Jade shifted slightly as the woman came from the shadows her eyes seemed wide for a moment till it vanished without a trace. Jade realized she had held her breath for a moment and quickly set it free.Jade massaged the back of her head at the woman’s question.<br/><br/>“Well at first it’s what I thought you were but you are clearly something else, no offense of course” She said a pink hue on her cheeks in embarrassment. The moment had replayed in her mind the icy feel in the air next to her when the women appeared. It had stunned Jade to no end and the question’s rolled in her head back and forth like a sharp pendulum awaiting to come down upon her.<br/><br/>But breaking Jade’s thought’s a deafening cry filled her years, the woman was in pain her hands grabbing at her head as if something was clawing inside her head. But ever so slowly she seemed to calm as if her sudden madness had crawled back into the shadows. Jade kneeled next to the woman obvious anxiously watching the woman with concern.<br/><br/>A sigh escaped her lips as her expression began to relax “For now yes, you kept them from experiencing something so deadly and horrible. Not just for fear of death but to see their beloved Ifrit made into something he is not.” the sadness clear on Jade’s face. She felt remorse and pain for having to take down Ifrit. But knew in the back her mind it was no longer the Ifrit or the crusader they once loved and treasured. A lone tear escaped down her right eye where she quickly caught it and wiped it away.<br/><br/>“Please tell me your name? I am Jade by the way. Let’s get you on board and patched up before the other’s come back. And we can hurry back to Besaid so I can speak to my parent’s” she said fiddling nervously with her fingers.<br/><br/>Meanwhile back in Kilika Village…<br/><br/>“Dammit Edward what the hell did you do to yourself? You look like you got thrown around by some Lupine or something” said Marcus one of the member’s of the new Gull Wing group. Edward sighed as looked at the cieling.<br/><br/>“It couldn’t be helped” he merely said keeping the knowledge of Ifrit to himself. He wasn’t sure whathe should say. He knew Jade would want to go back home and tell her parent’s they would know something. Or at least he hopped they did.<br/><br/>Marcus rubbed ointment into Edward’s wound, Edward’s eyes shot open from the pain. “Gah, Marcus easy with that stuff. Are you trying to send me to the Fareplane?” he said as he gently rubbed his side trying to ease the pain.<br/><br/>“No trying to hurry you along we need to report in and well I am curious why you and Jade are being so quiet”  MArcus said his arms across his chest as he waited for the answers.<br/><br/>“Sorry not my place, Jade is the one you're gonna have to get it from. But I guess we should gather the other’s and head home, so stop complaining and give me a hand.<br/><br/>Marcus sighed as he laid out his hand for Edward to grab and help the gimp back to the ship.