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>Glemy: (S-she's going into shock. What the hell is wrong with me?! Oh all the people I could have harmed, it had to be such a beautiful angel of a woman...! God, if your listening...any god who is listening...I will offer you anything in return for saving her! My blood, my family's title, my very soul...anything to-)

A rocket fires out a nearby canyon. To distracted to see it coming, Glemy allows the Core Fighter to be struck as it spirals to the ground below, where a modified Zaku Tanker carrying blue coated Mobile Suits disperses Minovsky Particle canisters to mask their escape as they drag the downed Core Fighter away.

>Judau: I lost their signal! Damn! Roux!
>Torres: Judau, can you read me?! We are under fire from a Neo Zeon force! We need you back here, right now!
>Judau: I can't just leave Roux-
>Emma: We have...no other choice! Return immediately!

While the Argama struggles to survive against the survivors of Rakan's crew launching a joint marine infiltration operation and Mobile Suit attacks, Masai arrives back in her nearby village with Asherah, much to the cold and hate filled eyes of the people of Oasis Village. Silently carrying Asherah back into her silent, empty home, Masai tries to cool the girl down to the best of her abilities. Hallucinating and seeking the only comfort she knows that can truly calm her, Asherah forces herself under Masai's garb, planting her lips onto her nipple. Rather than pulling away, Masai feels her body relaxing as she allows Asherah to continue, envisioning a future where Tag had survived to give her a child of her own. Driven only by her feral urges and the intense emotions flowing from Masai, Asherah forms an unintentional psychic bond with her mind, causing the woman to experience an intense pain as her most prominent thoughts are assimilated by Asherah.

"Tag".

To Masai, this man represented the true beginning and end of her life.