Without turning around, her mother answered, "He said don't worry. He will be back soon."
Kyoko lifted her eyebrows thinking, ‘well… at least Toya didn't tell her mother just who that monster was’.
*****
Hyakuhei sat comfortably on the mountain of furs piled on the stone floor of the cavern. He was leaning back against a large pillow with one leg extended while the other was bent, his right arm resting on his knee. In his right hand were the few talismans of the crystal he had been able to obtain, rolling across his palm like dice.
At first appearance he seemed relaxed, but the tightness around his eyes and the hard thin line of his mouth gave his true mood away.
His mind whirled with the outcome of the last dream he’d shared with Kyoko. Upon awakening from it, he physically felt the
