[Saliarasri]

Fairioni blinks and smiles, a teasing tone, but a friendly teasing tone "I was checking on you, silly. We were sorta worried when you didn't return."

Galein looked up with an icy expression, matched only by the cold tone from his lips, "I thank you for your care. But I am beyond worrying for."
Kyr frowned and tugged on Fai's hair, muttering about how she'd never stand for Aeriah speaking such.

Fairioni nods as she repliies to Aeriah, her tone dropping to neutral again. "But you aren't. If you think so, then you're lost. Always remember, there are people who care for you despite what you may think. As your friend, I'm going to tell you that all will pass in time... you might be surprised at what turns the heart takes."

Fairioni looks at him and finishes "You are only truly lost and beyond care and love if you want to be, after all."

"Maybe I wish I was... maybe I do."

Fairioni hits head slightly ".. Why would you want to be?"

Looking up at her, his glass-green eyes were tired and red rimmed, "I have just broken a young girl's heart - and for what? I have denied her her love. I may have saved a kingdom, or at least bought it some time... and for what? For what? So I can forget my memories, fall in love and then break a girl's heart? It isn't right. It would have been better if I had never remembered who I was!" Galein's tone was sharp, almost taking on a vicious edge, though it was clear he blamed himself. Kyr remained silent.

Fairioni sweatdrops, slightly

Fairioni responds ".. Oi. Well, let me ask you something. When you got your memories back when we meet the dragon, would you be proud of letting her live in a lie? For that matter, do you think that just making people forget is right? You took the easy way, so to speak, and unintended consquencies pop up. A true leader works THROUGH this, not avoids it."

"I may have chosen not to regain my memories. Here, I had no choice. It seems, that not even magic is infalliable." Snorting in disgust, Galein continued, "What makes you think I'm such a leader?"

He blatently ignored the fact that for years he had protected his people as best he could, or at least, those who were around him.

Fairioni looks at him "Besides the fact you tried to protet your people? The fact that you're resolved to rebuild your kingdom and be a good ruler? One of them is this guilt you're experiencing now. It means that you take personal responsiblity.. something that might be a bad idea, but you do do it."

"I was never a ruler."

Turning away, Galein whispered, "I have never ruled; and for all I have acomplished, all I have done is break a young girl's heart, and many, many others. How many more have I caused pain? How many more were like Aeriah and Jena? How many more? All within the land! And for what? Perhaps our time is past. Perhaps it is folly to cling to distant dreams and memories. The power of the elves is gone! It was lost aeons past! Perhaps we were never meant to be rulers of the land! My family has descended into wickedness and decay! Slaughtered for being tyrants! Only I remain! Perhaps it would be for the best if my line died out."

Fairioni looks at him piteously "While it is true this happens, by giving up you merely ensure it will continue. It will get worse, and all the tyranny and opression of the humans who have taken the throne will go on. You are lettting evil triumph in your own inaction, because you deign to think that you are your family, that dreams past are gone. It's not true. Dreams past are gone only as you think tehy are. And you are not your family. You are Galien, and Galien only."


"I am still Galeriah'naroth and their era is over." Galein snapped back, though his tone was more subdued this time, the heat leaving it, if not the bitterness. "I may well become a tyrant... worse then any these lands have seen. All of my family, all of them have yeilded to the darkness in their viens... all of them. Since the sword was lost..." Pausing, he sighed, "If I am to rule... I will need to get it back."

Fairioni nods "And once we get the troll found, and the spell reversed, we should make that our next quest... but we need to get the task at hand done first."

"What makes you think that I will have the spell reversed now that I know what it is for?" asked Galein, his tone dark.

Fairioni sighs as she responds calmly "Wil ye, or nil ye, I'm getting it reversed. I don't about you, but I would have rather made the decision on my own."

"Very well." Galein replied softly, looking up and finally rising to his feet, somehow, looking determined, willful, and at the same time, still saddened. Somehow, he remined Fai a little bit of Aeriah.

Fairioni looks at him "Ready to go back?"