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As Veraly comforted Asa, the cloud over Ember slowly stopped, first it began to drizzle and then it was only a little bit of raindrops fell on Ember and then it disappeared leaving Ember soaking wet. "Hopefully we can all find a way to get home, but for now..." Veraly said, half to Asa half to the group "...Maybe we can work together?"
Veraly glanced over in the direction of where Ember was talking, "alright good." Even though she had not intended to make Ember completely soaked, she did not want her magic to get out of hand again in order to punish the others if they did something wrong again...
Veraly sat next to Asa, giving her comfort as she still sometimes felt as overwhelmed about the whole situation (though she didn't show it-- she had learned how to conceal those feelings) too, and she wanted to help her as much as she could.
Veraly noticed their sudden quietness, "is everything alright?" she asked them, something had to be wrong. But she wasn't sure what, they had already apologized and said they would not repeat their mistakes, so she assumed they would have felt better by now. As that was what happened last time.
(Sure, I can bring him back. But I don't know why he'd come back though, since Veraly doesn't have the information he wanted).
(That seems like a good reason-- They did try to murder him) As Veraly listened, she heard a sound of foot-steps coming from one of the rooms of the castle. Who was it? Everyone was here, Asa, Ember, Amber and...everyone. She stood up and took out her cane-- she did not want to use it as a weapon, but if this person was hostile she would.
The stranger who had by now fixed his cloak (as best as he could-- it was badly singed), was staring at the sisters. Were they enemies of the people he was serving? Spies of sorts, perhaps? He wasn't sure, they had to be...He couldn't figure out another reason why would attack him.
"What's going on?" demanded Veraly. "Is it the man who you almost murdered?" The man watched from behind one of the walls, surveying them, eventually he emerged and walked over to the triplets. "If I may ask, who do you work for?" He took out a knife which he had hidden in his pocket and directed it at them. "I want to know. Because I don't believe you setting me on fire over there..." he directed over the direction "was accidental. Are you trying to stop me from finding the sacred texts?"
Veraly walked over, she had tried to keep things from getting out of hand. But they weren't, she knew (but she knew the others didn't) that he was spy who was working for Ashalena's family. And had turned to her for assistance...In finding texts that had been stolen a few years ago. He turned to her, because her (adoptive) father was a monk of the religion where the texts came from.
"I don't believe you" he snapped back. "If you work for no one, why did you set me on fire?" The man did not put his knife away, not believing anything that they had said, he turned to Umber who seemed the most calm, while still pointing the knife at the others.
"Very sacred ones, they were stolen though, and the religious order is working to get them back." He looked over in the direction of Veraly, "I was hoping she could help me, but it turned out she had no information on it."
The man groaned, "does this prophecy have anything to do with setting people on fire?"
The man shook his head, "I never heard of it in my life, but I don't believe you are the people even so. You are supposed to come in the darkness moments not cause the darkness moments...Which I heard you and saw that you did, twice. Sure, you have the powers, but you don't seem to be good at using them in particularly heroic way-- Let me just say you're no better than Balthazar--" Veraly interrupted stopping him mid-sentence. "Um, what exactly are the darkest moments? In the prophecy."
"Oh he's a prince from another kingdom Ashalena is betrothed to, she was betrothed to him years before he decided to become a shapeshifter hunter. Anyway he thinks he is being heroic, even though he is really not." replied the man.
"She's going to be the ruler of our kingdom. The kingdom where me and Veraly are from." he said pointing in the direction of Veraly, "anyway, I think you're like Balthazar."
The man glared at them, "Um, and you're using this to say you're heroic?" Veraly elbowed him, so he wouldn't continue to bother them, and also so they wouldn't set him fire which was worrying that they would do if he continued to insult them..."continue." said Veraly.
"Wait a minute, why did you tell me that you knew no one who believed in reincarnation, if you're the incarnation of a goddess?" asked Veraly very confused.
"There's no specifics about the afterlife in your world's religion?" asked the man, staring at her. "How is that possible?" "I know that you raised the dead, Umber, but you also raised the dead who you killed...Which doesn't exactly put you in a good light." replied Veraly, wondering why Umber was bringing this up again, "surely you have used your powers in other circumstances right?"
"Also miss, if you believe in reincarnation killing people isn't exactly a good thing for it...Even if you are a goddess..excuse me, I mean you were a goddess." replied the man, "If anything next time you die, you will end up lower on the cycle...Perhaps as a worm or a snail...or worse."
"If you don't believe in it, don't go around calling yourself an incarnation of a goddess." scoffed the man. "Call yourself blessed or something...But don't go parading around telling people you're part of a cycle of something that you don't believe in. Honestly you're just adding salt to the wound at this point." Veraly had to admit she agreed more with the spy than with the triplets at this point, she found the triplets to be confusing, and maybe a bit immoral, though a bit was an understatement. Umber though a goddess, supposedly? Or used to be a goddess, she honestly wasn't sure kept telling people she had raised the dead, when the dead were people she had killed, when she was sure a former goddess would use her powers for to help others not to kill others.
"I admit, I agree with him." replied Veraly. "It is a bit insulting for you to do that, you know?"
Veraly and the spy were deciding whether or not to follow Umber and the rest of the triplets. They were a bit annoyed (though annoyed once again was an understatement) that Umber had not taken responsibility for anything they did or said. Why they had left so abruptly and not apologized, Veraly didn't know. But she was done trying to see them as like her brother Phoenix when he was little. They were not him, they would never be him. Instead of chasing after them herself, a cloud overhead followed the triplets all of them. It was a dark cloud that rained heavily and thundered until their ears hurt, hopefully it would get them to turn around and apologize.
She at this point did not care about being friends with them anymore, trying to be an older sister to them as she would be with Phoenix. Instead she saw that they were little spoiled girls, who seemed to think only for themselves...
Veraly then shouted after the cloud had followed them, "Aren't you going to apologize for what you said?"
Veraly paused for a moment, and then went to investigate. The spy followed her, she heard the sound of foot-steps-- As much as she had grown to hate them, which she admitted was the emotion she was feeling now. She didn't really want them to die, or get killed. They were very young you see...She headed down the hall to where the noise was coming from and the spy followed behind her.
The spy came up from behind the leader and stabbed him from behind giving him a fatal wound. He backed away once the deed had been done, waiting for the leader to fight back-- "It's petty you know to fight helpless children." smirked the spy.
Veraly came then and sprayed the armored men with a wave of water in their faces, so as to confuse them and take their attention off to the triplets and on to her and the spy.
"I think..." said Veraly, panting after the fight was over, and deciding to make the thunder cloud over the twins vanish leaving them soaked. "It would be better if we talked things out in the future, rather than running away angry from one another. As it does more harm than good." The spy nodded, "Yes it would." he exhaled, "It would also be great, if you we could talk about the parading around as an incarnation of a goddess issue, which you promptly seemed to ignore. Which could we please talk about now? Because you didn't seem to know why we thought that was insulting..."
Veraly paused and then added, "Also we are against you using your powers, we are fine with using them on people who are trying to kill you like those men..." She exhaled again that had been a lot of running, and the fight itself made her very tired, "...But on people who aren't, who actually are just minding their own business, please don't use your magic on them."
"I would have preferred to be turned into a chicken, than to be lit aflame." remarked the spy. "That's good..." replied Veraly. "But you do realize, the thing we were trying to say before, was important...About saying you're an incarnation of a goddess while at the same time putting down the idea for reincarnation? Was insulting right?" She wasn't sure if the twins really understood why that was insulting, even though they had said they did as a group, she wanted to talk to them individually about it instead of a hive mind.
"It would be like saying..." she paused, she admittedly did not know much about these kinds of religions...But she would take a guess at least, "I'm an angel, but heaven and hell are fake. You would think that was insulting, wouldn't you?"
Veraly nodded, "I understand." She decided she would not bring it up again, and let the conversation just move on. "So..." she said, "what now?"
"Yes, what now? Who were those men working for?" the spy asked, looking in the direction of the cursed men, and the one who now was a chicken. "And what do they want from you?"
"I prefer to keep myself hidden you see..." replied then spy, "at the moment, it's better if you don't know it because there is a lot of unrest in the kingdom where me-- and Veraly are from. And I don't really want anyone to know...That I was here." He looked over at the guards, "though, I doubt any of you work for someone who would reveal who I was..." He paused for a moment and then added, "how about this, I gave you an alias, not my real name but at least better for now. You can call me 'Seth' that's not my real name. But at least it's something to call me."
"Also..." said Veraly, "I apologize for making you wet, twice . It was a bit out of bounds, and I won't do it again..." She admittedly felt a little bad about it, but on the other hand, it was a lot less worse than lighting, Seth (as he liked to be called) on fire.
Seth nodded, though he didn't quite believe her as she had previously set him on fire. But he nodded even so, even it was only a nervous nod. "Is there anything I can do to help you get less wet?" asked Veraly, wondering if she could fix the mess she made.
"Is suggest." said Seth, "that we make a fire, and you three sit around it in order to dry off, while we" he pointed to himself and Veraly, "keep watch."
Veraly placed her hand against the hard-stone wall, and sat there and thought. She wondered what had happened to Phoenix, was he alright? She didn't know, but she wished her mind would stop going back to it. After all, she had other things to worry about like how to get out of this castle, this strange castle she had somehow ended up in. "So, Veraly." said Seth, she turned her head in the direction of his voice.
"Yes?" she asked.
"I talked to your..." he paused, trying to find the word, "guardian, let's say guardian recently. And he is worried about us being able to find the artifact that was stolen." He paused and then looked over at Veraly again, "I am wondering if Balthazar's family had anything to do with it."
"Maybe." sighed Veraly, she did not like Balthazar, but she wasn't sure if everything bad had to be put on him. "But why would they steal then? Why? They had just made arrangements with Ashalena's family for Ashalena and Balthazar to be married. Wouldn't that ruin it?"
"Not if they were trying to put themselves in good light, by giving it back to them once the marriage happened." replied Seth.
"We do need to find it though, before anything happens to it..." said Seth, "if anything happens to it then..." he paused, "I am not sure, what we will do...But it won't be good."
(A little bit over, maybe thirty as he is a close friend of Veraly's and Phoenix's guardian ) Veraly nodded, "yes it would be very bad."
"And I hope Balthazar does not marry Ashalena, that would be terrible for our kingdom." said Seth.
"But it may be too late to do anything about it." sighed Veraly.
Seth nodded and looked away for a moment, and then turned back to Veraly-- "Well, at least you know what he did to your brot--"
"Let's not discuss it here." said Veraly, biting her lip, trying to conceal her pain. "That was a step too far..." She tapped her fingers against the wall, "...Though really, I am not quite sure why he did it." She paused for a moment, giving herself time to breath, "But no one will believe us that Balthazar was the causer of that."
Veraly paused, "Um, nothing, nothing important." she said, curling a piece of her black hair around her finger. Seth groaned, "if they were in our kingdom they would know, Veraly." said Seth.
"Yes, I know, but it's not something I really...want to tell them." Veraly replied. "I mean I don't want them to get the wrong impression of Phoenix."
"Veraly, everyone has gotten a bad impression of Phoenix at this point." objected Seth.
"Yes, but we shouldn't extend it further, really!" protested Veraly.
"No, he's not a bird." replied Veraly. "He certainly acts like one--" Seth snickered,
"Just shut up! His name is Phoenix, he isn't a real Phoenix, he's my brother who's very much a human--" Veraly continued
"Um, no he isn't, and neither are you" Seth interrupted, but Veraly placed a finger over his mouth to shush him.
"And he is currently working as a poet..." added Veraly. "And if you must know Balthazar did something horrible to him--"
"Not just to him, he caused--" interrupted Seth.
"Do we really have to talk about it? I'd rather not." groaned Veraly.
"Uh..." Seth looked over at Veraly and then at the triplets, "Phoenix is a shapeshifter--" "Don't tell them that!" protested Veraly.
"Well, it's a little bit too late for that now. Shall I tell them the rest?" asked Seth.
"No!" protested Veraly once more.
"That's from Balthazar's kingdom, not our kingdom." said Seth, rolling his eyes, " our kingdom on the other hand allows shapeshifters, except for the fact that Balthazar has been spreading fear about them...recently." Veraly nodded.
"And he used an event he mind controlled Phoenix to be involved in, Phoenix's words not mine, to get more people afraid of shapeshifters-- If they were not already." continued Seth.
"And no, we're not shapeshifter hunters, why would we be shapeshifter hunters?"
"Oh and Veraly is a dragon." he added, glancing over at Veraly, "I should probably mention since we're on the subject of shapeshifters, that I'm one too." Veraly groaned, alright, fine he may as well spill all the secrets at this point, she did not care...Just because she had been trying to keep them secret didn't mean that they should remain so..."And I should I tell them about Phoenix's daughter--" "No, I told you to stop." snapped Veraly.
Veraly sighed, "I'd...rather not answer these, thank you Seth...for doing this to me." She walked out of the room leaving the triplets alone with Seth, she walked out of the room until she came to a quiet place to just think...She needed time alone. Seth looked back at the triplets, "do...you want me to tell you about what Balthazar did to Phoenix? Or answer all your questions about...the dragon in the room?" he winked.
"Alright, so if you must know Balthazar mind controlled Phoenix..." he continued, trying to think of a way to put it without upsetting them. "Long story short, um, Balthazar...Made it seem as if Phoenix attacked the royal family, um, a member of the royal family Ashalena's sister." He paused for a moment, "um...when it was really him. Trying to make it seem as if a shapeshifter attacked." Veraly came back into the room, after hearing from a distance that Seth was still talking to the triplets, "are you trying to make the story of what happened suitable for young audiences? Or something? I don't think scandals are suitable for them...Seth."
"Considering that they were fine with setting me on fire, I assumed they would be alright with that." said Seth.
" fire is much more tame than that." retorted Veraly.
"And, um, somehow Phoenix has a daughter now." said Seth, deciding to reveal the big juicy secret that Veraly had told him not to reveal. Veraly just shook her head. "Who is a shapeshifter, also. I believe this was part of Balthazar's plan...Though I am not sure...how it was." He shrugged. "I...guess to show that even the royal family isn't safe from shapeshifters or something?"
"What...are you so angry about? Is it the...idea of it?" asked Seth, trying to giggle it away. "How did we upset you?"
"Oh alright." smiled Veraly, understanding what they meant while Seth stared at her very confused."So, do you understand the thing I told you about?" asked Seth. "That isn't sibling rivalry or whatever you called this."
"Um..." muttered Seth, "are you human? Or are you just ethereal beings pretending to be human?"
(It's alright) "Got it." said Seth, and then muttered to Veraly "I still don't understand why they don't believe in reincarnation given her stance on once being a goddess, I mean I believe in reincarnation already, but if I didn't that would make be believe in it."
Veraly sighed, "they can believe what they want to believe..."
Seth stared at her, "sure they can, but doesn't mean it makes sense to me." He turned back to Umber, "if you were or are the goddess and you've turned human. How is the religion still functioning? Are there other gods who take your place while you're gone? Or are there no longer any gods because you were the only one?"
"You mean to say, that there are no more gods in any of the religions your realm has? Including your own that is" asked Seth, now at the point of confusion and also bewilderment. "Or did I mishear that?" Veraly was also confused, how did a religion suddenly lose all their gods or god? That didn't seem possible at all, if anything it seemed...Strange that that would happen.
"It sounds more like people lost faith or interest in your religion if you phrase it that way." replied Veraly.
"That...sort of does. Except for the fact that you seem to be holding up yourself as, let me say 'heroes', and outright calling anyone who opposes you 'villains.' I'd think you were a villain, given the way you treated me" said Seth. "And I wouldn't care about any of that goddess--" "That makes sense!" said Veraly, elbowing Seth so he would stop attacking the triplets. She had been upset at that before, she was a bit annoyed at them still...But she didn't want Seth to continue verbally attacking them.
"Yes, what they did was wrong, but my point is, I don't think either side is as good or bad as you think they are. I think it's more complicated than that." replied Seth. "People are more complex than simply good and evil."
(Hi sorry for taking so long to respond) Seth nodded, and decided that maybe he should change the conversation again he looked over at Veraly and then at the triplets, "random question, but if I may ask, do other creatures other than humans exist in your world?"
Veraly nodded her mind running off again, she wondered how she could get back home, if she could get back home...Which she was doubting that she could. She was even beginning to wonder how Seth figured out where he was, perhaps he knew something about what was going on...
"Alright" said Seth, "I think I understand...I wasn't asking for a whole book on the beasts and creatures in your world."
