"Ahna, I couldn't agree more," Fendros said slowly and sincerely, taking in the warmth of the water. "That reminds me," Fendros' eyes awoke a little, "we don't have a name for it if it turns out to be a boy." Fendros shifted a little to address Ahnasha more directly, the water making small lapping sounds in response to his movements. "Did you have any ideas?"

Sabine shifted her hands to hold onto her opposite arms, as if she was trying to warm herself. "It's... she... it's... I don't want her to find any of us." Sabine slowly shook her head. Her words were becoming unsteady as her breathing became short and slightly strained. "She did terrible things..." Sabine stopped for an instant to breath in and it sounded constricted. It was a completely overwhelmed kind of upset, the kind expressed when one's best efforts are never enough. "she... she beat away my beast with her magic and... forcing it back..." a tear dropped from Sabine's nose where they were previously hidden by her bowed head. "She was trying to kill the beast, but she couldn't... each time... she would beat it harder and harder..." Sabine lifted her face to Meesei and revealed her completely reddened eyes and tensed face. Glistening tears streamed down her nose and now more were flowing directly down from her eyes. "Each time... the beast would come back... each time it would be angrier... but I would be trapped in a cage... trapped with the beast spirit... raging... no escape... if you tried to escape, she would hurt..." Sabine had told about as much as she could bear to with her words. She Brought her knees up to her chest and started crying into her arms quietly with the same constricted inhalation.