"You blocked me.. I uh am not sure as to why. Although I am more then a little it has to do with that mon- sunless. I'm not sure what he told you but I'm sure its another one of his lies"
Its weird, its like I'm frozen in place, yet that should not be possible.
"Although I know you are very much smart enough to tell he was lying, if it was because you planned on coming to Antarctica and didn't want to worry me its fine."
He laughs nervously and it quickly fades off. He sighs
"I'm going to challenge my second nightmare soon. I... I'm sure ill succeed in it but still, it makes me nervous."
I finally turn my head towards him.
"Summon that silence memory. Others shouldn't listen in"
He blinks then summons it
"Caster. Looking at you objectively, you only obeyed those who are like gods to you. Understandably you love your clan so you did what you where told, because you knew if you didn't your clan could and would suffer. Its understandable and even tragic."
He let's of my hand
"Oh. You found out that I was-"
I lift my hand
"Subjectively, I don't care. Knowing you fully intended to kill nephis, to commit a betrayal. Its hard to figure out if you ever even cared about me."
He gets clearly upset. His face twists in a mix of shock and saddness
"No. No I do care. You must understand that I did truly look up to you. I still do."
I sigh
"listen. Until you take back you, and hell even your clans freedom, don't come back to me. Challenge your second nightmare, your third and maybe even one day a fourth. Take back the freedom, take back the power, Han li Caster don't just bow down to the sovereigns, become stronger become better then them"
I turn away from him
"I won't claim I'm better then you, I only claim that you've let yourself think that the people on top are unable to be thrown off and that you must bow down"
I leave. To go where I'm not sure. Just away, away from him away from it all.
I walk into the tent and I sit with my head in my hands. Effie offers me a bag of chips. I don't grab it, I'm not in the mood to eat. Or I don't think it would stay down.
"I'm shocked dork. I mean yeah its not out of character for you to be able to do.... well that but you fought a corrupted tyrant and won! And you turned massive! Maybe next time I can ride on your shoulders"
I nod not fully listening.
"Its not that shocking you could do something like that but damn."
She shakes her head and thatd when sunny enters with some food
"Sunny... what the hell was that?! You just... boom! And went berserk! It was actually sort of spectacular."
She then adds like its a conspiracy "
And since when can you turn into that shadow fiend?! Have you Transcended? Are you secretly a Saint now? No, that can't be right... can it? I'm not sure how either of you did it but I know one of you came up with the idea and the only copied it"
sunny coughs "It's just a trick I picked up in the Antarctic Center. A special application of my Ascended Ability."
Effie shakes her head in amusement
"You both are scary. Let's be friends!"
Then she gets a sly grin
"Oh... and try making that shadow fiend bigger, next time. Looking at it made me really want to ride you again..."
She's distracting, its nice. To not think of it all for a bit.
I look up at Morgan entering the tent, I glance at cassie standing next to her
"That was spectacular! Dear sister, venerable Masters... you did not disappoint!"
She sighs dramatically, oh look a another annoying battle fiend.
"The whole camp is aflame with the tales of what happened in your corner of the battlefield. Even the feats performed by the Saints seem to have taken a back seat to what Changing Star has achieved. Ah... I'm so proud of my talented, capable little sister. Nicely done!"
Her smile sharpens, clearly only partially real. It really does run in the family.
"Your glory is clan Valor's glory, of course. So, I am very happy right now."
I tune her out as she annoys me quite a bit. Even if i only dislike prince, dislike is still dislike and the two are quite similar. She also has being in a higher up position within clan Valor, making my feelings on her worse.
I notice her eyes focus on me, oh here we go
"Oh and master Heat Seeker! Now that was quite the show, your able to summon a whole army, yet you stay incredibly personally dangerous. I must say it don't think anyone that isn't a saint could have had such a massive show out!"
I wave my hand
"If you have a point I'd like for you to get to it already"
She frowns for a second then goes back to a smile
"well, master sunless already agreed to fight me how about you?"
I put my hand out
"Pay me then"
She blinks seemingly baffled
"Come again?"
I scoff
"Not all of us like fighting. I personally find it to be annoying and time consuming. So if you want to spar with me, then I want something for it other then injuries"
She stares at me for a few seconds then goes back to smiling
"I can arrange that"
After her and neph leaves they talk for a bit. I'll... fuck it jet can know i guess
"I'm going. I'll be gone for a few hours to the north, I'm making a new core so if I'm not back in a few hours it is likely fine."
They all nod, jet blinks a few times then just accepted it. Kai looks at me with worry but chooses not to say anything effie is the one who's speaks
"Are... are you sure about that i mean when sunny did..."
i wave my hand
"I'll be fine worrying about me is useless."
I turn away, I am not that weak.
I get on my hands and knees. God it always hurts so much. Flame nudges me
"yes yes its over with. Let's go back already."
I get on top of flame slowly and it moves out. As a mobile war platform, i don't normally desummon it but this time I don't feel like sitting on it the whole way so I decide to go with sunny. Soon I get to them, they already had started moving but I caught up fast. I climb into the APC, make a bed of pillows and I lay down. I fall asleep very very fast, damn how tired was I?
I'm woken up by a annoyed voice and someone shaking me. My arm swings up and it connects with something, or someone. I open my eyes to a very offended looking man with a hand on his cheek, sunny with his head turned away and cassie with her arms up like she was going to warn the man.
"Oh, oh I'm sorry I didn't mean to do that."
He puts his hand down. His face twists in a way that shows he's trying to stay professional and failing.... he seems a little weird. Okay
"Master Morgan is inviting you to join her at the head of the head vehicle."
I nod
"Yup okay sorry"
I feel a little bad for punching the guy in face, I don't hate the whole clan, just the leadership.
I try not to fall asleep standing as they talk. I get a little more awake at how they talk about prince. Abominable? Isn't that a little too rude? He's cruel and all that but he's not that evil. My main problem is his obsessiveness, that pure obsession with killing anvil, may he succeed in that, is unnerving but I'm starting to get it. Soon Sunny leaves and so does cassie, I personally stay.
"So do you all really think that song master was prince?"
Saint blade raises a eyebrow at me
"Prince, is that really what you call that thing"
I shrug
"I don't intend to put in the effort to remember his name"
The two seem amused at it at least
"yes it was clearly him"
I tilt my head
"I must disagree. Then again i have been dealing with him for a far shorter amount of time."
Saint blade gets a bit annoyed by it but he doesn't say anything about it Morgan studies me
"Why do you think its not him?"
I shrug
"There's no evidence to him being prince and not a fake."