Diplomatic Immunity--Preface: Vasha's Discovery, Part II

[Bront]

"I think you're afraid of what will happen to the one you love Sister, because of what happened with my father." Vasha hugs Alyz "I love you Alyz, and you can't stop me from loving you. Louteah loves you to. And we just want you to be happy."

 

[Rystil Arden]

"I thank you for your concern, and your support and Louteah's mean a lot to me, but it isn't as simple as you make it out to be...There isn't another, so please let me be."

 

[Bront]

"What about what you plan to do with Father? What do you hope to accomplish with that? You say it's not for you. Who is it for?"

 

[Rystil Arden]

"It is for everyone who has ever loved Marrik and who Marrik loves..."

 

[Bront]

Vasha casts her massage spell and has the mystical hands carefully work Alyz's shoulders. "You don't need to redeam yourself like this. Unfortunately, someone we all loved is dead, but maybe we just need to remember him and move on. I don't want to bring him back and find that he's not the man we remember because of how long his soul's been gone. I... I'm just scared..."

 

[Rystil Arden]

*Alyz shirks off the hands and shakes her head.*

"He is still the same man...His soul isn't gone at all, Vasha...It is still there, waiting for him to be reborn. I don't need to redeem myself, but Marrik deserves to have his life back!"

 

[Bront]

"Relax sister, just a massage, nothing more. I thought you might enjoy the new spell."

"Are you sure Alyz? No doubts, nothing depraved, just a true revival of Da... Father?"

 

[Rystil Arden]

"Well, it may use the things I learned from my...earlier experiments...but there's nothing left to do that's depraved, I did the depraved things already, unless you consider your pure beautiful love for your father to be depraved..."

 

[Bront]

"No, of course not sister... and I'm glad that it's all behind you, though I think you should clean it up so he doesn't wake up to ... well... you know." Vasha resumes working on Alyz's shoulders.

"I'll help you sister, But I feel so selfish in doing so. I... I miss my Daddy so much sometimes." her eyes fight back the tears, though not quite successfully as one escapes. "I'm sorry sister, I don't mean to burden you more, with my pain."

 

[Rystil Arden]

"It is no burden that I was not meant to bear, Vasha...Your pain at the loss of your father is my fault, as ultimately I am to blame...You have no cause to feel selfish, as your love for your father is pure and true, a selfless love that stretches into eternity, and it is only this love that you are expressing."