The Need To Find

Xanth sat uneasily on the chair in Lillian’s small but warm house and opposite him sat Syrana, Kye could not sit and Iris busied herself by the window keeping a keen eye on the rest of the Khiones who had positioned themselves outside to guard the place. Xanth had one elbow propped on the table and his head resting in his palm, his head felt light and his thoughts swam in his head making the feeling even worse, what he had just been told today felt more than a bomb shell.

He sighed heavily.

Kye leaned on the kitchen counter with his arms crossed and a tight frown on his face, he wished he could unhear what he had heard, he wished desperately that it was not true but he trusted Syrana so much that he could not doubt her, it has to be true.

It was true.

“You’ve known this for how long now?” Kye asked her to which she sighed and looked up to Xanth.

“Not long, I only suspected a while but it’s true, I could not deny it.”

“My mother,” Xanth choked as he spoke and lifted his head up to face