The guards refuse to let me in and for a moment I wonder if I'm just being paranoid.Lyros wouldn't be that wicked would he?I had to watch as he broke almost every bone in Cain's body and even now I can still imagine the amount of utter cruelty that must have gone into making himself able to do that.The feeling of him breaking my fingers is like a faint memory now, but Cain's pain is recent. Lyros wouldn't hurt him so soon after that, would he?The guard with light brown hair shoots me a sneer and I sneer back at him. They're the reason I can't go in to see for myself what's happening, yet they still manage to make me feel like I'm the problem.I pick myself up from the floor and dust my hands by hitting them together. There are grains of sand on the floor and I know there will be more. I look up and put on my most complacent smile."Please, can I just go in to see Miss Leah?""No one goes in to see the healer. You can wait a day or two."They sound like they haven't even broken a s

"Adelaide punched Rhys." I turn around to see Raina and Safira both coming into the room. They look troubled, which is none of my concern, the news they've brought though is and i frown as i look at my hands. I passed by Adelaide three times this morning but she still didn't notice I was there. The cane is now gone, Leah has healed my hip. The damage to my eyes though, still remains, my eyes have been unchanged, but the rest of me has. I turn and see the confusion and surprise on their faces. Leah couldn't fix my eyes totally yesterday and for some reason that made Lyros panic. That panic was an unprecedented emotion I didn't take into account. I expected him to get angry again, for him to get a doctor and get some glasses made for me. The panic was an emotion I didn't expect and now we're here, my body changed and Leah, humming with the power of the staff. Lyros let her use it in healing me. The staff mainly deals with coaxing the truth out of anyone or anything. In theory, it

"Did you hear what Lyros said while he was adressing us last night?" Safira is oddly persistent for someone who i have specially asked not to make me look suspcious. She's always popping up on me, and popping things up on me. It's slightly annoying, but she's my eyes and ears in this place and unfortunately for me, i'm Dragmir Fenrir now, not Cain. These fuckers don't recognize me so they don't fear me. "Hello, Safira to Cain! I just said something right now." "And i heard you. Yes, i did hear what Lyros said last night. Something about the plan having changed right?" Safira glares at me and i smile as i turn back to look at the sea. After the storm last night the weather has cleared beautifully today and the sun is shining hot and bright, golden light rippling over the water and the salt breeze strong, carrying us through the sea and moving the ship the same way a good engine would move a car. It would either have to be the construct of the ship that allows us sail at this sp

Well, he's new.I turn to look at the brown-haired and golden-eyed fellow I just spoke to right now and I don't know why, but something about him makes me feel nostalgic.Is it nostalgic or comfortable? I'm not so sure.... but he does make me feel something"Hey, Wench!"My shoulders sag and a look of disgust settles on my face. Again?I turn to answer."Yes, Captain?""Look at me when I'm talking to you or you'll be thrown off me ship!"Okay, does this guy know how ridiculous he sounds right now?I turn to face him and he's standing there, as real as day. I was super sick last night, retching all over the place because I couldn't get the smell of fish guts out of my nose. The storm didn't help either, but the fish guts were the worst part.I almost believed I saw a mermaid, or a merman, whatever it is. I was that sick, and it's all because of him.The pink-haired captain flashes me a grin and a wolf whistle. "You're looking mighty fine, little werewolf."I move before I can stop mys

"Wait up.."I ignore Safira and keep on walking. I have a good idea of what she might try to say and I'm not ready for it right now.Lyros obviously doesn't want Adelaide to know I'm Cain and not some recruit on this trip, so why should I do myself the disservice of telling her?'"Hey! I said wait up you dick!"Safira is huffing when I turn to look at her and I can see she's angry. She's angry and..... something else.I wait for her to make her way over to me and we both walk in silence to the prow of the ship. The sailors avoid us like the plague and they part whenever they see us. That doesn't bother me, what does is the sickly pallor and weak aura Safira is currently giving off.She takes a deep breath and I turn to look at her."Are you feeling okay?""Of course not."Her answer is a bare whisper and it's almost carried away on the winds but I hear it. I hear it and I take a moment to step back from my thoughts of Adelaide.She's been on my mind ever since I saw her earlier. Ever