Rushing down the hallway, Lorey leads Sydra to the room he had sent the children. Inside the room, one of the girls was sitting up in her bed and looking around. When she saw Sydra enter the room behind Lorey, the girl became startled and tried hiding under her covers.
"Hey, it's alright, Sydra won't hurt you," Marie says, getting up from the chair beside the bed and walking over to Sydra. "She is a little timid of new people, but it makes sense from what she has been through,"
"I can understand that, but at least she is awake now," Sydra says, stopping at the doorway and looking at the other two children. "They seem to be doing better,"
Walking across the room, Lorey sits down on the bed with the girl hiding under the covers, and begins petting the top of her head. "He is the man I was telling you about, the one that saved you. He really won't hurt you, so could you please come out," Lorey says in a gentle voice, coaxing the girl to slowly uncover her face.
"Hel... Hello," The girl says shakily, still looking at Sydra like he might lunge at her at any moment.
'Poor children, I can't even imagine what they went through,' Sydra smiles at the girl, before turning to look back at Lorey. "Do you mind following me into the hallway for a second, there is something I want to ask you?"
Getting up from the bed, Lorey nods and follows Sydra out of the room. "What is it you wanted to talk about?" Lorey asks, standing with her back against the wall.
"You know the man that was doing the experiments on the children, well, I brought him here," Sydra says, watching as Lorey's face becomes confused, "Don't worry, I didn't bring his dead body back with me. He has the power of infinite lives, so whenever he dies, he comes back to life,"
"So you captured him and brought him back to your palace? But what if he goes after the children again?" Lorey asks worriedly, looking back into the room.
"I put him in a room with no windows or doors, so it will be impossible for him to come after the children," Sydra says, "However, I plan on allowing him to continue his experiments, except I won't be giving him the children, or animals, to do with as he pleases,"
"I see, so then, what did you want to ask?" Lorey asks, slightly confused about why Sydra was telling her all this in the first place. If Sydra wanted to capture the man, he didn't have to let her know about it.
"I wanted to ask you if you know where I can find the Divine Cloud Sheep, the man said he will need their blood to continue his experiments," Sydra says, "He told me that they look like golden clouds, and are extremely difficult to find,"
"That is true, the Divine Cloud Sheep are incredibly rare, and a lot of people look for them because of their incredible fleece," Lorey says, "However, I don't know where to look for them,"
Sighing, Sydra prepares to head back to the dining room when the girl in the room calls out to him. "Excuse me, I might know where to find those sheep you were talking about," She says, causing Sydra to turn around and look back in the room at the girl.
"Jemma, are you sure?" Lorey asks, "You might actually know where one of those sheep are?"
Nodding her head, Jemma pulls a notebook and some pencils off the desk next to her, which were given to her earlier for drawing. Picking up one of the pencils, she begins to draw a small village, with streets and buildings being named. After that was done, the girl proceeded to draw a line that left one of the buildings and went through the streets, to the edge of the town.
"This is a map of Ascoil, the town that I and the others grew up in. If you follow the line on the map, you will enter a large forest, and in the center of that forest is a valley where the sheep graze," Jemma says, drawing three small sheep grazing on grass.
'That works, I can return the children to the orphanage and then follow the map to collect the sheep,' Sydra thinks as he reaches his hand out to the map.
"Wait!" Jemma exclaims, hiding the map behind her back, "If you want the map, then you have to take me and the other two away from the orphanage,"
Retracting his hand, Sydra sits down on the chair next to Jemma, looking at her seriously. "Are you sure you want that? Don't you have friends there, and I also don't have much water on my island that you and she can swim in," Sydra says, pointing at the other girl laying on a bed across the room. 'Of course, I can always make a lake and other things for them,'
"That's fine, we can walk," Jemma says, swinging a pair of legs out from under the covers and showing them to Sydra.
Shocked, Sydra turns to look at Lorey and Marie, who are trying not to laugh.
"She and the other girl can switch back and forth between having legs or a tail, but since they were unconscious they were stuck in the tail form," Lorey explains.
Nodding his head, Sydra looks back at Jemma, pondering her request of him taking them away, "To be honest, I don't have much experience with children. I also won't be able to stay here all the time, as I have things that I need to do," Sydra says, hoping to persuade her away from her decision.
"I could always help out with the children," Marie says, "Then you won't have to worry about them as much,"
Sighing, Sydra looks at Marie with a 'Really?' look, before standing up and walking over to the other two beds. "Alright, let's wait until these two wake up and see what they want to do, for now, let me have the map," Sydra says.
Smiling widely, Jemma pulls the map out from behind her back and hands it to Sydra. Leaving the room, Sydra heads into his makeshift library and looks through several books on different islands. Flipping through the pages of the third book, Sydra finally finds the island called Duepel, and the town Ascoil, which resides on the south side of the large island.
'I need to figure out where this island is, but this book doesn't tell me how to get there,' Sydra thinks. Leaving the palace, Sydra heads over to the side of his island and looks down at the world below. The cool thing about the island was that it was always directly above wherever Sydra was on the planet, which meant he had a perfect view of the sea below him.
Scanning his eyes back and forth over the water, Sydra looks for any landmass that resembled Duepel and marked it out. Since he couldn't get a clear view of the entire island, and everything on it, he was going to have to ask Jemma if any of the islands he picked matched the one she came from.
Returning to the room, Sydra shows Jemma the islands he found and asks her which one she thinks it is.
"It is either this one or this one," Jemma says, pointing at two of the different islands on the hand-drawn map Sydra is showing her. The first one she pointed at was close to the place Sydra currently was, but the other one was much farther, and in the opposite direction he wanted to go.
"How do you know that it is one of these?" Sydra asks, glancing between the two islands for similarities.
"Because they both have a long beach on the west side, and we used to go to the beach all the time," Jemma says, sadly looking at the other two children, "Why won't they wake up?"
Getting up, Sydra approaches the bed that the boy is sleeping on and places his hand above the boy's head. Extending his aura through his hand, Sydra probes the boy's aura to check on his condition. "I can sense that the two of them are sleeping peacefully, and will wake up soon. You don't have to worry, just make sure to take care of them when they wake up," Sydra says, "By the way, what are their names?"
"Their names?" Jemma asks, looking confused, "His name is Ash, and her name is Moss, and they are my best friends," Jemma says, proudly looking at Sydra.
"I see, well I'm sure when they wake up they will be happy to see you," Sydra says as he walks to the door, before stopping and glancing at Marie. "Watch after them while I'm gone, I'll be heading back to the ground now,"
Leaving the room, Sydra walks through his palace in search of Haley and Lorey, who he finds in his training room. The two ladies are discussing what happened after they fell off the platform, and how Sam and Gram betrayed them.
"Hey, it's time to leave now. We have to find a way out of the underground city, and back to where the other groups are," Sydra says as the two girls stand up and walk over to him.
"Good, it's finally time to head back," Lorey says, "We need to find Sam and Gram and pay them back for betraying us,"