As he had Lannit pinned against the wall, Wesley could feel the tugging and pulling and yelling from all three ladies. They pleaded for him to let Lannit go in their own ways. Wendy pleaded for her husband’s life and told Wesley that he had children, Savayna would spur out obscenities and curse words towards Wesley, but still telling him the same thing that Nadeline would, but her words would be different. She would voice her authority and order Wesley to let her go. He turned his head to her, slightly loosening the grip on Lannit. It was enough for him to get free, but not before Lannit would start coughing for air.

[b]“I’m…I’m sorry, I just don’t know what came over myself.” [/b]Wesley said as he looked to the angry Nadeline and then to the coughing-for-dear-like Lannit.

[b]“Damn man, if you hadn’t gone all macho man on me, you would..” [/b]Lannit coughed, [b]“know that your brother spoke of you often, saying that he hated that he couldn’t be around to see you grow up, but he had his reasons.”[/b] Lannit said.

[b]“Do you know what they were?”[/b] Wesley asked.

Lannit just shook his head implying that he did not know why Sylvester didn’t reveal that he was alive. [b]“All I know is that he regretted everything.”[/b] He would finish.

Wesley was about to say something, but Clyde clapped his hands. [b]“Okay, enough of this squabble. We have a journey to make.” [/b]Clyde said as he would guide everyone through the door. 

As they would head out of the house, they would make their way around the cliff that the house was on, and down a few flight of stairs. Eventually, they would come to an underground lair of sorts that had several wooden platforms and the entire area that which wasn’t with wood platforms was all water. Resting in the water was a series of hover boards, floating in the water. [b]“I would like to welcome you to my Secret Lair! BWA HAHA HAHA!”[/b] Clyde would laugh comically, but evilly. Wesley would proceed to whack him over the head with an irritated grin. Lannit, Wendy, and Savayna had an annoyed look on their faces.

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As Jaakuna was waiting to hear Aloa respond, Jaakuna would take notice that the three Viera would shutter, but Ryua would let out a gasp. She would then apologize and that’s when Aloa would nod to her and would then speak to Jaakuna about how when one covers themselves in lies, the world outside of that veil of lies continues to move on. She would then tell him that was exactly why she left her village in the first place. She would then point out that no one can really stop anyone from ,living in their lies and in the isolation that said lies create. She would even, at least to how Jaakuna perceived it, offer him to live in seclusion, away from the truth. Jaakuna’s eyes blinked as if surprised. 

As he blankly stared at her, he really did consider that as an option. He could really just live away from the Viera, but what of his friends? What of his family? What of Emiri? Could he really just let go of it all and live alone? No, he couldn’t and that’s exactly what Aloa was trying to say. He could live in hiding, away from the truths of the world. No matter how hard the truth might be, Jaakuna knew that he had to face it head-on, no matter how bad it would be. Yes, he knew that. 

[b]“No, I can’t do that. I want to and boy is it tempting, but I gave into temptation before and look where that got me.”[/b] Jaakuna said, [b]“No more hiding, no more running away. I’m through with it. I’m going to face any truth that comes my way and I’ll do it for my friends, I’ll do it for my family, I’ll do it for Emiri, and most importantly, I’ll do it for me.”[/b] Jaakuna said as he now realized that all the times he lived in his lies or lied to others it was just hurting them. Truths hurt, but lies are worse.