“Oh well, Capti is a distant acquaintanihat’s about it, we have no other es.”

  “Your hair colour is lime Orb, didn’t I tell you not to lie to me,” she says with her unbridled furry leaking out of her.

  “That was just a joke, I wao lighten the mood.”

  She growls at me in respoo this. What the hell is she a wild animal, I shouldn’t have to deal with this, fuck you Capti. I really have been using the word fuck often, it is just like Capti said it slips into your vocabury really easily.

  She sms her fist oable, and says, “Stop beating around the bush and tell me.”

  “It is just that Capti gave me this letter to give to you.”

  “Read it to me.”

  “Yes, mam.” Opening the letter as fast as possible I start reading, “Hey Ai have you been taking care of yourself I worry.” Her face starts to lighten up as I read this, so I rush to the part to see if it tio calm her down.

  “Remember, you’re not the young woman you were anymore, we are both fossils, especially you since your older than me.” When I read this I look up dumbstruck that this woman in front of me is older than Capti, but as her anger tio grow I get back to reading.

  “Speaking of our younger days, we were really wild back then, and to think that me and you used to fuck, I ’t even imagine doing anything like that with you now, especially since you're like my sister.” Her Anger is worse than ever, I may not be a master at the way of a woman’s heart, but I am pretty sure he has crossed a line men must never do.

  “But I found someone who I love with all my heart who makes all the women I have slept with look like fish, to be ho, I barely remember anything before being married to her.

  I hope that in these years I have been gone you have found someohat you feel the same about, but knowing you there is no way your old bitter and alht?” Oh god, you idiot, just stop, Ai looks like she is on the verge of tears as her anger rises.

  “And make sure to watch what you're eating you had an uhy obsession with eating cake especially while g, at your current age that won’t do so you should break that habit.” Notig the truth behind said words I give Ai a look of pity. But I see a volo about to erupt in front of me.

  “But more than any of that, I hope you're ok, throughout my entire life you have always been the person to me, you have been there for me and my family tless times, especially those times when Draga was really mad at me.

  Even when I set off for Fimbulwinter, you tried your best to vince me not to go and spend the rest of my time enjoying myself with my family, you even offered to live with me, thank you for all of that, to me you’re an irrepceable member of my family and I think of you a lot as well.

  So, I would like to be this ki once again to ask you to please help this boy Orb, he happens to be another close irrepceable friend in my life, take good care of him for me. And here are some of his embarrassis that you use to taunt him.” I immediately stop reading the letter and rip off the st part of it. No way in hell is that getting out.

  I slowly raise my head to see how she has reacted to the letter, and to my utter surprise, she looks really bashful, her anger has pletely disappeared, and somehow this really poorly formed letter has pletely calmed her down.

  “Captivant really said all those hings about me,” she mutters quietly under her breath with a red face of etion.

  He mao make her docile. I make a fist uhe table to celebrate my victory, you actually mao flirt with her from the grave, you brilliant bastard.

  “Orb, would you be able to tell me the rest of your e to Capti, don’t lie now.”

  “Ok,” I say as I begin to tell her what happened in Fimbulwinter specifically. “So after running from my house up there, a lot of other things happened which brought me here asking for your help.”

  “Thank you for what you did for him, from the mome out I was worried that he was going to die a pointless death in the snow, but you allowed him to aplish his final dream.”

  “No need, I should be thanking him, Capti has given me way too much to ever feel like anything I could do would pay him back. He really is an amazing person.”

  “Yes he is, but that stupid idiot just sent you into the world with very little prote, doesn’t he even know all the bad things that could have happeo a legacy like you, and he clearly left out information for the sake of giving you a surprise when you went into the world, I swear that ma think at times.”

  “I have no real issue with that, I have been enjoying most of the things that Capti didn’t fully expin in his books, and I lucked out and mao get coloured tacts, so as long as I don’t use my lega public I am good.”

  “What a sweet boy you are, nothing like Captivant, that’s it I am going to help you all you want. But before we start all that could I ask you a question.”

  “Go ahead.”

  “Would you allow me to take responsibility for you?”

  “What do you mean?”

  Φ “I mea me handle whatever issues pgue you, I am assured I could e up with solutions for any problem you are fag, and you and your friends even e live with me, it is a win-win situation.”

  “Sorry, but I will have to refuse.”

  “Huh, why?”

  “Simply put, all my as are my own responsibility, I didn’t leave Fimbulwio e and burden Capti’s friends, I came out to find my own path, all of my issues will be resolved by me, and all the promises I have made people will be fulfilled by me.”

  As Orb says this he has an expression I don’t really like so I say, “Don’t worry about all that crap, you’re a kid, so be more selfishness and lean on adults.”

  “No need, and I am not really that young I am only sixteen, historically and even in most tries today you e of age at fifteen, so me and you would both be sidered adults.”

  There is weight behind those words that shouldn’t be there, Capti you’re always about the light you see iure, but fet the path that must be walked to reach it, just like always I am going have to up your messes.

  “So you think yourself to be grown up, ok then, from this moment on any be I was giving you due to being a child is gone.” I am going to have to teach him a lessht here.

  Φ After Ai says this her energy pletely ges as she reforms her posture, looking at her I feel this strange pressure like I am almost about to be crushed; it seems she is taking me seriously now.

  “So, Orb what would you like to take about.”

  “Sixteen years ago, twons nded on Terrafide and I want to locate one of them, to my knowledge she is a girl.”

  “To your knowledge, that is a rather weird thing to say, since I am sure Cyrus Damavand would a hundred pert know the gender of such a person.”

  Shocked I say, “How do you know his name?”

  “I have my ways, but it was smart of you to try and give me as little information as possible, it seems your learning little one.”

  “Stop that, where having a versation.”

  “Ok, ok, but now, I am just going to guess you would like to know where said girl is located.”

  “Yes, I would.”

  “You knons are extremely hard to e across, and most people won’t even see one in their lives. A normal person is more likely to run into a legacy than a dragon, so as you imagihe location of one of the only dragons on Terrafide, would be extremely coveted information.

  Ok, now let’s say I somehow know the pce where this sister could be. What would you be able to give me to obtain suformation?

  “Information. As you said information is your lifeline, so if I offer you something worth what yoing to give me, think that would allow us to make a deal.”

  “That would be fine, but it will have to be something I don’t know before.”

  “Don’t worry I am sure I have enough information of that type.” This is good I have trol over this versation, the only question now is what I will give her, I could give her info ohe basileia crystals go for sale, or information that the Gaia sky bandits are permaly out of business.

  No, I have a better idea, I use the info going around about Maples vilge Aplos, to create a false narrative. If I just ge some things up, I could even have Ai spread false information about Aplos, which could get any idiot who would dare to e looking away.

  As I am about to speak, Ai interrupts me with, “Before we get started, I would like to just share a few things that have been on my mind.”

  What could she be at?

  “Did you know there have been rumours flying around that Magnolia's dests have been found, this news has rather rocked the world, anyone well versed in history knows that Magnolia disappeared with all his research papers. So, lots of people have beeing out for Fimbulwio look around for them.

  At first, I thought all that information was fake, the fact that humans ’t survive on Fimbulwinter is undisputable, or was undisputable until just a few minutes ago. So maybe all of that wasn’t a lie. Ohh your hair just ged colour am I on to something.”

  I quickly take the scarf from my new clothes and use it to cover my head.

  “Smart choice, but you should have never let me see your hair if you were here to iate, your as have all but firmed my suspis. Though regardless of whether I personally believed it, I still followed up on said rumours, and those rumours eventually led me to hear that said dets were sold as sves tan Elia, the elderly queen of Basileia.

  Due to Basileia's tight security, it is very hard to get in and out uhey let their guard down, and we didn’t feel like wh ourselves out to any noblemen, so us members of had to wait to sneak in during a big ball.

  And when we were there, one of us saw that someone else had staged a revolt and was trying to escape with all the sves, member of even said that a giant bck dragon appeared which froze and shattered, isn’t that all super strange?

  But eventually, I had to stop paying attention to the whole Magnolia's dets thing, because something else that shook the world has taken pce, and all the basileia crystals went missing.

  It utterly perplexes me many how such a thing could happen, did the dragons steal them, but how could a race that never is with us even know their value?

  But you see regarding that issue, I have some ideas of what could’ve happened. Maybe someone used a legacy that allows them to store things in a different space, or shrink objects, and they used that to take all the Basileia crystals with them, and just off intuition, I am going to guess the people who phe revolt are behind this.

  During the atta Basileia many high-profile people were in attendand they are pissed, not only because they almost died, but because that one of their most important resources went missing. If they were to find the person responsible they would hunt him down with all their strength, which would make said person ao most of the tries on Terrafide.”

  “Are you bckmailing me?”

  “No, I am just saying that if said person was to maybe want something from me, they would have naining power, because said person's life, rests on the palm of my hand. I could quite literally request anything from this person, and they couldn’t say anything, wouldn’t that be funny,” she says with a smile.