"Uh, twilight? Dead realms?" The prince said, eyeing the gleam on the gun. "I have no clue." (Wow, my tutors at the castle were right when they said there'd be a lot of strange, weapon-cracking rogues walking the streets...And I'm hanging with them--This is so cool! I gotta get out more!)
(Blood, the four of us, under those trees, that promise--Look at what became of it...) Wing reached at her sword hilt for the comforting object... The others heard a startled scream. "My engagement ring--it's gone!" (How...symbolic.......)
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[Meanwhile]
True to his word, Lance began to talk.
"I had known her ever since we were childhood friends... Yet, I still wanted to win my lady's approval in the way that knights in love always do--valiantly. So, I told everyone that I was going away to train for a few months. That's when I searched the entire forest, its mines and caverns, for what I needed--The garnet in the ring's center, the eighteen diamonds surrounding it--I carved all those pieces. I did it from my heart. And though my swordcutting skills are good, let me tell you... I could never surpass those of Wing's." He shook his head. "That was the main problem... Some of them called her the Perfect Knight. I didn't know if she'd ever accept a guy of a lower caliber than her."
He laughed. "But I kept with my plan anyways, and proved to the clan that I had been 'training' with the self-inflicted cuts that I accidentally got from working too furiously with chipping the diamonds. And as soon as I got back, I challenged her to a fight... By now she could take out or at least match just about anyone in the clan, so she courteously let her opponents choose the terms. So I said, 'If I win, I get to ask you a question. If I lose, you get to let me ask you a question.' As strange as the terms were they were pretty harmless, so she accepted them... The entire clan gathered around to watch because I could actually match her from time to time... But once again, the outcome didn't go as I had wanted. There I was, pinned to the ground when I took the ring out and proposed to her... The entire clan watched her acceptance."
Kayla smiled. "That's Wing, all right... I regret that I couldn't be there to see it."
Lance put his hand around Kayla. "And as for a Sun and Moon Kitsune together... Well, I really don't know. We've been trying to find an explanation for that, but we haven't really figured it out. The important thing is that we are together though, so the kitsune war's come to an end, and that's all that matters..."
...he suppressed his question for last. Eyes fixed intently on the ring the entire time, he finally looked up at Reign. "...Where did you get that?"