Twilight of a Hybrid, стр. 54

Marina looked at Sora. Marina was then curious about the hibernation mentioned rom Sora. “Yet, she has been in hibernation for all this time. I wonder, did she hear everything that was going on.”

“Even though she was asleep, her ears were wide open. Magically, she had an ability to listen to everything around. Her hearing could stretch out for thousands of miles. Her mind heard listened to everything was happening and images swirled in her brain while she listened to the time changing the world outside her hibernation chamber.

“The past ten thousand years have been absorbed into her mind, and she knows what has happened, but she mentioned she only focused her attention of me and not the islands after the changing. What a little sister she turned out to be, and I am glad I am proud to have been her big brother, even if we are half siblings.”

Marina could sense a bit of light shining in Valverno’s crimson eyes. Despite his outlook, corruptible appearance, Marina saw a spec of light sparkling behind those eyes. “I knew there was pureness behind those hideous eyes,” she said, whispering silently so Valverno wouldn’t hear her.

Valverno’s ear flickered of a fly bug sound. He heard whispering echoing close to an ear of his. He quickly looked at Maria was trying to hide a small smile. “Did you say something?”

Marina turned his eyes away from Valverno’s eyes. She was feeling embarrassed she was hiding her smile from him. “Oh, nothing,” she said.

Valverno shook his head. “Hah, I see what’s going on here, and you just planning on something to get my attention, are you?”

Marina stayed silent.

Valverno thought Marina was thinking doing something to get rid of Sora. He could, in fact, try to read her mind and see what Marina was thinking in that fish brain of hers, but he couldn’t do so without her permission; Marina was his wife after all and doing something bad could lead straight a divorce.

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The group walked endlessly in the dark tunnels. As they pressed deeper into the descending darkness, the tunnel grew larger and the torches flying around the group brighten the darkness. Sora still led ahead while Valverno and Marina walked in the middle and Geraldus and Flarefur walked in the back.

After a long walk in the long, dark tunnel, Sora suddenly stopped and looked at small paintings carved on the walls. “Valverno, you must look at this,” she said, pointing to a picture carved on the wall.

Valverno stopped as did the others and walked to Sora, whom Marina grew angry again at for just saying her husband’s name. “Just what is it you want to show me?” Valverno looked closely at the picture Sora was pointing at. He gazed upon… himself. The hybrid saw the picture depicting himself as a small child with smaller wings and smaller legs.

Next to the childlike picture of Valverno was a tall woman in a hazel, emerald dress with a small green veil over her head and another child smaller than the other child being carried held in the woman’s arms.

“Is that me?” asked Valverno. “And would that infant be you when you were just very young? Mother sure did look the same as she was back then.”

“Mother was looking out for the well-being for the both of us,” said Sora. “She did love us, brother, as we loved her. She was just overwhelmed she was raising the first and only demigod ever created in the Mortal Realm. And every time harm would come to us, you would always be there to get us out.”

Valverno was suddenly sadden and touched the cave painting depicting his mother, sister, and his child appearance. “I remember her name well, but I can’t remember what she was like. Yet, I remember what she did manage to save us from Pangaea’s destruction.”

“That day,” signed Sora. “That day, when Pangaea was destroyed, was the day many of our kin lost their lives, including Mother. She have died, but we both lived on. But enough of childhood years, you need to know about the history.” Sora grabbed Valverno’s wrist and dragged him to the next set of cave paintings painted by an unknown species.

Valverno had nearly slipped but the claws on his feet kept him from falling and he walked the pace Sora was walking. Valverno felt eager to see what Sora wanted to show him. “You still haven’t changed one bit: dragging me everywhere with you, or when I go to fight, you always want in.” Valverno smiled of his sister’s eagerness to show him things they never discovered.

In some of his memories buried deep in his mind of those only of Sora, Valverno saw Sora and himself as kids. Then he would see blurred, shadowy figures watching over them. He could see a child Sora playing climbing up a tree but falling after reaching for the tallest branch, which broke easily and made a child Valverno fly and catch his falling sister before she could break her neck on the tree’s wide roots. His memories show Sora getting into trouble spots, and he would always be his little half-sister out of trouble.

Sora stopped in front of a large picture showing a large snakelike creature with a dozen tails with a three-eyed cobra head. Circling the big creature were the same but smaller and counted a dozen of those animals like a swarm of bees circling around the queen bee.

“Is that… a Titan?” asked Valverno.

“Yes, my elder brother, it a Titan, which’s name is unknown. The names of the Titans, the firstborn of First Generation of Living Life and first creations of the gods, have all been forgotten and destroyed. Despite having a destroyed mind, your memory is sharper than I thought.”

“You and I were learning about ancient life at the same time as possible. The memories you restored in my mind are a great help to me. Sadly, the