In the room, Bazby, as always, drew the girl into his embrace, completely enclosing her within his arms.
He spoke to her.
What Meila had said about his identity was something he no longer wished to remember—what he wanted to hold on to was that he was Bazby, the child who had walked out from The Lost Fissure.
He had been to The Lost Fissure, but it was not as he had once claimed—that he went there to crusade against the descendants of the Ancients who had escaped and hidden within the Fissure—but because he had originally lived inside the Fissure.
He was one of those children born already mutated by nature… He remembered that his father's name was Norman, and his mother's name was Bixisi.
The Ancients within the Fissure, after discovering the reason why every newborn would mutate, slaughtered all the children in a pit… but he did not die. He hid.
