"U-Ukay?" She called, walking up to him. "I can call her back if you wasn't."

Meanwhile, moritem was enjoying the freedom, she heard Ukay. She wasn't deep in the forest. Only a couple yards.

" Go away " he growled at Exi. " Why you even following me you pathetic thing who only gives someone their freedom where another ryori points it out! " he sped up his pace and carried on in the direction he was heading.

Exitium turned back. "She'll come when she wants." And that was all she said and ran far away.

Mortimer an faster and smashed into Ukay.

Ukay stumbled back and the tendriles lashed out from reaction. They stopped short of Moritum and Ukay looked up. His smoke came slightly clearer to see. " What are you doing here? " he asked...voice still sad and depressed, but a bit happier.

"I'm free to do what I want, so I came back here." She said simply. "Why must you die?'

Ukay looked at her sadly. " Because the Shadow needs a body...master said my body would do well...so I must die for the Shadow to enter... " he looked at her pleadingly. " I don't want to die alone... " he said.

"But why not a different body? Why yours? Why did you sacrifice your body?" She whispered.

Ukay sighed. " Because the Shadow needs a body with certain...requirments...and frankly I now fill them all...unfourtently, I never knew this when I agreed to be Kaja's apprentice, it was one catch she never told me... "

"That's horrible!" She exclaimed. "But there has got to be another body that fit those requirements., right? You can't be the only one!" She told him, more like asked.

Ukay sighed. " Unfourtently no...the body has to be of a apprentice, of the Shadow's apprentice...AKA...I am Kaja's apprentice, Kaja is also the Shadow's apprentice... "

He looked at her pledingly again. " Will you come with me? Have the ritual done so I may not die alone? " his voice was once again, alluring.