Ao'ry was waiting for this story since Hoodisee first mentioned it in the corridor.

— So, what happened five years ago?

His voice was filled with excitement. It was easy to say that he would be listening carefully to every single words Hoodisee would say.

— About five years ago, I woke up in a sacred temple with absolutely no memories of my past. I don't know anything about me nor why I was there. Well, I do have some ideas now, but no certainties.

— You talked about a letter you wrote and some signs you've been following.

— Yes. When I first gained consciousness, I was standing in an incantation circle. In my hands was my sword. Next to the cercle was a small table with an envelope on it. The letter was addressed 'to you who doesn't remember your past'. It was written in ancient language, but I could understand everything. It explained that I sealed my memories away for me to be able to start my life over. It said that I shouldn't learn my real name because it would bring my old life back to me, so I should find a new one for myself. But, even now I still haven't found a name for myself, so I use the name people gave me. Though, I might need a new one to keep baby bee safe as I've told Ao'ry earlier. He and I were looking for one while coming here. However, I haven't found anything to my liking. We did find the name Obeeneon for baby bee, but nothing I liked for myself.

— Quite the fitting name. It goes well with the nickname you gave him.

— That's why I agreed with Ao'ry to give baby bee that name.

— And you haven't found any ideas for yours?

— Ideas, yes. Concrete names, no.

Ao'ry complained.

— She is really picky with her name. Just like if she wanted to find the exact same name she had before losing her memory.

— Not the exact same, but something I like and I feel related to it.

— It seems to be very hard for you to feel related to something.

— I guess you're right.

Mazkina was looking at Ao'ry and Hoodisee talking to each other.

— Ao'ry are you going to keep up with this appearance even when we're alone?

— I don't see why not.

— It's a bit confusing to see Hoodisee talk to... well Hoodisee. At least you don't have the same personality, your clothes are different and I know one of you well, otherwise I wouldn't be able to know who's who.

— Ok, then I'll use my usual form, but I'll keep the dress.

Ao'ry used once again his red-haired boy appearance and kept the dress unchanged.

— You can keep wearing a dress, but it might be best to change it a little so it won't look suspicious when we'll leave.

— Hm... You're right. In more than one way.

— ???

Mazkina didn't quite understand what Ao'ry meant by that. Hoodisee probably knew, but she didn't care the least.

— Nevermind, forget what I just said.

Ao'ry changed the appearance of the dress. It looked so fitting on him. A long dress with long sleeves in a red color darker than his hair and some black details on it.

— As always you do look good in dresses.

— You do know what fits you most.

— Thank you, you two!

— To go back to our main subject, was there anything else written in the letter?

— After 'you should find your own name and create a new identity' there was something about never going away from the sword and to always keep it sealed.

— Do you know why?

— I deduced that if I unseal it my memories and original powers will come back to me, but I can't be sure. Maybe it will do the same if I leave the sword far from me or maybe it will take away all of them for good. In any case, I'm sure I had good reasons to do that. So I won't take any chances. I might have lived something unbearable or worse, I might have done some horrible things.

— How can you say that? Five years ago you must have been around 10. I doubt a ten-years-old could do something that horrible.

— ... I... I'm pretty sure I'm not 15. I'm probably closer to 20 or even more.

— How could you know?

— I looked almost exactly the same age five years ago. People gave me the same age as they do now. 'You must be a fifteen or sixteen years old teenage girl, right?' Maybe, I don't know... But if I am, I'm from a species that do not age often.

Ao'ry asked to Mazkina a question.

— Are there humans whose growth is less showing than others?

— Witches, mages and sorcerers tend to age less when they grow old, but that process starts in their 20s or 30s. Ninjas often look younger than they actually are, but it's either because they're half spirits or it's a trick that makes them appear to be younger in the mind of others and are actually looking older. They're doing that consciously, so I doubt it's that. There are other humans who look younger too, but I don't know all of them.

— So, it's safe to say she's probably a spirit?

— The doctor said the same thing. He said that she had more inergy than any human could ever have in their entire lifetime.

— Young looking, slow aging process, a lot of inergy... she could be a vampire.

— I don't drink blood.

— Elf then?

— I don't have pointy ears and half-elves are closer to humans.

— You're clearly not a metamorph, so what are you?

— I don't know, that's one of the things I've been trying to figure out in those last years.

— What else do you want to find out about you?

— How old I am, who are my parents, my ancestors, what have I done in the past, what is my past, what's my name and why did I seal my memories.

— And the answers to those questions might already be between your hands. Why didn't you open it since you want to know that much about your past?

— My past self did that for a good reason, that's for sure, so if I do unseal my sword, I'm sure to regret it. And I'm not even sure if it will give me back my memory. Maybe it will just give me back my full strength.

— Your full strength? You mean your current inergy, which is already more than any human and a lot of spirits, is not all you have?

— Well, yes. I know that for sure because when I wield my sword my powers get a lot stronger. I even wonder if it becomes two times stronger.

— Two times stronger? By simply wielding your sword? Does it work with any sword or just yours?

— Just mine. Any other it's just like wielding a stick or even wielding air, it doesn't change that much things.

Ao'ry thought the situation was amusing.

— It's funny that you're saying that to a wind spirit... for them air is the best weapon.

— But it still doesn't change anything to their power. Air is just always there, it's the same as having fists.

— And now you're saying that to a shapeshifter like me who can make their fists disappear.

— In any case, exemples are hard to make everyone agree with them. Though, I believe you get what I mean.

— Yes, we do. Ao'ry is just messing with you.

— Yeah, I figured that much.

— So you're saying your sword is like an elemental stone compatible with your inergy?

— No... but yes. The comparison can be accurate, but the sword doesn't give me some of their power, it gives me back some of mine. As if the seal gets weaker when I have it in my hands.

— You're saying you took your sword out in the fight because your inergy was too low?

— Yes.

"Three days turned out to be three hours without her sword. She had 15 minutes with the sword in her hands that multiplied her power by about two. Even injured and without her sword, her inergy is extremely high. I'm starting to think that any other people would have died in a fight like that. Except, they would have fought back. Why did she keep on not fighting with life threatening injuries? If her identity hadn't been revealed and the fight kept on going she really could have died. With what Ao'ry and Kariator said about the fight, Hoodisee seemed to be vulnerable with attacks coming from below. All of that makes no sense. She's clearly too strong to be dupte by those kinds of attacks. Did she forge her blind spot? Why would she do that? I don't understand. Why make herself look weak when she could just dodge everything and keep her identity hidden? It doesn't make any sense. Did she want us to find out her identity? Why? She really do surpasse me. I'll need to dig a bit more into those matters, but for now I just want to know more about her and the last five years of her life."

— You said you followed signs afterward. What about that?

— It's the sign on my cloak.

Hoodisee took the cloak that was on the diner table and showed it to her two guests.

— The cercle I was in looked a bit like that. There was a similar one on the background of the letter. But the one exactly like this one was on the sword's seal.

They took a look at the sword.

— So, since I 'woke up' I followed all the signs that looked close to it. That's also the reason I decided to take the test and came here.

Both Mazkina and Ao'ry couldn't see why, so the headmistress asked Hoodisee about it.

— Why that?

— The sign on the card looked like it was somewhat similar to it.

— Our organization's crest?

Ao'ry was confused.

— You think that it looks similar?

— Yes. As if the origins of it were for the one on my cloak.

He still couldn't see the similarities between the two.

— I can see that there are two ancient symbols that are the same in both, but it's not located in the same place and those symbols are pretty much everywhere.

— The characters of beginning and end in ancient High-Humanarian.

— You know that language?

— I know a lot of languages, even though I don't know how I know them...

— Knowledge without the memory of how you learned it.

— Like I know that High-Humanarian was the language of human nobility a long time ago. In opposition to Low-Humanarian which was spoken by the commoners. It wasn't that different from one another, but it was far enough to set clear boundaries. Only a few could talk both, they were the ones who could both listen to the commoners complaints and explain the royal or imperial orders. They were helping the royalty and imperial family to do what would be best for the empire or kingdom. They were low nobility, but high commoners. One day, there were so many complaints from commoners and so many orders from the noblesse that the Bilhumanarian's speakers couldn't keep up. A lot of mistakes were made and a revolution started. The human emperor of that time decided to defuse it by making the commoners learn High-Humanarian and Low-Humanarian for the nobles. Commoners felt more important and nobles learned to be more humble. With time both languages fused to become the Humanatarian language. The language of most of the ancient scripts and documents. Also the language of the letter left for me by me.

— All of this confuses me. No history books talk about things that far in the past.

— If my knowledge doesn't fail me, most of the past books, scripts and texts were banned and ordered to be destroyed by the emperor Chaos a bit more than one thousand years ago.

— Emperor Chaos? Chaos is an emperor? I thought he was just the leader of the demon army.

— Might not be the same Chaos. It still was more than one thousand years ago.

— So all past history before one thousand years ago is forever lost?!

— No, not all. I know a group gathered everything they could before it got destroyed. They hid everything with magic. I don't know where it is nor how to find it, but I know it exists somewhere. And I believe Chaos also kept some of the banned books in a secret library.

— And how do you know that?

— The first part, I read it on the walls of some temples. The second part, I really don't know where it comes from.

— So it might as well be a rumor you heard in your past life.

— It could. But some books still exist, that's for sure. They were hidden and protected by the 'peace bringer'.

— The peace bringer?

— Yes, it was written quite often on temple walls. Not that much detail on their true identity, but quite a lot on what they did and what they might do in the future. I even wondered if they were a group rather than a person.

— It kind of sounds like you.

— Except it was a thousand years ago and I'm like that because I don't want people to see my identity.

"So why did you let your identity be revealed by the fight? Is there something she fears more than letting her identity be known? What is her reason to keep her identity hidden?"

— For that person or that group, it seemed like it's the people who wrote about them who didn't want their identity to be known. Just as if they were trying to protect them from something or someone.

— Protect them from what?

— I don't know... Chaos maybe...

— With what I understand, you might have been an historian or a descendent or member of the group that protected the stories of the past before you lost your memory.

— Yeah... I don't know. For sure I have a link with it, but I might just be someone who stumbled across a huge amount of information and sealed my memory to keep my mind safe. Or my memory might contain some dangerous information. I don't know...

— So, you're a mystery for yourself as well.

— Yeah! You can say that.

They continued talking for a while. Trying to find other names for Hoodisee or trying to know more about her known and unknown past. Mazkina knew Hoodisee kept something from them, but she didn't want to force her to say things she didn't want to. Everyone can have their secrets. Though, she really wanted to know and would probably do things to find out by herself those hidden information. Ao'ry and Mazkina left some time later.