My Beginning After The End: One Shots

Echoes of Silence

(For people who have not read Slowcky's fanfiction, and I mean from beginning to end, please don't read this chapter and just ignore it since it holds massive spoilers for the fanfic. Anyways I rushed this chapter because why not, enjoy. )

Arthur Leywin

I sat in my room in the palace in Etistin, simply sitting on my bed trying to gain further insight into my runes. Tessia was obviously very far into her pregnancy, I suspect that she may give birth in around 2 months but I wasn't sure. I needed to be there when she gave birth otherwise I would probably never forgive myself. I needed to get stronger, Agrona and Indrath would not help us, they are our enemies, have been for a long time.

Going back into the Relictombs at this point is pointless, the djinn remnant told me that there are no keystones left. And then there was also Veer to worry about, he is clever but even so I still worry for him, despite everything he has done he is still my brother. But he should understand what he is doing is wrong, and yet recently it's almost as if he disappeared. He sometimes sends his clones to check in on us but for the past week there has been nothing.

This worried me, and at the same time gave me relief, Veer has gone too far. I have tried to figure out how to stop him, mostly by just trying to talk to him to just come back here and relax. But Veer can't be trusted anymore, he just can't, his mind slave spell is dangerous. I had several people in the castle checked for the spell, but it's hard to do so because I don't even know what I'm looking for. I could not help but blame myself, I never should have given him that beast will.

I had visited Tessia and my family earlier, but now I just needed to focus, I needed to get stronger for them. Indrath would sometimes summon me to explain how my Aether worked, it was annoying but I made sure not to teach him anything important. Despite how hard I tried to focus my mind always drifted back to Veer, Mordain had told me he was not a reincarnate and that always confused me. I mean how else would he know everything? From his perspective he was inside a novel that was centered around me, which was something I had yet to understand.

Veer has always been unusual, honestly I never really suspected him of being a reincarnate, well until he started developing his blood magic, he often acted like a child so I had no reason to really suspect him other then the fact that he often knew things that he shouldn't. After having a talk with Aldir and meeting Indrath I could finally confirm he was a reincarnate but there was always something small stopping me, well that was until he himself confirmed it when we were about to fight Cadell. I missed Sylvie, I really did.

Thinking back at that time made me just sigh, Veer at that point was still crazy, but he was far better then he was right now. I often liked to think back if I could do something better, something to prevent Veer from becoming this crazy, it's not good to do that but I had to. I'm the older brother. It was my job to worry about my younger brother. Regis was currently inside my core just sleeping, or just doing something, I was not really sure. I had not been able to figure out much about my runes, I mean I knew the basics but in the end I needed more than that, before I could resume my thoughts someone knocked on my door urgently.

I opened it and saw Bairon there, he looked worried but also slightly angry. ''Bairon? What is it?'' I asked with confusion. ''Arthur, your brother has been spotted a few kilometers outside of Etistin city, nearing Ekshire city.'' That information almost made me gasp, not in surprise but in confusion, why would Veer not just teleport here? I could not understand him, he was always so unpredictable, but this feeling in my chest, it felt wrong. ''I'll go there straight away, let's go tell Tessia and my family before.'' He sent me a curt nod and we both rushed to tell them, they all took it well except for Ellie surprisingly. ''Let me come with you.'' she asked with determination in her voice. ''Absolutely not, what if he hurts you?''