Kragdon

PART 8: Fire Eyes

It had been two and a half hours since Faith had disappeared into her personal washroom. The only noise that could be heard was the running and draining of water. When Faith come out in her robe both Selena and Sar'ah immediately stood up, moving to her to see how she was. Faith didn't say anything, she allowed them to fawn and take care of her. She was deep in her mind, the events that had happened playing through her head as if she were watching a movie. It just didn't feel real to her. It was like everything from the time she met Dawn, their time together, to the massacre, to her body disappearing, was just a dream that she needed to wake up from. That the blood that took two hours to scrub off her body wasn't real, the screams of those she killed just figments of her imagination. At least that is what she was trying to convince herself of.

Selena and Sar'ah were starting to get worried, as they were dressing her and brushing her hair, Faith hadn't moved a single muscle, she just starred off into space. Selena knelt down in front of Faith and looked into her dark chocolate eyes that were usually full of fire and passion. What she saw made her gasp in shock 'cause what she saw in Faith's eyes was nothing but ice. It made her look all the more dangerous and frightening. You see, Faith could stand in one place looking perfectly calm and relaxed but if one looked in her eyes they would see a fire burning in her so bright that the power of it would make the gods themselves take a few steps back. But what Selena saw made her want to cower back and hide, there was no fire in those once beautiful eyes, it was just ice, pure ice. Gathering the courage and strength not to run, Selena tried to get her to look at her. Failing to get her attention Selena used the connection that she and Faith shared with each other alone. She searched though Faith's thoughts and memories and found exactly what she needed to bring Faith back to them.

Pulling back from what Faith had once called a mind meld; Selena looked first to her lover and then back to Faith. Using the picture that she had found Selena yelled "Faith!" both internally and externally, just loud enough to break through her thoughts and to bring her back.

Faith jumped about half a foot coming out of the thoughts that were starting to take her back to the time when she was lost. Looking at Selena she saw relief fill her friend eyes. It was then that she remembered that this wasn't a dream and that Dawn was really gone. As she came to this realization tears sprang to her eyes, though she tried to stop them. Now Faith was not a crier, as a matter of fact it took a lot to make Faith cry. Faith didn't even cry when Buffy stabbed her, even though she was dying on the inside that she had forced her angel to stoop to her level, but this, this just hit her like a ton of bricks. As a matter of fact the last time that she had cried was when she remembered the nightmare of staking her little sisters'. Just like that same night, Faith couldn't have stopped these tears even if she wanted to.

Faith looked at her friends and cried even harder the sobs shaking her body. Selena and Sar'ah both enveloped her in a hug and held her as she cried, tears streaming down their faces as well as they remembered the waif ling that had like family to them all. When they calmed down a bit, they wiped there tears from there eyes, sniffled a bit and then stood up when they were ready to go to the observation tower to see what the monks had found out. Though Faith had a pretty good idea as to where Dawn was sent, she still wanted to be sure. Not a word was said as they one by one left the room.

Quietly moving down the hall and out into the courtyard to the observation tower, the grass crushing and bending beneath their feet. Birds in the trees chirping and calling to them singing and talking to each other. The sun was high in the sky not a cloud in the sky, a slight breeze blowing through the trees; it was a beautiful day, if that is they paid any mind to it.

Arriving at the tower, Faith stopped at the door pausing for just a brief instant, thinking about what she would do if her suspicions were confirmed. She knew that if they were that she would have to do something that she really didn't want to. She really, really didn't want to face B again, especially now. Faith wasn't too sure how B would react but she knew that she would go regardless.

"Faith?" Selena questioned, placing a hand on her shoulder.

"I'm fine."

"You sure?" Sar'ah asked.

"Yeah, I'm good." Faith said before she pushed the door open and entered.

Moving up the stairwell the three girls could hear arguing above them. The voices were muffled though so they couldn't hear what was being said but whatever it was it sounded serious. Reaching the top of the landing, the door to the monks’ room was slightly ajar. They could see Marcus and another monk pacing, while one was sitting in a chair at the desk going over papers and jotting down notes while another one was sitting near the window surrounded by books, flipping every once and awhile a few pages in one of the tomes that was near him.

"It's impossible, there is just no way." Marcus was saying as he paced, looking at
the monk at the table.

"He's right, John you have to be wrong. Maybe you miscalculated or something there can be no possible way that happened," said the monk who was pacing with Marcus.

"There is no miss calculation!" John yelled, standing from his seat at the desk, "I have done them over and over again, there is no mistake, she is in that world and because of what those fools did she is stuck."

"Where?" came a question at the door.

All four stopped what they were doing and looked at Faith in the doorway waiting for the answer that she was dreading. They looked at her and then looked at each other, not sure how to answer their queen. They could see the flame in her eyes as it brightened then dimmed somewhat. Sar'ah and Selena stood to the side of Faith also waiting for there answer.

John was the first to speak bowing to his queen as he answered, "My lady, do to some very unfortunate circumstances, it seems that men much like ourselves has taken your sister's essence and molded it with something that is older then chronos himself..." looking up John could see his queens eyes brighten as she started getting frustrated, praying that nothing happened to him he moved lower and finished what he was saying with a slight tremor to his voice, "They were fools who didn't know what they were doing, they molded her with The Key; a energy that can unlock all dimensions, they made it flesh to hide it from a god."

"Soooo... where is my sister?" faith said looking now to Marcus and Luke the monk that had been pacing with him. It was Luke who answered.

"Ummm... we believe she is in Cairsa, at the Cyrnal de Pyradom." his eyes down to the floor as he answered, to afraid to look up.

Faith just starred at them, thinking about what she was being told. She had thought it, even suspected it, but never in her wildest dreams did she want it to be true. Instead of the anger that they were expecting, that she was expecting, Faith was extremely calm. Accepting it at face value. Her eyes held no fire or rage, though the same couldn't be said for Selena and Sar'ah.

"WHAT!" they both yelled at the same time.

All the monks taking a step back as they heard the two women yell, though they thought that Faith would be the one that would yell. It turned out that the two women who were with her seemed to be the more vocal as they went into a rant about how much danger Dawn is in and that they had to get her back. Faith who had been starring at the floor going through her thoughts looked up at the mention of getting her sister back. When she saw all four men flinch at this she knew before she spoke.

"She can't come back." Faith said with certainty. All six looked at her, Selena and Sar'ah with shock in there eyes and there mouths hanging open, while the men just nodded there heads.

"Alright. Then if she can’t come back we'll go to her." Faith said with certainty, looking at the people in the room with her starring into each and every one of there eyes as she said it again when she saw the uncertainty in there eyes.

"She's not a were anymore right?" she asked the monks, at seeing there head shake, she continued, "Here's how it is, we are going to go to Cairsa, there we go to Cyrnal de Pyradom. Questions. Comments. No. Good, now find me a portal so that I can go back to hell alright. good." With that she turned and left the room. Hearing the start of protesting from the monks as they followed her, Faith just yelled back to them as she reached the bottom of the stairs and was walking out the door determinedly back to the castle, "If you can't find one, make one."