"So you didn''t do anything?"

"No."

"And I didn''t do anything either."

"That is correct."

"So we''re good then."

"Yes, honey. Now stop sweating."

Eris wiped Abaddon''s brow for him and he smiled at her sheepishly.

"But then everything you saw... What are we supposed to do about it?"

Eris started to speak before eventually shaking her head in dismay. "I.. I don''t know. For now we just have to put it on the back burner until we can talk to the girls about everything else going on first."

"Like what?" At that moment, Ayaana stepped out onto the balcony with their husband and missing piece.

""W-We didn''t do anything!"" Eris and Abaddon both yelled in unison.

Ayaana paused and stared at the two of them awkwardly. "We didn''t say that you did, my loves... is there a reason why the two of you are so out of sorts?"

Now, Eris and Abaddon were both sweating.

Even though Izanami''s dream was no one''s fault but Chaos'', Abaddon and Eris didn''t know if Ayaana would really care.

That illusion was very detailed...

The more likely scenario was that Ayaana would charge inside and eat Izanami''s heart out of her chest.

So they both dreaded having to tell her anything more until they had a proper culprit for her to put her hands on.

"We were just tired." Abaddon said.

"Yes, very tired." Eris nodded her head a bit too hard, but her point was nonetheless made.

"Okay then..." Ayaana responded suspiciously. "Asherah says she''s ready to begin since everyone is here now."

Relieved, Abaddon and took both of his wives by the hand and stepped inside.

There, he was relieved to see his other sister and her family standing in the living room.

He rushed to embrace her, but she caught him by the face instead and pulled hard on his cheeks.

"I was in the middle of a school board meeting when your wives suddenly popped up and demanded that I come with them. Care to explain?"

"Would it be alright to say that I did it because I missed seeing your face when I woke up in the- Ow, ow, ow!! Okay, I promise it''s important, you silver-scaled rodent!!"

Abaddon now had new indents in his cheeks from his sister''s sharp, leathery fingers.

When she was finally pried off of him, Eris met her with a hug that no thinking creature was capable of refusing.

"I am glad to see you are well, Malenia. You do so rarely come home anymore."

Malenia extended her a warm courtesy that she did not se for to give to her brother a second ago.@@@@

"If she''s having visions like that then should she really be walking around this house unconfined??" Iori asked.

"A fair question, but I assure you that Izanami is not the danger here. Her actions and the things she saw were not of her own malicious devising. It was the work of the primordial Chaos."

"She''s back??" Gabbrielle almost exclaimed.

"""You knew she was around?!""" Bashenga, Abaddon, and Asherah questioned.

Gabbrielle realized that this might have indeed fallen into the category of important things she should have mentioned a long time ago, but she never did because no one ever asked her.

"...In the olden days she used to pop her head up from time to time. I felt her act whenever there were unique disturbances inside of the multiverse.

But I haven''t sensed her in this timeline, and the last time I sensed her in the previous one was somewhere around when Yesh''s son was killed."

Asherah was clearly growing a headache underneath her veil. "And you didn''t inform him or I because...?"

"I felt it was not my business... at the time."

Everyone gave Gabbrielle a kind of dry look. To which she responded by upping her whole cute, innocent act tenfold.

Everyone suddenly found it a lot harder to be mad at her then. She was just a baby!

"As I was saying... Izanami was not the concern because rather than betray this family, she instead attempted to take her own life using the very weapon that Chaos provided her. Which... appeared to be what it wanted all along." Asherah sighed.

The air inside of the room was suddenly very heavy.

Ayanna''s shoulders showed a minuscule amount of relief. Something that did not escape Abaddon''s notice. But that was only temporary.

"For a moment, she descended into Izanami''s body and attempted to leave the house. Luckily, Bashenga and Nyx were there and revealed her ruse to Eris, at which point Chaos abandoned the body."

Gaia looked at Bashenga suspiciously, as if she were wondering why her man (not her man btw) was hanging around with a known hoe while she wasn''t around.

Bashenga could feel her staring, but trained himself to focus on literally anything else.

"How was she even able to get in here?" Thrudd asked. "I thought our home was supposed to be unreachable from the outside."

This was what Abaddon most wanted to hear as well. It was his greatest concern currently.

Before she had even spoken, Asherah seemed uniquely exhausted in a way that Abaddon or Ayaana had never seen before.

"There are many working theories, one is that her contact with one Malachi Saint may have been possible... but I don''t know if I quite buy that one." She admitted.

Belloc, Thea, Aubrey, and Aisha seemed immensely relieved.

"Then what is your theory?" Abaddon raised a brow.

Asherah stared at him for a long time, as if her words were caught in her throat.

She then looked around the room, and as a result he and the others did the same. "Have you ever wondered what is outside?"

Abaddon and everyone else didn''t seem to understand her question.

"What? The valley?"

Asherah shook her head.

"No, Tathamet. I mean what is outside of Yesh. Have you ever wondered about Totality?"