Chapter. The Heart of the Underworld, the Enigma of Fate
Lincoln turned to Ninisha, then heard Orf ask, "What exactly did you see in the memory?"
Ninisha thought for a moment. "The memory was brief. Its owner watched a Highgod named Baru boast about his collection. Among his treasures was a gray, transparent crystal resembling a God Spark, which gave off a purple glow. It seemed to be a Sovereign Spark."
Then she pointed to the bedraggled, filthy, dispirited Highgod beside her. "This is Baru."
The Sovereigns' gazes followed Ninisha to Baru. She continued, "I won't hide this from you, Sovereigns. To obtain the Thunder Main God Spark, I tortured his soul and interrogated him for a long time, but in the end, I got nothing."
"He refused to hand it over?" Orf looked at Baru and pressed her for an answer.
"That's what I thought at first, but the more time passed, the more doubtful I became. Baru had no idea what a Sovereign Spark was, but he clearly remembered obtaining a crystal that resembled one. He just couldn't recall where he'd put it."
"On top of that, I encountered two Light Sovereigns in the Baru Plane. That made me feel even more strongly that something was amiss," Ninisha speculated.
"Two Light Sovereigns?" Hela raised an eyebrow, pointedly emphasizing the words.
Ninisha looked around and pointed to Koriate and Hikari. "These two Sovereigns."
"Could Ninisha's chance encounter have been arranged too? From what Lady Hela just explained, Memory Mist is extremely difficult to create. And it would be even harder to make a Memory Mist that happened to preserve information about a Sovereign Spark, wouldn't it?" Hullei continued.
Orf had clearly acted sometime after Baru was brought here. In that instant, he had displayed Fate's ability to thwart any