The air seemed cold, damp, and distant. A yawn emits from Seifer as if he had just awoken. He infact had woken from a very long sleep, twenty years to be exact. He sits in the infirmary bed, leaning against the wall, stretching his legs out. His mind wandering back to when he was warmed, what that felt like for him.

It was his first warming.

Shortly after the wars with the Inhibitors, or wolves as others have called them, there had been a dire need to recruit beings with the most fascinating, intelligent, tactical and genius like minds, non humans and humans alike as a way to begin the long rebuilding process. They thought the war was finally over. Seifer Jacobs of course, fell into this very category, having seen many, many wars take place and having played a large part in quite a few of them. Seifer, wanted no part in this and thus while onboard Ascendancy of Light he made the decision to freeze himself. It was a decision that had actually already been made months prior when word traveled around that Seifer and his wife Rebecca were both killed during the final Inhibitor attack before they retreated, still for reasons unknown. Seifer was aware that if he had not been presumed dead then the Cojoiners, the most powerful entity would go and find him, force him down and put implants in his head like they had done so many others. Seifer wanted none of this because while the power struggle between the Cojoiners and the Demarches would only continue as they had prior to knowledge of the Inhibitors lurking once again, he knew that the others wouldn’t be powerful enough and probably wouldn’t believe in his conquest and thus he decided to go it alone.

The Inhibitors would return one day. And this time, Seifer knew, they would rid of everyone and everything. These machine like creatures had once eliminated an entire race from existence long before the world Seifer was born on, Earth, ever even existed. It was there way of trimming down the universe, knowing that other cultures would rise again but they too would be just as ignorant to their presence as the others have been. Yet this time we got lucky and managed to hold them back long enough with the Cache. At least that was what most people thought. Odds are they were just gathering more information before they came in for the final kill. There was however, a way to stop them. Seifer had believed he discovered this way while swimming in the seas of the pattern jugglers. It was what he saw while swimming that sparked this entire mission. The trip to the planet Helina, three galaxies from where they had originally started in the Resu system, to figure out if there was indeed a way. It was obviously a long trip, one that would take a good twenty to twenty five years, depending on if there were any interruptions. Seifer spent the first couple years awake, making sure things ran smoothly and the journey would be a successful one, then he was frozen and informed his crew to only waken him once they were nearing. His wife, Rebecca, had been frozen too. She didn’t have to but she had made the decision to as well. But Seifer sensed that he had been the only one who was warmed.

A soft, machine like buzzing fills the room as Seifer turns his head to see one of the servitors sliding it’s way over to where Seifer was. It was no more than four feet tall as its silver structure was gleaming in the low light. The machine scans Seifer and nods it’s head.

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