However, his time in the cave did little to douse the damnable itch within him, the ever-present siren call of his natural curiosity, inflamed by the passionate manner in which Ember spoke of the experience. It was another annoying Sparkle family trait that he had embraced to the full. A smaller, more petty part of him desired to show those vile Elders how wrong they were. Compounding it all was Ignis itself. Its strange magnetism ever called him; even fleeting thoughts of the mountain resulted in his mind becoming a maelstrom of strange feelings. It would not let him go. 