Why did you give him that? It’s not like he has any use for that anyway.” He asked me as if he’d always known me. “I’m sorry but I can do nothing but pity him,” was my short reply. “If you truly pity him then it’s about time to kill him and end his suffering,” was his bloodthirsty comeback.

His stare intensifies. It feels like flames were being projected to me from his eyes.

“I can’t believe you left her then you know.” I knew it. He must also been reborn. “How much of it do you remember?” I made sure to look him at the eye when I said that so he couldn’t dodge my question. “Not a lot actually. For the first few days I thought I was still living out a dream where everything’s normal. I first realized that things weren’t the way they’re supposed to be when she started to ignore me.” He sighed. “I knew I let her down before.” “Don’t say that. Her world crumbled when you died!” Was my sorry attempt at comforting him. He chuckled. “Did it? I thought that considering how much of a burden I was to her before, she’d do better when I’m gone.” “Don’t think of yourself in that way…”

“Oh how did you figure I’m here by the way?” I slipped my hand to his pockets and took out the piece of limestone and returned it at its rightful place. “Because this dear sir, wants to be found,” was my witty comeback. Changing the topic, I asked, “By the way, what business do you have attacking innocent people?” 

“I hadn’t mean to. All I know was someone grabbed me by the shoulder and the next thing I know my blade was by his side. Anyway, the spirit gem you gave him can be taken as my sorry.”

“I can’t believe you. I also knew it, you can think of no way to leave this situation do you?”

“Yup. You were the brains of the group so tell me, how do we get out of this one?” “Follow me,” was my succinct reply.

I took out a talisman from my coat. I used a transform spell to make it a chalk. I halved it and gave one to him. Btw, his name is Natan.

“Since the caves are dissimilar in a lot of ways, all we need is to draw a boundary between them that limits their self-image to a certain area. Once the boundaries are established, the caves can begin to distinguish themselves from the other and the fusion will be annulled.”

I explained and then we started to work separately from the top and bottom of the cave.

Once we were done, the caves regained their sense of self and this part of the world is restored to its proper order.