Plans Revealed

The minutes crawled by and the silence deafening in the small room.

A myriad of emotions battered me from all sides including Tori’s utter shock at my revelation. The ones that shook me to the core were the emotions that pulsed from Deakin – shock, resentment and… regret?

“You stole my family away from me the moment you slit my Mother’s throat and damned my Father to die from a broken Spyrit.”

Behind me, Tori made a small squeaking sound as her emotions rolled. In that moment I realised I hadn’t uttered a single word to anyone outside of the small group of people I had been imprisoned with about my origins. Tori was smart enough to put two and two together to come up with Axian.

Something shifted behind his eyes, the darkness clearing for a moment. The clear, bright iridescent blue colour returned to his gaze before it was quickly snuffed out by the invading darkness.

It gave me a small ray of hope. My Deakin, the one I was destined to be with, was in there somewhere, tied down an