"I met him; we became friends over over. I could not tell you the time scale, only that it was was before their war was a glint. Then, one day, at the height of it, he vanished. Lost, gone. I know not where he is gone, or if he shall return. So, I keep what he left behind, the masks, safe. Until I either draw my last breath, the universe ends, Onyx Prime returns from whence he has gone."

She tilts her head, then pulls back the hood to reveal herself: 'Tara'isha Daēuua'. "Your choices matter; they make you you. I have no say in them, nor do I wish to."

If Shiny were healthy, Mikaela gets the feeling she'd look a lot like Tara'isha. Mikaela also gets the feeling that if they next meet, Tara's fate is very much in her hands.