"She's..." Rinoa frowned. "She's got powerful magic, like Meteor. And... she can junction people, kind of like possessing them, to drain their power. There's nothing else here that's so dangerous, just a bunch of machines. She's probably not here," she added, more to convince herself than anything.

But if she was, this is where she'd be.

They'd reached the chamber. Rinoa stepped inside, her heart clutching with anticipation. Adel's seal lay exactly as it had back on her own world, a broken cage to hold a Sorceress. But there was no Sorceress inside. The place was empty.

Rinoa let out the breath she'd been holding.