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Something happened to Ki that hadn't happened for ten years or more. Tears fell from his eyes. "Runa... I don't know if I'll be able to leave your side..." He looked at Takara, and gave her a mental promise that he wasn't sure of how he would keep ~I WILL protect her, and help her as I can.~ Even if that meant... He shook his head, and stood beside Runa.

I watched her walk away, and balled up my hands into fists, "Takara! Friendships don't work like that! I can't chose or feel differently about this. Asking me otherwise is asking me to change the very core of my being. And you know how stubborn I am", I yelled after her and then grinned for just a moment. "I won't hurt you, I can't....and I don't want to hurt you either Ki", I said as tears came to my eyes and I backed away from him. "I care about you too much....", I said shaking from my feelings. I turned away from him and put my head down into my hands and cried. I wanted him at my side and yet....I can't allow myself to hurt him.

I turned around and looked sadly into his eyes. I wiped away his tears gently with my thumbs. "Don't cry Ki, I won't hurt you", I whispered. I then put my arms around him and held on to him tightly, as if it were the first and possibly the last.

Damian watched as everyone basicly went to do their own thing. He was left as they all walked away and he smirked slightly. Everyone needed their alone time, he knew that. He just shrugged his shoulders as he walked throug hthe forests and as he did the trees parted in a circle infront of him, one solitary tree growing in the center by his bidding, a branch growing out at the height of just a little above his head. He reached up and grabbed it, lifting himself off the ground and bending his legs so they weren't touching the ground. He continued to do these chin ups as he let everyone else do their own things for the moment.

"I... can't bring myself to. I truly couldn't stand to be without you, not as you went through... that." He said, sadly and very truthfully. He felt her, and felt her love. Their hearts seemed in sync. "I think a side effect of my power is coming through." He whispered in her ear.

He felt a little guilty adout something, and realized that he was thinking about Kang. Runa was thinking about Kang... Maybe not guiltily, but he felt guilty. He didn't need to, but did... Then, she said that she loved him. "I love you too," he whispered. "For the side effect... I can really pick up on your feelings... and thoughts some... and you can with mine. Our souls are also intwined some..." He tried to comfort her some and stop her shaking. "I didn't know this would happen..."

"I know a few of your thoughts... and you know a few of mine. For feelings, it's just my power multiplied." He felt her guilt now. "I... am sorry. I don't want you to forget him. He was a part of you. It just happened that I am becoming one, too..." He didn't know what else to say. They both felt this guilt... "I won't leave..." He finally said, picking up that thought. "And... I'm sorry that this has happened as it has... I don't want to intrude upon you..." He gave her a small brush of his lips.

These next thought and feelings of Runa's raced through Ki. He understood it all, somehow, and felt a deep, deep love. "I need you, you need me, and we won't be able to be split apart physically that easily. Spiritually..." he leaned in closer, then realized something. "We've been doing all of this right in front of everyone..."