Fair.

Yami looked out over Koob from the Polot’s private suite in the hotel, looking just a little lost.

Polot had learned to see it from miles away.

“What’s the matter, are you still bothered that you cant be totally at the altar with me when we get married? You know what it would look like if you did right?”

“It’s not that…”

“Then what, talk to me Yami, you know we’ll be married soon after all, you can tell me anything.”

Yami turned and gave a half smile, the idea that there was someone who would always be there for her, that’s all she ever wanted, but she couldn’t just keep something like this from him. She looked back out from the balcony.

“There’s something I’ve been keeping from you.”

“Oh? Whatever it is its ok, I wont mind.”

“Well… it concerns you… concerns everyone who has these.” Yami held up her bracelet arm.”

Yami looked away again “The primary white event report, significant portions of it were ommited from the final paper.”

“A cover-up?” Polot was taken aback, he had trusted Irfan’s team completely, they had been a great asset to his company. And he knew Irfan’s type perfectly well to use him to keep him, “Irfan’s a good man though, for him to keep a secret…”

Yami looked over at Polot, “come meet me at the library tonight, I’ll show you the full report.”

–

Polot looked up after an hours reading and sighed heavily, “so that’s what the bracelets mean.”

“You see why I had to tell you…” both of Yami sat across the room, pretty nervous too.

“I appreciate you sharing this with my Yami, but this… it’s too important to be kept hidden.”

“What do you mean!?”

Polot stood up and started to pace, thinking.

“If this fighting is inevitable, and if I’ve learnt anything its that fighting is always inevitable, its better people know about it, the purpose of this… ‘contest’ is to find the right person to remake the universe. If one warrior finds out ahead of the others, the contest becomes unfair, they can go from one to the next, and the chances are unbalanced.”

“but it means people will come for us too.”

“well no one knows we are banded, and they don’t start pulling towards each other until the key is ready, we can spread the news, but remain hidden ourselves, and other warriors will have the same advantage, its not at all unfair.”

“Is this really what you think is right Polot?”

“I do.”

Yami stood up and walked over to her fiancé, “then so do I.”