Igris rubbed his eyes and looked at Algin who was blushing, “I don’t think we should have seen that,” Igris said.Algin peeked at Igris through his fingers and pursed his lips saying, “It’s what married couples do. You and I are married so why not do it too?”“Don’t be ridiculous Algin,” Igris complained and lied down on the bed.Algin looked at Igris sadly then settled down on his stomach. They both fell asleep and woke up to the sound of Queseon’s voice, “Bub wake up, the next matches are about to start, do you want to watch them?”Igris opened his one eye and asked, “Who is fighting?”“Well the big matches start tomorrow only and righ

When Igris returned to his seat, he pulled Algin out of his pocket who yawn. Algin smiled at him weakly and set up a barrier around them that he let Igris take over.Sighing Algin asked, “Will you be able to fight without me?”Igris scoffed, “What do I look like to you? Some weakling?”“No, but I know you are not okay,” Algin grumbled and stood up. He looked at Igris and said, “Your elements are going crazy within your eyes and it’s been happening ever since we met your father,” Algin said.Sighing Igris nodded his head, “I know and I can’t seem to figure it out.”Where Queseon was sitting, his hands started sparking with spiritual energy. He raised them

Igris walked up to Queseon, rubbing his neck. They were still watching the battles and things were just getting intense. Queseon and Emperor Cyraeneus immediately felt Igris’s presence when he neared them and could tell that he was trembling. Queseon stood up and asked, “Are you okay, bub?”  Those with them turned to look at him and saw that there was something off with him, too. Queseon wrapped his arms around him and hugged him tight. The pendant around Queseon’s wrist that held the ocean’s essence in it wrapped around Igris’s body, calming him down. Igris’s face scrunched, and he looked up at his father and said, “I think I’ve been out of the water too long.” Queseon raised a brow and said nothing. He couldn’t give his pendant to his son, but other than that, Igris was lying to him. He was long past the age where it would affect him if he was out of the window. Nodding his head, he kissed Igris on the for

Queseon stared at his son speechless for a while. He paced around the garden in front of him for a moment then asked, “So you don’t want to be around him, is that it?”Shaking his head he said, “Dad that is not what I mean. I know how it feels when you want someone around you but he isn’t. It’s a terrible feeling. All I’ve ever known is having you in my life and having to deal with our family. Now to have this stranger in our lives, it will just make things difficult.”“Make what difficult? I will speak to your grandfather, I know he won’t be happy but he has no choice, we’ll no longer be a burden to him.”“Father, I want to be free and I can’t be if there is someone unpredictable in our lives,” he said.

“We’re here,” Algin said with a smile. Igris was sitting crossed legged in the centre of the pavilion with his legs crossed. He slowly opened his eyes saying, “Welcome everyone.”Sgoth, Volk, Prince Sidon and Prince Quaddrintin stepped in and looked around, they had to enter through a spiritual array in order to get here. Where here was? They didn’t know.Igris smiled at them and turned around. There were pink and lavender pillows scattered in a circle around him, pointing at them with his eyes he said, “Have a seat, we are waiting for the others.”“Others?” Quaddrintin asked as he sat down.Igris nodded, “Yes, the ones I recruited before you all.”Algin