Monika is unusually fulfilled these days, due to the conflict between Elrene and Glissa. Monika is the one that benefits the most from their war. Even though Monika wants every day to be like this, she still wants both of them to be friends again. Starting from Glissa.

In the morning Glissa has already woken up way ahead of Monika, she needs to work on the schedule for today. Ever since the defeat of Vorinclex the beasts he created were just set loose. At some point, life is even harder compared to before. But a defeat of a praetor is still a big deal for the resistance. That's why no one was complaining about anything.

Glissa just finished a stack of Paperworks, she lays her back on the chair and massages her eyes. Even for a blood elf this amount of work in the morning is exhausting. As she closes her eyes, she suddenly smells something good. Its pancakes. Yesterday Glissa taught Monika how to make pancakes and today Monika brought a plate of it to Glissa.

"Are you feeling tired? Your majesty. "Monika bows and puts the plate on the table. Apparently, Monika is good at making foods that are rather easy.

"Haha…" Glissa laughed sarcastically:" Never thought you would call me that." She grabs one that's covered in sugar powder, she needs some sugar for more brain works.

"Well, since you treated me so well. So, I thought I might just play along." Monika is behaving like a servant now, it's all part of her plan to let Glissa slip out the reason why she and Elrene are fighting.

Glissa stops chewing for a second and suddenly has a great idea. She then let the maids bring a uniform for Monika:" Put it on." Glissa said with a grin.

Monika did not expect this, she then sees the other maid who dresses modestly, she feels relieved a bit. However, it changed when she got her 'special' uniform. "I will not-" She suddenly stopped herself from continuing. She would just play along just for today. It's just one day she kept repeating it to herself, then she headed to the changing room. Before she enters, Glissa tells Monika to meet her in the courtyard.

Glissa puts her feet on the table and lazily looks at Monika in her maid outfit. Monika is embarrassed, one of the reasons is because of the light fiber of the outfit, she feels like she isn't wearing anything. She also has no idea what Glissa would make her do.

"I'm feeling good today, so I would love to get some coffee. " Glissa is acting like the queen she is. Monika is shy and looking away, she's using the board to cover the bottom half of her face. Apparently, the lips stick the other maid gave Monika is very seducing.

"Didn't you hear me?!" Glissa spoke loudly, its broke Monika's train of thought. "I said I want a cup of coffee, remember no sugar, just plain black coffee." Glissa then closes her eyes. She's enjoying too much of herself at this point.

Monika bows and walks backward slowly. The other maids already prepared everything for her and told Monika that she's doing great. She walks in front of Glissa:" Where should I put your coffee… my queen..." She tried her hardest to squeeze the words out.

"Hold it, I would like my coffee not too hot." She looks at Monika's thigh with a glance:" You actually shaves your legs?" Glissa asks with a genuine tone.

"I always do." Monika is a bit weirded out by this question.

"Then why do you always wear those pants? Don't you want to wear something that's light and breezy?" Glissa points at her battle skirt.

"I feel better when I wear something that covers my body." Monika is blushing.

"Are you not confident about your body?" Glissa scans Monika as a whole:" You do know that you will look good in those skirts, right?"

"I… I am not really into those kinds of things..." Monika lowers her head. It's not because she doesn't want to but because that's exactly how the other people will react, she doesn't want people to stare at her constantly.

"If you want to dress like that with me, I swear I will not judge. You know, to boost your confidence. " Glissa sounds serious about it. "You never even really dress like that with Trazyn as well, why?" Glissa knew because she has part of Trazyn's memory.

"I.. I am not sure." Monika wanted today to be a chance to know about the secret of Glissa, instead, this has led Monika to have some image crisis.

"Well, it's up to you, but I bet Trazyn would love to see you dress cutely while hanging out with him." Glissa drinks the coffee.

What Glissa said got her thinking, there's really nothing to be embarrassed about with Trazyn and usually, she would focus on Trazyn when they are outside. "Thank you for the advice, I will give it a shot in the future."

But Monika still wants to know about the secret:" So… what happened between you and Elrene? Was she your friend or something like that?"

Glissa puts her cup down:" Do you really want to know that?"

Monika nods.

"I will tell you if you let me kiss you." Glissa has an evil smirk on her face.

"That's not fair!" Monika feels like she got cheated, she did all of this and Glissa won't even tell her the secret.

"Well then… You won't get anything out of my mouth." Glissa finishes her coffee. "But thanks to you for giving me this opportunity that I can play with you for the whole day. " She suddenly left out an evil chuckle: " The day is still quite young... Maybe we can take this to the next level."

Monika couldn't help herself to shiver a bit. Her plan failed and now she needs to deal with the consequences. "Yes… my queen."

"Call me master from now on," Glissa smirks.

"Yes… master…" Monika's face is bright red. She thought she wouldn't say those words in her life. She didn't even realize that instead of being angry she felt embarrassed. Maybe love and friendship can really change a person.

While these two are having a role-play session, on the other side of the continent. Trazyn is trying hard to let Imotekh be accustomed to the ways of living. "What are we doing here?" Imotekh is not amazed by the surrounding of the cities. Surprisingly even under the phyrexian rule, there's still a lot of population that hasn't been mechanized. Razor fields were once a trade hub for the realm of Mirrodin. But it still stands even after the invasion of phyrexia. And nothing bothers more Imotekh than those living organism that doesn't have a purpose in life. For Imotekh they are just simply waiting to rot until the inevitable doom.

"We are here to get you familiarized with the world." Trazyn puts on the jacket, it's not because it's cold, he just suddenly felt like it. He became more human than he thought.

"What are we supposed to do here?" Imotekh feels like he's with an idiot, if he needs to do something then it's already done. Why do they even bother to walk among the others?

"Let's go grab something to eat." Trazyn and Imotekh enter a small restaurant. They didn't really understand what's on the menu, so they just ordered the most expensive ones on the menu. "What do you think so far?"

"It's only been 30 mins, if I can forge an opinion this early then I don't have the need to even be here. " Imotekh sounds emotionless as usual.

"Well, but you know, the general surroundings and the people around you. Can't you give a bit of a comment on those things?" Trazyn is worried that Imotekh would get himself into trouble because of his coldness.

"They are acceptable." Imotekh drinks a bit of water in the cup. Unlike Trazyn he has no problem sending those things down his throat:" I guess they are not such a waste of energy after all."

"Oh ? Why is that?" Trazyn is a bit surprised by this answer.

"They are living here with harmony and order. Despite there being a war, they are still doing fine." Imotekh has a noticeable grin on his face, at this point he's a bit relaxed. Not because of the food itself, but he has dreamed long of having to be able to taste food again. Unlike Trazyn, Imotekh used to be a famed general and has lived a luxurious life, then the bio transference happened. He's the few in the Necron race that hated silent king because of his decision.

Just when Imotekh is deeply in thought. Suddenly a woman with blond hair sits next to Imotekh facing Trazyn, her face is covered up with a hood but the hair is still recognizable:" Hello there." She spoke.

Trazyn recognizes this voice, he feels the coldness constantly coming out from the hood:" Welcome, what are you doing here Miss. Terra ?"

"Where is my sister?" Nova puts down the hood. Imotekh meanwhile carefully glanced at this woman next to him. He can tell that he met her somewhere, but he couldn't recall it.

"My love is further due to the west." Trazyn has a bit of a smirk on his face.

"Love? Cut the crap Trazyn." Nova slammed the table with her fist, making the whole restaurant look at them. But then Nova sits down quietly. "Seriously?" She's trying to clarify it.

"I would say yes...We kissed, and we slept together a few times." Trazyn just listed what he did with Monika. With a hint of purposely trying to piss her off.

"I would've never thought you would be into things like that." Nova is however sounding kind of relieved, at least she knows that her sister is safe and apparently had fun in this place. Whether it was with Trazyn or not, she couldn't really care less because they are adults now: "Did you guys murder the green praetor?" Nova asks.

"Yes. and you can call it justice." Trazyn is not hiding it. Imotekh however was not impressed by what Trazyn did. Trazyn clearly violated the non-interference rule and Imotekh hates people who break the rules.

"Your friend here seems a bit unhappy about what you said." Nova refers to Imotekh.

"How did you know?" Imotekh starts to notice this woman.

"I can read people's minds and yes mister we did meet at some point, you almost killed me if I have to say." Nova smiles, she said the second part to Imotkeh but she isn't really bothered by it.

"I do remember you. I liked your sticky bomb tricks back then." Imotekh is always happy to meet a good fighter.

"Thank you for your compliment, Mr…?" Nova asks with a tentative tone.

"Imotekh, the storm lord." Imotekh didn't really hesitate.

"What are you guys doing here? Did you come here with my sister?" Nova asks.

At this point the food is here, it's a broth that has an unknown animal in it. But it does smell good, and it looks decent as well. Trazyn doesn't really care about the conversation, so he starts digging.

"We did, how can a person such as you have a sibling-like that animal Trazyn always carries?" Imotkeh for some reason doesn't respect Monika at all.

Nova smiles politely:" You can't really say my sister is completely useless, but she does have her own charm. For example, she's more interesting than me." Nova is being honest, she's not the most fun-orientated person out there.

"But from what I see you do deserve better." Imotekh tries the broth, and he seems to be surprised by the taste.

"You can't really choose those kinds of things, besides she's now in a relationship with Trazyn for some reason." Nova is thinking about maybe letting Trazyn live, she can tell that Trazyn and Monika's relationship is kind of... working.

"Trazyn has always been a disgrace among us, I wouldn't be surprised that he's going that low." Imotekh didn't even look at Trazyn's expression.

"Hey… i am still here. I solved the silent king's problem as well; you can't really be that mean to me." Trazyn is a bit upset that Imotekh sees him as an idiot, while Trazyn sees Imotekh as a friend. He just keeps eating instead of following the conversation.

Nova sensed that she thought she would never do this but at this point, she kind of needed to comfort Trazyn:" Well…. I am glad that you saved Monika. The fact that you are constantly helping her just makes me feel good about you." Nova didn't try the food, Because she ate a lot of bread-like food on her way here.

Imotekh doesn't really care about that, the feelings are beneath him, but he does see a great potential alley he can make at this point. "Ms. Terra, would you mind joint forces in this world?"

"No thanks, I am here to pick up my sister and return to our world." Nova's answer is straightforward, she doesn't want to be indebted to a person like Imotekh. Hell, one of her missions is to kill the Necron overlords. But due to some personal issue Nova has to stop being a soldier for the moment at least.

"We have a way of leaving this place and it's going to be finished soon." Imotekh sees what Nova wants.

"As I said, I will consider it once I find my sister. But so far, I appreciate your offer." Nova is still insisting on doing things alone.

Imotekh looks at Trazyn, sees if he can convince Nova. But Trazyn is still a bit upset by the fact that Imotekh sees him as an idiot. Right now, Nova doesn't have the power or ability to stop Imotkeh to do what he wants, needless to say to inflict conflicts.

"Well, this is a waste of time." Imotekh leaves the restaurant. Nova and Trazyn look at each other. They decide to leave Imotkeh to do whatever he wants, and they can discuss the matters at hand.

"Sooo.. how are you and Maverick doing?" Trazyn is trying to find a topic to talk about, meeting your girlfriend's sister while she has a bad history with you can sometimes be devastating.

Nova scoffs:" I'm glad that you remembered his name. Well, thanks to you, he and I are doing quite well."

"Never thought of the kinds like you are into relationships." Trazyn is curious about what happened. He only sees them being together, but he has no idea about the progression whatsoever.

"Says the person who took advantage of my sister now she's hopelessly fallen in love with you." Nova still doesn't believe that her sister would be dumb enough to fall in love with the kind like Trazyn:" Is this one of your tactics to acquire things from us? If it is, I will make sure that you die without ever being able to recover." Nova is serious about the second part.

"I never really did anything, when Monika and I first met, I was just answering your call." Trazyn is honest about it.

"Yet you kept her at your place for weeks. If you didn't want her then you would've just got rid of her a long time ago." Nova sips the unknown drink on the table, it tastes bitter but somehow, she likes it. "Admit it Trazyn, your feelings are one of the reasons that I haven't destroyed you a long time ago. I am just a person who takes care of my family after all." When Nova is out of her ranks, she is really just a big sister who looks after her sibling. She's not intimidating or dangerous.

"I suppose…. But I'm still curious about your relationships, he works under you, yet you would risk everything you fought for to be with him." Trazyn is sick of Nova knowing everything about everyone.

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For an instant, Nova is a bit frustrated, but she quickly adjusted back to her usual self. "Nothing really interesting happened to us." She said coldly.

"That's a lie and I know you are hiding something juicy. Come on, you wouldn't want your little sister to find out herself, isn't it? If you tell me about it, then I can keep the secret forever." Trazyn smiles, he can sense a good story.

"You dare threaten me with my sister?!" Nova hits the table; the drinks spilled a bit. However, when she thought about it again, she didn't really have anyone to share with. She does have good stories, but she had to keep all of them for herself. "But you do have a point. I will tell you, but you need to make sure that this only stays between you and me." Nova's eye is full of intimidation.

"Deal!" Finally, Trazyn can know more about the mysterious Nova Terra.

That night, it all started when Nova invited Noel into her house and Monika came in without warning. At the moment Noel rushes into Monika's room, Maverick came.

"Good evening, Major Terra. I am here because Noel called." Maverick said politely.

Nova's brain is calculating what would be the best response, she doesn't want to leave a bad impression for Maverick:" Evening, how are you today?" She did a lovely smile, which caught Maverick off guard. He didn't expect his major would greet him like that.

"I am doing well; I didn't expect you to dress so casually." Maverick comments on what Nova is wearing.

Nova thought she made a mistake by dressing like that:" Is it bad? Should I change?" Nova is like her little sister at this point, she doesn't really know what to wear in her personal life. A T-shirt and jeans are the only things she wears when she's not at work.

"No, Major, you look good. I wasn't really expecting this to be a casual meeting." He then smiles: "Can I enter your house?"

Nova didn't even realize that she was blocking Maverick from the door the whole time:" Yes, sorry. My mind kinda slipped. haha." She left out an awkward chuckle.

Maverick enters Nova's house; he's surprised that the house is just like any other people's design. He thought the people like Nova would put trophies everywhere and have weapons on the wall.

"Would you like something to eat for a snack?" Nova pulls out a bag of chips, she doesn't really eat it but she steals some from Monika's stash.

"Yes, I would like some…. chips." Seeing the colorful packaging he knows that this is from someone else, no way people like Nova would eat a chip that has a heart shape on it. "Where is Noel? Isn't she supposed to be here?" Maverick asks.

"I don't really know; she probably went outside or something." Nova blocks the entrance to the hallway where Monika's room is. "Anyways, what should we do today?" Nova wants to do something with him.

"Noel told me to come and cook so I guess we can do that. Would be cool if I could cook with my boss." Maverick takes off his uniform, he's wearing a shirt right now. The shirt highlights Maverick's body making Nova a bit... excited.

"Ahem..." she clears her throat, she doesn't want to sound silly in front of Maverick:" Yea, I've got ingredients in the fridge. Maybe we can do it together." she turns to Maverick:" Also when we are not at work, call me Nova."

Maverick did not expect this:" Affirmative, M… I mean Nova." he's a bit nervous, seeing your heroine in front of you and letting you call her by her name is somewhere impacting for a fanboy.

"So... what do you want to make?" Nova asks Maverick while acting innocent. She's trying to test out the traits that Noel processes and sees the reaction on Maverick.

"Pancakes ? Do you like them?" Maverick likes where Nova is going,

"If I have to be honest, I do have a thing or two for pancakes." Nova isn't lying on this part, when she was young her parents used to make pancakes on the weekend.

"You wanna do it together?" Maverick asks

'Yes !" Nova replied excitingly.

In the kitchen, Nova takes out the ingredients to make pancakes: Egg, flour, and synthetic milk. She remembers the pancakes that they used to make are really straightforward. Being able to make in with the person she likes. Nova is living in heaven now.

"So… what do we do with these?" Nova wants Maverick to mix the things for her, it was always her father's job to do so.

"What I used to do is just add 2 eggs, 2 cups of flour, and half 2 cups of milk." Maverick puts the ingredients in and starts mixing. Nova is looking at this, her heart is filled with warmth. Due to Nova standing too close a bit of the flour went on her face.

"I am sorry Major!" he stops and brings a towel to wipe off the flour on her face, Nova didn't say anything, while Maverick's hand is on Nova's face, she feels like her face is burning.

Just this small wiping action took them two minutes to finish, both of them don't want to let go but they still don't understand what the others want at this point.

They went back to the mixing process. After a few more minutes, the mixing of the ingredients is done.

"Then we are going for the most important part," Maverick says because this is the part where he shines. " You need to make the pan hell hot and dip the oil for only one pancake." He does it flawlessly, Nova is loving this moment, she unconsciously stands closer to Maverick.

However, she got startled a bit by the flipping of the pancake, Maverick at this time is just focusing on the pancake, he didn't really see the expression on Nova. It's an expression of pure happiness. Something that hasn't shown on her face for years.

After another minute, the pancake is finished:" Nova, do you want chocolate sauce or…" Suddenly his mouth is filled by Nova's kiss. For a woman like Nova, there's really no need for hesitation or waiting for the right moment. The fact the whole thing is already off the grid, she wouldn't mind going further at this point.

Maverick was just hit by surprise, he didn't really hug her back, but he wanted this a long time ago. He just stands there waiting for Nova to release him. " I am… sorry" Nova said while letting him go, but Maverick holds her head and gives Nova a deep kiss. He bends her back for a bit making Nova's back hit the wall. But Nova did not resist, instead, she held him by the shoulder.

After that, they both shared a nice batch of pancakes. They did not call Monika or Noel to join them, they were just enjoying this moment of their life.

"I am really impressed by your story." Trazyn is trying to complement Nova, even for him her love story is cliche and cheesy as hell with a borderline of boring.

She did not reply to that, she keeps drinking that strange drink on the table:" What do we do now? Can't you teleport us to Monika now?"

"About that…" Trazyn seems to be a bit embarrassed by himself:" I can't really use it in this world…."

"What do you mean? Then how did you meet up with Imotekh?" Nova asks.

"Apparently it was corrupted during a teleportation when I was going to reach Imotekh, the local phyrexian oil got into it." Trazyn is avoiding the piercing eyes of Nova.

Nova takes a deep breath, now she's thinking that what Imotekh said about Trazyn:" Fine, we will do it by walking then. With my estimation, it shouldn't take us a week to get there."

"Us?" Trazyn is surprised that Nova wants to go with him.

"Yes, us. Also, I want to make sure that you and Monika are on to the same thing. If you were lying to me the whole time, I'll make sure that you will not live to see the sunset." Nova read his mind, all of the things Trazyn said were real, but she just needed to make sure that Trazyn doesn't do anything weird in the process.

"Do you want to get some rest? Like sleeping or…." Trazyn is surprised by the change of attitude from Nova. Maybe she isn't that bad at all, at least she's less stubborn than her sister.

"I already rested plenty." Nova has undergone special training that allows her to have a nap while being awake visually. The whole conversation between Trazyn and Imotkeh was actually the time when Nova was resting.

At night, seeing the distant stars, Nova couldn't help but leave out a comfortable gasp. Then she realized Trazyn was next to her all along.:" So, how's Monika doing these days?"

"Do you ask me as a guardian or her boyfriend?" Trazyn asks.

"Let's say... Both." Nova is in a good mood now. The quiet night does make some strange companion.

Trazyn told everything that happened with Monika in this place, in the process of hearing Trazyn was messing with Monika, Nova didn't really get pissed off instead she's constantly chuckling.

"What do you see in my sister?" Nova is not acting like an enemy of Trazyn anymore.

"Let me see… I like her personality, her ability to make things interesting, and she...looks good." Trazyn said the last part with a tentative tone.

" Really? I think you are more describing a collection of yours instead of someone you love." Nova seemed to be a bit unhappy about the answer.

"Then what should I care more about her? " Trazyn is still unable to understand the concept of love, while Monika on the other hand has always been falling in love with Trazyn.

Nova shakes her head:" I can't tell you anything, you need to find it out for yourself. Just beware that if Monika asks the same question, she might get pissed off by your answer."

"But I treasure her existence, all I want to do is to keep her and don't want her to get away. Isn't this what cherishing means and love is the action of two people who cherish each other." Trazyn desperately needed an answer.

"You are really hopeless isn't it…" Nova smiles:" Do you 'love' your collections?"

"Yes, I do, that's why I collect them" Trazyn answered without any hesitation.

Nova suddenly stopped walking:" Do you see my sister as one of your collections." She looks at Trazyn in his eyes.

"I…. " Trayzn understood what Nova meant the whole time.

"Get some thought about that question, but I believe as long you are honest to Monika, she will always understand your answer." Nova continues walking.

Trazyn and Nova didn't talk for the next half an hour. Trazyn is trying to answer the question while Nova is simply enjoying nature, despite the whole place being full of metal but it does however give out a bit of calmness.

Suddenly, a group of humanoid beings jumps out from the bushes nearby, their blade reflects the moonlight on the sky. A familiar-looking person comes out from the shadow, her silver hair under the moonlight is extremely symbolic. It's Ria Ivor.

"Leaves your goods behind and we will do no harm," Ria said without a cold tone.

"I thought you are one of the good guys." Trazyn is a bit surprised by the encounter.

"Do I know you?" Ria is a bit confused.

Before Trazyn could say anything, Nova said:" Yes, but only by name and appearance. We thought you were the leader of the resistance."

"We were but the bastards called Trazyn and Monika steal our sacred blade which was essential for killing the white praetor. We prepared for everything but then we realized that we lost the weapon." Ria's tone is full of hatred for Trazyn and Monika:" We had to retreat but we lost most of our men. Now we are forced to do things like…. this." Her voice is shaking a bit.

Trazyn decides to not talk anymore, he sold the dagger the first day to trade for money. Nova takes out a bag of coins and throws it to Ria:" I am sorry for what happened, this is all we got, please let us leave." Nova could've killed all of those people but seeing their suffering is caused by the very person she's next to at this point, she feels like she's obliged to do something.

"Thank you, I will pay you back in the future." Ria leaves with her men.

Seeing them go further away, Nova pushes Trazyn against a tree:" I knew it, I was too naive to think that you are a decent person."

Trazyn doesn't really want to explain himself. This whole thing is indeed his fault:" What do we do now?"

Nova is mad but from reading Trazyn's mind, she could see that Trazyn also feels sorry for his action:" I'll let it slide, but you need to promise that you will not take anything again."

Collecting artifacts is Trazyn's life work:" I….I." he can't say those words.

Seeing Trazyn like this, she's disappointed that her sister would love a person like Trazyn:" Just as I thought Imotkeh is being a bit harsh on you, something like this happened. What's going to happen next, trading my sister away to trade benefits to Ria?" Unlike Monika, Nova has zero tolerance for bullshits.

"What should I do? I have no idea where the dagger is..." Trazyn is trying to find a way to fix his mistake.

"We find Monika first, then you will tell her everything yourself. If she decides to help, then I will also help you. Otherwise, you are on your own." Nova adds another sentence:" And we will not forgive you until you fix this mess."

For the rest of the night, Nova is constantly scolding Trazyn. And Trazyn is acting like a child who broke the most important vase in the house. While Nova is more venting her problems to Trazyn instead of being critical to him. But when the daylight comes, both of them stop arguing with each other.

After finding no success alliancing with Nova, Imotekh leaves the restaurant. He's mad because of the impossibility of letting a human see a bigger picture. The anger is written all over his face, making the people subconsciously walk away from him.

Imotekh himself could also feel the unfriendliness from the peer, the best course of action, in this case, is to basically disappear and blend into the public. Despite his strong ability, he still doesn't want to get more attention to himself. He sees a catwalk at the end of the street and enters it quickly without letting anyone see him.

When he enters the backstreet, he sees two men seemingly kicking something on the ground, Imotekh is about to leave and go somewhere else. His path got blocked by a wagon, seeing this he decides to walk past those people and thus leave this place as soon as possible. As he gets closer the conversation becomes clearer.

"Get up you bitch!" The man kicks the woman to the ground. "I thought you are a fighter huh? Aren't you so tough now isn't' it, you whore." The other spits on the woman. As Imotekh approaches both of them, they make way for him so that they don't get in trouble. They are acting like this because of the aura of death that's radiating out around Imotekh.

As Imotekh walks pass them, suddenly something grabbed Imotkeh's ankle. Imotekh looked down and saw a woman with white hair grabbed on him. "Would you mind releasing your hand?" Imotekh said with an intimidating tone. But the woman didn't respond, instead, she grabs on him harder.

"Get your hands off, slut!" One of the thugs kicks the woman's hand but her grip on Imotekh is still tight. It seems like she doesn't want him to leave. But imotekh couldn't care less, as he was about to kick away the woman, she speaks in a very weakened tone:" Please….Hel..p" Her voice is broken, it sounds like her lung is punctured.

"Get on with your life." One of the thugs said to Imotkeh, he's intimidated by him but not scared of him. "Leave, and I will make sure that you are unharmed."

Imotekh didn't say anything, he crouches down and gently shakes the woman's hand away from his ankle. He then suddenly stands up and grabs one of the thug's collars and lifts him in the air. "Who is she?" He asks.

"She's one of our employees! But she didn't want to submit herself to the special services, so we gave her the punishment she deserves!" The other thug is terrified of how easily Imotkeh lifts up his friend.

"You do know that she is a human right? Treating each other like this…. Surely you are a doomed race." Imotekh is a bit disappointed in the general human race. "What else are you going to do with her?"

"Why... would you fucking care." The guy being lifted is struggling to even breath. The other guy quickly said:" We are going to send her to the temple to treat her wound!"

Imotekh drops the thug on the floor and gives them a bag of coins:" Then I guess you guys have no problem allowing me to take her away."

"You can't! She's under our ownership, if you want her you need to pay more!" the guy on the ground yells at Imotekh. But imotekh just throws him another coin bag which is full of the highest value coin in the country. Seeing this, the thugs want to pry more from Imotekh. "You still can't take her away! The local government will notice that if you do it, it will cause us trouble! It will take us way more than what you give us to settle the whole thing!" They are lying because they think Imotkeh doesn't know how things work around here.

But Imotkeh does, long before he even steps foot outside of the tomb world, he already did very detailed research about the countries in Mirrodin. Thus, of course, he knows about their lie, but he just wants to get rid of the problems as soon as possible, so he gives them another bag of coins.

As the thugs are counting the coins from the bags, Imotkeh already carried away the woman. They both then disappeared into a small valley.

In the tomb world, Imotekh drops the girl on a 'bed' that is made by countless nano scarabs. It is originally used to dissect the organic life forms in older people to study their biology. But since there were no subjects to study, Imotkeh commenced the healing protocol on the console. During the whole process the girl was passed out, so Imotekh can finally have a chance to examine the girl.

The girl has snow-white short hair and pale white skin, the latter probably caused by the lack of blood. From the closing, she might be a knight or at least used to be. Her crest on the arm belongs to an old human family on this planet but it was massacred during the phyrexian invasion. She might be the last member of her bloodline… As imotekh was about to write down more information about the girl, she suddenly woke up.

At this moment, Imotkeh wasn't in his human form, because he finds it restricting and slows down his thought process. The girl suddenly jumped up from the platform and had her battle stance against Imotekh.

"You… what have you done to me?" even though she's all healed up but somehow her voice still sounded low.

"I have healed you," Imotekh replies but he doesn't have any weapon in his hand.

"Liar! I remember you! You are the person who's responsible for what happened to me and all of my men!" She sounds hysterical but Imotekh has no idea what any of the things she's talking about are.

She charges towards Imotekh, but her stamina still hasn't completely recovered, so she suddenly collapsed on the floor. Imotekh however did not finish her off, he gently picked her up and put her on the platform. He still doesn't understand why he would do that, but since she's already here why doesn't he just make the best of it.

Imotekh transforms himself into his human form again, apparently, the girl thinks of Imotekh is someone else. But thinking about the second Necron on this planet, he immediately realized it was Trazyn who caused all of this. He picks up one of the books that were left by Trazyn, it is a book about how to make human food. Apparently, It is essential for human interaction.

After a few hours of rest, the girl woke up. But this time, instead of being greeted by a robot. It is the very person who saved her. "You are awake, please follow me for your replenishment meal." Imotekh is still learning to be polite.

"Who… are you?" She's grateful for his gesture. Yet, still afraid because of the mechanical horror from before.

"My name is…. " He thought about the fact that the girl is terrified by his machine form, instead of using his original name, Imotekh decides to use a different name" Sebas, Sebas Tien" He decides to split the name, Sebastien.

"Thank you for your help,Sir Sebas." She sounds calm, unlike the hysterical creature Imotekh met a few hours ago. She sits down on the cold metal table, there is a bowl of rice soup. This is the easiest and most nutritious thing Imotkeh could find in the cooking book.

"Do you mind telling me what your name is?" Imotekh forced out a bit of a smile.

" Of course not, my name is Ria Ivor. I was a captain of the resistant army, but we are now… gone." She buries her face into the soup, she doesn't want Imotekh to see her sad expression.

"You recovered well, I guess you can leave by tonight," Imotekh said.

"Why did you help me?" Ria suddenly said. She looks away, from her expression Imotekh can tell that Ria is embarrassed.

"Because you asked for salvation. At that moment, you had nothing. No pride, no tricks and no power. It is a universal gesture to provide help when one's in a hopeless situation. So, I did what I should do as a being." Imotekh calmly said.

This answer confused the hell out Ria:" You sound like you are not from this world." But when Ria sees around her, this makes her suspicion even more clear.

Imotekh isn't really afraid of admitting it:" No, I am not of this world. But don't worry, you are now safe."

"I am not… Now everyone is trying to skin me alive because of what I am." She sounds terrified. At this moment Ria isn't a knight or a leader. She's just a little girl who was forced to be put into her position due to desperation. "Lord Sebas…" She said while holding a bit of tear:" can I serve you from now on? I…. lost everything…. I have nowhere to go…." At last, she can't hold it anymore:" I will do everything! I will give you all I have! But please…. Don't let me go back out…"

Imotekh walks next to her and puts his hand on her shoulder, for some reason he did all of this without thinking. It's just seemed to be the right thing to do. " Don't worry, as long I am here you are under my protection."

Suddenly Ria hugs Imotekh by the torso and starts sobbing. The tear wets Imotekh's suit but this time he decides to wait, this girl has been thought too much for her age. At some point Imotekh respects Ria for her bravery and her accomplishment. But meanwhile, he's more furious about Trazyn's action. Because this time his action actually changed the war on Mirrodin. And because of it, he will pay.