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Cathrine herself, was actually now climbing on Winters bookshelves. Winters office was actually taller then Raiths, carrying many more books with incredibly high shelves. She'd been waiting for a while and Cathrine couldn't stand waiting, it drove her to start stabbing things.

The last time she did that in Winters office however, ended badly for Cathrine. While Cathrine may have 'urge-to-stab-and-break-things' issues she wasn't stupid.

At the moment she was hanging upside down on the shelf fiddling with an intricate model that she didn't understand while trying to keep her tie out of her face.

Shin paused and let her hand slide to the pendant. She felt the cool metal and intricate bumps of the design and stones. A small smile formed at the corner of her lips beforee she held the pendant up and opened her eyes. It's beautiful... She looked at it a while longer before closing her hand and smiling up at him.

"I love it."

For some odd reason whatever she was frustrated with had disappeared. She gave him a hug, wrapping her arms around his neck to gently pull him closer to her.

"You didn't have to you ya know?" She thought of how lucky she was to have him back. How things used to be. The days they'd spend every second together, training, playing, everything. She smiled to herself before whispering, "You'll sleep with me tonight won't you?... Chris?"

Leon entered the tavern looking for anyone around his sister's age, after he talked to about seven people, without learning anything he sat down at the bar, thinking about where she might be, if she was still alive.

"Excuse me young sir, but I'm heading for Dyne and I thought I'd need a body guard." A young woman said walking up to Leon.

"How much are you willing to pay?" Leon asked.

"Is 300 gil alright?" She asked taking out a small pouch.

"300 is fine, I hope your ready to go now, because I don't want to stick around much longer."Leon said standing up and turning towards her.

"I'm ready to leave any time, Oh! I forgot my name is Nyrra Collins, Whats yours?"The young woman asked with a smile.

Leons eyes turned from a steely grey, uncaring look, to a bright silvery, unbeleiving look, he stared at her, trying to believe what he just heard.

"My name is Vemillion Selreans."He said so only she would hear him.

Nyrra's eyes filled with tears as she stared right back at Leon, her memories flooding her mind.

"But..... that's impossible, you died nine years ago..." She said shaking her head.

Leon grabbed her hand and they left the tavern, sprinting out of Junon, back to the forest.

"If you don't believe me now, you will in about five seconds."Leon said pulling off the wig, and taking out the colored contacts.

"Leon.... It is you but, how did you survive the fire, and the bandits? Nyrra asked wipeing the tears from her eyes.

"An old swordsman saved me." Leon said not going into details, he didn't want his sister to know he was a murderous fellen. "well theres no charge, for me to be your bodyguard, you wanted to go to Dyne right? Well lets set off."

"But, we haven't spoken to each other for nine years, shouldn't we catch up a little?" Nyrra asked trying to keep pace with his hurried strides.

"If there's anything I don't want to talk about it's the last nine years"Leon said slowing down a little, and pulling a map out of his pack.

"Leon, please tell me what you've been doing the last nine years." Nyrra said with a pleading tone.

"I really shouldn't, If I did tell you, you'd wish I was dead." He said, trying not to look at her.

"Nothing you have done could make me want that, you're my brother, remember that. Besides it's not like you joined Enersafe or Merizon, and became obsessed with making yourself the strongest person, by killing your teammates and ruthlessly slaughtering innocents." Nyrra said. Leon froze in his tracks, not believing what he just heard.

"Thats exactly what I did Nyrra, heh... your imagination is incredible, but I was an Enforcer, Discharged now for killing teammates and civilians, I killed the man that saved me in his sleep because I couldn't stand the fact that he was stroger than me, heh heh, it's funny when I think about how much has changed within the last few days, I saved a person from imprisonment, found you, started second guessing myself..." Leon cut off because he was unable to continue, completely ashamed of himself.

"I don't care brother, you're alive that's all i need to know, that I'm not alone."Nyrra walked up to Leon and hugged him.

"Nyrra... you can forgive me? What I'm tecknically a monster, I've killed maybe fifty people, and you still are willing to...." He cut off agin.

" I already said I don't care what you've done in the past, and anyone can learn to forgive, you just need to forgive yourself."

It didn't take to long for Jubei to make it to the woods, if there was one thing he excelled at it was speed, eventually he found Leon and the woman who from the sounds of the conversation he had overheard was his sister.

After the two were done talking he stepped out from behind a tree and said.

"I hate to break up this heartwarming reunion but your brother and I have a few things to discuss"

he then turned to Leon and examined him for a moment.

"Your looking well for someone who single handedly faced the Downfall Trio"

"So you beat Tal, something the report neglected to mention, well then all the more reason for us to be speaking"

Jubei paused for a moment

"Theres a job going if your interested, I'm working in conjunction with the Enforcers to perform a raid on Merzion HQ and I need to put together my own unit, I personally think you would be a welcome addition and Merzion troops are a much better target for all that rage you have bottled up"

Jubei could see that Leon was between two minds on the matter

"The girl doesn't have to go all the way to Dyne on her own you know"

Jubei tossed a small pouch with a 1000gil in it.

"That would cover an Inn fee for about a week and you'll be back before then"

"All in good time I have a few questions of my own"

Not one for repetition Jubei would explain the objectives of the mission once and once only, so he would wait until both Cathrine and Leon were present, in the mean time he would find out what Blackheart had kept out of the tactical report.

"I'd like to hear your version of events with regards to the Downfall Trio, start from the begining"