Legacy: The Unravelling

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"Dawn. A time to be appreciated, not to interrogate an obviously tired man who could have easily knocked you and your companion out after the first three hours of interrogation," Renly thought as he sighed in exhaustion and annoyance.

He had stumbled upon the blonde when he came to notify the oldest man in the room of something that he required but was insisted by Viktor that he needed to listen to whatever he was trying to pry out of Evan.

'Trying' being the keyword because so far, he had only seen how the blonde yelled accusingly at the black-haired before pacing around the room and coming back to yell some more, and although he had also wandered off the conversation, he was instantly grounded when he heard his sister's name exit from his brother's friend.

-It is fine if you won't tell me about Kiara.- Viktor had said before pointing straight at Renly who was fiddling with a pencil.- But at least tell her brothers about her.-

Renly said nothing but he did sit down correctly and leaned on his left leg who was crossed above the right one as he stoically eyed Evan. From a third person's perspective, Renly was intrigued by the whole ordeal, but in reality, he was trying to get information that could possibly confirm that the girl he saw in Rhean was her.

The very same he would have greatly injured had he not been momentarily stunned and then getting lost into her eyes. At first, he thought that it was a joke because, in his mind, there was no way that she would have been alive and relentlessly fighting with him and her own family, yet another side of him warned him that it could be possible.

Kiara's body was never retrieved and the only thing that was proof of her death was her blood and torn dress stripes, but nothing else.

She had disappeared just like his mother who apparently vanished somewhere around the Egani and Rheani border back then.

And for that he was conflicted, one side of him wanted to forget and continue to treat the Alpha leader as an enemy while the other wanted him to look more into his sister and mother, in hopes that something could explain what happened to them and why everything is as it is. So he remained neutral for the time being.

-I said that you are delirious, she is dead.- declared Evan with a stern voice.- Now get out of here, I won't be responsible for covering any of you for your slacking and I have duties to attend to.-

Viktor growled in annoyance before standing up abruptly from the chair he was sitting on and stomping towards the door, and as he was about to exit fully he turned back his head to glare at Evan as some sort of hidden warning and he left.

When the door was slammed close, Evan turned around to look at the redhead who was still stoic and raised a brow in a questioning matter.

-I just wanted to update you.- Renly excused himself.- But seems like I have been dragged into Viktor's tantrum.-

His excuse made Evan giggle for a few instances before curtly nodding to Renly.

-Speak then.- he demanded.- I was not kidding when I said that I have duties to attend to.-

-I think that I might have found an old lair.- he commented bluntly.- It has the Alburg crest but I am not entirely sure on how to open it yet.-

Evan turned around to face the redhead with his eyebrows furrowed as he studied the words that had left from Renly's mouth. "A lair?" he thought before concluding that it was not as unlikely as it seemed, as he had discovered Layla's journal in a small chamber after crossing a grotto.

-Have you found anything else? -Renly inquired as he watched Evan resuming his path, roaming throughout the room gathering stuff, some of which the redhead was unable to see.- And why is Viktor so obsessed with my sister? -