Frank looked down at her and sighed.<span style="color: #4dffa6">"i would stroke your hair but you still hiding in your hood. crying is how you cope, it vents your feelings out in your tears and your sobs."</span><br/><br/>Vyre would have to continue like that for a good ten minutes before Ashia would begin to calm and even longer before she began to uncurl from herself and then to slowly crawl into the Elf's lap to hug her tight.<span style="color: #404040">"i love you Vyre..."</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #ffff00">"that was because of The'kal, not me... The'kal is gone. i have no reason to visit Empress, she is a liar so i have no reason to trust her. if she had stayed put i might have considered it but she proved incapable of something even that simple."</span>she shrugged and frowned.<span style="color: #ffff00">"i didn't select them for their intelligence, i selected them for integrity and one failed me... now they know i meant it when i said that their powers would destroy them if they betrayed my trust." </span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>