"Dad!" Alyon bellowed at the man, to which he suddenly pulled back and realised that he was probably invading Fraya's personal space.
"I'm sorry, terribly sorry. I am Bromadier," Bromadier pulled his arms away as he turned towards the kitchen, "Let me get you girls a drink."
Alyon was gazing around the home, admiring it's usual mess with books stacked to the ceiling and maps rolled up on every available surface. The home while untidy, was organised and you could see how each stack had it's own place and category, presumably all to do with the Artifacts. She pulled around her pack to the front of her body and lifted out the cube that the two girls had gathered deep within the crypt before placing it on an available table surface that barely housed enough space.
"As well as being an 'Ancient', Fraya deactivated this artifact by..." her words were interrupted as her father walked back into the room.
"Let me guess, she touched the stone?" he spoke as if he already knew the answer, "It's mentioned in one of those documents over there." Bromadier pointed towards a box behind Fraya which contained several manuscripts thrown in as if they were a group of flowers in a vase. He passed a glass of water to Fraya and moved towards Alyon, swapping the stone with a cup so that he could examine it better.
Alyon took the glass and sipped the water before continuing, "Well, we were told that this stone is the Stone of Blight, and when we were obtaining it we were attacked by a man with a glowing eye."
Bromadier stopped examining the stone for a moment, speaking only a single phrase, "The Eye of Knowledge..." He could see the confusion on Alyon's face for a moment, deciding that it would be best to continue on what he knew.
"The Eye of Knowledge is in fact an Artifact, but what makes it so powerful is that it houses all the knowledge of every being that touches it. Humans, Ancients, even animals. Your race," looking at Fraya, "created it so that they could share their vast knowledge with others, like how we today share information through Libraries. The issue lies in how it is now within a group that calls themselves the Worshippers of the Eye, a group of thieves who want to obtain the artifacts for themselves in order to overthrow governments and cities."
"How do you know all this?" Alyon asked, knowing that her father wasn't a Hunter but worked as a merchant during his travels.
He looked at Alyon with a tear in his eye, knowing that what he would say next would impact her greatly. "Because I was once a member of that organisation. They were the ones who attacked me in an attempt to re-obtain the Artifact after they found out I was going to sell off the eye to an interested buyer. Your mother however was the one holding onto the eye at the time and not me, but her own curiosity got the better of her. When she touched the Artifact it led her to this very stone." He picked up the cube, looking at it's dangerous beauty. "She was the one that activated the Stone of Blight, which in turn gave her an incurable illness. I do not know where she left the Eye after that, but as fate has it, the Worshippers of the Eye ended up finding it again."
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