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"Ground Troops. Against a Dragon. You're really bucking to lose your command. That scenario is gonna end so badly for your troops. Eh. Whatever floats your boat."

"First off. We don't consider this our turf. We're patrolling for our employer. Second, whatever it is, its leaving. Away from us. A dragon is nasty buisness to take down, and I don't want to throw 5 Wyverns at one Dragon. We'd lose unless we got lucky. So, therefore, it's going away from us and is of little threat. What do you want us to do? Help you? Yeah right. Check with General Shiro if you want that."

Tolly made the Inthe castle, and found it too be a little to quiet for his liking. He spent most the first 2 hours finishing the healing on his children, and made sure they were safely hidden away resting while he went to investigate the castle. The lower floors where elegant and a few of the larger more bulky tapestries still remained. The story they told in his eyes were of happier times, and offered a little reassurance to the weary king, as he walked the empty halls, that there was still hope alive if even embedded in the past.

Tolly returned to the hiding place and gave his children what he could find in the way of food. "Its not much, a few rats and mice, and some decent roots."

"Where do we go from here papa?" Tolly leaned back against the wall. "We will try to make our way back to Houka and then slip into the resistance headquaters from there." "We don't have a chance do we?" Yumiru's comment made Tolly grit his teeth. "There is always a chance Yumiru, because despite all darkness there are those whose shine as bright as the sun. From them hope festers on to grow through their actions, and eventually despair gives way to confidence and courage." "How long does that take to learn?" Hiyru questioned of his father. "That is trick, it can grow quickly, or it can take years. It depends how strong those are that fight the darkness, and how many are left to spread hope across the world." "Could we help spread the hope across the world papa?" Hiyru looked at his sister first then to tolly awaiting hsi answer to her question. Tolly smiled; "Sure ya can, but your gonna need to rest first, we'll leave here for Domachi tomorrow."

"We just took months coming fromt here and now were going back there?" Tolly shook his head; "Listen Hiyru, sometimes you half to be in the one place your enemy wouldn't think you'd go to, and sometimes that is their own back yard. Domachi is destoryed and desolate, the villages there occupied, and its citizens enslaved. The commanders there are far from the frontlines of the resistance and their guard is not as high as the provinces near the front lines. However if you desire a longer trip back we can go that way." Tolly pointed up towards the cieling. Yumiru looked up at the celing; "So we would go really high up, but won't that be dangerous for us?"

Tolly nodded; "For younglings like yourselves yes, for me its merely a spell away to do." "What about the doorway thing you mentioned back int he camp?" Tolly arched his eyebrow; "you shouldn't eavesdrop on conversations between adults Hiyru, but i'll let it go since it involved your lives as well. however it would only be good for about 2 minutes and about 200 leauges worth of travel." "Is there anyone nearby that could increase our numbers for protection or boost the time longer?" Tolly shook his head; "Yumiru your young body is the problem, it can go as far as I desire, but for you to stay in there longer then 2 mins would cause madness along with severe phyiscal damage." "What about the tower we saw when we landed here?" Tolly moved his head tot he side a bit to look out the window at the tower. "It is under the rule of an ally, but the protection spells are very strong. We would perish upon them trying to get through." "What if we asked to enter through the spells, I'm sure with them bing your ally they would let us in."

"We could, but I'm not sure if they are still there, and then there is little thing about sending the message; or have you forgotten how you were attacked in the small medow?" "Hiyru glared at yumiru; "It wasn't my idea papa, and I wanted to get as far away from there as possible after i smelled demons." Yumiru opened her mouth to retaliate, but Tolly shushed her and spoke sternly at Hiyru; "The past is exactly that past, and to berate somebody in the present with the past only serves to breed hate. Hate i will not tolerate between you two at this point in time, because we will all need to work together as one to make it to safety. Now get some rest, we have a long trip ahead of us no matter how we go to get to our next stop."

The two children huffed at one another and eventually got to sleep. Tolly used the time to hold the box again and look at it. Tolly sighed wondering if he would ever find the one this box was destined for befroe it was too late.

The door creeked open from the knocking, there was a small light coming from within that flickered, Hiyru jerked the door the rest of the way open and Yumiru stood across the room holding a very lethal looking spear. "Who are you, and what are you doing here?"

the very same kind of spear poked lightly inot the back armor of Auren; "Exactly, answer my daughter for me, she is impatient with all the ruckus going on outside." The words came from behind and no doubt were Tolly's.

"It couldn't happen at a better time." Tolly turned around; "Hiyru, Yumiru, were leaving, and be quick about it for danger lurks in these walls." The youngsters came out of a room at the other end of the hall, and two illusions faded along with the light in the room they formly occupied.

"So where do you propose we open this gate at, thrid floor gates make for a rough tumble on the other end."

Nadira emerged from her rooms, her soft green eyes alive with surprise as she peered down the corridor.

She wore a gown of simple, supple, rose colored silk; Flowing easily over the contours of her shape and cinching just below her breasts. Her silvery hair was neatly combed, parted, and tied back with the exceptoin of two locks left free to frame her face. Her tiny dracling, Metta, was perched on her shoulder with her slender tail wrapped around Nadira's neck. Freya was just behind the girl, her bare blade gleaming. Freya was garbed in a green knee length tunic and tan leggings. Sensible clothes for moving easily and unseen through the forest.

Sounds of battle were clearly audible even from this far into the tower.
They shared a look and trotted down the hall towards the stairs.

"Auren you can't be so lax as to not dectect the movement of shadows in the lower floors, pushing onto its enemy the light which I sense very easily, sense it and you'll understand what I'm talking about. As for heading outside, lets get started, the quicker the better, and the more we talk the more that siege army gets here. Last thing I need is a guilt trip cause your wyverns are stuck between a wall of soliders and this heap of rock."

Tolly waived his hand forward and his children started walking, but Tolly turned his head to ask Auren a question. "Did the squadron commander who rescued my children ever deliver my message to you?"