Dark rituals.

Suddenly she opens her eyes. She feels confused, extremely weak, she doesn't understand what's around her but she starts getting overwhelmed by her last memories. Battle, blood, voices. 'Ziyuan', 'Dragon of the East', 'Tianshu Ziyuan!', 'Clan Leader!', 'Don't do it!', 'Senior Sister!'. More screams in echo. A huge dark creature, a ritual. It is still unclear to her the meaning of all of it, as her memories are not yet back. She is only sure she was dead, finally in peace. What called me back? What is this? - she thinks.

Around her, she starts to recognize a tent, a large mark on the ground made of blood. Her own blood, she notices many cuts on her arms and realizes what kind of ritual it was.
She finds a letter before her, a message from the real owner of the body. Luckily it is still ancient dolashin that she can understand. She rubs her eyes then aims to read. The writing is very messy, the paper is dirty of blood and a bit wet. Blood and tears? She was desperate - she thinks.

| If I have done everything correctly, you are Tianshu Ziyuan. Clan Leader of the Long Sect.
*illegible words* |
''My name...is Ziyuan? Ne...it is right. But who are you? Sect...SiWang Sect, Wang Clan? Should be it. What grudges do you have? And how many.'' Ziyuan looks at her arms. Many of the cuts were for the blood needed for the ritual but it is clear which are the ones that should instantly heal. She counts four and reading through the letter, she eventually finds the names, or manages to interpret. ''Zhi...Chao...Kim Minah...Zhi Zhuliu and...Wen Lian, from SiWang Sect? Her own Sect? Fine, whatever...they always want revenge. What did they do to you...Wang Ziyi?'' Suddenly she feels pain in her belly and notices more blood coming out from below.
Studying better the room, she notices some scary tool, dirty of blood. She takes one but cannot figure out what it is. If she wasn't tough, the sight of it could cause vomit.
She keeps studying the tent, there are not even clean clothes to change, nor food. The tent itself is not properly made, it is overall bamboo and leaves.
She decides to get rid of everything for her own safety, especially marks of the ritual. She causes a little fire to destroy evidence then starts to move, regardless the pain all over her body. She manages to find a river where she stops to drink and can finally see her face. She notices a bruise mark on her neck, like someone used something in metal, extremely hot, to do it on purpose. She made her own theory about this girl's story by now.
She doesn't know where she is and still cannot recognize the place, she keeps moving for a while in the unknown territory when she notices troops. She manages to spot someone in particular giving her a strange vibe. It is Xie.
She looks at herself. She couldn't have a more desperate look not even if she tried, so she just lets herself fall on their way, begging for help. ''Help me, juseyo...'' She forces herself to show tears too.

Sizhui is ahead and actually recognizes the girl. ''She was another hostage when we went to the Clan Zhi, I remember her...'' He approaches to support her. After the mess with Turchese, they split and they couldn't bring everyone in Shiinden. The girl had the bad luck to come across Zhuliu and Chao. ''We send someone to bring her back to the outpost? Or to Clan Leader Yung?''
''Bring her to our outpost. We'll decide later.''
''Ne.'' Zhui keeps supporting her, accompanying her to Deidara. ''Bring her back. Give her WuNing's blessed water.''
Ziyuan lets them do, pretending to be even worse than she actually is. Her energy is very low at the moment and couldn't use her powers even if she wanted, so she can only let others take care of her.