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[vanyel_ashkevron]

[Vanyel's absence was brief and likely unnoticed, but he has returned...changed. His once black hair is now mostly white and his eyes are a much paler grey. He is sitting on the floor in his room with his back to the wall. Every inch of him says "don't touch me", yet something prompts him to open his Locket and use it.]

Why did you bring me back? What use am I...here? Without Yfandes? Without Stefen?

[His pillars have been ripped away and they expect him to stand; to fight?!]

I could kill whomever you wish. [There is something distant in his eyes. His heart can't handle the guilt of his actions.] I could drop them into the bowels of the Drabworld and leave them to suffocate.

Is that what you want of me? [He's beyond tears and out of answers.]

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[athousandcurses]

I... [A brief shake of her head.] Forgive me, but I... I hardly know you and yet you sound so very different from the last time I spoke with you. It is no trouble at all if you need help.

[Though she gives him a curious glance.]

Why do you think that?

[vanyel_ashkevron]

You are kind. [All the more reason he doesn't want to burden her.] My magic is stronger. I have tapped into many Nodes... I can find them with relative ease - even in this land.

[athousandcurses]

[Unfortunate for him, Heralds probably didn't have a lot of experience with stubborn Irish princesses.]

What are Nodes? Is this to do with the elementals we had talked of before?