Of course she remembers! The grin that breaks out when she sees your face tells you that much. If anything, seeing you here is a relief and you don't need to ask her twice before she's running at the mud-spirit, scabbard drawn.

[i]I really need to get a new sword at some point.[/i]

Still, the scabbard will do. It worked on Machi and she was way bigger than this thing. Or, at least, much more solid, muscular, taller and [i]okay, this is not the time.[/i]

She starts swinging, strong arms and the work at hand drowning out intrusive thoughts. For now, she focuses on skillfully batting away at section of the spirit's belly while ignoring its scandalised roar. Complain all you want about rights, Spirit, but a Knight is involved now and it's her duty to protect the weak, to help those who ask for it. Whereas you, my dear turbid friend, are holding someone helpless against their will.

Some things just get alot clearer when you're swinging a sword.

"It's good to ... [i]umf[/i] ... see you ... [i]umf [/i]... Fengye!" she says, between strikes. "I'd hoped ... you'd gotten away ... when I didn't see you ... in Hell ... after Kingeater ... got sucked through."

Suddenly, one chunk of the monster is splatted away, revealing a pale hand sticking from the muck. Kalaya ducks under a brown arm as it swings for her before reaching in.

"Do you still have that ghost horse?" she finishes, as she fishes for the Maid.

As for you Fengye - look at what you've unleashed with your request! The way she moves, the way she ducks and fights on your behalf? Does that pull at you? That this woman will face monsters for you without the need for spells or chains of binding.

Does that count for anything?

[Rolling to defy disaster, putting herself in the line of fight on behalf of Fengye. 2 + 3 + 2 = [b]7[/b] - Gallant Rescue is at play here, granting a string on Fengye.]