Jube watched her go. He wanted to shout out 'but I do need you!' but he went against it. He surely would sound desperate, and very silly. He sighed and sat down on his bed alone. 

He felt like an intruder in the very village he grew up in. He wasn't from there, and here he was bringing powers the likes of the village hadn't seen before. He was tainting their society, or so he felt.

"It's already tainted..." He muttered to himself as he thought about how cruel the people of the village had been to him all his life. 

As it stood, Jube was an untouchable bachelor. He would never marry, or have a family. Everyone felt he was too strange, and that was that. He would be forever alone had it not been for at the very least his friendship with Kestral.