[Hayame’s admission, that she can’t remember the reason she went to Achamoth, is Liem’s first experience with someone from Horos confessing to have lost something of themselves on their journey here. His brows furrow gently as she reaches for her chest, to the place where, on his own body, his own shard would reside. Is that where hers is, perhaps? And if so, did something happen to it?

But he doesn’t press about that just now, concerning though it is. His eyes swing slowly back up to her eye, still missing even after her rebirth here, in another world. A frown settles over his expression.]

I don’t remember anyone mentioning that, when I was released.

[Even if she had journeyed to Achamoth when he was still in confinement, he would have thought someone would have mentioned it. Most of his then-sect-mates seemed to have no familiarity with her at all. But he remembers there was a new demon present after he emerged from the Citadel’s dungeons—one who is now here in Horos, even. He can’t think of any others aside from the two who captured him in Venera.]

But there was another demon. Was he tall? Dark-haired and yellow-eyed?