[Rosekitten]

Over time they did agree to try to rejoin the kingdoms again. At first it was a selfish thought but the more they looked into it and once the location was picked the better the idea seemed to be. It was a good location natural defense wise and everything. Even if the kingdom was surrounded it would be able to hold out and last as long as it needed to. But building such a city took time and lots of it.

Quite a many years had passed, even if the two had kept up in writing whenever they could it still was hardly the same. The last letter from Mizuki made him think about how much he did remember even. All of the little details surely faded over the past seventeen years in his mind. Even if he had tried to remember everything that he could and tried to stay the same he knew things had changed. It would have been impossible for them not to change over that many years.

Even the children had to have changed. Watching Belquiri grow up made that all sink in more. From this young child to the teenager she was now. Though she acted nothing like most teens, she was reckless at times in her experiments but that was about it. Over the years her magic had finally made itself known and it was a good thing Neimi had stayed behind as Belquiri needed a teacher in the healing arts. As soon as this was found out was when Thalion had rushed a letter together like sending it out any faster would get the response to come sooner.

The wait between messages were the hardest. At the least when the letters did come in it felt like they were still connected. Half the time he questioned if the link they had still was there as he sometimes felt nothing from the other. Though it was a bit late to be worrying about that now as the group finally made it to the newly build castle past the city around it.

Well this was it, everything came down to how things went tonight. A celebration was in place to officially join the two races back to be as one united kingdom. Though his thoughts were all over the place. Not that most could tell he was that distracted. No over the years he had changed. After a while he even stopped fighting what was going on around him. If anyone asked Thalion had grown into the role of leader rather well over the past seventeen years.

Though there were a few who could see through the mask he had on to act like nothing was wrong. Neimi watched him a moment before speaking after her and Belquiri both nodded. "Breathing helps ya know." She said laughing a little as he looked at her. "That obvious?" She shook her head as Belquiri seemed to speak up in her stead. "No not really, unless you know what you are looking for." She smiled all the same before spinning around to put her back to him. "Besides ... i think we're all a bit nervous."

She was as well she knew that. Not having seen her sibling from that day... nor Papa. She feared more then anything that their family might still be divided even if this celebration went without a hitch. Over the years she had changed but she had watched her own father change as well. Who knew what changes her sibling and Papa had gone through. Her ears lowered a little at the thought.

None the less they were here now and even though it was a celebration the tension seemed high. Damien had returned with Mizuki due to his wife at the wood elven kingdom, oddly Thalion half thought he missed the older knight's constant nagging. Granted he still had Ryza to keep him on his toes and Vaden luckily was there as well to help keep things in order or Ryza might have tried to kill him. Heck over the years he finally took on some advice as far as magic went. Not much due to having little to no time and not willing to test things in case the link still held their energy together or not.

One of Mizuki's men seemed to greet the small group here before saying where he needed them to go. Right right official stuff and all that. He had gotten use to this sort of thing by now. They had to make a big deal of everything and announce when certain people were here and all that. Bit ta do over nothing. None the less trying to brush off such trivial things did not settle his nerves. He wanted to see Mizuki again, but fear grasped the back of his mind.

Remembering that Needren had been with Mizuki all this time. He wasn't sure if the other had given in finally as he got tired of being alone or not. The letters over the more recent years seemed more distant then anything no matter what he had wrote back to the other. Maybe this had taken too long ...