"Because Faluel hadn't given me permission to. She stripped you naked, and since she was the only one to know the details of the Harbinger ritual, I assumed she had good reasons to keep you naked." Solus gave Friya a full check-up, but she understood nothing of what she saw.
Friya's mana core was whole again, but its external layer was thicker than before and the mana it contained swirled like a storm. Her life force was just as baffling.
The red colossus of her human side collapsed into a burning violet star surrounded by six smaller stars orbiting around it. A split second later, the violet star exploded into a nova whose fires rebuilt the red colossus from scratch just for the cycle to start anew.
"By my Mom, you are fine, but this is the weirdest fine I've ever seen."
"And coming from us, it means a lot." Lith triple checked Friya but had no better luck than Solus in understanding what was happening to their friend.
