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Said fish duly make his line snap and thus get away with his bait and his line, though he hadn't moved to even care to do anything about it. "I'm sure you'd be surprised if I told you that you are my favorite, if you even believed me to begin with." Yes it was like a vicious circle he couldn't get out of...one thing went right in his life and two others went wrong. Perhaps it was some sort of divine punishment that not even he could get away from. "You must think me stupid." Shaking his head. "If you lost you'd never do any of that...you'd work harder to fix your mistakes and the very next chance you got, you would show them all up and rise from the fall you had taken the time before." Looking out over dark water, giving a sigh. "You're not me and I can't make you have everything that I didn't at your age. The more I try to, the more you hate me for it. The more I push at you, the more you resent me." No he wasn't stupid...he knew the truth, he just didn't like to admit it. "Believe it or not...we're more alike than you think. You never wanted what I had in mind for you, and I never wanted what my mother had in mind for me." Or more preceisely his sister but that was arguing semantics to a point and he didn't have the will for that at the moment. A look to his broken line then to Kel out of checking habit but they didn't come back to Zykariel, more or less focused on the bank where the water barely made noise as it hit the rocky shore. It was time to just stop fighting it all and letting things fall into place..whether or not the cards fell in his favor or not. He was tired of trying to earn the approval of everyone else around him that he would never get...perhaps his age was catching up with him. And here they were about to have another baby too. Oh it didn't look good. Quiet he may be, one could see the distraught look that flashed over his eyes before his mind tried to will it all into a dark chained corner in his mind, just as it had all the other things in his life he wished weren't true. Bad as Zykariel may think himself, there were worse of Sevilin's children...like that girl for example. "I let you out of school because it's what you wanted...I let you do whatever you want because that makes you happy...I have nothing else to offer you and you're still not happy. What else would you have me do then to make you so?" A shake of his head and a dismissive wave that made the questions perhaps rhetorical since Sevilin feared his already knew the answer. "You should head home with your brother..."

Getting up he walked over and took to rubbing at her neck and shoulders for her, knowing that no one ever really got relief from doing it themselves and she had been laying really funny when he had come in. "Makes sense. We all feel guilty afterwards and such. "Suppose I jsut have a way with horses...or I just spoil then. I think Zykariel's horse only tolerates me because I'm making them work better together. As far as her and Jin...I have no clue there." Giving an affirming noise though since he was behind her. "I do. I've been keeping myself together despite all my short comings nad you're making things easier for me now so I can concentrate on other things."

The boy just didn't understand did he? And he was wrong too...he had always been proud of Zykariel, he had always seen the boy as he was, perhaps had just tried too hard to do better by him. Yes...the boy made it hurt all the more with how then then took his father's past and made it trivial. Even when he tried to say the boy was right, he threw it back at him...he didn't believe that his son didn't hate him for a single second, just like Zykariel didn't believe him either on other things. Even went further by twisting words. He didn't look to Kelligrin either as he merely picked the child up and got up himself. "No, you're going home." Grabbing Zykariel by the shoulder, he pushed the child to him and with a scribed rune, duly sent the two back to the front porch, leaving himself standing there alone. Poles and such were merely left to slip into the water and he pivoted on his heel, heading to Twilight to leave a message with Keely, duly leaving that place then without another word and heading away from both there and the direction of his own home.

"I see you saved me pointing out the similarity." Chuckling at that before sitting down beside her as he deemed that her muscles has loosened up enough for the time being. "I'm afraid she won't get much out of Jin without being direct. You know how non-nonsense he is." Blinking at her frown a moment. "Trying to compete with you? Never."

He blinked as if he hadn't thought of that and honestly it did make sense. "You know, that's not a bad idea at all. After all, there's enough horrible things that happen to horses when they aren't cared for and the like. I think I could do that. Something I'm good at and something I can indeed do. Provided you have the time to teach me though." Blinking again as she got up and wandered outside. Equally surprised he followed and it seemed things had gone bad with elves somewhere. "Screw the cloak." A whistle brought Jin to him and he mounted up despite tack, giving the horse a kick. "You stay here, I'll get him."

He couldn't of gone too far and he was right as he did indeed find the little elf belly down on the hard ground and crying with scraped knees and elbows and under his chin. Obviously he'd taken a fall in his little haste to get away. Getting down off of Jin, he picked up the little elf making soothing sounds to try and quell his crying. "Shh, it's alright now...we'll get you back to your mother and she'll fix you right up." Hopping back up on Jin, it was a little trot back to the house with the baby.

Getting down off of Jin, he wandered over to Zykariel and rested a hand on the boy's shoulder in reassurance, waiting for him to get up before they all headed into the house. Yup, something had seriously gone wrong and this was the afermath. A look to Zahara and a tilt of his head. "Anything I can do?"

He fetched the bag, luckily for him it was in the first place that he looked for it and he brought it back to her, setting it down on the counter with a look to the door as he had heard it open and close. Attention back to Zahara and the toddler though and he made an effort to replace her bowl of quickly bloodied water. "I'm sure it's not as bad as it looks."

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This day was just getting more and more interesting, that was for sure. First Sevilin and now Zykariel had shown up. Coming to the front door a the sounds of the boy's distressed voice she frowned in concerned manner to him. "Zykariel what on earth is wrong?"

As was the way with children, cookies seemed to solve most problems and being back with his mother probably helped all the more. But he merely followed her about helping as he could and now was once more keeping her company as she seemed in need of it. "Sure, I can do that." Thusly taking the little elf from her and wandering upstairs with him to the room that held the crib that of course had to be the child's. Back downstairs he sighed. "Eventful..."

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Another blink in surprise as she was twirled then and set back down. "But Zykariel, I have to take care of things here...tell me what's going on. I need at least something to go one and frankly you sound like you're going somewhere."

Patting her shoulder he took a seat next to her again with a sigh and trying to be comforting for her as best as he could. That's what friends were for, right? "Calm down now...and I can stay if you'd like me too. After all looks like you can use some help around here for the next day or two that I can't just walk away from."
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And she was still confused looking. "Yes...I know he left. He told me. Why do you have to find him. Did something happen at home that you need to get a hold of him?"