by Kari 16th April 2014, 10:49 am
Her master seemed, off. If that was a good way to say it. His greeting was indeed warm, but behind it she felt like he wasn't happy to see her. Giving a bit of a wave, she let him continue on with what he had to say, yet his face changed, he was...frowning? "While I appreciate all that you do for the guild and you have without a doubt become a pillar of sorts for our guild." He paced around her, and she clenched her fist, what was he trying to say? Was he kicking her out? "However you present a bit of a problem. That problem is that you do not seem to value your life." Her eyes opened wide and she nearly did a double take as he walked around her? What did he know? He wasn't there, he didn't know how she thought. Kariline gritted her teeth and kept quiet, letting the master finish. "I've been around the block a few million times, I recognize your demons, I have seen them before, fought them before, I know the cost of using them. I will not accept the suicidal path you have set yourself on. You are a young person with great potential and great magic inside of you, you should not die young."
It took everything she had no to snap at her master. Apparently he didn't know everything about her and her contracts. In the end, they would only come back on her, if she failed. Which that wasn't an option at this point. Zuo sighed heavily and she snapped back to reality and looked at him. "Please consider what I am offering you. I can help you escape your contracts with minimal injury and help you learn a new greater and safer power." Zuo planted himself on top of a headstone, and she nearly gasped, that was a rather rude gesture, and unorthodox. But she kept quiet still, for it was rude to cut someone off. "Please I've seen enough death for a hundred life times. I will not force you to give up your demons but I have to insist." Her anger inside had started to flare, he was asking her to release her contract? It was funny, because if she released her contract without fulfilling her promise, then and only then would she be haunted. "I'm sorry. I am pressuring you. I will not demand you to decide here or now but please just consider this for your future. Regardless of that, this is not what I have called you here for." She raised an eyebrow, what else could he want with her? "What I really want from you is for you to learn what Lamia Scale is truly about. For that I must ask, what do you know about the "Night of Light," as historians have opted to call it."
She closed her eyes, she had heard the term before, but had never learned about it's secret. She looked at the master and crossed her arms, " No i have not master." She said while turning away. " And also, You have it all wrong, I'm not like that, i'm not throwing my life away...." She said. Her eyes flared and she clenched her fist by her side, " My contracts all depend on me getting stronger, if i can do that, then..." she trailed off and her face fell. Staring at the leaf covered ground. A feeling of determination came over her. This was something she had to do, he had to pay the price for his... Betrayal.
" I assure you, it is not my life that these demons want. " She said before grazing her hand over a headstone gently. This place, he had to have called her here for a reason, is this what he meant by ' I have seen enough death already'?
" Tell me master, this 'Night of Light', does it have something to do with this graveyard?" She asked, some what blunt. She hoped she didn't trigger some weak point in him. Kariline turned to face Zuo, to not only hear, but see what he had to say.