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Able awoke in his cube. Enacting the casual routine of kicking off his coffin door; the one to his cube already open had triggered fivehundered something motion sensors. Ignoring the chorus of beeps he rolled his head snapping the joints in his neck.

What he waited for didn't happen. Where was the beserker state? Where was the rage? He groaned why couldn't the boredom be gone as well? He tore out a blade from his void and made his first steps toward the door.

"You were rude back there, you know?"

Able was slow to turn around. Sam was even more bemused that he had a grin when he stopped.

Sam ducked under a sudden swing and fit in an uppercut between its arch. Ables entire face was left as cartilage while only an eye hung out on a nerve string. His body dropped on his knees.

She was still waiting the next time he came out.

"Now I will ask. Who are you."

Sam blinked."Oh… you don't recognize me?" Sam held up and examined some of her hair."Is it cause I dyed it red?" she let it drop."Okay now, I know why. I'm older looking."

Able drew another blade his patience run dry."Nevermind I don't care."

Sam held out a narrow stance leg bent out in front of her and hands ready to pull off a combo of bitch slaps.

"Hmmm, I guess you're right. This is the only way he'd fight me I'll tell him after this."

Able looked around the cube then narrowed his eyes at her."Who are you talking to?"

"Come on old man!" Sam said demonstrating a boxers footwork."Bring it!" she sheered." It'll be like bonding! Cause you have only one way of doing that with others, apparently."

Able charged and swung, his blade was bitch slapped to scraps before he knew what happened, he produced a second blade. Then another, and another, and another each dissipated their shards into black smoke until Sam was obscured.

All of it balled back into blades in her own hands and between her own teeth. Letting her arms fall apart she posed legs crossed. From the look on Ables' face, she could tell he couldn't decide whether he felt confusion or rage.

"Hi, Abum." Able went pale white. Sam took one blade out from her mouth, then two on one hand and dematerialized them.

"What did you just-"

"How far gone are you? Did what they did set in this quickly?"

"Who are you?"

Sam let her happy down just like her guard."Adda… It's me, Samariah."

The cubes atmosphere slowly cascaded into silence.

"Again."

"What?"

"Say it again."

"S-a-m-a-r-i-a-h."

Able swallowed, he took a look at her physique. It distressed him greatly that she had made milestones without him there if she had needed him he was not, everything he could have done he took as a missed opportunity in only a few moments.

"You- No. you were small…"

"I know dad. If I hadn't left early I think I would still look the way you remember me."

"Left early? What do you mean?"

"Adda. I'm not going to tell you."

"Tell me! Why!?"

"Calm down. I won't tell you because you can be set off easily. And you've already done a bunch of stupid things. Like now. You were gonna go out and kill people, even though I nullified your rage! You were basically gonna have no excuse!"

"No excuse!? Rubatu, to get out of here, to you, I must go through them!"

"Adda. No. You don't."

"Then I will never see you again. That is not what I want. Not even this. But if— how… how are you here…?"

"Adda. Don't believe the first thing that comes to your head."

"Then they did or did they not capture you?"

Sam grimaced from how hard he made everything. The truth.

"Adda. I'm Dead."

"Dead. You're dead?"

"Yes."

Able scowled."Daughter do I look stupid. You are not. I see you here."

"No Dad. I was dead, but I was brought back."

"By who?"

"That's… kinda hard to explain…"

"Then who killed you?"

"These guys."

Able stood still. Sam could see his chest sink and rise, she knew this was a sign he was just trying to keep his anger bottled up.

"Are you mad?"

"Am I mad? No princess. I'm fine with it."

"Dad. I can tell your not. "

"Then why did you ask?"

"Cause I care?"

"So do I. Move aside."

"Abum! No, you can't!"

"They're all dead anyway!! It happens eventually!"

" Abum, don't be edgy!"

"Are you working with them?"

"What? No! Will you just listen!? Let me explain!"

Able pinched his nose. It took several moments for him to get his head together."Are you really dead? Then how are you here? Why do you look like that, then?"

Sam nodded."I'll explain all that. I'll answer about my appearance first… I'm a lot older than when we last met… I'm 6 trill…"


"That's how all this happened…"

"Yeah."

"That is a lot Samariah…"

"I know but I'm alright now. But you aren't."

"Why are you here than in the first place?"

"One of my missions has me here on a reconnaissance. This reality existence has reached a peak instability we've come to help… Adda I want you to tell all of them that this thing called the unknown isn't what they think. It's not even a concept."

"To help them?"

"Yeah. It's my job. Well, I also work with others, so, ours. But, I would still do it since you and uncle are here."

"Samari…"

"Dad it's gonna be fine. But can I ask you to help them for me? I, unfortunately, won't be able to get you out of here also. And don't worry about the Daevites and Fae they've got our backs too!"

"Samari."

"-and also I'm not really mad at them for killing me since I got to try a whole bunch of trippy and powerful experiences so don't-"

"Samari-"

Able pulled her in and wrapped her in his arms almost like she was still his little girl. Because that's exactly who she was.

The middle school girl with shoulder-length black hair cut even by the bangs and ends and tied into low pick tails with cherry bobble hair ties lied in a bed with a lid of glass. Her skin was olive and sunkissed and eyes green and she still wore the same prep school uniform she was in when she had died in, washed no more of blood.

Back in a Cell. Earlier he had tried to drag his fingers through the metal to test the density they made it to what he understood, 8 layers thicker this time