Lacking Humanity|Crescent Moon

Chapter Forty-Three

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Sage felt herself standing on nothing, or it looked like nothing. Something was keeping her up and no matter how far she walked into the pure whiteness, she wouldn't gain any other color.

Yet when she looked down she remained in the outfit the witches put her in.

"Aurelia?" Sage called out, looked around, unsure of which direction she came from to which she wanted to go in prior thought. "Sweet witch?"

"I'm right here child...Are you ready to begin?" Sage smiled at the familiar face, almost in relief as she came closer to the sight of another person.

"I help find Raven, I miss Raven."
"I know, and we will...But the mind is a funny thing Luna. We are following your thoughts, now I want you to concentrate...Think about the time when you were there, what is the first—" The scene around them had changed instantly, there was little distraction in Sage's mind as the Underground and facilities kept such a large percentage of her memories that it was simple to tap into that stream.

And Aurelia would be able to aid from here.

Sage turned in a full circle, mindful that Aurelia was standing beside her, but seeing the cages she flinched—Especially when she saw herself.

Her hands hurried to touch the bars only to fall through and enter the cell again...her home.

"You cannot talk to your memories Sage, we are here to watch and learn."
"Listen and learn." Aurelia smiled, but then her head shot towards the buzzing door as large men started to charge in with similarly dressed men as memory Sage. Though they were unconscious.

"Luke and Liam come...This is first day they come, I offer food." And sure enough she did, but Aurelia had whispered out to her coven about what she was seeing so far of the facility and the workers. Any details on their uniforms that would aid them in this predicament.

"Your memories are clear Sage, this will help us...Can you show me Raven?" It took a moment longer than the first, but it happened. The scene swirled around and Sage turned around to see her wolf growl at her.

Not our wolf. Past wolf.

Sage's wolf had reminded her that they were in a memory, and she was simply in between her wolf's warning to be standing in between her and Raven. 

"Raven hurt when she come in..." Aurelia hummed, and though it was difficult to sort through the time-lapses, Sage's memories still proved useful.

It didn't seem as though the facility killed her niece, if anything it gave her numbers. Identification, names, and her niece proved to be a force to be reckoned with as the guards had to sedate her more times than not.

"Let's try another memory Sage, I've met Henry...Who else is there to meet?" Sage didn't know any names, she knew faces and the pain that followed those faces.

"Doctors put me to sleep, I no see them...I see guards. I see people in gym...Hallway smell like wolves." The two set out to find a memory where she was being escorted between a given set of rooms, and Aurelia had indeed seen another detention block.

And a map!

On the other end of it, her witches scrambled to follow her direct orders, and Remus watched in awe as the coven leader had begun to etch out the map of the building in all.

Though it only caused the Alpha to squeeze her hand tighter. And it translated to have Sage look to her hand.

"I remember...I think it a thing?" Aurelia had finished the map now and turned to the confused wolf.
"It cannot be wrong Sage, if it's wrong we will not be able to see it." It caused Sage to close her eyes, her fists squeezing in retaliation to how far she had to think back to—The amount of effort caused Aurelia to catch multiple scenes, scientists teaching her how to walk, but in the effort like an owner would train a dog to learn a trick.