Aren looked confused and shocked when he heard the offer. He looked at the patriarch, and then he saw it in his eyes. The patriarch simply wanted to show Aren that he wasn't anything, he wanted to shatter Aren's pride completely.
Athena tugged on Aren, "Don't do it," she said. She could easily tell that the patriarch was extremely strong, and she knew that Aren would try to take it for her.
Aren looked at her with a calm look in his eyes and then placed his hand on her head, petting her slowly. "Athena, I'll never leave you here." He said with a confident smile.
She tried to say something, but she saw his face, radiating with confidence, anything that she said now would be pointless.
"Please be alive," she said, before letting go of Aren and stepping away. June and Peter also rushed to move away, not wanting to be a part of whatever was about to happen here.
Aren looked at the patriarch. "I have one request to make though."
"Oh? What could that be?" the patriarch asked.
