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Enami flew intently towards the Castle of Light, her sketchbook tucked snugly under her arm and her sliver-white hair whipping in the wind behind her. She had a new plant in mind for the Royal Garden. Well, she thought to herself, just because the atmosphere everywhere else is gloomy, doesn't mean the Garden has to be. Her wings began to tire as she reached the Castle balcony, and as her feet touched the white marble floor she took off in a sprint down the corridor. "King Rael!" she bellowed. "King Rael? Commander Sabidan? Anyone?" Her pace slowed as she reached the large oak doors to the army base. She generally avoided this area at all costs, but she was sure she'd seen the Archangels, if only some of them, pass through these doors.
Enami pushed the doors open with a slight difficulty, and rushed past the troops, giving them a short salute as her hair shadowed highlights of dark grey, unnoticeable to the glancing eye. She continued pressing on in pursuit of her mission. There, on the horizon, she saw two bright flecks of light... could it be? Sure enough, she watched her King and his right hand man fly to the area of the portals, a venture her weary wings could not manage. "Oh, darn it," she muttered under her breath as she kicked at the ground. "Stupid slow wings... Why can't you be as fast and have as much endurance as the Archangels do?"

Em startled slightly, dropping her sketch pad and feather pen. She let out a small squeak, her hands moving to the ones covering her eyes. It took a moment for the familiar voice to register in her mind, and as she pieced the information together her hair flashed from grey to light blue, then settling at a mix of the two. "C-Captain Degial!" she stammered, removing his hands from her eyes and turning to him, blushing as their eyes meet and promptly looking down. Noticing that her hands were still holding his, she dropped them quickly, blushing an even deeper red, then clasping her hands together behind her back.
"I-I didn't expect to see you," she managed, still looking down. Why am I here....? What did I come here for again? She wracked her brain as to why she had gone in search for the Archangels. There must have been a good reason...
The metal clasp of her sketch book caught her eye, and her mission came rushing back to her. "Oh!" Em said, bending down to grab her book, then standing back up while clutching it at her bosom. "I have a new plant idea for the Royal Garden. Would you like to see?"

Em's crystal blue eyes brightened and a smile flashed across her face, her hair flashing a beautiful shade of blue-gray. "Wonderful!" She fumbled through her sketchbook clumsily, then stopped at a page smudged with pencil marks and fingerprints, with a well-drawn sketch in the middle of the page. The plant looked much like a lily, only with a vine-like stalk, and the middle had the look of a baseball chrysanthemum.
"It's not colored," she explained, "because I ran out of colored ink a few days ago on my rough drafts. But, what I'm thinking..." she shut her sketchbook and tucked it under her arm, then made a rolling motion with her hands in front of her, as if she was making a ball of air. The very flower appeared, only in brilliant colors. The lily-like petals were splashed with orange and yellow, and the middle shifted from green, to blue, to all the colors of the rainbow.
"See, I got the idea from my hair. It changes color corresponding to my mood, and so will the middle of the flower. Only, the beautiful part about this gorgeous little thing is..." At that moment, the flower began to expel a beautiful song, light and playful, and the center fixed on the color red. "It sings."

She stared at the beautiful flower intently, almost in a trance. As he said the words, her eyes trailed slowly to his, letting them sink in. "M-me..? Help you?" she said softly, influenced by the softness of his voice to not break the peaceful ambiance that was so rare these days. "H-how could I possibly do that? All I do is make plants. Beautiful plants, and sometimes useful plants, but they are just that. I am too soft, too...." She sighed, dropping her hands and letting the flower disappear. Too insignificant, she thought, looking to the ground, her hair fading back to grey.

"Continue trianing men." Rachdarmos walked into his quarters and sat at his desk. He opened the drawer and took out a picture. It was of his days when he was human. Or rather lived among the humans. He was of course an angel and a greater one at that. But he was sent out long ago to scout the land of the humans in which he was to be hidden. He had found a family in that time. But as was they had to be killed so as not to form to many bonds. "Huh what am I doing. They would've died in the purge anyway." He put the picture back in the desk and wondered about lord Sabidan and his feelings towards the humans. Could there be a friend for Rachdarmos in the Archangel?

With a brilliant smile, Degial pulled Enami up, letting the power of his wings stir them both towards the portal. A great and smooth wind passed them, helping them along towards the Earth. Guided by the faith of mind that Degial knew best, they went through the portal and into the land of humanity.

As they emerged into the other side, Degial looked around, instantly seeing the potential of the area and ignoring the barrenness. Degial stepped away from the portal, dropping Enami's hand. "It has potential, no?"

((Mmhmm biggrin , I just posted in the Celestial Base thread))

"Why do I feel that something has gone terribly wrong." Rachdarmos ran out of Sarra. He went into the portal that led to the Regiment base Garthora.