Chapter 10

What Remains

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Hakase Residence

Are you ready for this?

No...

I don’t even remember...

She was right there...

and I don’t remember.

A short time later.

I'm sorry mom...

I’ll be outside if you need me.

My tunic...

You’re still awake?

I could ask you the same.

The night Kaze returned home from the Wind Temple.

I was out with Selene.

Mm.

Don’t start.

I said nothing.

You were about to.

I was thinking it.

Come here.

I have something for you.

What is it?

For me?

I finished it while you were away.

You made this?

Every stitch.

Another year at the Wind Temple...

I thought that deserved something special.

It’s...

incredible.

You’ve grown so much since you first left for the temple.

I wanted to make something for the young man who came home.

Thanks, Mom.

I’ll wear it well.

I know you will.

I’ll carry you with me.

Kaze...

I'm ready.

They’ll return to Caelion.

They’ll make reports.

Hold councils.

Decide what my mother’s life is worth.

Kaze—

I can’t stay here and wait for that.

I can’t sit in that house while the Empire flies away with what they came for.

Before you decide what comes next...

We need to talk about yesterday.

What are you talking about?

The mountain.

Our duel.

Something happened to you up there.

Darius—

No.

Listen to me.

You changed.

I don’t know how else to say it.

You were radiating power.

More than I’ve ever felt from anyone.

Then the mountain split open beneath us.

That’s when we found the orb.

You think they came because of it?

I don't know.

Kaze, look at your home.

They tore it apart.

They knew what they were searching for.

They knew where to find it.

I’m not blaming you.

We both chose to bring it back.

Neither of us knew what it was.

But I did it.

That is not what I said.

I did it.

Whatever happened on that mountain...

whatever power came out of me...

It opened the mountain.

It exposed the orb.

And the Empire wanted it badly enough to tear through Sylvarra.

To come into my home.

Kaze—

If I hadn’t lost control...

if I hadn’t brought that thing here...

You don’t know that.

My mother would still be alive!

It’s my fault.

No.

The Empire killed her.

Not you.

We chose to bring it back together.

We found the orb together.

If bringing it home was a mistake... then it was ours.

But there’s something else we need to understand.

That power.

What happened to you on the mountain.

It wasn’t normal.

Master Quinn may know what it was.

If anyone can help us make sense of it, it’s him.

Maybe he can teach you to control it.

We go back to the Wind Temple.

We find answers.

About the power.

About the orb.

About why the Empire came here.

Then, when we understand what we’re facing...

Then we decide what justice looks like.

Justice...

Justice.