Rachel listened quietly. While Cramnal, Rebecca, and Struns patiently waited at her side. She felt Marce's spirit slowly retreat from his soul. It could only go so far, she was not going to let him get off easily. She was going to take both his soul and his spirit.
Both his instinct and his collected memory and experience would be hers. He will both fight for her and advise her. This was the result of her sorceric method [Spirit being soul web trap].
Rachel stiffened subtly, she was not liking what she was hearing. Her breathing deepened as her anger rose. The more she heard the more her anger raged. Still she listened and she thought. She thought about The Conglomerate and their actions and possible greed. She thought about her sister, the realm's fatetress, or oracle, and how she never tried to harm anyone and she never even thought to protect herself from harm.
She listened and began blaming herself for her own introverted ways. And this is what she heard:
"We wanted to change the Milana to Anis because it was divined that it would be easier for the Conglomerate to manipulate realm characteristics because she can not fully control the realm."
This was within Rachel's expectations. "Were you intending to kill Anis and did the White President do the divination?"
"That I do not know for sure. I suspected so because the Black and White presidents where not concerned if she survived as long as she survived for nine hours after a successful ritual. And both the Black and White presidents can divine to a degree and have subordinates with divination skills. I am off on solo missions too often to have actually seen the divination done."
She nodded in agreement to what he was saying. It could have been either one and the two presidents always had to agree for an action to move through the government. Also everyone knew that Marce was essentially the organization's "fixer" and that he always worked alone.
"Hmmm… Did Shain know of this plan?"
"Yes."
This is what caused Rachel to initially stiffen and begin to question her own actions as the Milana.
"He is the one who verified that Anis would not be able to maintain complete control for long if at all. He believed that the realm would simple disconnect from her but he was not sure if this would cause a backlash for her or anyone involved"
Rachel thought on this for quite a while. She only read Marce's soul abruptly to decide what she would do next.
As she thought the tiniest part of Marce fought in vain to eject her from his soul well but he could not even enter it anymore. He was now completely his. Her spirit web sorceric method essentially renamed and realigned the space to be hers and to only listen to her commands.
After a short while she looked to Marce and slowly raised her hand. A flame bloomed on her palm and extended to encompass her fingers and wrist. The flame began purple to signify the main elemental aspect used then it changed to red, blue, and a pastel pink. Within a half of a second the colors bloomed brightly and the flame manifested with a purple core, moving to a layer of red, to a layer of blue, to a layer of pastel pink.
Her arm suddenly extended and her palm gently touched Marce's chest. As the fire seemed to splash forward like water spreading in a quiet ripple Rachel arched her palm and allowed only her fingers to touch his chest. Purple flames swirled about her thumb and index finger. Red flames bloomed on her pinky, and blue and pastel pink flames flowed along her pointer and ring fingers respectively.
Marce's body suddenly stood up straighter and seemed to elongate up toward the ceiling. Rachel spoke calmly to the others: "Shain knew of this and they were not concerned if Anis llived or died."
Hearing this Struns clinched his fist and Cramnal had an expression of confused bewilderment, but it was Rebecca who spoke.
"So can I have him as an…?"
Rachel spoke before she finished. "No. He will be mine." She looked to the floor. "But when I tame that abomination you released I will give you two of its aspects."
Rebecca smiled. "Thanks sis."
"Cramnal and Struns take Anis to the house. I am sure Emil will be able to get her back to 100% quickly. Rebecca and I will change Sibba's position and make needed adjustments then we will go to the underside and see how the crystal fares." All three answered in the affirmative simultaneously.
Before she finished speaking Marce's body was nothing more than purple, red, blue, and pastel pink ash.
A door opened and Struns and Cramnal departed. The multicolored ash lifted in a tight funnel cloud and entered a diamond and gold bottle Rachel held. She quickly closed it and its many facets brilliantly shown the four colors nine times and then cleared. She put the bottle away and a purple shadow appeared before her. It bowed and, with an ethereal version of Marce's voice, spoke. "Master"
Rebecca laughed. "You enslaved him?!? You are truly too horrible." Rebecca paused as a bright pink amorphous blob formed to Rachel's right. The blob did nothing except gently bob up and down as if waiting for an order.
Rachel said nothing to Rebecca's comment and took two steps forward and began to sink into the floor.
Rebecca shook her head, shrugged, and vanished from the spot. Her eyes focused on the pink blob the entire time.