A tall and broad-shouldered man in grey and blue robes seemed almost to appear at Raidou's elbow, just at the point where his vision began to blur. He spoke with a low voice, soft and smooth as the flow of slow-moving waters, encouraging the stranger.

"Leaving the egg is the first trial they must undergo, the first battle, the first struggle on the path the Great Beasts have set them on. It mirrors your own, by their will: accepting the discomfort of the new, the strange, the utterly alien... and forging forth."

The man touches neither of them, but his attention is raw and rapt- the singular focus of a religious man witnessing a great miracle. His shoulders trembled with tension beneath his heavy robes.