Evie was only silent for a moment. Her magical girl clothing was fully formed around her and the breeze blew the hair away from her eye. In that moment, she considered her life at home. Her trips in an out of seeing the psychiatrist, her mother always shaking her head when Evie told her her desire for change, her fathers nose turning up and telling her to be 'realistic.' The years at the academy, receiving her tome and learning her abilities... it had all been for everything and nothing. In this moment, Evie's eyes only sought the Jesters. It was not hesitation, not was it for fear.

That moment Evie took was her goodbye to all she had known.

She outstretched her own gloved hand and interlaced her fingers with the Jesters. "I have been ready for a long time." She smiled a small, trusting smile. Whatever lie ahead... She would be ready for.

~

Ace no longer looked to Yuki but to his Superior. He had heard all the explanations before, having been at the meetings with Jester and Sachiro. His own fate was resigned, nailed to what may become of the will of she. What dark future lay ahead for the knights he'd fought alongside for nearly 60 years now, Yggdrasil did not know. For what he did understand, he may have to fight against them for once. 

"Harbinger of Destruction, Ender of Universes..." Ace spoke quietly, his eyes turned from his knights and to the projection laid before them. "The Great Beast... ushers in an era of new." He looked to his Superior, his usually bright and relaxed eyes dulled by what was to come. "Is that not right, Mistress Sachiro?"