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*Like any good interigation, things always took time, but Xol was racing a clock so to speak, and Thanatos was the ticker. Just like the first time when Sho had arrived, now Thanatos was here and doing the same thing, trying to take Nana back. Before this was all over, perhaps he would and end this senseless kidnapping, the basis of which was a speculation that Mastema had a deal with heaven, and Nana was some sort of middle man for them working out of the citadel*

Nnn...... I'm sorry. I'm-- too weak... Nnn... Before-- Before.... Ahh--! Who?

*Nana was still trying to fight, she wanted to know who was holding her captive, somewhere in her lesser concious mind she was trying to press through the drugs. If ever Nana was drunk, the analysis would be that she was a shy drunk, the kind easily manipulated. Thankfully Mastema had more sense than Xol to make Nana enter a drunken state, Another pair of arched energy flows over her, followed shortly by two more. They were becoming more frequent; more things break in the background. Xol was close enough that he might get hit by one of the arches, if heh was too close, he'd probably start to bleed a bit and that wouldn't make him very pleased at all. Xol should be thankful that Nana couldn't feel Gabriel's presense right now, or she really would be a handful*

*Than blinked and he found himself in a new place. Had the attempt actually worked?* o.x Nng... this better be the place *Than instantly ran towards the large cube, knowing there would be no entrance with Xol's security. Maybe now, so close yet so far from Xol, the man would hear Than and realize just how close the boy was getting* Xol! I will not stand by and let you hurt an innocent of any kind. *Than was through looking for another way in. Once at the wall to the keep, Than immediately started using his left arm to etch in another symbol. Than had to work fast, before the drugs wore off*

*Nana would never remember that day, just like the other five seperate occassions before it, the sixth time was no different. It was a secret built into the female witness' programming, and happend only once every five hundred years in a cycle. For one day at random something special would happen, but unfortnately the witness would never remember, that's just how it was to be. In a way it was sabitage, it ruined the entire experiment that heaven was preforming but only one person knew, but whether that person was alive or dead who could say. It had been three thousand years afterall, and things change, people disappear*

Nnn... yes. Yes. Nn.... four.

*Four? When Xol asked the question, Nana must have been including Thanatos into the count. Stepson through marraige, but a child now also in her family. The boy was dear to her, and the older sibling of his new younger three. As for the arcs and the chips missing from the guantlet, Xol would find out if he injured Nana any further no doubt. Now that he was being more passive, the arcs seemed to have stopped*

*Than saw the beam cannons appear nad blinked* Kuso! Drunkard Shade! *Shouting the name of his basic shadowing technique, Than draws upon even more power. He could handle the strain now.... but such exertions were going to have serious effects soon. Than had suffered tremendous injuries and overexertions from the seven hells temple, Hathus, and now Xol's keep. *The shadow cacoon would envelope Than, temporarily shielding him from the oncoming barrage. Just a little longer and Than could complete his goal of blowing open the keep, hopefully. By now, even Xol should be able to feel just how unstable the energy in Than's left hand was, and his personal aura was heavily concentrated in the area in front of him. With Nana's latest answer, Xol would understand why Than was so desperately trying to get Nana back*

....Fallen Witness.

*It was only two words, but was it a reply or more babble? Xol would probably find out if he asked kindly what she meant by "witness". Experimental Nana was indeed, but to counter Lucifer, Xol was so very far off. Nana only had been taught basic hand to hand combat, but nothing more, her kind was never meant to fight afterall. So "pathetic"? In terms of battle ability yes, in terms of agressiveness yes, but those weren't values Nana held to be imortant about herself and so they were never developed. Nana was a gentle spirit, disliked fighting, disliked pain being inflicted on herself and others, loved children, loved those around her, loved her friends and family holding them close. Xol could only see a failed war experiment, he didn't know what she really was and that wasn't all to spectacular, but he'd find that out for himself if the proper questions were asked*

..........son.

*But wife, Mastema's wife? That sort of information opened new doors of questioning and possible torment for her. What kind of person was it that Mastema had really married? What kind of monster might this woman be, to be able to stomach the evil that only Mastema could produce? The uttered word "Fallen", meant that Nana wasn't with heaven, but that she had left it, so why did she still look so damned heavenly? It seemed a controdiction to the term. If only Nana could have used the teleportation device, but it was removed when her robes were, along with several other items on or hidden within the robe. It was sort of funny, no one had ever noticed Nana's wedding ring no matter how many times they had met her. They could be staring right at it and still it wouldn't register, how illusive*