"Huh? Past lives?" Maria's face seemed to screw up in confusion at that very peculiar statement, then shook her head as though to dismiss the very notion. She knew about the heroes of light, had looked up to them even!

"I think you've got the wrong idea, I just came to deliver this," and from the bag at her side, she unwrapped the egg-like, shimmering blue crystal, with a smile as she presented it to the group.

"But wow! The legendary Eidolons! You guys are serious? I mean I guess I shouldn't have expected any less from the great Heroes of Light, right? Oh yeah— I'm Maria!" she probably should have mentioned that before, shouldn't she have? As somewhere in the cosmos, an ironic rendition of Ave Maria played...