Susan shook her head with a frown of thought and reached up to rub her chin.<span style="color: #ffa64d">"this isn't memory blocks, she has none of those symptoms."</span>Order slowly looked at Empress and shook her head.<span style="color: #ffff00">"Animus. access monitor in sector five-three-seven, planet five of the system."</span>she picked up the tablet that Machinist had given her earlier and placed her hand on it entering an access code several million digits long so fast Empress couldn't track it before access was granted and she waved one hand a tiny image of a hijacked monitor appearing in Seraphim form.<span style="color: #ffff99">"Mistress Order. why have i been awoken? oh, my maker. greetings madam."</span>the image bowed slightly but Machinist would have no access.<span style="color: #ffff00">"access file Pandemonium, playback warning."</span><span style="color: #ffff99">"at once, Mistress Order."</span>there was a slight delay before Order's voice came from the image.<span style="color: #ffff00">"if you are hearing this message then you have risked tampering with the seals i have placed within myself to prevent disaster. you must not proceed. Pandemonium must not be allowed to return. the Counsel finally met an Eternal they could not control or kill. how they returned me to my natural state is unknown to me but i do know that they were frightened... it gave me great pleasure to see them shake in fear while they closed down the mutation experiments and erase all data save this file. embedded in this message is a signal to render me unconscious in case the recovery protocols need to be accessed and used."</span>Order was indeed asleep between them now while the image resumed its normal voice.<span style="color: #ffff99">"it appears that the recovery protocols are not needed. the Counsel will have been alerted that this file has been accessed. do you wish to access any further information?"</span>Susan frowned at the Monitor and then looked at Empress and Justice.<br/><br/>Elune chuckled quietly and slowly took the child from Sahra. Muse's words knocked the smile from her face and she sighed softly.<span style="color: #5900b3"> "must we go through this again? i have watched millions of Elves and their descendants die and it breaks my heart. two of my true children have been brutally murdered. why can no one understand why this makes me unwilling to have more children? you are not immortal, you are as long lived as i can make you but there is a vast difference between the two. talking about having more children makes me want to swear off sex permanently and it is so far from turning me on that i have to fight not to cry. i didn't want to have these children but i could not bring myself to kill them... so if you are to ever have children it will be with someone else, otherwise you will have to find another mate entirely. either way i never want to have this conversation again, i am stressed enough thinking of trying to keep these two from being murdered like their older siblings. yes, not that i am no longer caring for Sahra's comatose body we will be able to get back to having sex, i have missed your touch and hers" </span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>