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Elana blinked, she slowly let out a soft blabber as she looked at the figure in white. However, she did not understand what that figure means. What are the 'duties', and why won't this person allow her to meet her twin? Whining, she tugged Dragain, and urged her to go forward.

"Oh?" Dragain looked at Elana, and looked at the figure in front. Such a beautiful melody, but where was it coming from? Could it have come from the figure? Dragain wasn't sure, and as she walked towards the cloaked figure, she wondered if this is even the stationery store in Barton.

"Wa?" Elana asked, anxious to meet her brother, yet curious about the 'duties' this figure speak off. Dragain is now standing at an arm's length in front of the figure, and Elana tilted her head to one side while trying to make sence of it all.

The cloaked figures began to speak in unison, and both Tales would hear two distinctly differrent voices.

"You are different from those who emerged before you, and those who will emerge after you. You have been written not by hands outside of the Tome, but by those who are trapped within the Tome and the Study. You were written to save us.

"Those who came before you exists to gather essences, they are not aware of their duties. But you two are, for you two hold the key in freeing those who have been sealed away. Unlike those who came before you and those who will come after you, you are not to gather essences. Instead, you two are to draw the collected essences from them.

"They may not understand, and you are not to tell them until the time is right. You must hurry, time is running out."

Upon finishing, a blinding light flashed before Eight and Ayden, while a thick darkness fell upon Dragain and Elana. When both pairs will regain their sight, they will find themselves staring face to face with each other outside the Stationery Store.

Alright! This was getting too weird for Eight's tastes! The half demon gasped and quickly closed her eyes a moment too late to prevent herself from being temporarily blind. "That hurt!" She winced, putting her hand over her eyes to rub at them a little, completely unaware of the woman standing before her. "Just who do you think--" She'd opened her eyes to yell at the cloaked figure that'd blinded her, but instead a woman was standing in its place. "You...are..." Eight blinked a few times to clear her vision of the spots, making absolutely sure that what was in front of her was real. Wait...why was it so dark now? The girl took a step back and looked around, seeing Barton's fountain...and other buildings, and feeling the cool breeze of the night blowing against her. How'd they get outside?

Ayden's sight had also been blinded by the light, but he'd listened to every word the mysterious person had said. Draw the collected essences? What was an essence? He had no idea...but he didn't really care about these stupid duties right now! The most important thing was to find his twin! Ayden knew he was different, but so what? Where was she?!

When his sight returned he was met with a most pleasing greeting, his pale eyes widened the same size as Elana's, and he gasped. It was her! His sister! She was here! Right in front of him! Squirming desperately in Eight's arms, Ayden reached for Elana with both arms, flailing them around.

Eight blinked and stared down at Ayden, looking from him to whatever he was reaching for and smiling; so this was her? She was exactly like Ayden had helped her figure out! "So this is her? Great! I guess it was easier than I thought it'd be." She chirped, her tail fluffing up for a moment, she was still trying to get over that odd experience with the cloaked stranger. Her headwings folded back behind her head and she looked around again for any sign of him again. Yes, it was quite clear that she wasn't human.

Ayden was still stretching in Eight's grasp to try and grab at least one of Elana's outstretched hands, making grabby hands for his sister. Eight rolled her eyes and took a step closer to the other woman and the boy's sister, making his task easier on him.

Heart sat in the tv room of her apartment staring at the little boy in her arms. She didn't have much of a clue about him just what a strange black cloaked figure had told her only a few hours ago. From what she knew the boy had been sent to a woman named Eight but that she was the one meant to have it. It all seemed to confuse her but she knew this was right. The cloaked figure had told her where to find Dragain so they could further discuss things and Heart was right on it. Once she had her actions planned she stood up from the couch and ran through the alleys of the town following the directions she had written down on a small piece of paper clutched tightly in the fist that did not hold Ayden.

Heart saw a woman walking in the alleyway holding a baby, she quickly assumed that it must be them. "Dragain?" she questioned her voice seemed to echo slightly on the almost empty street.

Ayden looked up from Heart's shoulder which he had been resting on when he heard her speak for the 2nd time since the shadow had delivered him to her. She didn't do much talking he noticed, much different from the last woman he had been with. He turned his head around uncomfortably and saw his sister. He smiled and reached out his hands.

With the assurance that this was Dragain from Ayden reaching out his hands, Heart continued down the street quickly until she had caught up fully with Dragain and the baby she held.

Heart nodded her head slowly and smiled, "It's nice to meet you Dragain, I'm Heart. This is Ayden." Heart said before allowing Ayden to get closer to Elana cautiously because she didn't know how they would react together. "What about the child you have? What is her name?" Heart asked her.

Ayden ignored the chatter that they spoke and waved back to Elana. He bounced slightly on the hip that he was being half balanced on and looked at Heart impatiently. He reached out his hands as far as he could leaning practically his entire body over Heart's folded arms until she had gotten the point obviously and moved closer.

Heart set Ayden carefully down on the chair next to Elana and then sat down beside him. Heart nodded her head to the suggestion that they let the twins to themselves. Heart stroked Ayden's fine white hair once to let him know that she was still there and then stopped so she could talk with Dragain. "What is is that you would like to share?" Heart asked her, with a strong curiousity grabbing hold of her.

Ayden fluttered his black bat-like wings happily as Heart sat him down on the bench and he smiled as he looked at his twin. "Elana, finally!" He said in a language that only he and Elana would be able to understand, "I tried to give the ladies as much hints as I could but they can't understand us."

Heart nodded her head, "So that's what that strange book is. Yes, it's back at my apartment, I found it hard to carry the boy and the book at the same time so I figured it best for me to leave it there so I could hurry up over to here. I'm not very sure about any of this stuff. I don't know who they are or how he came into my keeping, or why I was even chosen to keep him." Heart spoke softly.

Ayden nodded his head, "Me too I had hoped we would though and we did!" Ayden spoke, "You saw the shadowed figure too then? I wasn't sure if it had only come to me, what did it say to you? It spoke to me of the Tome and saving "us" and a key of somesort, you think we have the key Elana?" Ayden asked as he searched through his blood red cloths for a key but he did not find one.