[Rosekitten]

Thalion all but stiffened as the male before him spoke. He hadn't seen him from when he was a young child, very young. Maybe the last time he recalled seeing him was when he was four or five? But everyone said he was going mad at the time or something. He didn't understand back then and he still acted normal to him till the day he just vanished and everyone said he had been killed or died or the other random stories they made up.

"Why? Why bother to contact me now after all these years. Hell you walked off and left." Thalion snapped at the spirit who seemed unmoved by the sudden rage in Thalion's voice. "It takes time to appear like this let alone speak... and if I had appeared sooner would you have listened?" Zaffren had a point. No he probably would have looked the other way and never would have bothered even yelling at him.

"The rumors were true you know, I did end up killing myself. Before you say anything there were reasons and ones that you know well." Thalion huffed a bit standing there. "Why tell me? Theres no fix for it and it'll happen sooner or later -" "There is a fix."

Thats when Thalion stopped for a moment watching the other. "Why didn't you do it then?! You left us all to die. Everything went to hell after you left the capital fell and-" "And if I had stayed nothing would change." Thalion glared at his former father before speaking again. "Change? What the hell has changed? The city is still run by a tyrant who wants nothing better then to see everyone who opposes her dead. nothing has changed. It got worse."

"Nothing had changed yet..." He started before explaining what he meant. "Things will change. If I had stayed and that night the raid was halted you would have been raised in the city and you would not be here right now. You know very well where you would have been by this age." Thalion looked way from Zaffren for a moment knowing he had a point.

"I spoke with a number of seer's before I made my choice to leave. I knew how many would die that night and that you were not going to be one of them. Someday you would have to go back and see what things were. It's been weighing heavily on your mind even if you try to keep such thoughts to yourself." Thalion seemed to stay quiet as the other went on explaining all of this.

"That still doesn't tell me what the cure is or what stops the damned curse." Zaffren smiled a bit at the mention of it. "You heard a voice the last time you were in the city... I think you know what that voice was. I also think I don't need to say more." Thalion shook his head at the thought of it. "You can't be serious, if thats all it took was a bonding process then-" "It would have been done years ago? Yes and no, the bonding process requires the egg to choose its owner. Most royals did not have the will that the eggs sought."

Thalion cursed under his breath at the idea of it. "Well that sucks!" He finally said. "The vault is in the castle... Besides that even if this worked that still changes nothing." Zaffren shook his head a little. "You'll have to see now won't you?" "Tsk.. you and your riddles... "

Though hearing the footsteps get ever closer seemed to cut this meeting to a end as Zaffren spoke once more. "don't give up, you chose the path before you so follow it." Though Thalion half ignored whoever was walking this way as he cursed the spirit once more. "To hell with your advice!" Though about that time he turned and stopped where he was seeing Mizuki was who had been walking.

It was almost strange to see the other after three weeks of not being allowed near him. He had such doubting thoughts like what they had could be replaced and what if they failed. He wasn't even sure that he could bring himself to move at the moment with his mind all over the place. Between what he just found out and everything else going on. He just wanted things to be normal again.