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"Will you tell me what just happened to you?"
The two elves were in the prince's bedroom. [Insert Saka's bedroom description] The young prince was sitting crisscross on his bed, worried about what Alwenn just saw, while the redhead was walking around, thinking.
"Uh...I drank glowing lizard juice?"
The older looked at him annoyed.
"No? Okay."
"I need to know what happened. You were clearly in pain. Your eyes were glowing. And those markings on your arm...?"
"Alright. I'll tell you. But you have to promise me: under no circumstances will you tell my mother. Got it?
"It depends."
Saka sighed and stood quietly for a second.
"So?"
"I uh...Ifrethefunerthcty" Saka whispered mumbling.
"You what?"

"Ifrdthelfunerthcity."
"Saka, if you don't spit it out clearly—"
"I FREED THE ELF UNDER THE CITY."
Alwenn froze in place.
"I freed. The elf. Under. The city" Saka repeated. "He's still locked but...I freed him from the curse. And then the curse fell upon me."
"The elf that was imprisoned twenty years ago? The one the soul of Aoora was captured in?"
"Uh-huh."
"And now the soul of Aoora is in you?"
"Uh-huh."
Alwenn raised his arms, eyes still widened, trying to say something but not capable of adding any words.
"It's bad, isn't it?"
"You brought back the soul of the goddess of darkness and death. Of course it's bad. Do you know what can happen now?"
"Uh...glowy tattoos?"
"More like spreading dark magic wherever you go and could probably erase the magic off of a whole country."
"So it's just magic. We don't have magic here. It's alright."
Alwenn turned to look at him, and then grabbed him by his shoulders.
"Do you realize what you've done?!"

"Please don't tell mom! Please, Saka squinted."
The redhead loosened his hold.

"How did you even do that? Did you find him?"
"Well I didn't find him physically" Saka said, accentuating the last word. "I had a vision."
Alwenn sat down as he listened to the boy's story, seemingly perplexed.
"I started hearing a voice."
"Did it tell you to stop chewing in front of my face while I read? Because that was my voice."
"No. Not that type of voice. It kept ringing in my head. It was like a calling. It kept saying something in a language I don't know. It seemed like a language that hadn't been spoken for years."
"How do you know that?"

"I don't know. It just felt like it. I think the markings on my skin are in the same language."
"So you heard that voice. What happened after?"
"I found a book. It was strange. One day, as soon as I woke up, I felt the need to go to the library. It felt as if I was guided by a strange scent that felt like it was out of this world, tempting really. I never smelled anything like that. Other than maybe haters from five miles away."
"Concentrate."
"Right. So I went to the library. And I kind of went to the forbidden area. And I saw a pedestal that I hadn't seen before" Saka accentuated the last words. "And it had an open book on it. I looked around but... it seemed like it was waiting for me. So I took it."
"Do you usually take things without permission like that?"
"Well technically there was nobody to ask for it so..."
The older sighed.
"Go on."
"The book was gray, the cover seemed to have a weird carved in pattern. It didn't have a title. But it was full of what seemed like spells. And as I was curious, I spent some time shuffling it, when I landed on an interesting one.
"Don't tell me you read it out loud."
"I read it out loud."
"I knew you were gonna say that."
"I think we both knew I was gonna say that."
"Pretty much yeah" Alwenn sighed.
"As I read it, things around me started shaking, then I flew a little, then some dark blue light surrounded me, and then it stopped."
"Hold on, you levitated?"
"I guess so" the boy shrugged as if it was nothing. "I thought that was all. But now I get these types of glitches regularly."
There was a moment of silence.
"Where is it?"
"What?"
"The book."
"I don't know. After the spell, it just...vanished."
"Hold on. How do you know that this means you freed the elf under the city?"
"I read the stories, Alwenn. When I start glowing like that, bad things happen around me. I bring bad luck, just like that elf. And I'm pretty sure I would know if another soul were in my body."
"I mean, you sort of have bad things happening around you even without glowing but I see what you mean there."
Saka hit Alwenn playfully.
"So what do will you do?" Alwenn asked him.
"I don't know but we do not tell mom."
"Stop worrying about telling your mom. You sound like a five year old that broke a vase."
"I know but...the prince sighed. She's been proud of me these days and I really don't wanna disappoint her. I will be a king one day. I wish to be a good king that people can trust. But now I have awoken an evil soul that could make thousands of people kill each other and..." Saka let out a deep sigh and looked down "yeah, what a great king."
Alwenn put his hand on Saka's.
"You have my word, I won't tell your mom."

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