Causing ripples through the murky substances of the Elemental Pole of Oil, a thin, squid-like creature with a fin at its head propelled itself frantically through the fluids with two of its long tentacles. The other two tentacles were busy holding on to a large shard of crystal like the creature's life depended on it.<br/><br/>Finally, after nearly twenty-five years, he had found Kage, and Cathek certainly didn't intend to lose her again. She would go back to her beautiful dances and work for the Deliberative, and maybe they could even try picking up where they left off, the two of them. Mai was likely waiting anxiously at the bay and would be overjoyed to have her sister back, though she'd be lucky to pry even one of Cathek's fingers away with how tightly he was planning to hug their dear Solar.<br/><br/>The Oil Slick Herder finally neared the city of Loran, its trajectory pointed straight at the docking bay. Soon, they would be picked up and they could free Kage from her prison. He cursed the Sodalities for rejecting him: if they hadn't he may have the power to save her himself.