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"Can you feel it?" Kamejya's voice.

"What is it? Eshyon?" Syaoran's voice.

"It feels like Eshyon. Powerful Eshyon."

"Like ours?"

"No. Those are stronger… a bird's Eshyon…"

"Not the whole Eshyon. I can feel it now. It's only a feather."

A bird's Eshyon… Only a feather… Like Sakura's feathers…

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Syaoran woke up, for the third time at the same day, and felt something strange on his back. Something warm, a little bit itchy, as light as a feather, but big – it felt like something was connected to the left side of his back, moving his skin and bones.

"You are awake." He heard Linone's voice. Then, he found out that he is still lying on his belly, but now, instead of wooden floor, he lied on the bed in the main room, he didn't wear his shirt, and Linone sat besides him, spreading something cold on the strange thing.

"What happened to me?" He asked, scratching his head.

Linone laughed in bitterness. "Well. You grew an Eshya – a magical wing, in our local language... I should explain you everything." She breathed deeply. "First thing is that my name is… please, don't get up!" She shouted when Syaoran was trying to get up. "You'll only hurt yourself." Syaoran lied down.

"I'm so…" He started to say. "Thank you, for worrying for me and helping me. I couldn't do anything against this man and now…" He thought a little bit, and continued. "There is so much I don't know about you and your sons and I did nothing but being here… but it seems that I have something to do with what happened recently. I don't think I'm allowed to interfere your business but from what I saw you're in a trouble… so if there is something I can do to help you, I'll do my best." Without noticing it, he sat.

Linone smiled widely. "Thank you. I think that after what my cousin did to you, it's also your business. Fell free to interfere."

Syaoran blinked, confused.

"Well," she continued. "The boy that the man you met talked about is my grandson, Li Syaoran, who is Kamejya's fifth son, actually."

Syaoran!

"I'll start from the real beginning. The man who was here is the king and my cousin, which means that I am supposed to be a princess." Linone got up. "Not just a princess, but the previous king's heir. My cousin stole the crown from me, because according to our tradition, only men rule our kingdom."

"So that is why you are here?" Syaoran asked. "Did he expel you or something like that?"

"That's right." She replied. "But let me explain it right. I used to live for a long time with my husband in the house my father gave us, and life was great… but then my husband and my father died. My cousin was crowned by fraud, and expelled me with my sons to here. At the beginning, we lived in a nice house in the nearest town. This was when this area became a prison for all the people who may endanger the king's life, for his opinion. This place is guarded by evil darkness demons so all of our actions are watched.

"Here, as prisoners, our identities were changed, so we'll forget who we were before, but I can't forget who I am. I always educated the boys to remember who they really are, but Taldnaen is terrible. He is so influenced from the king, and thinks that I'm a criminal, and he hates me and Kamejya. The king just loves him, and treats him as if Taldnaen was his child. As you understand, our names were changed. The truth is that the name my cousin gave me is Riaku. It's far different from my real name. That's why most of the people were who are closed to me call me Linone – Lie, Ine, One – the first three letters of my real name."

"Kamejya told me yesterday that I mustn't tell you my name if I want to stay alive." Syaoran mentioned. "He said that if they will decide that my real name is illegal… it will be my end. So what he meant was actually taking away my name?"

"Exactly. You sure heard the previous conversation between us, so I can't hide it from you anymore. Kamejya and I didn't expect our new names, and that's why we gave ourselves fake names. Actually, Kamejya's 'formal' name was changed twice, according to what happened to us. You heard my cousin calling him Syaoran, but he can't accept the name, and there is a good reason. It was what to do with Syaoran, who is hated here so much, and it's not your fault that they think you are him. You have the same appearance and Eshyon. I don't now, actually, why do you have now only one wing… I'll go on with the story and you'll understand better.

"We lived our lives quietly, and I never stopped thinking about a way to save us, and our kingdom. All the people who live here want too to change the situation, we are all innocent, but we couldn't plan anything because of the guards."

"Linone-san," Syaoran asked. "Who is…" He looked around, doesn't know how he can ask about Jinnie without make her suspect him, and noticed something. "Where is Kamejya?"

"That's a good question. This is where the boy who is so hated by Taldnaen and the king came into the picture.

"I was very close to the Arlene family, who lives in the town, and used to think about the king just as I do, so we decided to match Kamejya to their daughter, Jinnie."

Jinnie Arlene… Syaoran thought to himself. This is the girl I saw in my dream. Linone said that there is a boy who is Kamejya's son, who is called Syaoran, and since Kamejya was matched to Jinnie… The boy I saw in my dream must be their child? But how? They are too young to have children, and what if they… but if this Syaoran… Yes, Jinnie did call him like that and he said he is Syaoran… That starts to make sense, and there was the first dream, I remember it now. Was that boy the same one? And was the man there Taldnaen?...

"Hey, Gudamera!"

Syaoran's mind came back to the reality when he found himself lying again and Linone looked at him.

"Are you listening to me?" She asked in a frustrated voice.

"I'm sorry," He replied. "My mind flew to somewhere else…"

Linone sighed. "So… then he came…"

"Who?"

Linone looked at Syaoran, surprised. "I said it before. We matched Kamejya and Jinnie, and things went good because in the end they fell in love with each other-"

"I see…"

"-and then he came. One day he appeared out of nowhere – a young boy, about your age, looks just like you. He said that his name is Li Syaoran. This was the boy who my cousin thinks is you. To tell the truth, I was a little bit confused too at the beginning when I sensed your arriving, but then I told myself that it's impossible you are him. We all know that Syaoran is dead."

Syaoran remembered Kamejya's drawing of him. This is someone who doesn't exist. Not yet, but not anymore.