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In his arms she started to stir, looking up at him with unseeing eyes "she's dead, she's dead, she's dead..." she seemed incapable of saying anything else. in her minds eye however she kept seeing the burn mark on the carpet. The ashes. The twisted crown. She had failed, failed the Queen, the kingdom. No royal would ever let her near. "she's dead, dead, ashes, she's dead."

Illusion blinked, trying to clear her head and her eyesight when she saw Luke. "Luke!" she cried as she threw her arms around his neck, throwing off their balance and threatening to topple them over. "It was awful..." she hid her face in his shirt to hide her growing sobs. "She's dead. The Queen is dead."

There were ashes on her floor... she shuddered "A pile of burnt ashes, her crown was melted into a horrid tangle of metal. So I-I-I scooped up the ashes and put them in the vase..." her voice started to tremble as she started to shake. She pulled at the blanket on the bed towards her, almost like it would push back the memory. "Then I went to look for someone to tell...and the vase slipped and the ashes were gone!" Illusion's eyes grew wide with the renewed alarm. "I let her die Luke! I couldn't stop her!!!"

Luke rolled an eye over Tessen uninterestedly, then turned back to Illusion. "I don't think you could have stopped her anyhow. From what you said, it seems like this was her choice, not a murder. Something happened, but it wasn't your fault."

His eyes wandered for a moment, distractedly, as he thought, and then focused on her again. "Just get some rest. Try not to think about it too much. I'll relay this information on to the other kingdoms... this will create quite a stir."

He paused again as more thoughts whirred through his mind, then stroked the back of her hand absently, not really noticing his action. A screech from the window made him come back to life, as he automatically extended his hand toward the ceiling, which the little merlin landed on.

"H'llo, Russ," Luke murmured. "We've got some work to do. Shall we?"

He turned abruptly and left the room, heading off toward the message towers, to send out birds to all the heads of the countries.

Tassen worked the rest of his body into the room, which fit through the window with a little difficulty. He as after all about the size of a horse, wing arms folding in.
"I seem to have been away for a long time. What has happened? Who is this queen? Of what blood line was she from?" So many questions, so little time. "Any history from the past thousand years or so would be helpful."
He was tempted to ask where the libraries would be, where he could read this history himself, but it might be far faster to be told the high lights by this lady. Maybe it would distract her from her apparent grief for a little bit.

"She was the last light elementalist from what I know. All the others have turned to magic, like the dark elementals. They're everywhere now pretending to be mages in every kingdom. But she was the last known royal." She looked at the new comer and felt her face flush. "Some knight I am. Yes, it was me. Disapearing ashes tend to do that when they're supossed to be a body."

Kiro bowed, "I'm Kiro, from the Water Nation." He stood up once more, "Nice to meet you Tassen, and who are you mam?" He smiled, he then spied the vase. When did dragons appear again... Was his next thought.

Tassen had peaked her interest. How long has he been missing? Dragons have been missing since the first wars... Illusion stood up, holding her bed post to keep herself from falling over. "The Elemental realms lost the war, the Twilight Sanctuary was allied. Both were basically wiped off the face of the planet. Then the chaos rift and lair of souls battled it out. Eventually everything just stopped." she paused, trying to rememeber the ancient history lesson. "Needless to say... people started being born with the power of the elements again, from all the old lands. So the elementals sorta control everything again."