Infinity| A Time After

|Tera Firma|

Hi guys! Welcome back!

⚠️Warning!!⚠️
<Mild gore>
<Mild angst>
<A lot of love>
<A small surprise at the end>
Onwards!!!

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|Arthur's POV|

Two weeks now. Two long weeks since I last used the stone, which was still recharging. I sat against the wall, playing around with the dried-fruit toy I'd gotten from three-steps. The aetheric claw I'd constructed wavered, just as I was about to pull the seed through the tiny hole. I huffed, reforming the claw and tried again.

And again and again.

After a while, I stood pacing around my cell, the reality of the escalation of this war settled with a new weight on my shoulders.

It's likely that Virion didn't have a choice but to trust the words of the Asuras. It's not like they could fight against the Asuras while also fighting against Agrona and the Vritra Clan. If a three way war broke out, no mortal would make it out alive. It would be the destruction of not only Dicathen, but Alacrya too.

Nico and Agrona nearly succeeded in reincarnating Cecilia into Tess's body. If that had succeeded, what would've happened to my Tessia? Would she've been erased from this world?

'If Cecilia was strong in your world, just how strong could she be in this one?' Regis questioned as his curiosity leaked over into me. I came into this world a quadra-elemental, and developed a white core.

'She'd be a pinnacle of power, even amongst the Asuras.' I replied.

'It's a big damn mess.' I thought as I reclined back against the cot. If it weren't for the Indrath clan being so greedy in the first place, none of this would be happening. Did Kezess ever even realize that what he and all the other Asuran clans did basically resulted in the death of his daughter, the near death of his granddaughter and the many deaths of us "lessers"? Are they all that greedy for power? How many Elven lives were taken because of what Aldir did? Lives that apparently my little sister tried to save but to no avail. She almost died because of it and it made my blood run cold. It scared me. It honestly terrifies me.

Shaking my head and pushing those questions to the back of my mind, a small smile reformed on my face as I thought about my family.

'Ellie's fine. Mom is okay. Sylvie is alright.' I thought while taking a deep breath. Calmness washed over me as I sigh, relaxing back into the springy cot.

That didn't last long though, as my thoughts redirected themselves to Tess.

The entire time I was there, she was unconscious. She was drenched in sweat, trembling lightly. Her calm, deep breaths put me at ease, but the two small bundles she held so tightly in her pale arms even though she was unconscious made my heart clench as dread washed over me.

I tried to swallow the heavy ball in my throat, but it didn't budge. Life really could never give me a break, huh? I guess this is the karma I didn't really get in my last life. You'd think after everything I've been through, I'd be given a peaceful life. And at the start of this life, it almost was.