When Kyubi finally awoke and found herself on Illerion's lap, the young Elf groaning and complaining about her legs being dead, she sat upright and began sobbing again.
"Sorry Illerion, I don't remember falling asleep on you, I don't remember mu-"
"I need to apologise. I kind of went over there to give Tsukuyomi a piece of my mind for letting Ginrei talk to you like that, but he was pretty mad and had already stripped her of her blessings.
I didn't really know what to do, kinda weird seeing him that angry. Ishtar was mad too, things got pretty crazy, none of us ever thought we'd see Nergal and Ishtar work together."
Illerion treated the biggest lie she had ever said like girl-chat gossip, the crushing guilt of sending her dearest friend off to live a lie broke something inside of her she couldn't quite put a finger on.
"Why do I sense Lady Ishtar's blessing on you?"
"Oh, you won't believe it!..." She started.
'Please just go, Kyubi...' She thought as she did.
