Blackout
Smough's Flagship 
Smough gives orders to his crew to head for Shadows hold and to make their new employer comfortable. Then he dives into the water after Flame. His form is flawless and he cuts through the waters like he owns them. Indeed it would seem the water moves with him. He swims over to Flame and points in the direction of a school of dolphin who break through a school of fish. Quickly moving from one side to another he places his right hand on the small of her back and motions to the enormous figure rising up from below. A whale. Am enormous bellowing white whale. 

Father's Prison 
Nevermore sighs. 
"I know that. And there's nothing wrong with my eyes." The dark tendrils remain as she rests her head against the wall. "Don't take this the wrong way. But I don't think you're the right person to talk about this with."

Shadow Hold
Shadow blinks indifferently at Sia. 
"Have you two met?" Raia asks. 
"Briefly in the forest." Shadow answers. "And I do but I'm not sharing my personal stash with you."
"Consider it a wedding gift to me." Raia says to Shadow. 
"Marriage? To who?"
Raia smiles at Sia. "Someone who doesn't care about status."
It takes a Shadow a second to catch on. He chuckles to himself and sighs. "Fine. Let's go to my study."

East Point Bastille 
Baruss is quiet for a moment. 
"I guess you could call him good. He wants to help people to make their lives better. He uses his mind to create special tools and machines that make tasks easier." Baruss is quiet for a time. "But after mother..."

"Yearn under listless skys.
  Writhe in stagnant earth. 
   And be still. Yet living. 
    Though hands cease to turn."

The words ring out from deep within the Bastille. They flood over everything and time itself ceases to move. In this frozen world only Baruss and Lexianna seem to be able to move. 
"It's father. He knows i'm here." Baruss bolts into the Bastille past frozen guards and Mystic Knights. He runs up multiple sets of winding staircases and down halls until he reaches the laboratory. Where his father waits. 

Kneeling before an old man in robes Baruss takes his hands. 
"Father, I am here."