"Sister Ume, please explain what you said again," Nymeria demanded, appearing on the roof seemingly out of nowhere.
She had arrived just as Ume embraced me in tears, and had been silently observing from the background, waiting for Ume and I to reconcile.
Ume composed herself, wiped her tears with her sleeve, and began explaining everything she had witnessed in her dream.
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"So a Pisacha is going to appear in this world, and you saw me dying at its hands," I concluded with a quiet sigh.
According to her, the sky would split open, cities would be reduced to ruins, and the land would be blanketed with the corpses of awakeners. She had even seen a brown-haired man and a black-haired woman on the brink of death. From her description, those two had to be Aryan and Saya.
"Taranis, now that I have told you the reason," Ume murmured, "can we please leave?"
