'Tai enjoyed the feel of Eleyna's body against his in the brief hug, mrring.  After, he noticed the Scyther collapsing to the ground. He slithered over to support the fighting bug type.<br/>Of course, that also gave him a good vantage to look without looking like he's looking, at Eleyna as she bent over, and at Lydia as she came up out of the water. The two of them were so different from his Naomi, but that just made them interesting!<br/><br/>They didn't seem to notice the amulets he'd snuck into the piles of clothing. So much the better!<br/><br/>He followed the two of them, churring and looking satisfied.<br/><br/>*****<br/><br/>Naomi was awestruck. That was the only word for it. Held silent by the great being's approach, remembered sorrow at the Suicune's death.<br/><br/>The great kami's words resonated within her, thoughts not racing, but pieces of a puzzle falling into place. Click, click, click, a greater picture being revealed.<br/>She knew the great being held no malice towards them, just as winter holds no malice for the starving or a forest fire holds no malice for the burned, but there was contempt, and everything it implied in just those few words.<br/><br/>The balance of forces that had kept these isles stable, quiet, a paradise, disrupted. Something wanting it disrupted, using... Borealis... as both weapon and sacrificial victim, to drive humans from Yugen.<br/>And like a domino chain, setting in motion the other three.<br/><br/>They were drawn to each other afterwards, those who'd left Saisho together. Naomi looked as if she wanted to offer hugs.<br/><br/>'Tai took her up on that, wrapping himself around her and nuzzling between her breasts.<br/><br/><span style="color: #6495ED">"Ah. That. That was. Unexpected. And it, it explains a lot. Borealis, she was being driven, chained, by someone else's will. She was, she was being used as weapon and as sacrifice. Without her, the balance is disrupted... and all to drive people, humans, from the islands."</span><br/><br/>She paused, thinking.<span style="color: #6495ED">"I am guessing. Some human activity, someone somewhere, did something they should not have done. Intruded carelessly into a sacred space, maybe appropriated something they should not have touched."</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>