- 88 [Action]

[fortunefail]

[With all these newcomers about, Yuan simply isn't comfortable staying at home. Against all better judgment, he ventures out into the village to have a look. Catch him anywhere, any time!

Later, he'll return to house #8 to find it ravaged, after Kratos had a little 'argument' with Lord Kvar. Wonderfully foreboding. What other surprises may lie in wait here?]

Comments

[fortunefail]

[He resembles who he once was? Is Kratos joking? Yuan hasn't been that man for over four thousand years. What sort of person is Kratos used to if who he is now is supposedly an improvement?]

Just who do you think you're speaking to? What exactly am I supposed to be the lord of? [He has a suspicion, but he needs it confirmed.]

[renegates]

...As far as I know, I am speaking to Yuan, the leader of Cruxis. [ooh, can you hear the regrets clinging quietly to every syllable?]

[fortunefail]

[Yyyup. Yuan will sound a little bitter when he responds.] Then you're mistaken. I'm not the leader of Cruxis. I never was.

[renegates]

I am afraid I do not understand how this is possible. [not different times but...an alternative path of time running parallel to his own? Hm...]

[fortunefail]

That makes two of us. I can't even imagine why I would want to be the leader of Cruxis.

[renegates]

It is because you couldn't let go of Martel. ...While I stood back and did nothing to help in the ways you truly needed.

...You know of Cruxis, however. If it exists in your...continuation of time [bah, he doesn't know what else to call it] but you are not its leader, may I ask who is?

[does he even want to know? He's just trying to wrap his mind around this one.]

[fortunefail]

[But if Yuan refused to let go of Martel, then... Who leads the Renegades in that world? Do they just not exist? ... No, that's impossible. If Lloyd and his friends could escape to Tethe'alla, surely there must be Renegades.]

... Mithos.

[renegates]

[.....that's a tough hit to take. It's bad enough that his former student was crushed trying to bend backwards to Yuan's twisted will, but this... He can hardly imagine, trying to place Mithos in Yuan's shoes, and knowing that the boy wouldn't be able to handle such great despair. A brief silence follows.]

...I...I see.

[let's shift the focus to a different question] What of you, then?

[fortunefail]

I am... [Well, he can't tell this guy he's the leader of the Renegades. If this Kratos's role is still the same as his usual role and he finds out one of his companions is the leader of the Renegades that early... who knows what might happen to that timeline? He has to tread carefully.]

One of the Four Seraphim.