Dimensional Descent

The problem wasn't that Lumielle was a loose cannon that might attack to kill Aerin. But she would attack to kill Lyra, that was well within her degrees of tolerance.

The first problem with that was what it meant for her to kill Lyra in the first place. She would certainly leave the Dwarven Bubble, and certainly expose herself. Then she would be putting herself directly in the line of danger on top of that, where the Spirituals would have full rights to kill her if it ever came to that.

But that was only the first problem. What kind of strife would this cause to the Dwarven Race?

Even if Aerin didn't know the extent of Lumielle's true power, he did know how important she was to the Race. Everyone placed both of them on the same level.

If she ended up rampaging because of this, many would take her side. And if she ended up dying because of Aerin's actions, the result would be even worse. It would cause a fissure in the Race that couldn't be solved.

In fact, this might have been part of Flaura's plan as well. If Aerin died after going out to pursue Lyra, the situation would be the same but in reverse.

It was just that Leonel's plan was even more sinister.

If Aerin had been the one to die, the fissure would appear, but it wouldn't be that severe. After all, the main culprit was already dead, so who were they rallying around to be mad at?

However, if Lumielle died, it was a completely different can of worms. In this case, the main culprit-Aerin-would still be alive and well, and presumably still pursuing a relationship with a woman outside of his Race.

powder keg waiting to

intentions, he could have started a civil war in their race and none of them would have been any wiser about what the hell was going on. They wouldn't even

is in love with

he really had no clue. When the two old fogies saw this, their expressions paled, and the guilt in their hearts grew

got together, then they got together. It wasn't like the Dwarven Race's fate could be turned around in a single lifetime anyway. What were they

weren't thinking so far, and

they watched the two grow, they felt that it

Dwarven Race members, it took Spector and Avlauren a long time to get together. They saw

had done, he wasn't mad at it either. He

had bad experiences with the older generation interfering with the love lives of the younger. Aina's father had once done that, but to be fair, in his situation, he wasn't even aware of Leonel's existence. And by

so, it had always left a bad taste in his mouth. Especially since people had recently tried

considerably, and he looked as though he was going to collapse if Leonel didn't catch

or at the very least, it wasn't so obvious to him now. The main problem was that he truly cared for the Pixie, and realizing that he might have unintentionally hurt

need

and