Channelknight Fadran

Aerith sat down without a word.

“Why do I have to kill you?”

Ellis shivered, then lookd up at the magician, this time with pitiful eyes instead of angry ones. "Who am I? And why do I have to kill you?" @Jaywalk

"We offered to let him come with us, but he chose to stay behind."

"I don't... I don't remember anything."

Fine. "I'm the..." he looked down, "I'm the Dark Lord."

"A couple weeks back? Have you heard of the Universe Hexagon?"

"Yes. Him."

"And we ran into her dad, but awhile after that, she... had to leave us."

Chris furrowed his brow. Fadran was way better at this than he was. "Who has been taken?"

I... did.

"And we ran into her dad, but awhile after that, she received news that you might still be alive, so she went looking for you."

"She was with us."

Leonie burst into tears.

"Failing... failing at what?"

Is the magician going to acknowledge that Ellis is writhing in pain? And I quote, "WHO ARE YOU???"

"You're... you're Vapor's mom."

"Fadran's my boyfriend!" Ayia says. "Well... kinda. No, he's not." "Thank you for clarifying that. We went on one date--" "And you liked it! You had fun!" "I have fun with a lot of things. That doesn't mean I'm your boyfriend. I'm kinda in a--" "Shut up. Say, how's about after we win this war of your, we go on another, mmkay?" Fadran tried to answer, but saying no wasn't exactly natural to him. "Laure? Ashley Laure???"

Aerith followed behind them both, clearly upset.

"I don't know." She sighed, burying her face in her arms.