And thus the day is close to an end, the nameless city prepares to welcome the coming of a new day. It is dark outside, but nevertheless, the clock ticks and tocks, counting down to midnight's chiming without rest. It is in this final moments that our young hero, Sir Flynn Scifo, finds rest in an old chair by his bed. Still clad in full armor, he sits with his eyes closed, listening to the sound of his voice as he continues his narration. Sleep began its seductive calls hours ago, but with his very being still gripped tightly by today's curse, he finds himself caught in an awkward place. Reasonably tired, but very much awake, his mind wanders, finding no better alternative for simple thinking than this for the moment.

In this moment of strange reverie, he finds himself recalling that first night he had to call off the search for Yuri's body. It is a strange thought to think of now, that some time ago he almost believed that his troublesome friend was dead, when now he was with his roommates, and his trusty dog, Repede, sleeping soundly. Sleep didn't come that night until the first break of dawn, and then he was forced to take naps in between the journey back to Zaphias. The questions about Yuri's fate had kept him awake then, and it was only until he was given leeway to send a single patrol ship to go around the ruins of Zaude that sleep began coming easier. It was an order he had issued with some level of guilt, and torn between his duty to the Empire in disarray, and his duty to his friend, Yuri, he eventually called off that patrol ship in favor of stationing them to areas hit hardest by the former Commandant's betrayal.

Flynn stops here, sighing heavily at the state of his narration. He opens his eyes, blue like the clear summer skies, and he turns to the communicator he had left on his desk. He finds it strange that it has small lights that are blinking and very much alive, for he remembers switching it off in the manner he had been taught to. This curiosity rouses his from his rest, and he rises from his seat to check on it.

He gasps then as its screen comes to life--