Inside the cave, an eerie, suffocating silence reigned. Noa withdrew his hand from the skeleton's skull and paused for a moment in thought. The skeleton stood rigidly, as if testing itself from within.
Noa slowly rose to his feet and turned toward the skeleton.
"This power… and this thing… they serve their owner," he said.
The skeleton's shoulders slumped as it replied,
"So you agree to return them?"
Noa took a calm step forward and kicked the skeleton. It slammed into the cave wall; the echo swallowed the entire cavern. In an indifferent tone, Noa said:
"It seems you misunderstood something. Their owner… is me now."
The skeleton slowly got back up, looked at Noa, and thought to itself:
*If I still had my former strength, I would know what to do.*
Scratching its head, the skeleton answered:
"Very well, Master. Allow me to become your gift… I possess the ability to see heat. That should be enough for me."
