Executed!!!

Thisias listens in on the conversation.... First he hears of Zera...

But she helped us... I can't allow this to happen...

Thisias stands and looks at the others...

"Continue without me... I will return shortly..."

Thisias holds up his palm as the wall in front of him melts into itself creating a portal... Thisias steps into it and the wall "heals" itself closed.

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Thisias appears in Zera's cell...

"Mam... I want to ask you a few questions... I want them answered immediantly..."

Jihon looks at Soul and then back to Asaki.

"Don't woprry about it! As far as I am concerned.... This is one giant vacation!"

Jihon smiles.

"Just don't hurry to get here... Everyone needs you..."

Jihon smiles again....

Thisias looks around...

"Are you truthfully willing to die for this?"

Thisias frowns...

"Why did you not stand up for yourself?"

Thisias looks up again.

"Not that I care... I just hate to see anyone die..."

Zera's grin fades to a smirk.

"Would you have begged for your life in front of that witch and her whipped dog? Would you have crawled on your hands and knees to bow down in front of that thick-headed marine?"

She watches his expression and nods.

"That is why I did not do it. I would rather die than make myself into a slobbering whining pet for them!" she flexes her fingers and pulls herself up a bit, the shackles beginning to make her muscles ache. "I served a cruel master, I did his bidding because I had no choice...and now I must die for it."

Her eyes lower.

"Even if I did plead for my life, they would not give it to me. Tomorrow I can only hope that my soul will be at peace when they deliver the killing blow, so I may return here..."

She flicks her eyes up.

"Do you think an evil soul can be cleansed overnight?"

The sparkle of a tear trickles down her face despite the bitter smirk on her lips. Her mind reaches out to Thisias' and pulls whatever pity and mercy he has lying on the surface, forcing them into the open so he might feel them for her. She waits silently for his answer, knowing that if she can capture his soft feelings, she might have a chance...

"Yes, I have been to Earth before," Zera sighs. "Though we didn't stay long. It was a mission to find Jahanna a certain source of energy he could drain, but anyway...why do you ask?"

She shakes a lock of blood-red hair from her eyes, unable to brush it away with her hand. It falls back over her left eye and she frowns at it before looking back at Thisias...