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\\2 week timeskip: During the rematch//

The shadow forest, once more the epicentre for massive unrest amongst the immortal, vampire and were-folk populous as they are reminded yet again that a bigger threat looms in that ivory tower at the north eastern fringe, though now they were all having to endure close call after close call as the fight was dragging on, and feeling the godling come close to nuking the whole sector nearly three times now.

Though there was one person who was just letting it go... Myself, tucked away far to the south west of the forest just watching the lightshow from atop the willow tree on my estate, scratching my head wondering for how long this will go on as I use the yet to be severed Life Web link I have to Duncan to watch the fight through his eyes. The link likely hasn't gone unnoticed, but more so overlooked since I'm only using it to watch was going on. Taking time away from it all to flip through my phone to leave Piper texts that she can look at her leisure. Texts like:

[Another fight is breaking out between the templars and that kid they were hunting near the warrens. Though now that kid is like, a god or something. This forest keeps getting weirder.] Accompanied with several pics of myself with the lightshow in the background making funny faces to make it seem like less of a huge deal.

[If it starts getting too crazy I'm going to book it to Arcion after I evacuate the villages. For now it looks like it's well in hand. I can sense Samuel mason out that way along with some other powerful aura wizards so it shooould be okay. Fingers crossed.]

[If all goes well I think I'll come visit again on Saturday after I check up on that daughter of mine.] By this time I have spilled the beans on the recent developments with Fem-Cell to Piper, and how she seems to be warming up to the idea of actually being good instead of drinking people. [I haven't seen her in awhile. Not since before you and me got serious.]

The last time I saw her was 3 days ago after me and Weston had our friendly chat and me and Piper continued seeing each other. The weird eye thing that was in my head left too the other day without a trace, my eye grew back right after. Even my hair went back to it's usual dark brown colour. I can't say I'll miss it, I won't miss that uncomfortable wriggling it would do in my head. And all it did was give me some small amount of power. I'm glad it's out of me in all honesty... though despite how laid back I felt about my recent developments I was doing alot better all thanks to Piper. I felt tons stronger too, compared to my old strength I was surprised by the explosive improvements with my recent artificial gen boost. At the time I didn't notice it during those first three days, I adapted quickly as we went at each other. Though taking he time now to explore the new depths of my capabilities. I felt incredible.

"Hmm?" From the looks of it the fight was drawing to a close. I sever the Life Web link between Duncan and myself as I see that Vengeance was about to lose. "I'll leave them alone, looks like the fight is good as done anyways. Oh, better tell Piper that just incase she sees all that and worries." I talk aloud as I type [Looks like the fight is all done. The sector gets to stand another day. Can't wait to come see you again, xx] Smiling like an idiot, I hit send and pocket my phone again as I get down from the tree, scratching my chin as I start to focus on just what the fruit of my rage could be doing right now for me not to sense her.

"... With a fight with 2 S3's going on she could be hiding, not wanting to draw their attention... Eh no she might have come to me to hide. She was warming up to me being her dad so she might have taken the opportunity to see how I would react to this situation... Or I'm just crazy and wish she would be more daughter like with me." I sit down on the porch looking out towards the front gate past my garden, looking nowhere in particular and just throwing ideas around in my head as I rest my head in my hands "She's probably just run to ground after all the family stuff that happened. I'd be super intimidated too with all the strange crap that happened around here. I'm just super desensitised to it... Then again she can use Sector melting natures even I don't know... So she could very much clap my step-sisters crazy brother and dad... Not an unpleasant thought... Which reminds me. When I do find her I'll have to convince her to teach me those at some point. I'm sure that should be fine." My mind wonders on the nature of my daughter... Like why there aren't more like her. Aura wizards must have torn apart the landscape for thousands of years in their emotional fits. So how come there weren't many like her? If any at all... "The closest thing I can compare to Fem... Is that boy Tobbi's Ink spider.... But that thing lives as a part of him and only reacts when his sister goes missing, from what I've seen anyways... Fem Cell isn't like that though... Isn't she? Hmm... She does directly feel my anger... I had to really stress myself during the civil war so she didn't come to Zocom, or devour the denizens of the forest in feeling all my anger and pain."

I lose myself in thought about the nature of my daughter and just how she came to be. Directly born of my trauma and anger incubated in this forest instead of inside my body... Perhaps really Fem-Cell has existed within me far longer than she knows, and only got free to grow apart from me after my numerous painful episodes over the years. Perhaps she was even born back when I was first turned into a vampire. Lurking as a part of me until recently... How would have things have changed if she remained part of me, would I have become like Tobbi? Cell only awakening when my mind has no other choice but to rely on that ravenous hunger... Perhaps... She never really left me. And what I am trying to find right now is just an aspect of the greater trauma beast that still dwells in my body, waiting for the right boxes to be ticked so it can be unleashed. Much like the Ink spider...

I ruffle my hair and shake my head with all this thinking, likely thinking way too much into the nature of my connection to my daughter. "Okay pause pause... If that was the case I likely... Maybe... Probably would have gone off the rails and started drinking people ages ago, it would be crazy if I had no idea right...?" I say to myself while one of the passing skeleton guards just adds "Didn't that Tobbi kid have no idea he was wrecking that capital of theirs until he got told about it and saw for himself?"

My eyes just pan to the skeleton and just shoo him as I am now way more stressed that I could be passing out and drinking people without my knowing. But that was crazy.. I only have a few instances where I have passed out with no memory of what happened. "Oh that doesn't help me in the slightest. I am likely just overthinking things though! Hopefully... Maybe I should invest in some powerful golems or robots that can hold me down if I do get all 'people drinky'..." Not liking my current train of thought, I go about flicking through my phone looking for pictures of cats and funny videos to bring my mood back up from the worrying topics I forced upon myself yet again. All the while I send some skeleton guards to look for signs that my daughter has been active in the forest.