#Luna VC: This is payback for what I did to Ral and Kinich isn't it-

[transientfrost]

Oh, she wanted to choke him for that nickname! They had a serious situation on their hands, and he was making jokes and even teasing her over it - Did he not think? Or even care?! She'd give him that he was strong, but these were chimeras! Even those who'd had a hand in their creation had wanted to get them far, far away from the skies, and if they weren't careful, it was them they'd come back for, him included. The moment they found out the role he'd played in the entire mess that'd led them to that point in time...

But in the end, her frustration caught in her throat, his subtle call out not only insulting, but right on the money. "And what does it matter how they find out what they are? They've been finding out. Remember, one of them is almost as ancient as we are. She's had several millennia to hone those skills of hers, and now that control I have is breakable - And you're here insulting your own leash. She must not be around, or you'd never call that Fenix a bird brain."

Successful distraction? Probably not. Bringing up the 'bird brain' that had been linked to him, his own soulmate, would likely do little to keep him from noticing her quick turned of the conversation, but how did she tell him the truth? She'd given away some of it in an attempt to gain another contract, sure, but at least she hadn't given away all of it - Unlike that smug look on his face that made her blood boil and hands want to give him away.

"Besides, you know as well as I do that the memories still exist within them, Izayoi. All it takes is a little unlocking and reinforcing of the forms they've taken on, and they'll have them back. As it is, we have a dragon walking around with a memory leak, and that's another issue to deal with later on. It doesn't matter how they find out. What does is the danger that poses, even with the other safeguards in place. You know Ral. She'll have your head for what you did."

" And...? "

Honestly, if he could've shrugged any harder at Lunaria's concern right then, then he would've. Mock threats and 'what-ifs' went about as far with Izayoi as conspiracy theories did when someone else had facts to break them up with. Lunaria had every right to be concerned, that much he wouldn't dispute, but to Izayoi? These 'chimeras' were just another wildcard he could use to spice things up with - so he still wasn't worried.

" What's done is done, Lulu. You're not gonna see me act any differently now than I did back then just cause we've got a couple of chimera lovers who just so happened to get close. I mean, I doubt they'd even be able to find me, let alone actually be a challenge for me. And besides- "

" How would either of them learn the truth in full anyway? Unless someone like you clued them in. None of those bird brains alive from back then have all the memories left to share, do they? "