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"...We're the only ones...just us and...Kayen." Red breathed.

"Who did this?" Quarrel asked the ones gathering around the fallen warrior.

"A moon child," One female replied.

"A moon child, she says," Quarrel informed. "'Moon' is also the word for 'white'."

"It was Kayen..." Aireio whispered.

"What did he do?" Denum looked horrified. "The city...everyone? He killed people?"

"He burned it to the ground!" Aireio cried. "That doesn't sound like Kayen... he wants to protect humans, not harm them..."

"She's right, he'd never do something like that!" Denum said- crawling over to the edge of the netting. "Someone's made a mistake!"

Quarrel spoke to the woman again, before she looked at them. "There were others there. Adults. A red haired man with a strange head item, a brown haired man with a strange hat, a black-haired man who could not speak, and a yellow haired man with strange things over his eyes."

"...The village people?" Red blinked.

"Those last two sound like Adamanti and Shotaro," LiSen commented.

"They do!" Aireio gasped. "Did they escape too?"

"Probably followed Kayen," LiSen hummed.

"What, they followed Kayen!?" Denum gaped. "Why would they...I mean..."

"Ouch." Red turned to Q. "This thing is really coming out bad and you guys don't really know what you're getting into."

"I don't make the choices," Quarrel informed, nodding to his father.

"But you can tell them...you were there...sorta." Red pleaded.

"I have to find Kayen and my dad." Denum said- starting to get up.

"I'm going w-" LiSen started, but winced as he tried to stand on his leg.

"None of you going anywhere," Quarrel's mom cut in. "Not risking Quarrel, his Wei-Mei, or his friends!"

"Assah!" Quarrel cried at her, frowning.

"It's true," She told him, firmly. "You will stay!"

"His way-what?" Red frowned.

"I have to!" Denum burst. "That's my family!"

"Your father safe," The woman holding the fallen solider said in extremely broken English. "He with Ryou."

"Ryou?" Aireio asked, helping LiSen to sit on some of the glowing rocks - which seemed to ease his pain for some reason.

"Ryou is who teaches us English," Quarrel's mother explained, gently. "He is a kind human. If your father is with him, Linlei, we will take you to him."

"Linlei?" Aireio asked.

"It means 'golden one'," Quarrel explained, watching as his mother motioned to some other Silvers and said a few things. He turned to his father. "Appah, what about Rathi?"

"I will have Kamariya gather up the others and bring them back." The man said before turning to his wife. "You will take them?"

"Kamariya will not like that," She hummed. "She will want to go rescue Rathi."

"You are not going to," Quarrel breathed, frowning. "For the same reason you never came to save me..."

"We will not kill humans," The woman told him, placing a hand on his head, before she headed toward the group.

"What's wrong?" Aireio asked, frowning at Quarrel's downcast eyes. "Q? What did your mother say?"