Chapter 5: I know you, don't I...? ---------------------------------- "You're insane! You can't go anywhere in your condition! Ho back to bed, you need to rest!" Katarin exclaimed. "But I must go,.. I have to fight... and then..." Kain whispered, clutching spasmodically at the woman and his unmasked face. His eyes were glazed over, and he looked extremely feverish. Just then she heard a loud splintering crash from the next room. 'Children!' she thought to herself. She was a bit distracted, as she was supporting most of Kain's weight herself, and having a hard time of it. She looked in Cecil's direction, expecting to see a screaming, injured child. "Oh!" she exclaimed, and nearly dropped Kain when he passed out. Cecil rushed forward to help the woman. Once they had Kain back to his room, Katarin turned back to Cecil. "You must be the doctor from Jidoor," she began. "We're so glad you could come, and so quickly! He's been getting worse ever since we sent out that letter, he doesn't even know who he is on a good day!" "I am afraid you must be mistaken," Cecil corrected her. "I am not a doctor. But I _do_ know this man, and I have magic that might help him." "Oh, anything could help, I'm sure, and if you know him, maybe he'll remember you!" Cecil was confused as to how Kain had arrived here, in this time, but was too overjoyed to see him to ponder it much, besides, there were more important things to consider, such as what had happened to his old friend. He took out the orb fragment, and cast Cure 2. Kain woke, but still seemed ill. He then cast Antidote, which cleared up all Kain's _physical_ ailments. He gave Cecil the strangest look; it was something combining gratitude, confusion, recognition, and fear. He spoke. "I thank you for your aid..." He put his hand to his forehead, still a bit dizzy, and looked at Cecil again. "It seems I have lost... my memory? I don't know who I am!... And yet... I don't understand! I know you..." "Kain...?" Cecil began, a little wary. They hadn't parted on the best of terms; he hadn't seen his friend since they had killed Zeromus. "Am I?" Kain interrupted. " You are... a friend...! I am sorry, my friend." He held his face in his hands, as if he had a headache. "I... can't.. rememb-" "No Kain, I am sorry." Cecil knelt by the patient's bed. He had a strange feeling that for some reason, this was all his fault, his guilt stemming from the fact that he had never told Kain that he had eventually forgiven him. "It's Cecil... you were my friend, we killed Zeromus..." While Cecil began to try and explain what was going on, Katarin took the opportunity to get up and discreetly left the room. "We saved the world, Kain, and now we have the chance to do it again. You see, this is not the period in time in which we belong. There are great and many evils which are..." He described the situation as he knew it, about Edgar's sacrificing himself to destroy Livouf Takar, the demon ruling in Figaro, and so on. He tried to tell Kain about his past, but there were so many things that were so hard to explain. 'How do I tell my best friend he tried to kill me twice...?' he thought to himself, and decided it was best not to try. Kain seemed confused enough as it was, and when he tried to regenerate memories of Golbez, he got a strange, glazed look, as if subconsciously, he didn't want to remember... Cecil finally gave up trying, but swore to his friend that he would do everything in his power to help him regain himself. * * * * * Kain was still confused. He felt extremely bad that he could not remember his friend, Cecil. But he did seem so familiar, more so than anything else in this strange world. And what was this abut not being in his own time? He had travelled into the future. He had woken after falling from a barren rock face, and could not remember anything before that... It made sense, in a way. He didn't know anything about himself or his past. He knew how to survive, and other such skills, but nothing about him... It bothered Kain; it bothered him a LOT. But there was nothing he could do but wait, and see what time would do for him. Cecil had convinced him that he was needed here. If there was so much evil around, it needed to be stopped. He felt that he must have been a good person, but couldn't understand why Cecil was holding some things back. This Rosa person... he had only mentioned her once, and only in passing. For a yet unknown reason, he felt that she must be important... Perhaps he had done something wrong? The two had decided to leave the next day, as Kain was completely healed. Cecil had told him about the airship, and he had suggested they look and see if they could trace where it had gone. It seemed a good a plan as any, and who could have missed seeing an airship flying around?