<span style="color: #a64dff">"No, I'm not going to fight you. I'm tired of fighting and yelling. I'm tired of all the violence. And I'd kick your ass anyways." </span>She held Anna tighter and buried her face in her pet's hair.<span style="color: #a64dff"> "I'm sorry." </span>Even to Ashia it would be just barely above a whisper.<span style="color: #a64dff">"I'm... sorry for acting out. I let my hatred for her mother make me act irrationally."</span><br/><br/>Ras held up one hand and the chair reformed as a stillness settled over him. "I didn't betray you. I stopped you using the only way I knew how. I would never hit you and my powers come from the same source as yours so they wouldn't have any effect. Taking your ring to distract you was my only option." She was forced into the chair and dragged close so she could see just how serious he was. "Let me make something very clear, child. I love you, your mother, and most of the people in our home above all else. Vyre is a very dear friend of mine, but she is an awful woman and deserves so much more than just a face full of dirt. I would have let you make good on your threats to scrape her face off in the dirt, she deserves it and it wouldn't kill her like her said. But I didn't want you to. I don't want you using your powers to hurt people. Even if it's Vyre. I'm going to talk to her about her little stunt and I'm probably going to come back home with blood on my boots, but I want you the rest of my children to be better than me. I don't want you to be violent... even against Vyre who deserves it." He waited for her to respond then leaned forward in his chair. "If you want to get pissy with me and throw a tantrum because I made you stop antagonizing a woman who is an actual threat against this household then fine. The only person here who can stop Vyre is your mother, who is still crippled, so having her wanting to kill my child is a problem. That's why I stopped you. Not because I betrayed your trust, or because I chose her over you. I stopped you because Vyre is like a wild animal and once you set her off you have a huge problem on your hands."<br/><br/><span style="color: #666600">"Technically that time lost thing happened when I reversed time to bring you back to life so... that thing had been going on for a while before anyone noticed. But I'm sure it's fine. That other me is still out there somewhere hunting down the ones she thinks are aggressive. And she seems to respond to spikes in my emotional states, I was having a small... fight with Order and she appeared to call me a child then left again." </span>There was an almost an even fifty percent split between the diamonds and the other materials and The'kal smiled a little.<span style="color: #666600"> "I'm not really concerned about the small stuff, even mortals can make that with some basic magic. In fact in the earlier days of magic it was used to sharpen and maintain weapons and tools. My concern is if I ever have to do anything larger that actually could hurt someone. But if it's ever that serious I suppose I could just ask for help."</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>