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Upon reaching his adult stage, Alutar had found his fathers interest in him had waned. That was fine. Just because he wasn't physically around didn't mean he wasn't still watching. The young prince of darkness had chosen to begin exploring. He rather loved wandering the smaller passages of the Umbra roads. He didn't even mind when he had to get on his belly and slither like a snake just to get further along!

Tonight though, after a long and happily exhausting crawl through the underground, Alutar fell out of the Umbra road expectantly. He hadn't realized the road took a sudden twist directly downwards. With a tumble and roll, he fell out onto a ledge, and nearly tumbled right over the edge. His tail snap lashed at the ground, the little tendrils digging into the surface to help hold him in place. "Whoa!" Alutar panted with shock, then threw a arm over his eyes at the burning brightness.

Alutar, despite his state of shock, moved rather quickly to push himself back as far into the shadow's of the ledge as he could. "By Father!That hurts!" He complained as he kept his watering eyes covered with one arm. "That wasn't funny!" Of course, he assumed his father had dumped him out here. He did control the Umbra roads and all. Alutar reached his hand out and began to randomly pat the area around him in search of the entrance he'd fallen out of. "I won't go so far next time! Just let me back in dad!"

Alutar felt the ground and up the wall slowly. He was sure the entrance to the Road was probably above him. It didn't mean he couldn't hope his father would move it for him, right? As he did so, he kept his arm covering his blinded eyes. The sunlight was horrible! Suddenly someone spoke, and Alutar froze. His first thought was whether or not the speaker had a Taint feeling to them...but no..he didn't feel creeped out any more then someone might after hearing a unexpected voice nearby. "I...are you asking if Antarmur'ss is my dad?" He wasn't positive he understood what the speaker was asking. Though he did put some effort into blindly posing his chin upwards. "Because if you are, the answer is yes. I'm Alutar. I am his second youngest son." Alutar paused for a moment, then added in a uncertain tone. "Who are you?"

Alutar wondered a bit as to why the speaker would take so long to answer him. If the sun would just go away he could have at least looked at him! Finally Ling answered Alutar...and his head seemed to start aching. What the hell had he just said? "I...I'm not a poet..." Alutar finally managed to speak back to Ling. "I'm rather bad at my writing lessons in fact. I'm not sure I really understood what you said." Alutar's tail shifted behind him, the small tendrils squirmed and curled against themselves as he really and honestly tried to piece together what had been said. "Are you saying you don't want me here?"

The only clue that Alutar had that his current companion had not left was...well..none. He had no clue and it made him anxious to think he'd just been walked out on. Finally Ling spoke again, and Alutar relaxed slightly One...must be the guy referring to himself. He really did talk oddly didn't he? "Oh..I see." He awkwardly replied. "Well if your going to be that honest, technically no one is worthy but others who are lucky enough to be children of gods." Alutar paused and shuffled his tail against the ground. "I think that is what you mean right? I don't mind though. If I only hung around people of my station I'd be alone like..all the time... My siblings aren't exactly the most interesting kids to be around. One is a girl and the other drifts off into La La land like every few minutes...and the rest of my siblings are jerks to me."

Silence followed once more. Alutar wondered what this mysterious person looked like. He supposed it didn't matter so long as they weren't Cursed or attacked him. Perhaps he should have brought a weapon with him... All of these realizations of what a bad series of choices he had made came to him. By now, with the silences that followed, Alutar was afraid he was getting a horrible headache. Even with his arm over his eyes for protection, it seemed the Light managed to burn it's way through his flesh. On top of that, the wane shadow of the ledge was hardly strong enough to protect his sensitive skin. Alutar had spent his entire life in the blessed Darkness, and the sunlight felt harsh and burning.

When Ling would speak about the light, Alutar found that simple sentence the most straightforwards thing the other had said. "Oh Father yes it is." He agreed with a small nodding of his head. "I can feel it burning my skin. It's absolutely horrible." It only occurred after he had spoken that perhaps that might be taken 'in the wrong light'. Since he was talking to someone on the surface, he assumed they were one of the Light dwellers... yet when Ling told him to follow he assumed that perhaps the other was willing to overlook his slight.

Alutar unsteadily rose, and turned his ear in the direction of the sounds that came with Ling's movements. He moved with a hand outstretched, and his tail lightly brushing the ground in front of him for any possible rocks or objects that could cause him to trip. Almost immediately Alutar could feel the difference when he slipped into the crevice. He was pretty sure this was not the Umbra Road...but it didn't matter. Once his hand swished through open air, and he felt that the light was no longer trying to eat through his flesh, Alutar slowly lowered his arm from his eyes. The green orbs still watered some, but the light wasn't half as bad as it had been out on the ledge for him. Now he got a chance to look at the speaker, and Alutar found himself blinking at Ling. "You....you don't have any eyes?"

Considering the fact the cave clearly belonged to Ling, Alutar decided to follow the strange young man when he moved to perch himself on the rock. he understood the phrases spoken now, perhaps because he was expecting them? "Oh. I know what you mean. When I'm down in the deeper levels of Fathers temple it's impossible to use my eyes to see. I've gotten pretty good at not walking into walls when I'm in the dark." Alutar glanced down at his tail and gently swept it around his legs so the tendrils could wiggle out in front of him like little snakes seeking to grasp something. When Ling whispered his words, Alutar nearly missed them. His green eyes lifted to peer at the cryptic creature. "You made him mad huh? Well...he can't be too mad at you now if he dropped me here."