With a pleased smile, Althea added: “Without an Aegis, an Abyssal cannot survive in the light of the suns. Even the light of the moons, especially Faros’, can seriously injure him and slowly lead him to death. This is the only truth: Abyssals need us to live in the surface world!” Enàbram snorted annoyed, then exclaimed: “I was imprisoned in that damned tomb forgotten by the world for five hundred years, just to find a punctilious and fussy quibbler like no one has ever seen as Aegis! What evil have I done to deserve all this?” “I think this is all due to your Abyssal nature,” she pointed out with an ironic smile. Then she quoted some more: “Expelled by the Astrals because of their arrogance, they have lost all privileges and substances, condemned to devour in order not to be devoured.

