Insight

Within the walls of the Eldean castle lies Mark sitting amongst them in the eerie environ with statues of strange looking creatures mounted at almost every angle of the castle's interior containing hundreds of rooms, it's a very spacious castle housing a thousand plus Eldeans.

There's a secluded room with twelve people in it Mark included, the relic syöf sits at the middle of the round table having members of this meeting sitted on chairs around it, "even though we trust each other to some extent at this point Mark, why did you decide to give the syöf to us suddenly? Given the importance it has on both parties" an Eldean suddenly breaks the silence, Mark responds "Jade is up to no good, that's the best I can tell you because I don't trust you that much, but I don't trust Jade more, something is better than nothing". Another Eldean replies "you know what it means huh? Bringing the relic to us" Mark sighs then replies "you don't know what it means to me bringing it here" an Eldean raises an issue "but the syöf is barely complete, it's essence is reduced to 55%, why?" Mark's countenance at this point changes as he frowns at the Eldean then angrily replies "like I said, that's the best I could tell you, you lot believe the syöf is safer with you right? Now you've been given the opportunity to protect it" the same Eldean replies "you know what happens if this doesn't get a host in the next 80 years right?" Mark is stricken by this question as he replies "that's enough time for that to be taken care of, that is not the important thing now, the important thing now is protecting it until it gets a compatible host" the Eldean replies "I'd say you're lying to us Mark, because you've found a compatible host already, why is the syöf down to 55%?" this spites Mark even more than before "like I said, I'm not saying any more than I have" he says while frowning at the Eldean.

On making that statement, Michael and Michael's saviour arrives through the entrance of the room, Michael is still held on to by the female Eldean, he isn't strong enough to stand on his own due to the injuries sustained from the little tussle he had with Azrael, Mark rushes over to help Michael as he and the Eldean toss Michael over the table few meters away from the syöf "help him!!!" Mark yells at the Eldeans present in the room, one of them then speaks up "Veronica, do it" Michael's helper slowly places her right hand on Michael's chest as she utters words of incantations, Michael's wounds are visibly seen healing up and the blood evaporating as she fully heals him, at that instant Michael's eyes widen as he jumps off the table immediately.

Michael glances at Mark while his right hand is placed on his chest, as he pants "what's happening Mark?!!" Mark responds with silence, Michael asks again this time his tone changes because he's angry at the moment "why are you suddenly on the run? What transpired between you and Jade?"

The door once more makes a creaking sound as another Eldean makes her way into the room reaching for an empty chair which she eventually sits on, this puts a slight break to Michael's flow of seemingly unending questions, Veronica holds on to Michael by the right hand pulling it off his chest "look Michael, you need to rest, this can be discussed later" Michael not wanting to go he fixes his gaze upon Mark as Mark does the same too he then gives in to Veronica's heed, she leads him towards the exit on reaching there and after, behind the closed door Michael glances at Veronica "you know, don't you?" Veronica turns to Michael "look, I don't know and I don't wanna know, the most important thing is that the syöf is finally here" Michael laughs "yeah, I'll buy that".

"Charlotte, what took you so long? You were selected to be a member of this meeting" an Eldean sitting close to the latest entry whispers to her, Charlotte replies "had something to take care of, now I'm here so please let me be"

-FEW MOMENTS BACK-

"Charlotte, Charlotte my dear. Nah, just continue being my eyes and ears in there, wouldn't be a wise decision to take the fight to them there, don't you think?" Charlotte nods in agreement then she says "I'll have to leave now, my presence is needed" she bows as she begins submerging back into the ground slowly, going out the same way she came in, Azrael still in awe, he's trying to piece the puzzle together but it all ends in futility, with Charlotte completely gone he feels it's the appropriate time to question Jade "Jade, what was that just now?" Jade replies "what does it seem like? I simply took advantage of an angry and weak soul" Azrael not satisfied by the answer "but-" Jade cuts in "no more questions from you concerning this" Azrael sighs as he replies "of course". "go, I want to be alone for now" Jade orders Azrael, Azrael obeys without uttering a word as he heads for the other side of the forest.

Now...

Jade places his right palm on his right cheek with the elbow resting on the handle of the throne and his right leg is placed on the left one, Jade at this moment is lost in thoughts, the sleeping memories are waking up again.

...there's a bright light getting brighter and duller it's of the size of a dot deep within the woods, it motioned upwards and downwards -ZOOM- Jade was smoking, he had just finished taking chopped woods into the house and made fire in the fireplace for his father, Jade always had cigarettes on him and he always used the slightest of any free time he had to light them, and he loved music Jade always had an MP3 device stuck somewhere within his jacket with the earpiece being the only visible component, Jade plugged them into his ears enjoying the music buzzing from the earpiece into his ears and the cool breeze of the forest (even though it was cold) as he blowed some smoke, unknowing to Jade unknown creatures were making movements in the woods, they were moving at bullet speed clashing and colliding, rumbling within each other, the next few minutes were destined to be life changing to Jade as one of the creatures misstepped hitting a tree which found it's way on Jade, everything was blurry at that instant to Jade, he could feel the tree squeezing life out of him, everything became dark, Jade is seen in a void pitch-black, wide bloodthirsty mouths filled with sharp teeth reaching the count of hundred suddenly formulated around him and it all came at him from left, front, right, abaft, aerially, and below. On close contact... "aaaaarrgghh!!" Jade jumps off his throne sweating profusely "goddamnit" he proclaims. Azrael is seen few meters away from Jade running towards him as he emerges from the forest "what happened?" he asks Jade on reaching him, he replies "it's nothing, it's nothing" he says as he heads for one of the tents leaving Azrael behind "fuck!!" Jade mutters to himself, Azrael simply smiles.

-BACK TO THE CASTLE-

Mark is laying on a bed in a highly decorated and well furnished room, it's also spacious, he lays with his left hand placed on his eyes as he lays face up. Michael suddenly barges in without knocking, as he makes his way into the room Veronica is seen behind him at the door, she closes it and leaves "Mark!" Michael calls onto his brother, Mark removes the hand covering his eyes as he sits up on the edge of the bed "what do you want little brother?" Michael replies angrily "this is no time for pleasantries, start talking" Mark smiles followed by a yawn, "Michael, Michael hot headed as ever, you're not just the spitting-image of mother, but her attitude as well" Michael feels Mark is trying to make him angry like he normally does he ignores being angry at this point "stop beating around the bush" Mark replies "yeah, yeah. You see I'm a fugitive to the pack because-" BOOM!!! a loud explosion is heard within the castle causing casualties both ongoing and ones that had already happened, an Eldean among the group of Eldeans running to take forming ready to attack yells "it's the Moon Azures, they are here!!!!" Mark exclaims "fuck!!!" he gets up immediately running towards the syöf's location as he shouts "Michael, follow me!!!" Michael makes his way towards Mark.