Aries converses quietly with her surrogate mother about matters only they know.

Aries is a little upset and sheepish about having left her home without telling her guardian, but Edna knows that there's a driving force in the young woman's heart that cannot be denied.

We also learn Aries' original name, and that it carries some kind of dangerous and powerful stigma.

And in the final panel, they give a parting hug as the aero-taxi arrives at the Mercenary's Guild dock to take Aries off to Dannon in House Botono territory.

[Artwork by my friend, the amazing, the indomitable, the one and only, Egardn4 of DA]