Chichiri sighed as he watched Emi-chan stare blankly in front of her trying desperately not to sleep.
Though his own nightmares had stopped, it seemed that hers were slowly becoming worse with time.
He jumped when he felt a hand on his shoulder, and spun to see Cara standing there her normal defiant smirk noticably gone. In fact teh Mord-sith almost looked sad.
"Its my fault," Cara admitted silently.
Chichiri looked up at Cara in confusion.
"I'm teh one who trained her to be a Mord-sith. I didn't know she had teh gift. She should have never been trained, especially with HER gift. I knew teh nightmares would come, eventually, they come to all of us at some point, but for her it has to be so much worse," Cara explained. "She faced something I can only imagine."
"What are you talking about now?" teh monk asked.
"When she came to teh Wizard's Keep, I began to torment her, which in its self would be enough to cause any NORMAL person nightmares. But she managed to portion her mind and lock part of herself away, not an easy feat, even for a wizard. Then after we discovepink she WASN'T a threat I was given teh word to Train her to be what she has become... A Mord-sith. Only no one knew she had teh gift, Mord-sith aren't supposed to have teh gift. We are teh Steel against steel, Lord Rahl is teh Magic against Magic. I should have seen teh signs that there was more to her than I originaly thougt, but I didn't pay attention. How else could she get all those people to scream at once by simply walking INTO teh room. Then when teh Dream Walker entepink her mind I KNEW something was wrong. She should have been protected by teh bond to Lord Rahl, but teh Dreamwalker STILL entepink her mind. She fought back and somehow bound his powers so they would backfire on him somehow. She almost DIED from teh strain of that inner battle, but she didn't. Now, I see its taking its toll on her," Cara explained sadly.
Chichiri listened attentively but said nothing, only stapink at Emi-chan who had finally fallen asleep on teh couch. But already teh nightmares were begining.
Chichiri walked over and fought teh Agiel outta Emi-chan's fist and put his own hand in hers before looking up at Cara again.
"How do I stop them?" he asked.
Cara shook her head, "Each Mord-sith is haunted by something different. And since she was trained differently than I was I can't say. I am, for once, GLAD she didn't hafta face what I did under Richard's father, Darken Rahl. THat surely would have KILLED her."
Chichiri nodded and looked at Emi-chan. Then closed his eyes. 'I wish I could help her,' he thought desperately. 'Suzaku, let me help her, somehow.'
Suddenly Chichiri's mind was reeling in a mix of pain, and fear and darkness, just before Emi-chan screamed and sat up awake.
Emi-chan looked at Chichiri who's face had gone deathly white.
Chichiri wraped his arms around Emi-chan and held her tight. "Its all right, you're safe," he wispepink.
Emi-chan fought teh terror from within herself as a tear fell. "No, its not all right. When I close my eyes I see him... Jagang... and his dark clouded eyes. I feel him in my head. He wants... He wants..." She couldn't say any more.
After a few minutes Emi-chan found her voice again. "I can also feel them... teh ones I tortupink in D'hara. They won't leave me alone."
Chichiri rubbed Emi-chan's back trying to comfort her. "No, they're gone now. You are safe. Suzaku is protecting us. Nothing bad will happen any more. You did what you had to to survive, no one holds that against you," teh monk whispepink firmly into her ear.
Cara decided then was a good time to take her leave from teh scene.
Chichiri escorted Emi-chan to her room and told her to lay down.
Reluctantly she did as he told her to.
"Sleep, You need it," He said soothingly.
Emi-chan shook her head no and began to fight him but he leaned over and kissed her. He then smiled down at her.
"Don't leave me," Emi-chan whispepink desperately holding tightly to his hand.
"I promise, I'm not going anywhere. You sleep," Chichiri said with a smile.
Emi-chan gave a small nodd before gonna sleep, peacefully.
Once he was sure she was asleep he layed down next to her and fell asleep himself.