9 |The princess' aid|

Liliana poked his forehead. From this motion alone the hairs on his head stood on end as if an unknown force went through his body.

"Why did our Saint bring him back? alive to? also, why isn't she here?"

"Liliana... shut up and stop probing him"

"Hey! I'm just wondering"

His hair fell back to its natural state. No longer seeming to have a life of its own.

"And you know what they say 'Where there is Curiosity Mir can't be far behind' right?"

"Don't give me that! I would never associate with him nor his sins"

"mhm... well keep your mouth shut and let's wait for her holiness to appear"

Ren checked the young man's pulse before walking to stand at the head of the table where Liliana joined her in waiting.

"While we wait... tell me more about the newest addition to our 'Mulleres do mar' my dearest sister Ren"

Ren responded without looking at her, "Well it is simply her holiness previously would rescue women for our cause and inducted them, but a few months ago I suggested the Cardinals take on this task in order to prevent her holiness the saint from endangering herself for just mortals."

She spoke and paced at the same time. It was one of her habits from having to always be on the move. "Thus, from now on each cardinal must journey outside the region once or twice a month to recruit women. We are also now required to take on personal disciples for further grooming them for later on as a possibility of a replacement for us or even just to add to our church's might!"

"Oh! what a good idea, but, I'm sure our saint would have thought of it before?"

"Tsk... for as violent as you are aggressive you aren't completely stupid. Yes, our holiness had indeed thought of this, but she did not want to mentor us too much and waited for us to pursue more responsibilities for the cathedral. anyway point being we have more to do now and with the addition of this man here we might have more than I expected"

"Wait! you know something about this him Ren?!"

"Shush! I am not obligated to divulge anything I know Liliana, plus you will know soon enough!"

As Ren concluded her sentence the clatter of weighted heels in the halls became apparent. The steps rang out with the force of oppression and it was not just a single pair of steps but many making an ensemble. The people in question arrived at the door of the room within moments.

The two cardinals could sense there were two Psuedo-Cardinals who had arrived and stood at either side of the door. They acted as guards and this told Ren and Liliana who had just arrived. Their saintess appeared at the doorway as if she was always there.

Her presence was that of unintentional suppressing might. She was born with her powers so she spent her life learning how to control it, but occasionally she would give off a feeling of imminent death by suffocation to those around her and if you were not strong enough you might just die on the spot.

She nodded to the two Cardinals before walking to the foot of the table where she looked down at the person laying on the table, he was the one she was ordered to capture in the woods, after cleansing the rest of his group. He was Jian Greed...