The Phoenix's Clipped Wings | Kaedehara Kazuha

Chapter 23

Phoenix sat alone, her eyes puffy from crying as Zhongli comfort her a couple hours ago. Her conversation with Xiao had ended a few minutes and he left, as she wanted to be alone for a bit more. Hugging her knees, she tried to make connection with Sentience but she would respond and it tired her out.

Her mind wonders to what happened that day, although the betrayal of the people who she was meant to protect as eons go by didn't pass her mind although it was heavy in her mind. What concern her was the person she saw and the attack that made her stop midway through the attack that could have killed everyone below her...who was that.

"That's what I'm trying to figure out." A voice rings out in her mind, making she spring her head up.

"Sentience!" She call out, almost a bit relieved that she finally spoke. Her face was particularly beaming at the sound of her voice.

She appears beside Phoenix in an almost transparent form, her arms are crossed over her chest as she gazes over the ocean. She was rather quiet, so quiet. She would always speak her mind out and was very loud but now, here she is.

"That god looks awfully familiar." Sentience says outloud.

"That was a god? From celestial?" Phoenix asks but Sentience shakes her head.

"No...I can't quite remember..."

Phoenix nods her head, "it's alright, you might remember soon. I'm concerned on how exactly this god found us-"

"He's here." Sentience says, Phoenix looks up at this but finds she's no longer there.

"Sentience?" She mutters before hearing a meow and she looks back to see Sora running towards her.

"Sora!" She calls as she catches the cat in her arms as she stands up, smiling as Sora purrs against her.

Her eyes tear up as she hugs the cat, she had missed him dearly.

Unknowingly to her, a figure watches from afar, their gaze at her was tender as a smile was on their face.

They slowly make their way to her before stopping a few feet away from her and softly call out for them.

"[Y/n]."

She looks behind and her eyes widen.

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A couple hours earlier

"She's gone." Albedo and Aether say as they enter the room where [Y/n] was resting in, the said female was gone and the only one in the room was Kazuha as he was still asleep.

Aether sighs at this and carefully wakes him up and after a few moments, Kazuha is fully awake. He begins to panic as he sees that [Y/n] isn't on the bed.

He rushes out of the room and bumps into a child, he looks down to see it was the one who healed [Y/n] a week ago.

"Do you know where [Y/n] went?"

Qiqi tilts her head to the side a bit confused before her eyes light up a bit. "Do you mean...the pretty lady? She went out a couple hours ago but Qiqi doesn't know where." She spoke slowly as Kazuha let out a sigh before spotting Sora running past his legs and outside.

"Sora?" He calls, the name of his old friend's cat sounds so forgein at the tip of tongue as the cat stops and looks up at him before running off again.

Albedo and Aether walk towards him and stay quiet.

"That cat... belonged to your deceased friend right?" Albedo says as he pulls out his sketch book from thin air.