About three days passed.
Ethan and Yaya stood in the vast emptiness of the void, watching two figures; one enormous and one small, gradually drift away until the darkness swallowed them completely. Ethan's gaze carried a quiet unease, while Yaya's expression was still stuck somewhere between disbelief and confusion.
"Big brother… was it telling the truth?"
Ethan did not answer immediately. After a moment, he withdrew his senses from the lingering presence in the void and gave a slow nod.
That single motion was enough to turn Yaya's disbelief into something closer to fear.
Half a day earlier, the Star Beast whose child Ethan had helped deliver finally recovered enough to move again. The moment it regained its strength and returned to its natural state, it did something neither of them expected; it spoke in human language. The first thing it did was express gratitude, thanking Ethan sincerely for saving both it and its offspring.
