Everyone faces their past. Shanti said, his eyes never blinking. Everyone.

"Angels were taught from birth not to live in the past. To not remember it means I killed it, and yet it was there, what was it?"

Shanti closed his eyes and looked away. You are no friend of mine. But that thing is not either. They are... not. They are not. Jut not anything.

"I do not understand. Is not everything something?"

Everything is something yet they are nothing. They are here but they do not exist.

"Are they from another world? Or shadows of the past?" Faestus asked.

Memories. The dead. Shadows. Belief. Call them what you will. They are just here.

"What are they trying to accomplish? Who do they serve?"

From what I've given you. you should be able to work out those questions. If not you will.

The world returned to normal and once again shanti was gone.

" The beast could've been more helpful," Faestus grumbled as he began to walk up the stairs.

Kazza sat in his room, holding his neck tight.

Faestus told Iris about all that had happened, including what Shanti had said.

"Eris. That's the only queen of nothing we know. But she's sealed. It would take something of similar power to [shanti] to break the seal. so it can't be her..." Iris said.

They stood in a circle. Each having a cloak covering them. Twenty. Twenty figures all up. Their word spoekn so fast it was not known what they said..

They had one goal and one goal only. To make humanity live their worst nightmares.

Even if it meant freeing the newly sealed Eris. They had their orders.

"so we can safely assume it's not eris. But who would it be?" Faestus asked, more to himself than anyone. Iris shrugged and seemed to pull a bottle of sulphur out of back pocket.

Grace sat in her room. Her home. This placce was hers. No-one could enter.

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Kazza walked out. "Who do you know who hates everyone?"

"Besides Eris, no one on earth. Well, except Lucifer. But that goes without saying," Faestus remarked, grimacing at how Iris chugged the sulphur.

Kazza sat down. "Their evil.. thats without a doubt. What else do we know?"

Iris took the bottle out of her mouth, making a loud popping sound.

"Well, they're nothing. And we just so happen to have a newly sealed goddess of nothing. And they are a collective mind, we think." Iris said.

Kazza sighed. "I think... I think... Their either people who have canged because of bad experiences or... they are memories. The past."

"I don't mean to sound harsh, but how would they get here?" Iris asked.

"How does anything get anywhere?"

"It... walks?" Iris asked.

"Through time. Through space."

"Wait, it walked through time?" Iris asked looking confused. Faestus gave he a look.

"With whose power. They were powerful, but not that strong. Who's helping them, do you think?" he asked.

Kazza shrugged. "Idunno."

Iris began to draw shapes in the air with her fingers, deep in thought. She did this for several long moments. Finally she sighed.

"Nope. Can't do it. No one can walk through time. There's just not enough speed." she said. Faestus stared at her.

Kazza rose an eyebrow.

"What?" she asked defensively.

"Calm down." Kaazza said, getting up and walking away.

"I'm trying to break the tension. Stress is bad for you. It leaves wrinkles."

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