Blessed || Sequel to Cursed

Chapter Seventeen || Scars

(No pov)

The war room was partially empty now. Only a few remained in the cold room that was filled with stress and guilt and worry. Sapnap and Quackity looked worried while the royals looked stressed, the captains and other officials looked confused.

Dream appeared tense, XD was visibly stressed out of his mind, but Dream couldn't go to comfort his brother- that'd be a sign of weakness, one that Techno and Wilbur could exploit and use against him.

He knew what those princes were up to, Tommy was no better, but at least the youngest didn't actively try to get him kick out of the castle. He'd simply glare at him, maybe flip him off every once in awhile, but Dream understood where they were coming from.

He'd revealed Techno's identity, sure, it was six years ago and you'd think that they'd have gotten over it by now- but the princes remained stubborn and didn't show him any form of kindness.

King Phil was nice, though. Phil referred to him as one of his best guards often, he showed him pity and scolded his sons for their rudeness. The King probably talked about him rudely behind closed doors, but to his face? He was kind.

Dream remained still, his posture remained perfect and he remained emotionless- that's what made a good guard after all. XD continued to curse to himself, "Fuck, oh my god why, how the fuck did I manage to screw up this badly?" He groaned into his hands.

The room was a mess, crying still echoed from where Tubbo was sitting, Sapnap and Quackity looked angry and worried, and a God was panicking. Dream assumed that this was the weirdest thing he'd ever seen.

"What do you mean there's types of forgetfulness?" Sapnap asked stiffly, XD sighed loudly before explaining.

"For Time Travellers, every time you travel, there are possibilities that you could lose your memories. Sometimes, in Karl's case, you can accidentally swap memories with another timeline- that is called Swap Forgetfulness, or, forgetfulness III." XD explained before taking a deep breath and going on.

"Sometimes, very rarely, you can forget chunks of your memory. That is called Mass Forgetfulness, or, forgetfulness IV. Karl is currently between forgetfulness III and forgetfulness V." He finished before groaning and burying his head in his arms again.

The looks of confusion egged him to go on, "Forgetfulness V is when you forget almost everything. But we don't know yet!" He complained and threw his arms up and turned on his heel.

"So you're saying," Quackity took a deep breath, "That Karl has the potential to not remember who any of us are?" He asked with fake calmness. XD nodded despite not facing him, the loud groan from Sapnap and Quackity was his answer as to how they were feeling.

"Hey, it's my fault he isn't here right now, sure, but it isn't my fault for his memory!" XD exclaimed as he turned back around. He looked exhausted and annoyed, Dream noticed.

So, he cleared his throat to get their attention, "Might I have to remind you three that we are in the middle of a war?" He asked, the immediately went quiet and he faced the King.

He felt the glares of a few people on his back, but one was of relief, and that was all he cared about while XD was here. His friends could easily ditch him for a better version of himself, but they wouldn't. They couldn't. They all loved each other too much to replace one another.

"We have to focus on getting Karl back from the humans, If XD is right and Karl has forgotten everything, then it gives the humans a chance to manipulate him to help them." Dream explained, he heard murmurs of agreement from behind him, so he went on.