Crossroads #27

Note: It is essential that all new members read either the full story or the summaries. This is for the benefit of the player so that the character will resume, or come into play correctly. If you have questions please send them clef@comic.com. . Thanks! –Umi

[Summary]

In the beginning of Crossroads 27 we are taken back into the past, the year of 1928 in the Tibetan mountains, more precisely the Shadow’s past. While he was training as a student and learning about ‘Makura no hiruma’ which touches the inner shadow to gain access to power. We glimpse the beginnings of change within the once dark opium lord of Kent Allard to the present day Shadow who deals in saving the lives he once was a part of.

Meanwhile in the present; Nova holding the communicator Clef had given each one of the groups she hears Clef’s strained report about how the castle had been attacked by Ragyn. She hastely asks if they should go back to make sure everything is all right. Mackey disagrees with Nova suggesting that they are needed more so there than any where else.

Else where- Kyoko hears Clef also and quietly muses how much the past Clef is like the future Clef of her time. Underhandedly, to get things going at a lighter side, Kyoko suggests that Ferio help out Fuu because her ankle is still a little injured from the Tokyo Tower incident. Ferio also makes note of a ‘family’ resemblance between Kyoko, himself and perhaps even Fuu. Fuu offhandedly asks Kyoko if she is from Earth sending Kyoko into a fit of pondering since she has never actually been to Earth but still does not want to blow her cover as a stranger rather than their daughter from the future. She decides to confide in her father knowing that her mother, as wise as she is, would be very suspicious of the news. She pulls Ferio aside and tells him to which he grins sheepishly is mildly shocked. Ferio accepts this knowledge and promises to help hide it from Fuu. At the same time Kyoko asks her father for a hug and he obliges still a little thoughtful about everything Kyoko told him. They return to Fuu and cover up their conversation as if they were agreeing she needed assistance from Ferio because of her ankle.

All the other groups are still where they were in crossroads 26.

At the end of crossroads 27 Kyoko cant help but think that Umi and Caldina would be proud of her sneakiness in trying to get her parents together. [end of summary 27]