Fractured

Chapter 17: Eyes

People place so much meaning on Eyes. Some say they are the windows to the soul but in actuality eyes are nothing more but tools that enable you to perform the needed functions to enable sight. Nothing more nothing less. They have no meaning. It's what eyes enable us to see, enable us to witness which truly holds the meaning in which we place upon said visual organ. That's we try so hard to protect them. Eyes enable us to witness true...

Beauty.

Sometime during the Hagorn vs Badar tournament fight...

Leora, Rufus and Agnello arrive at the healing station on the surface a small distance away from the floating Arena. Rufus and Agnello follow Leora inside, as they make their way through the corridors Agnello notices Rufus' mood. The walk as way to silent which was abnormal for Rufus and it stuck out like a sore thumb to Agnello that something was wrong.

Agnello who was walking next to Leora slowed down his pace going to talk Rufus in an attempt to comfort him.

"Hey man, You alright?"

"I'm fine." Rufus responded attempting to force a smile but unable to make eye contact with Agnello.

Agnello could easily tell that he was lying in attempt to cover up his pain.

"Hey, it's gonna be alright. Vesper isn't the type to die so easily."

Rufus spoke continuing not to make eye contact.

"Yeah, I know it's just... hard you know? To see her like that, what she went through."

Rufus' words instantly struck Agnello reminding him of how he felt when he watched his Father suffer in front of him when the Teliks attacked. The amount of pain he felt watching someone h cared about suffer so much.

"Trust me I know what it's like..."

Rufus finally looked up at Agnello realising what he was referencing.

"to watch someone you care about suffer like that, go through so much pain, it ain't easy. I'm just as worried about Vesper as you are but the good thing is that she's still with us and she's getting the care she needs. We know for certain she's coming back to us. We just gotta stay strong until wakes up."

Rufus let a small chuckle and scratched back of his head before responding.

"You're right. She'd probably hit the shit out of me for acting so damn soft."

Agnello responded with a friendly smile and chuckle of his own.

"Yeah, you're probably right."

Leora looked back noticing the two smiling towards one each other taking a moment to take in there little moment before entering the conversation as they walked.

"You guys have nothing to worry about Vesper is in the hands of some of the best healers and healing tech around. I should know since my mother was the one that discovered the crystals to make such things possible."

Agnello interest was peaked by Leora's words, Rufus went back to keeping quiet as they made their way.

" Oh yeah I noticed there being a lot of crystals around here. What that about?"

" I always forget that you don't know about this stuff. My mother basically discovered these multicoloured crystals around Lunaris which seemed to have rather unique aspects to them." Leora explained.

"Unique aspects?" Agnello questioned.

"Well you see on their own the crystals are pretty useless and don't do anything buuuuut with a little bit of white light shone through them they can do some pretty awesome things."