> "Pretty much."
>It seems the Emperor is about to speak again, when the door behind him opens, and your eyes are immediately drawn to it as a tall woman walks in. She wears a long blue dress, with a white shirt underneath. Her face is strong and her eyes a striking shade of blue; her long and straight white hair reaches nearly to her knees. She wears a blue cape and this gives her the appearance of a stooped back, but you can see that she is concealing something underneath it; you can see the feathers on the underside of her cloak that give away the wings she is trying to conceal.
>You've seen her before, in the days before you left your old home. She was once a shinigami, charged with gathering the dead and directing them toward Higan; there was a time when she was a fairly common sight there. Then there was a scandal whose details never really seem to have come to light, and she was reassigned to tend to Makai. Everyone knew what this really meant; it is well known who the true power in Makai is and that being sent there is virtually the same as being exiled. It's hard not to gape, seeing her here of all places.
>You see Sariel's eyes widen a tad, before narrowing again. There is no doubt she is thinking many of the same things that you are.
>_
