A Dragon Among The Stars

A night of catching up.

Kiel was showering, his eyes closed, water streamed down his face, still digesting his newfound information into his head. He thought.

'That nightmare... it was actually real.. my family... my parents... my brother... all of them real. I thought everything would be normal coming here to the Philippines... I guess this must be fate..."

he looked down as he opened his eyes, looking at the necklace he was caressing, he muttered

"All of ths... just for this necklace... what's are your secrets" He had a lot of question left still unanswered, specially his jade necklace.

He didn't think anymore and finished his shower.

*knock*knock*

He heard a knock from his door just as he finished changing to his new clothes, he opened it and what greeted was the sight of Izakel holding a couple of glass and a bottle of whiskey.

he asked in a surprised voice. "You're here?"

"Can I come in? care for a drink?" Izakel asked in a smile.

"Ah! ye-yes come in." Said Kiel, gesturing Izakel to come in

"here have a seat." Kiel said as they both sat at the opposite side of the a round wooden table.

Izakel placed the bottle and cups on table before he said. "I thought you might want something to drink." He also wanted to know more about his brother who he just met in person, and have a brother to brother talk.

"Sure I would like that." Kiel said smiling as he nodded,

Izakel poured both glass some whiskey and the two started savoring the unique fine taste of whiskey.

he asked, breaking the awkwardness "You okay?"

Kiel was mute at first, he had a lot of things in his minds for the last hours, knowing about the truth, it was a lot take in. "Yeah, a little bit, though there's still some unanswered questions, but I'm alright"

"yeah, I know its a lot take in, it's surprising your fast digest it, it took me a lot of time to digest them when teacher first spilled it out to me, I never thought back then that I actually had a brother. hahaha" Izakel said while laughing.

Kiel chuckled before saying. "Yeah, I've always been like that, Even I too was surprised knowing that I have a brother" he drank the and finished his glass before continuing "Everything came so fast, it felt surreal, I only thought that my wife and daughter are the only family I had."

"come on, pour yourself some more" he gestured to Kiel, he continued "It would really be nice to meet them"

Kiel laughed and said. "Yeah, I'm sure you would like them, especially my daughter, even though she acts like a stinking spoiled brat , she's actually well behaved when you get to know her"

"You really love them much don't you." Izakel said smiling.

Kiel nodded, he smiled and said "Of course! all my life they were the only thing that made my world bright, I don't what I'll do if I lose them" he asked back "How about you? do I have a niece or nephew?"

Izakel nodded and smiled, he fished out his wallet and took out a photo of a woman holding the hands of a small girl, he said "Just like you I also have a daughter, her name is Emily and this is my wife, Jenny. This was the last picture she gave to me"

Kiel with his eyebrows arched up, he asked "what? did something happened to them?"

"Nothing bad happened, they left, she knows all of it, and felt afraid that because of me, something bad might happened that would endanger Emily" He said in soft sad tone, sighing. There was nothing he could do, he too thought of the possibility, not stopping them from leaving.