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All I know is that I want to stay with you..... You... help me feel better in my head and I want to protect that.I never knew my family... only Shogu.""

Placing the pack down on the bed he looked up at her in faint surprise and then look thoughtful. " I...." he stopped and his wings lowered slightly as his mind moved to the pictures still in his pocket. That was the past she was still intrinsically woven with it. "It is not really me.." he muttered quietly. "It is you as well " he smiled very faintly until she jumped to the other topic they were discussing and slowly the smile faded.

Ree meet her gaze and narrowed his eyes at her shout but didn't respond in kind. He wasn't going to change her view of Tri and Mara and he couldn't see where she was coming from so he just let it drop. As long as they moved out of the area before either of them came they would be fine....if they even came. Hexxis...now he could talk about her, rant about her with the information Ashral was giving him.

"The excuse she gave us was that she felt something wrong and didn't know what could push it over. So we couldn't ask questions but she gave us some vauge story about wolves and cats. On the other hand, she was here sleeping with mercs, getting a merc license, taking dangerous missions. I don't know she seems like she was perfectly content here as long as she didn't have us or you there. " his voice started out calm then turned bitter as he talked. He had hope she could bring Tri out of his shell.. replace the child he wasn't any more. She did quite well, down to the stupid run away teen and assuming she knew better. Now he was here basically not wanting to do the same but being forced to unless he wanted one side to attack the other.

"It's not relevant any more but it still makes me furious. You must have had it worse actually being in her head. I feel like I should feel sorry or even guilty... but I just feel anger and apathy when I have to think about her. Add with what you said she was doing.... " he just shook his head, feather bristling.

"If you want to rant or tear into her... feel free any time" he continued on bitterly, remembering the moment in the hotel before Tri had appeared, everything had been fine until that moment then it tore apart. She seemed to have taken his words to heart but she didn't keep the loyalty he thought she would, especially to Tri.

Tri...the difference between them. He always had respect for Tri, wanted to be a little like him, a little like Mara but at the end was Ashral right about the differences between them? Did he blind himself? he had to think about that

"I cam back because you were...honorable. During the few times we talked,the fact you changed the deal and kept to it,the time in the clearing when you had no collar. " he waved his hand in the direction of aldas. " and that you want to protect me. I kind of want to be able to be someone you can lean on as well. A friend. but not one who wouldn't at least try to stop you when you over stepped " his mind going back to an old memory, just a few months old, of talking to a blind meta at Sanctuary and her connection to the renegades.

"I understand" he nodded slightly, remember what she told him and knowing it was more for her brother, her real brother. The explanation made him frown "He was corrupted by the souls he took? " the thought of it made him think back to the glowy figures he saw in the lower level of Norcrest SIU base...where those spirits? and someone could capture them?. "So...he might be a malice" he said quietly and sighed.

"Lets go see your brother... then we have to wait a week. Want to take one of the boats to the nearest island? I am not familiar with this area...so we could look around I guess then come back before the meeting" he muttered trying to get back some of the energy he got from looking at new places but felt the lack.

Keep running... That didn't sit well with him at all. Except he didn't know what else to do, at least Anadii was safe with Kai and Tri would likely assume he was hiding when his phone was just dead. He wasn't running nor hiding but he was wasn't he.

"It's a pity...you and Hexxis seemed to have almost been working together back at that house. It might have helped you both if she hadn't been a pain in the neck" he muttered and sighed "Something wrong? If I had to guess...since this is Haven and they managed to put in Commands. Hm I would say yes, but it was Tri and Anadii who unlocked Hexxis breakdown protocol file, I didn't see it. Tri didn't exactly mention you. Not sure if it is because it isn't there or he was hiding it" he frowned faintly looking thoughtful, but what ever chance they had just digitized himself away and he needed time to get his phone working and then who knows. "We will work on it. As soon as we find some where a bite more stable" //and isolated// he thought taking a quick look around.

"Write the quick letter you want to leave him" he muttered grabbing the hotel note pad and passing it over to her. "We can leave it then wait until the coast is clear." knowing Mara will assume they will go to the island or head back to Belrad. It still gave them some ti-...wait a week? Shadows and ghosts.... huh they might meet her brother sooner then that. At least he now had an idea who to look out for.

"Soul in the swords? " he muttered quietly moving the conversation back to what she had been talking before. Trying to figure out anything else he should know. "You heard them? what did they say? " faintly curious and also concerned. She she actually hear them or did she just hear voices that were mostly in her mind?.

"As for putting soul in swords..I would consider that bad...very bad" he smirked faintly, not even sure that was possible. Then again he barely believed in spirits until he summoned that cat thing. "I think it is how they classify things? A mane is mostly good and tries to protect the host while a malice tries to hurt the host. I think the main difference is their personality. " he ruffled his wings." If a mane started hurting the host I guess that would turn it into a malice and visa versa. Plus manes are less incline to hurt others who are not hurting their host " he looked thoughtful then shrugged.

"If that is the only way to classify them...I think they are just spirits and are classified on how they interact. Truth be told I didn't even think what Spectrum said was true until well... you" he muttered putting the back up and mentally kicking himself because he forgot to take out Anadii's clothes and give it to him. "You're also before the great war...I think? So many people who died of any race. If metas can host a spirit and they can return as you are, it makes me wonder if you're not part meta as well. Or if we were created just to host you " which made him wonder about those metas who didn't have a mane or malice in the first place. "Perfect question for Kae......she would likely shrug" he sighed.

Okay pass by that other city, do a little er.. "shopping" because it was doubtful that his tricks will work if the place they head to are full true race ghosts. Ghosts... spirits.. hahahahaha. Hi...i'm a Shadow and didn't think spirits existed. "The voices... what do you think the difference between a body less spirit and a True Race Ghost is? just a body?" he looked thoughtful and shrugged, not really expecting and answer just ..wondering.

"....at least I know not to flare my aura in greetings now" he muttered softly to himself and opened the door to wait outside. Up side of this...if it was a true race place then less worry of humans and their warrant.

"Maybe... maybe not. A lot of your commands seem to be meant for battle. " he closed his eyes for a moment thinking back, wishing he has his la- oh wait he did. He just couldn't go and look into it right now, assuming Tri or Anadii didn't erase it.

"I wonder... if they tried to make you like Hexxis." he looked thoughtful as he closed the door behind her. " If they didn't somehow succeed. You have a hard time remembering things... I don't know if that is normal or if it might not be Haven's interference. Same for Tri... you don't know why you hate him. Well you call him a coward but you don't react the same to those who are ... maybe he is similar to some target you had to go after before? Or I am just scaring you with possibilities" he sighed, talking to the one afflicted about possibilities really wasn't the best of move. He seemed to be doing that often lately.

"Tri and Anadii know...considering we scared one off and the other one won't be happy to talk to me about it. " he sighed. "We will have to talk to Anadii...I have to talk to Anadii" he amended with another sigh, if Anadii was even willing to talk to him.

"I will have to see... later " he muttered before moving back on the topic of spirits as he stayed by her, leading the way to the edge of the town as he took in a deep breath of the foggy sea air again. He kind of liked it even with its haunted atmosphere.

"Maybe ...you turned into a Mane once the deal was taken up? Spectrum really is the place the does most investigation on them..I can only guess" he warned. "or you straddled the line... or Haven messed up a mane enough to be almost a Malice. I can do assumptions all day ..and sadly be unable to prove anything. I guess the only thing I can say is what I believe to be true. Taking off the classifications if ..you have a spirit trapped in a body." he held up both hands as if each one was an example of what he was talking about.

"Now they need energy to get out and they can get it passively I think..or through pain. The way the spirit chooses to get energy is how they are classified, so what prevents one spirit from switching between them depending their host and environment? If I were stuck in the body of someone I dislike I wouldn't be surprised if I turned into a malice just to get the heck out. Or visa versa. If spirit are people who used to be alive... they still have their own will right?..you do " he smiled very faintly as if the talk was helping him avoid other thoughts.

"So... I think that the classifications is just that classification. Makes it easier on others...but if malice and manes are spirits...and your family put spirits in swords. Were the swords magic? did they use the magic of the person or what did a soul do to the sword. The part I think is bad ...would be ..well. You were stuck in Hexxis... at some point she wouldn't let you leave and warn us which would have been helpful. A soul in a sword...wouldn't even have that mobility. Would they even sense what is outside the sword or would they just be trap within it? " a slight shiver ran through him as he actually tried to imagine that.

He trailed off as she mentioned the aura and he stopped talking only to stare at her and blush slightly. "........ Uh... maybe. ... it's stupid. " he muttered looking away as they stopped at the edge of the town. "Flying...are you ready?"