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Alef narrowed her eyes slightly but shrugged if off, she despised his attitude. If anything, this was the only thing that managed to piss her off, other than Kiyoshi. "He's just pissed because the love of his life chose someone else..." Her mood had changed drastically, so much had happened between her and Kiyoshi, he had forgotten her, tried to kill her, and the list went on. Though the one thing she did not know what it was like to be chosen over someone else. Even though Kiyoshi openly showed her that he could more than likely get any girl he so desired and didn't need her anyway.

Alef looked back to Solumone and nodded her head a little. "My name is Alef... and you are quite right if you believe you'll be staying for awhile... it would be wise to know who people are." She bit her tongue trying to control her unusually lost temper for this evening.

Alef wiped the spit from her face and did not take her eyes off of him. "You don't have to be such a b*****d! Your not the only ******** person who has lost everything! I admit, I don't have it half as bad as you! I came over here to offer you comfort, but you just don't care now do you!" A few tears rolled down her cheeks and she turned around wiping them away, not believing her out burst. It was not like her at all. "...you just don't care... even if I do care about you... and that's the only reason I came over to you... I'm sorry... I am so sorry..." Her voice was now quiet and fleeting as she tried to control herself.

Dante smiled weakly, a sense of evil in the malicious grin as he spoke in a sly tone. Why lie to your decieving heart? To embrace something truley, to know what it is to love...to hold something so precious you'd kill or die for it without reason or rationale..... that is love. Its not worth it.... I have been stabbed and killed many times, but the body will mend itself with time. the heart, on the other hand, the heart cannot heal once it is snapped. Why am I wasnt my time on an old fool...one who knows nothing of love can understand nothing of it.. He looked at Alef, her eyes red from tears. he felt no pity. It scared him, how cruel he felt, as he simpyl walked over to her, running his fingers under her eyes. he took her salty tears into his lips from his fingertips, sucking the tears slowly off as he spoke in a fearless tone. Get drunk on your tears, know what it is to be alone..only then will you truley know what purpose you serve. With my finger on a trigger and hand wrapped around a sword...i live a breathe combat. I am nothing more than a pawn..... He suddenly looked at Solumone, speaking in a harsh tone. But even a pawn can become the most powerful pice on the chessboard....

Solumone shook his head, snickering at the words the other man spoke. "But the heart does not feel love, it is in fact the brain which feels such impulses. Someone apparently did poorly in Biology." he shook his head still, shrugging. "And here you speak without full understanding. Power, like money, is meaningless. For no matter how much power the one piece attains, it makes not the difference in how the piece loses. There will always be others more powerful, there will always be those you overlook because of your own contentment with the power you hold, and no matter how great you are...if the primary piece falls, you lose. And hence a new, select few rise to power and, like those before, will overlook those smaller then them. The smaller one's will rise and overthrow the great power, which will give rise to new power. Such is the endless cycle we are driven by, love does not factor into this cycle as greatly as you seem to percieve, rather transcends it in a way. You speak of not understanding, clearly an easy thing to speak of from one who is so lacking in experiance. But as I said, I cannot expect either of you to grasp every concept yet, you who are so young and new to the world." he refered to the both of them, and still had yet to lose his gentle smile and tone.

Alef sighed hearing the conversation carry on. She continued to run her fingers over the water wondering how Solumone could stay so calm, and still have a smile on his face. She didn't usually loose her temper easily, save for tonight, but she knew she would have started to get rude by now. She got what they were saying and why, but she didn't want to worry about it. There was no talking to Dante, or so she assumed, and she didn't know that one man could tell so much information in so little time and remain perfectly calm and happy about it.

Solumone sighed, hopelessly yet sweetly with his smile held firm. "It is as if I speak to a wall. Bother...it seems not that anything I had said truly reached into your mind. I never specifically said that our existance is limited by the boundaries Science creates for it. No matter dear boy, lecturing you would be pointless as you are unable to yet grasp these truths, as you allow yourself to be so limited." the wind picked up now, and Solumone's hair began to shift more quickly in it. "The mind, the body, the spirit, the very boundaries which hold it back, all things you have yet to grasp or learn from, as I have already seen by merely watching your brief movement with Yusake the previous night, and speaking with you on this night. Quite humorous it is, however, that you two could clash so greatly yet be so similar. Like you, he bares the same weakness, and the same stubborn traits. You both could learn so much more and release such a greater amount of your potential if only you could learn to overcome that which cannot be taught by anyone."

Solumone had sighed slightly, closing his eyes as his head lifted a little. He plucked a white card from his coat pocket and simply tossed it into the air. The card spun as it flew to Dante. "Never the less, it is not my place to try and teach which can only be learned through self-gained experiance and insight. But should you find a need for a new weapon, or armor, or anything, you will find me most useful. Having fought Yusake already in times past, you know just how well my craftsmanship can be. However that is all this humble merchant can do. It is as Mr. Metran told you once before Dante: 'You are flawed with many weaknesses, those of which will hold you back and prevent you from ever attaining what greatness you are meant for.' and his words hold true. Think of what I have said young man, and hopefully it will gain you some of the insight you require." the wind picked up in a great amount until, finally, a large white cloth lifted off of Solumone. It seemed to cover over his form very briefly before flying off, showing nothing left but a continues, clicking sound, much like small wings.

zero stops about half way down the path. he could hear what the man was saying, so he quickly jumped to the brush on the side of the path and hid there listing to what he said. he seemed to have grasp on every concept in science, zero was impressed. he stay ther crouched down, unable to move for some unknown reason, what was that guy.....