[color=C6DEFF][center][h1]Lila Moriarty[/h1][/center][/color]
[sup][@Rai] [@13org][/sup]

Lila was trembling with anxiety. It was the first time she had used that word... The first time in her entire life that she even said that to anyone... Everything was so confusing for her at that moment. All those colors, all those details and all those feelings swirling inside her head... That painful, burning sensation on her chest as she waited for his answer for what it looked like hours... But before she could say anything more, she heard Anui's voice once more as he spoke with her.

"Then stay with me. Forever." Anui said, embracing her in a kiss.

The second his lips touched her, Lila felt her body trembling as she kissed him back passionately. The burning sensation on her chest disappeared as she felt tears rolling down her face. That wasn't a dream, it was really happening. She knew they weren't alone and behind them probably there were other royals watching, but she didn't cared about that. The beast that previously would never show her delicate side to anyone or immediately kill those who saw her in a moment of weakness, now had completely opened her heart to Anui.

After a long kiss, Lila gently put her hand on his cheek, caressing him.
[color=C6DEFF]"From today onwards, you are mine, Anui, and I am yours."[/color] Lila said, tears of happiness rolling down her face.

[color=C6DEFF]"I will not fight for anyone or anything other than our safety and to ensure we will be able to be together. I won't serve neither the Nayu nor the Seraphim. I don't care about what others will think, about what Mirror and the other Seraphim will say..."[/color] Lila said in a torrent of words, trying to put in words all the things she was feeling at that moment as she hugged him tightly.

It was hard for her to put what she was feeling in words. For someone who lived being a weapon until now, repressing her emotions, all those unknown feelings were like a storm on her head. Not even Lila herself knew what she was feeling right now. She wanted to be together with Anui, but at the same time, she didn't want to be used again. She was tired of being just a weapon, she wanted to be herself. She was more than just an assassin or a weapon to be used.

[color=C6DEFF]"I will be always by your side."[/color] Lila said, with a smile on her face as she softly kissed Anui. She just wanted that moment to last forever, but a very familiar scent and sounds interrupted her. It was the smell of fresh blood being spilled, of swords, of flesh and screams of pain and agony... Sounds she was already incredibly familiar with as a familiar voice echoed through her mind.

[i][color=#9BA4C9]"Lila. We are starting.. Get Ready!"[/color][/i] Mirror's voice, echoed on the back of Lila's mind.

[color=C6DEFF]"No!! Why is this happening?"[/color] Lila said, looking around, still disoriented by her new ability to see.

[color=C6DEFF]"Why it has to be like this...?"[/color] Lila said, falling on her knees.

[color=C6DEFF]"Wherever I go, nothing but blood and death follow me..."[/color] She mumbled to herself looking to Anui then to the shadows moving in a chaotic dance behind the curtains that were between them and the blood bath that was happening on the hall.

Why did Mirror and the other Seraphim had to do that to her? Why did they have to try to ruin and take away the only good things that happened in her life! On that moment, she wanted to go there and simply kill every single one of those responsible for such chaos, even though she was still confused with her senses mixing with one another and all the wild emotions, she still wanted all that to stop. Was she not allowed to experience those emotions? Was she doomed to be nothing more than a weapon her entire life?

As those thoughts started to appear on her mind, putting even more emotional stress on Lila, who was already overwhelmed, she was reaching a critical point... She hated them... Those who made her like this, those who shaped her like a weapon, those who were trying to make her become just a weapon once more...

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[color=0054a6][center][h1]Sophia[/h1][/center][/color]
[sup][@Rai] [@13org][/sup]

When Sophia said for Vulcan to hold himself, she was serious. The second she lifted from the ground, Vulcan would feel that even though she was lacking in brute strength and toughness compared to other dragons, she was on entire different level regarding agility and speed. Albeit Sophia could simply conjure a portal there, it was so long since she opened her wings like that and had the opportunity of flying at full speed. It was no surprise that only a few hours after she departed from the Great Library they were already arriving on Vrondi's capital.

[color=0054a6]"We're here, Vulcan."[/color] Sophia said, slowing down a bit as she flew over the city, completely ignoring the angelic beings floating above the city, the guards or even all the stuff about showing the citizenship badges, she had no time to lose with such trivial matters, there were much more pressing issues to be communicated to them other than some nonsense about citizenship. Well... That and after living for so long secluded in that mountain, she wasn't that familiar with all those rules.

Landing right in front of the castle, Sophia gently grabbed Vulcan with her tail, putting him on the ground next to her as she waited for someone to greet them, still in her dragon form.

[color=0054a6]"Maybe we should give them something to remember who exactly I am? After all... Just like you said, not many remember my true power."[/color] Sophia said in a serious tone, nodding her head in disappointment as she remembered her previous meetings with royals, kings and other descended who had too much power on their hands, back on the day where they tried to take the library for themselves.

[color=0054a6]"...They never respected anything other than power..."[/color] Sophia said to herself, letting out part of her oppressive primal magic aura. Although she was suppressing most part of it in order to not cause any major problems, the pressure coming from her was enough for anyone in the city to feel that she was seriously powerful. But despite that small display of power, Sophia's expression and posture were, in the most part, calm and serene, albeit it was obvious that she was alert and didn't completely trust the people there. She was already tricked and deceived by other kings and queens once. She would not make the same mistake twice.

[color=0054a6]"Lay down your arms! I came to offer you my aid. Dark and grim times are ahead of us. An enemy much more powerful than you all have ever faced grows stronger by the second as we speak. Something needs to be done quickly."[/color] Sophia said in a roar as guards and other seraphim started approaching her with weapons in hand, loud enough to make sure that every single person inside and outside the castle heard her as she opened her wings in an imposing posture.

[color=0054a6]"I am Sophia, the Dragon of Knowledge, master of the Great Library and Keeper of Knowledge."[/color] She said, closing her wings as she returned to a more tranquil posture, although still in her dragon form.

[color=0054a6]"I have pressing matters to discuss."[/color] She completed, in a very, very serious tone.

[color=0054a6]"Is this enough to make them remember who I am?"[/color] Sophia asked in a much lower tone of voice, turning to Vulcan.