Jaakuna was stopped abruptly as Emiri would halt them from going to the cottage any further. Well, he wasn‘t stopped entirely, but he felt a resistant tug. [b]“Dawn Shard?” [/b]Jaakuna simply looked at her confused. Well, maybe more puzzled than anything. This was the first he was hearing about it. [b]“What about me and this Dawn Shard?”[/b] Jaakuna seriously was confused. He really didn’t understand what his sweet wife was talking about, but he definitely saw that it was upsetting her. The look on Emiri’s face was evident of that. This immediately prompted Jaakuna to stop what he was doing and pull her in for a hug. [b]“What’s wrong?” [/b]He said trying to comfort her. There was obviously something that Jaakuna was missing. [b]“I don’t know anything about a Dawn Shard. Well, I only know of the legend of it, but that’s it.”[/b]

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Hearing Aloa respond to his observations, Wesley listened intently. He believed every word she spoke. He not only heard it in her voice, but the way she spoke it was evident. Her resolve was absolute and she believed every bit of it, Wesley had no doubt about that. However, there was still something off about every bit of it, but that was until he heard her say the bit about the life of a soldier. [I]The life of a soldier[/I], those words echoed into his mind as she has repeated that and that’s what bothered Wesley to this. Yes, he was a soldier himself, but he didn’t believe that was him any longer.

After she was done, Wesley then spoke. [b]“I see. I thank you, Lady Aloa.” [/b]Wesley simply said, but there was more. [b]“I now understand why you did what you did and how you can simply go back to your duties just as simple as flipping a light switch.. I respect you for that.”[/b] He said, but then he looked down as soon as she would tell him that she knows her role in life and would ask him if he knew his. At this point, Wesley clenched his hands together, He pulled it together and looked up [b]“I-I thought I did. I was one of Dalmasca’s highest-ranking soldiers. I even was not far off from being named the King of Dalamasca. I had everything going for me and my future was looking bright, but then —”[/b]He stopped as his eyes started to form tears around themselves. He would wipe them [b]—“but then, my father was slain at the hands of an Archadian Judge by the name of Ixion. At that point and realizing it all, I lost my calling, my motive for perusing the throne, and everything that made me who I was.”[/b] He admitted, not able to hold it in, but he forced words out. [b]“So, no Lady Aloa, I know not what my role in this thing we call life is, not anymore.”[/b]