Early morning, when the Nightly Cover formation gradually deactivated and the cold air of the night condensed to refreshing dew, Zax stood in front th... apartment building were Serah and her parents lived.At some point during the night Zetsa returned to help their parents since she was not tired and for the time being could also stay at home.Zax, who felt fine outside, remembered that Troel, Serah's father, leaves to work at an early hour. If Serah's parents learned of his return from his mom or. She was short, almost as short as Lucy, but where Lucy was very girly and appeared younger than her calendar age, this woman appeared worldly and I couldn’t pin her age down. She wore her hair cut in what the uncharitable might have called a man’s haircut. It was short on the sides, parted on one side and combed over.She wore thick-rimmed glasses and had an even dozen rings piercing her left ear, half that many in the right and a ring in each eyebrow. She was wearing a leather biker jacket and. Ohno.Just then, he noticed the man sitting in a chair next to the bed. He'dnoticed Mark was awake but had so far refrained from speaking up. Marktook a second glance at the man, scrutinizing him for information. He wasyoung with dark hair, being in his late twenties or early thirties, and hewas wearing the blue uniform of some sort of law enforcement official. Theman smiled and stood up, and Mark caught a glimpse of the badge, revealingoddly enough that the man was a member of the American. "That, too," David said. "Every action in the ever-changing present alters the future."His mother had patted his hand and said, "You're doing the best you can to protect the snake. That's all you can do, David."Gregory Bastille watched Gordon Wilson exit the hotel where Wilson had spent the night. Large bodyguards flanked Wilson on each side as he hurried into the rear seat of a sedan. Bastille didn't follow the sedan when it pulled away from the curb. Wilson was being driven to his offices,.