An Abbysal Abscond

[Amaterasu]

The questions about Hero Teucer and the Graveyard were quickly forgotten when the disease-ridden hulk brought Fiara's name up. Amaterasu presumed the worst on the spot, and though she did not unhook her Prayer Beads from her waist she had placed her hands in a stance that would allow her to draw them at a moment's notice, if what Okor said did not please her. The breeze she had conjured blew harder for a moment then vanished entirely, and she glared up at the black holes where she could only presume the Plague Marine's eyes to be as she awaited his response. Never mind the whole "prayer" thing, from what she'd seen her powers here were laughable compared to what to they had been in Nippon, she could not hope to hear the prayers of someone who was that far away.

Godde-? oh right, that was what western people referred to a kami as. Had Okor not stepped back and eased the tension in his body she may have sent one of the jewels through his helmet right then and there. Only her curiosity and his appearant lack of intention to harm her as well were keeping her at bay, at the time, at least until Okor proceeded with his explanations.

"The Abyss, you say?!" She reached into a pocket of her dress and produced a slightly battered mobile dataverse device, which she held out to Okor upside-down, unaware of her error. "I've seen her on there, for brief moments at a time. You think I LET her go there?! You think I even KNEW she was going there until it was too late?!" She stuffed the item back into the folds of her dress. "I went searching for entry points, for portals but everything was gone when I arrived! Whatever this place is, it's no place for Fiara, let alone- wait." Something clicked in her mind. She gazed at Okor with narrowed eyes, though the hulk stood unmoved and unimpressed at the calmed, but still ever present flames in the Sun Goddess's eyes. "She fell, you said? That you didn't kill her? You mean that she... was killed?"

When he did not reply, Amaterasu's eyes widened. "Oh no. No no no no no!" She pulled the device back up and mashed the touchscreen with her hand, completely forgetting about that the Plague Marine was still right before her. She pulled up the website of Dante's Abyss and clumsily swiped to scroll until she found the death list, which in turn she pulled up with more touchscreen-mashing. And even though the phoenician alphabet was still a tough read for her, she knew what the letters "Fiara" looked like and rapidly made the name out among numerous others. When she looked back up at Okor, big tears had formed in the corners of her eyes.


"I'll bring her back... I mean, I can do that in this place, right?" She knew that much by now, she understood the relationship between Primes and Secondaries. But she only knew Fiara from before her time in the Omniverse! How could she restore her with her memories, even leaving out those of Dante's Abyss, if she didn't know of what had happened to her? Her mind raced and she just spat out the first thing she could think of. "Did she leave anything behind? Written notes or something?"