Arex had felt the two coming as they entered the balcony. It took several minutes for Arex to come out of his deep meditation as Akara spoke. Like a guiding beacon of light. Arex had followed her words to finally come out of his deep thought. The ball of light dissipating as he finally opened his eyes. His eyes were fixated upon hers as she spilled out her emotions into one heartfelt statement. Arex knew that Akara almost never showed emotion, this must have been eating at her heart since he declared that he would fight Karsis. He raised his hand to sit on her left shoulder.<br/><br/>"You have such little faith in yourself Akara, do you remember when you first came to the castle all those years ago? You were the little fish amongst the heroes. But yours and Ayria's always stood as the loudest. You've been ready to take over for a long time now, you just don't trust yourself." Arex told her with a heartfelt message of his own. "But you said it yourself I am a traitor to my people, and I will not allow my full memories to be held from me. This has to be done Akara, for all of us...If I don't fight him, what do I do?" Arex said then standing walking over to the edge of the balcony, breathing in the night air.<br/><br/>"It's weird breathing in the air that you know may be some of your last....I've tried to come to peace with what's going to happen, but so much is left to be done...So much I haven't accomplished, so much war, so much death, so much lost. Ive lost so many people since I took the crown, always tried to be the leader that everyone needed, pushing emotion to the side for later. Im so tired Akara....Tired of sacrifice, tired of war, tired of deciding who lives and dies..."