"Why didn't any of us know?" he asked. "Himoto didn't want the Tsavitee learning the ignition weapon and the Phoenix were the same thing," Kira said softly. "When I woke up, the worlds had moved on." Her friends had also moved on. Each one happy or at least thriving, since her disappearance. By then, Kira's legacy as a hero had faded, tarnished by the misinformation and her disappearance. Her friends were convinced she was a coward for abandoning them on the cusp of victory. Many of her former peers noted her absence in the past three years of the war and blamed her for not being there.
