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Nadira stared blankly at the dragon, still shaken from yet more bad news.
"King Toleranth?" She shook her head, " I can't believe this, your right, Lord Vermillion must be found immediatly." She spun around, looking for a servant, before she remmembered banishing them all from her sight upon arrival to their own quarters. "Blast, well as I've said, I believe him to be among the civilians from this afternoon, but I cannot say for sure, since I left quite a while ago." She dug ner nails into the palms of her hand, " What do you think I should do as far as the Queen is concerned, should she be rescued it would have to be discreetly... (Faith: Plus I need her there right now XP) The fires in the temple? Are you positive, whoever has done this has commited a crime so terrible that they would be immediatly put to death... And those fires can not be lit by any normal means. Only by being touched by one with dark magic can they be lit again. This truly spells trouble for us all..."

"Vermillion is currently 2 blocks from here, and is making his way here. However, no visible movement other then for the fires being lit has been detected at the temple. Any attempts to penetrate the temple for further investigation ends in lost contact and a body being returned."

As to the Queen, you made yourself quite clear in your letter to the chief guard of Esperanza, she is not to be saved quite yet. Although the dungeon keeper is rather unintelligent, but smart in not letting spies past the first tier checkpoint.."

The messenger went silent for a minute, then a sudden paleness crept across his face, and he sat down.

"Nadira, we just had a really bad turn for the worst, King Toleranth just passed away sooner then expected."

(full details of this in domachi thread)

The messenger turned to walk tot he door when it pushed open and vermillion stood their surveying the scene. He looked at Nadiera and then to the messenger. "You needed to see me messenger?"

The messenger disclosed everything about what was going on back home and what had happend to Toleranth.

Vermillon was very quiet for a minute and looked unchanged.

Having calmed herself, Nadira pulled out a chair for Vermillion and silently motioned for him to take a seat.
" These are hard times... I barely know what I should do myself... But Laos' temples being active concerns me greatly. I would like to have it investigated, but if what you say is true then there's no purpose in throwing away the lives of innocent men."
She raised her eyebrow at Vermillion,
"What do you think about all this? Oh, by the way, have you seen Arkayid? He's been missing for sometime, and I must say I'm getting a littly bit worried."

((im lost any one wanna help me out here are we done with the boring mob and back in the castle now? im going to asume that we are in the castle in this post if im wrong please tell me))

Marta was wandering through the medical ward a few of the guards that had been caught up in tiny tussles around the city were in the ward and she was doing more than the doctors could just by touching them. However, every wound she healed she felt the pain of it in the same area of her own body, she would wince and a few tears were sitting on the edges of her lashes with the increasing pain.

she approached a man who had been slashed in the stomach and she sat next to him on the bed breathing deeply looking down at him "this is going to... hurt....me please dont tell any one i dont want to be taken away and not aloud to help" she said to him simling softly. she set her hand on his stomach gently and her other hand went to her own stomach as she bit on her lip to hold back the groan of pain.

"Well both forces cannot operate independant of one another or absolute chaos will result, and no doubt personal scores between the two will take place on the same battlefield as they fight our common enemy. We need a meeting with the entire staffs of both sides, Pearle, and Houka in the same room. Of course niether will enjoy hosting such a meeting due to threat of spying by the other side."

Vermillion took the quill and began drawing a apple with a tear upon its crown; and underneath it in a simple sentence was to have the picture delivered to Yami. Vemillion set the quill back into the ink bottle and slid the parchment back over to Nadira.

"So what were gonna need is a place that both sides call neutral territory, and such a place exisits only in legend. From what I gathered so far from temple here was that the two sides worship two supreme gods. One of the night signified by the moon, and the other the sun. However neither share the same sky, The sun chases the moon out of the sky, the moon chases the sun, both having their peaks of glory. Much of this is apparent in their conquests and their retreats. But, there is a time when both are at their peak of glory, and a peaceful yet powerful sign is displayed to both militaries. The eclipses' of the moon and the sun, both showing that at some point in time that the pursuer and the prey have laid their arms down, and shared their company in peace. However fleeting a time of peace, still a moving sign to all who belive in such, and the only place I can find fitting to hold such a meeting is the ruins of the two gods. It used to be a temple celebrating the union in the sky, destroyed in a invasion long ago, and is within two days travel by both sides."

Vermillion held out his hand and a very old parchment appeared and he rolled it out on the table in front of Nadira. He pointed tot he ruins, and smiled; "This is the place, and although its in Houka territory at this point, if you overlay the current force deployments." Vermillion traced then out in a faint blue of energy. "Neither side occupies it, or the area around it for miles. If you can convince the Queen of Houka to bring her commanders their along with herself, and I can scare up the courage from this lot here. The rewards will expidite Esperanza's freedom, pending if our enemy stays content where she is for the time being, and does not intervene in this venture."

Vermillion leaned back giving Nadira space to look over the map and to formulate her opinion and ideas as well.

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A few of the healed guards began talking, much of which was getting back to the higher ups in the military. As much as Marta wanted her low profile, she was in the spotlight of a powerful person. The supreme commander of Pearlian forces, and sense the queens death he was more or less ruling the country with a forceful hand. He knew if Marta's ability could be used in his benefit or shown to the people. They would follow a compansionate person before following him, sense he represents the deaths of many fellow citizens in the defense of the country. However, he could manipulate her and remover her from power when the time was right and seize control of the country. Yes, this would do, and he sent word to have her brought before him.

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Word got back to the forces in the hospital, and a armed detail began making their way up to where Marta was. Their orders were clear, bring her by any means to see the supreme commander, alive, and failure was not an option if they wished to live.

Vermillion smiled; "lets not go into detail of how i found this map or infromation, because to do so would expose much of the network of infromation. I am still vermillion by the way, King is reserved for one appointed the title by birth, and although I am lord, I do not have royal blood. Toleranths daughter and son will be raised and then chosen from to lead the empire."

Vermillion looked at the map; "Sibel is indeed crafty, and if she is the cause of loas's temples becoming active then me must safely assume the rouge demons are also aiding her out of fear of him should they be disloyal. So army or not she does have strength, skywatches report the bands scattered, however in a pattern that would give her strength should she need it, but not enough to overthrow a large force. What disturbs me is this bit of infromation i just go now."

Vermillion laid a new map over the old one, this being of the temple of Loas and the surrounding area. Already lines of moving demons were shown on it, moving in a counterclockwise direction to that of the same demons forces circling the captial city.

"I've never seen such organized behavior out of demons, something grim is definetly coming our way out of this, and your right in hope not getting the job done. I'll go talk to the supreme commander of the Pearle forces, right now most of the politcal power resides with him. i'll check up on you in a days time, and nadira, try not to get yourself killed alright. Good human friends are hard to come by."

Vermillion left both maps and moved to gather his coat and a few things for the trip out of the city.

Vermillion noticed Kado and smiled slightly; "Nadira's inside if your looking for her, stick close to her, things are about to get rough in the coming days."

(not much of a post either, but enough to give ya something to reply about.)