It was frightening. When had an adult ever meant them well? When had they last been touched without the intent to hurt; Fai resisted without even really meaning to. The cloak came around him and, like an afterthought, the warmth it still carried lagged behind, as if he had forgotten how to feel it. That was what nearly undid him, the warmth, the softness.

Everything in him wanted to close his eyes, to relax, to sleep. There was no part of Fai not tense and weary with that tension, and the warmth spoke to that right through his defenses.

Fai, I'm here to take you away.

"No!" It was the sensation of falling, a sudden panic; no matter what else was true, to leave this place without the most important person in any world, was unthinkable, "No, you can't. You have to take him-- save Yuui first."