Dimensional Descent

Aina sat in silent meditation, her aura in perfect balance. She took deep breaths, controlling her inhale and exhale in cycles that lasted sometimes up to several minutes.

Suddenly, she opened her eyes just as there was a light knock to her and Leonel's room.

"Yes, you can enter."

Savahn came in with a worried expression on her face, one that actually caused Aina to laugh slightly.

"What is it?"

Savahn was speechless. "Why are you laughing, this is serious."

"I don't know, this is just the first time in a while I've seen anything but a smile on your face, I found it interesting."

Savahn blushed, seemingly understanding what Aina was getting at. But then she remembered that she wasn't entirely without ammo in this conversation.

"You're one to talk, I can still smell it in the air."

Aina suddenly panicked. "Smell? What smell?!"

Aina's head snapped around before she froze. This time, it was her turn to blush. There was no smell, clearly Savahn was just making fun of her and had won this round.

maybe all their previous interactions had all

her eyes and coughed

important? Look at you

sure," Savahn laughed, "about as innocent as a death

respond, Savahn graciously took her victory and remembered that she had indeed come for something

Hutch has died already by...

with the man personally. Even

left, Leonel had known that this was a distinct possibility. No parent wanted to end their child's life, and there was definitely no grandparent who wanted their

for him to survive both, so even without being there, Leonel knew that Hutch would choose to die rather than make such a voice. It didn't matter to him that Leonel had warned him, it didn't matter to him that there was a path to

Despite his talent, he never really felt the same passion he had in his youth, and maybe that was because he

this was his choice or

we do?" Savahn

and exhaled. "Nothing. Now

gaze flickered. "Even with the

said before he

really too much. This was an existential crisis, but he could only see his beef

likely than not, it was something that he was too lazy to explain. If he could stop the unnecessary deaths, he would, but he wasn't some sort of God. There was a limit to what he could predict

down the four Great Families. It didn't make sense if only one

Emperor Fawkes could wave a hand and deal with everything, he would have. As such,

standby," Savahn nodded. She turned to leave but hesitated for a