[Shionne frowns and looks down at her wrist. She knows that it's an indication that all of her time around Alphen and the others that has changed her. She won't say it, but even she knows that she's not the same woman who started this mission when she left Lenegis.

It's going to be that much harder when she has the Renas Alma and she has to sacrifice herself. There's no other way. And she hasn't told them what she suspects that "curing" her curse means dying, but she knows that her curse is related to her dreams and the danger that she can't understand the origin of. It was so easy when she didn't care, when she didn't have a reason to care outside of her desire to not have all of the planet system be destroyed.

Now, however, she can put faces to the distant Dahnans, faces and thoughts and dreams. It's almost cruel now that she might have made friends right before she has to die.

Kisara can't know how much the words she means to be helpful are painful to Shionne, but they're appreciated, even if the Renan can't really express it or even accept them.]

I don't have a place anywhere, Kisara. [She can feel her curse sparking, tingling down her skin and making it obvious how very alone she is.] The only person who can touch me is Alphen and that's because he doesn't feel pain.