My Beginning After the End

A Lance

"It's good to see you up, Devil." Callias laughed, and walked into the room, giving me a smile. "Can't believe someone was able to almost out power you."

"Ha." I shook my head at him. "That's the first thing you say to me, typical, and they didn't almost out power me, they did out power." Uto clearly was stronger, I was smarter in that moment at least.

"It's good to see you up and about." Callias nodded at me. "You seem fine, already got your cloak on."

I shrugged. "I love this cloak."

"I got it for him." Tessia smiled at me. "Remember?"

"Yes, I remember." I smiled back at her, thinking about that reminded me of Arthur. Was he going to come back sooner, now that a Retainer was in captivity? I would assume he would, but now, maybe Agrona pulls back, and waits. Also, would Agrona send another Retainer to take Uto's spot, since he was taken down so early?

"He is always wearing it." Ellie spoke up. "Does he ever take that off inside of the dungeons?"

"Nope, only to wash it." Callias said, and everyone laughed at me. "Veer, I know you just woke up, but you should really go see Commander Virion, a lot went down. I'm not trying to take anything away from you Alice, Rey, but Dicathen is in trouble."

I took a deep breath. "Mom, dad, I'll see you guys afterwards." I took a step toward the exit. "Come on Tess, you should come with."

"We will be waiting here; we all understand what happened is important." My dad spoke for my mom and Ellie, I gave them all a sorry gaze, and left the room.

"Uhh, I'm sure you explained everything already." I turned to Callias.

"Yeah, but I couldn't really talk about the fight at all, since you were the only one there." He responded, and Tess came walking behind us.

"Darvus was there, bleeding out and unconscious, but he was there." Tess didn't need to say that we knew that.

"True." Callias nudged me. "I do want to hear how you defeated the Retainer by yourself."

"It's really nothing so spectacular, my blood magic gave me an upper hand at the end of the day." I answered him truthfully.

"You brutally beat him, Veer." Tessia said coldly, not liking what I did.

"I know." I scratched my head. "I'm going to work on it, there's something wrong."

"Wrong?" Tess and Callias both spoke at the same time.

"Yeah, I'll admit it, I'm losing my mind." We walked in silence as the council room appeared before us. "Let me deal with it for now, I'm going to talk to Elder Virion later alone."

"Oh, alright." Callias, who was normally chatty, went silent; I didn't hear Tessia say anything. The doors to the council room opened, and we walked inside.

"Veer, you're up." Elder Virion said, standing up out of his seat, and made his way over to me.

"Yes, I am." Inside the room was Bairon and Aldir.

Elder Virion approached me. "You two can leave, I only want to speak to Virion."

"Grandfather---" She was cut off by a cold glare from Elder Virion. "Yes, Commander." Callias sighed, and the two of them left the room, upset, they couldn't stay.

"Virion, it is good to see you." Elder Virion placed a hand against the back of my neck and held his forehead to mine. "I was worried when I didn't hear back from the messenger at your base." He pulled his head back and gave me a smile as he went back to his seat. "Thank you for protecting Tessia."