring down the Raiju.

  “So rude” Irine replied, before lightning danced across her frame and she exploded forward, rushing Yeni. She never hit her target though, as Ele lept in and tackled her out of the way. Smmed into the snow, Ele flipped off and then pulled out the Travel Zeldi from under her uniform, flipping it into a bat ready state.

  Irine would get up, and brush herself off, a nimbus of electricity surrounding her as she powered up her tails.

  “Little Enoria using a on?” Irine excimed, as if being tackled was just an average tuesday for her. “You really have been taken away from us, haven’t you? e on the me reeducate you in what you are~” Irine would flex her cws and smile broadly.

  “It’s Ele. And I know what I am” Ele replied, her tails sparking up and creating her own nimbus. The training with Kiko helped a lot with keeping her head despite the surge, and her Yin tempered her even more. She wasn’t calm, but she was in trol. “I am in trol”

  The very word seemed to piss Irine off, and she lunged with a roar between arousal and temper. Yeni, for her part, simply walked into the base, trustio deal with her past and e out the other side a better woman. Fox Fire was shot out at anyone who tried to point a gun at her, and a fe to her with ko try ahrough her barrier. It availed them nothing, as bones broke and blood spilled with precise sps and palms enhanced by her biology to be shatteringly strong. Cutting a swath through the men, she would make it to the headquarters and walk in.

  “Captain Muruk. I seek your sel” Yeni would speak, looking around for a few seds before sighing and holding up her hand and taking a breath. “I am so cold. The world is so dark. I beg thee, save me fro-”

  Her t was interrupted by a man shouting dowannoy.

  “You’d let that off inside?! You crazy bitch! What do you even want with me?!” the frantiade Yeni smile a little, and so she turo the tannoy o her.

  “I gratute you fnizing that spell. Now, I want my daughter back. You will returo me, or your paltry anization will see it’s st day in this world. I swear to Vahere will be no survivors”

  The tannoy froze over, and spat sparks as it was the focus of Yeni, but a short while ter, a man appeared. Short, well muscled, and clearly bitter. Just the person who would take such a job.

  “You are a hellion. Cutting a swath through my men. But fine, since you are so persuasive, I will take you to her. e on” he would state, turning to lead Yeni deeper into the base. He robably trying to lead her into a trap, but that was fine. She would just take repeerwards, and the her daughter babsp;