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(SHEEEEIKKAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -random girl with short brown hair dives out of the shadow and tackles him to the ground-)

Josline blinked her eyes open, yawning heavily. She had never slept so well before in her entire life. "Oh, morning, have a good sleep?" Josline gave a soft smile towards him, covering her mouth again for another yawn before standing up. "Hm..." She noticed that their encampment was empty and the only one there was Kaze, Shade and herself. "Hey, where did Silver, Shira, and everyone else go?" Josline asked looking around curiously.

April quickly tried to stop herself from laughing at Shira. Mother always said that mocking people was rude and that you shouldn't let shadows take advantage of you. She removed her hand, standing up taking a step towards Endyimon and Darious. The two weren't much taller than her, but then again, she did gain her father and mother's height. "So, I promised you I'd get your eye back... but you know, if you just ask my mother... I'm sure she'd be able to get it back to you in seconds. She's against taking magical items to your own... she's always scolded my father for that..." April explained.

April didn't need mind reading powers to know that Shira was thinking when she made her retort back to Dark. Feeling her scabbard to know it was there if Dark pissed her off to the limit. However, it would be more difficult that she was processing, she herself knew the shadow's holy weakness, and held it dear to herself. Ever since the shadow's clung to her enough that she could gain little of their power, she's learned so much that her father couldn't. She managed to grasp teleporting through shadows without moving through them. She can sense shadow's even when they're in a shadow and are close by. And, she's also affected by sunlight, but unlike Darious, it's extremely little. However, she can't enter the shadow realm which bugged her curiosity. Every time she tried to enter, the shadows literally jumped at her and tried to cling to her. She couldn't move apart from teleporting out of the shadow realm to escape them. She didn't understand why, because learning from her parents they were able to enter the realm fine, as well as Tris and Milliardo, which was something Milliardo used to bug her a lot. Clenching her fists she suddenly heard a soft voice in her anger, she turned to see Shira, hearing her thinking of her new friends. Kaze, and Josline two people she knew in her childhood. Did Shira know those two in this time?

Trisiana had her hand on her mouth as she watched Darious. "....I... think..." She turned away trying to hold her breakfast down. One thing was to see blood everywhere... Another to see her shadow man oozing out... shadowy stuff. After the moment passed, she stuttered. "...I appreciate... your kindness... but... That is really... kind of gross...Darious..." She stepped next to him again and cringed when she looked at his eye. She pushed the thoughts out of her head and sighed. "I don't know how well I can heal that..."

Endymion looked at the eye, unsure of what to do. He had studied a vast amount of magic in his travels through different dimensions... but he had never toyed with shadow magic. "I thank you for your... generosity..." Endymion touched the eye in the shadow's hand and it oozed a bit on his pale skin. He turned away, for Tris' sake, as he placed it into his own eye socket. That was a flash greyish blue magic and a deep black color. Endymion held his hand over his face for a good minute, gasping. He had never felt such... texture to a magic. He turned back to face Darious. His own grey blue eye stared intensely at him while the other red one settled into its new home. The shadowy strands snaked out and settled into his skin making it look very demonic for a moment. When Tris squeaked, he took a deep breath and closed his eyes. Reopening them, his new shadow eye, still glow somewhat, but it looked more... normal and most of the shadowing was gone. "Your magic... seems to take to mine... Interesting I would say." Endymion had heard April's remark about asking her mother about it, but he knew that simply, 'getting' it back would not satisfy his revenge. He wanted to take some bit of Arious' magic to make him feel vulnerable... as he did all these years. He had given up a life of power because of it.

Kaze simply stared at Larken up in the tree. He held Josline closer, not even chancing a second kidnapping. He didn't care if this man had truly lost his memory or not, he was a threat. "Larken's staring at us... I say we let him come to us and then decide whether to trust him or not." He murmured.

Jin smirked at one of his mages. "You, go send this pathetic shadow a message. I would like to see him." He commanded. The mage bowed silently and concentrated on the half-shadow-- Milliardo. "Greetings, good sir. My lord, Jin, wishes to meet you. He has something he would like to talk to you about. Something concerning that Alanna girl and your brother. Don't try warping in by shadow or magic. You will not be able to. Come to the front of the castle in give the doorman your name." The mage sent the message telepathetically. However, it would be impossible for Milliardo to reply, for the mage was instructed not to answer. Jin loved leaving people in suspense. Now, if the shadow did come to Castle Telroth, that would mean he was truly curious about what Jin wanted to talk about. And, since it was about someone he loved, and the brother he hated, it would mean Milliardo would actually be willing to carry out the task with no disobedience. Or, so Jin thought.

Jin turned and walked out of the mage quarters. "When he arrives, show him to my room. I will be waiting." However, instead of heading back to his room, he walked around for a bit. He had a strange suspiscion that one of his little pawns was moving about the castle. "Now, Arious, I hope you aren't really here. You should know that you must report immediately to me when you arrive. Otherwise, I might think... you're up to something." He thought to himself.

"Okay then," Shira said. "I just have a question..." At that moment, the choicest of moments, a spark roiled off of Shira's clothes. How it remained there was a mystery. The important thing was that it was not Shira's own magic: it was the purple magic of the man who had healed her stomach wound from the crystal. The man who sounded like Darious.

Larken leapt down from the tree and dropped the pebble. He stood at the edge of the camp, eyes fixed on Kaze and Josline. He would not dare step into the camp, but he would stand on the edge of it. Behind his back, his hand moved, pulling on Kaze's cloak, trying to coax him out of the camp border.

(For anyone who forgot, by a COMPLETELY RANDOM turn of events, Arious healed Shira's stomach wound when she was in the crystal.)

"You know... if you try to take your revenge out on my father..." April said, grabbing Endymion's arm and flipped him over her shoulder. She unsheathed her blade and held it to his throat. "I'll have to kill you myself... but, I'm reluctant to, because I know you're a good person... you're just driven by anger, and revenge." April kicked him and sheathed her sword again. "Tris' is right, this is where she was born, the castle isn't here at the moment, but it'll soon be." April gave a smile over at Tris and Shira like she hadn't just threatened a man for the life of her father.

Opal snuck through the shadows of the castle. It was a good thing she was small, but the reason no one was spotting her was because they weren't looking for her. Like last time. She breathed with some ease when she got out of the torture room. "I'll come back for you Kazelina.... I just need to find Vaati first..." She had told the limp girl who was half conscious on the restraints. Guilt started to set in her heart as she looked through the castle. "Vaati... where are you..." She whispered under her breath.

Josline blinked when Kaze held her close, she looked up at him seeing not looking at her, but rather straight ahead. She turned looking in that direction and saw Larken hiding in the shadows. She felt that twinge of fear, almost pulling herself out of Kaze's arms. She felt the pain in her back from the pillar she had been slammed into.

Silver blinked when she looked around. It was a good thing there was so many maid in this place. So the guards never took a second glance when she walked past them. She kept a straight face, not looking left or right. However, since she was feeling with her magic, which was a difficult thing when your magic was suppressed. It has to be around here somewhere... and there's a possibility he spread it out... there could be more than one.

(What- no notice of Arious-scented magic falling off Shira? eek )

(I see... Thanks for letting me know. I made a quick sketch for a map for reference. ^^ I'm not sure what sort of races exist there, though... Are the Zaltuthe Ruin inhabitants like the Gerudo or no? Or is it just normal humans/mages?)