Sechs was being encouraging, Taura was hesitating but hardly ready to back down. Aigis still teetered on indecision. But it was true. They would never be any closer to Martin Landel as they were now and they couldn't hold out that they would ever see a night as auspicious as this. So she stepped forward, joining her two friends at the door and waited as she watched Taura depress the button.

The change was sudden and Aigis heard it, a slight sound from beyond the door. A cry, of shock or pain? And then the sudden feeling that Aigis had been hit in the gut. Sparks filtered through her sight and a gasp caught in her throat.

For a second she staggered, her hand instinctively reaching out to Sechs' arm to help steady herself. Then the mind blowing understanding nearly had her on her knees, already tears beginning to flee down her cheeks.

"A... Athena has..." And a sob left her, squelched by the hand that she placed over her mouth. She had never considered herself emotional, even here she rarely got like this. But neither had the feeling of her long lost Persona been so poignant and fresh since waking up in that bed days and days ago.