There's silence. Sion takes his wife away from the Dark Realm, back to his realm. The other gods leave quietly. Only Noras and Cina remain behind.
"I need to talk to Adira." Noras sighs. "Cina, stay here. You must focus on improving your health. We might need to create many seeker gates."
Cina gives him a nod, though his heart is heavy after seeing Rilyah's punishnt. For years, she's been his sister in na and he did think of her as his sister. He's concerned about Ai too. And then, Renasir and her daughter Renasir Ari has always been good to him.
"Go to the dark castle," Kresi says to Aren after Noras is gone. "Sothing might happen. You might be needed."
"What about you?" Aren frowns at her. "Are you going to stay here with God Cina?"
"He won't harm ." She smiles at Aren. "He has changed."
After Aren is gone, Kresi goes to Cina's side. He's still staring at the charred ground where Rilyah was sitting a while ago.
"How long does it take to make a key for the universal gate?"
Kresi's question jolt him awake from his thoughts. He studies her with a quiet gaze. From what Rilyah told him, she's the woman who killed his daughter, Belan. He questions her slowly, "Why do you want to know?"
"I have a little knowledge of gates." Kresi glances at the charred spot. "The universal gate is your best creation. However, I don't think that you understand your own creation, Cina."
Talking to him casually like this Cina shrugs. He has no energy to correct this woman's ways. "I don't want to discuss it with soone who killed my daughter."
"I used Ai's hands." Kresi lets out a laugh. "I don't think that you blad him after losing your mories. Now that I think about it, both you and Adira changed a lot after losing their mories."
"You have killed the previous Cina." He narrows his eyes on her. "Gods can't die, but they can lose themselves. The mories are"
He pauses for a mont. That fake god did say that it was possible to bring his mories back.
"Not impossible to bring them back." Kresi gives him a side-long glance. "It's not in my power, but the Renasir can do it. If she gets a grip on your true na then again, it's quite dangerous."
"It's always been." Cina looks up at the sky. "I am fine without my mories. I have a feeling that I might start disliking everyone if I receive my mories back."
"Maybe." Kresi turns her head toward the dark castle. "His mories should return by now. I don't understand why he's not rembering He has changed so much. When Ari appeared during the trial, he wouldn't look at anything but her. Now, he abandoned her in another world."
"He doesn't rember loving her." Cina says with a lancholic voice, "Renasir Ari didn't show it, but she was often thinking about him."
"How do you know?" She inquires curiously. "She might have hated him."
"The tree next to her window told ." Cina stares at her. "Why did you ask about the key of the universal gate?"
"There are two ways to summon Qeshaya: universal gate and the forbidden runes." Kresi raises her arm. "I used the forbidden runes. I was thinking if it's possible to turn the universal gate into a seeker gate or the gate to the world where Renasir is."
"Universal gates can't be converted into seeker gates." Cina shakes his head. "Seeker gates are created from a completely different formula. They can open the gates to any world at any ti. It ans that we can go back to the past if we want. But the laws of ti must be followed. That's why we couldn't find Renasir Ari until she had co to this world and returned to her world. If we had t her before her soul ca to this world, it would have caused instability."
It sounds plausible. The working of the gates has always been a mystery to her. Kresi bites her inner chin. "You and Rilyah went to the past using the seeker gate because you wanted to go to a ti when Renasir was alive. It makes sense that you weren't able to find her until her soul went back to her body. Why did Adira go that far back in ti? He didn't use a seeker gate."
"I don't understand that either." Cina creases his forehead. "Flow of ti could be different. Iravan's ti might be behind that world's ti. That world was strange anyway. There were too many interwoven worlds with that one. Small pocket dinsions were here and there. Gods hid among the humans and their powers were much different from us. Most of them needed to rely on the faith of humans. One god had many faces. The laws of that world were a headache."
Renasir disappeared during the true-naming and went back to her original body. She was pregnant when she returned. The soul might return to the body. That could happen. But how did the twins get transferred to another human body?
Unless soone did it.
And who is powerful enough to do that?
'Once, there was only one god.' Her mother's words co back to her. 'From its loneliness, ca the many worlds and many faces of the gods. Every creature is the face of that god. Every creature, whether its evil or good, follows a will of that god. These many faces have many wills. Thus, each true na is another na of that god.'
And who is powerful enough to Kresi looks at the dark castle. Is sothing blocking his mories?
"A seeker key might not fit in the universal gate." Cina scratches his chin. "But I know the na of that world now. I think that I can create a key that will lead us back to that world. But then, I can't say where we will arrive."
"Make the key to that world." Her work is finished here. The Dark God has co back with his daughter. If she's right, sothing is keeping the dark god from rembering and
Why would the dark god lose his mories in Qeshaya when she didn't? Cina received the most punishnt. Qeshaya affected both her and Adira. Nonetheless, it wasn't enough to wipe all the mories of Ari from his mind.
In any case, his mories should have returned by now.
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