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He looked to Cosmie, "I need to see Adelaide." Audemar felt light in this place, as if he had no weight at all and his gaze caught a woman who must have been in her early thirties. Her sweet smile sat below her curved nose and beautiful blue eyes. The woman's brown hair blew in the gentle breeze as she reached her arms out to Audemar. The grown man ran to this woman and fell to his knees before her, "I'm sorry, Mother, I'm sorry for everything I've done-" The woman's voice echoed as she spoke,

"Oh, child of mine, I know you did what you thought was best but you knew little of consequence and took something you knew nothing of. The punishment you receive, what you believe is punishment, was something you could've decided for yourself." Audemar was tearing now and looked up to Adelaide with tears running down his cheeks, something that hasn't happened for a long time.

"You are right, Mother," he said, "I had a choice and I chose selfishly. I walked the land over one hundred years and did nothing but use my power to end lives of those who I thought suffered."

"You can't change anything you've done, Audemar," Adelaide knelt to him, "but you can decide what the right thing to do will be." Adelaide gently put her hand on her son's cheek and said, "I will always be with you."

Cosmie would remain on her perch and gently kick her feet as she watched over Audemar and his mother with a soft smile, giving them all the time they needed to have their moment.

The man looked to his mother and listened to her once more before her spirit faded, "Let your heart lead you and trust in me." After the the last word echoed, Adelaide's spirit faded away and left the sorcerer on his knees.

The three of them would stop talking amongst themselves as they heard the frantic voice of Matthew sounding off around them. The three of them would look at one another and nod, agreeing that they would continue this conversation later. Meanwhile, Raven would slowly stir from her unpeaceful slumber and blinked in the sunlight. She would place a hand over her eyes as she stared up at the 4 of them, before sitting up and nodding.

"Y-Yeah...I'm ok....just exhausted..."

She says before noticing the concerned look on Jimmy's face. She would smile at him to reassure him, before opening her arms out towards him and inviting him into a hug. Once he accepted her offer, she would hold him close as she stared up at the three of them, waiting for them to take a seat before leaning against the trunk of a nearby tree, speaking with them honestly and keeping them up to date with what had just happened.

"Pentre sent assassins after us to try and kill us..."

"And we nearly got burned to death because of it..."

"That wasn't Will's fault...Raven was standing to close to them."

"I was knocked over onto the ground from the blast of the wind...hardly my fault Mason..."

She says looking to the three of them, sighing in relief at the sight of the three of them being ok. She had hoped that this would hopefully open their eyes as to how horrible Pentre was. Though Raven was grateful that they weren't having to hold another funeral so soon. Though with her emotions running as high as they were with everything that had just happened, she needed to decompress and relax, for fear of becoming to stressed mentally would cause her to take on her demonic form if she reached her breaking point.

((I protest, Tusitala. Raven used her magic to fix the village before she laid down to rest.))

Lilim cooperated well enough as she was laid in the hay, but poor Elesa would flinch sharply and whimper as Haldor moves. Excruciatingly light sleeper as she was, she was completely unable to sleep while on the move, and she was still so tired. The child would cry weakly as she clings to Lilim, only for Lilim to moan and murr something in her sleep, bringing her arms around Elesa and hugging her close. Lilims action seemed to do the trick, as Elesa would at the very least stop crying, but while the cart was kept in motion, Elesa would be unable to sleep dispite how tired she was.

Audemar felt happy all though his face didn't show it. He finally be relieved of the guilt he had because Audemar never asked anyone to forgive him but his own mother. The man whispered in a quiet voice, "I love you, Mother."

Will, who was drifted between being awake and unconscious as Merry healed him. He didn't try to get up, not match for Robin and Organna keeping him from doing so, or at least straining himself. His wounds slowly healed, causing him to throw up one more time before getting enough strength to stand up without falling, still using Robin for support. His eyes started to change colors, slowly fading to orange and back to his regular color as he looked at Robin. "Think we can have that Council now?" Will asked, the question being to both Robin and Merry, and Gaia if she was around.

It was true, he was very weak. He would probably have trouble lifting even his sword, but he still had the strength to grip someone's neck good. So once Robin said he should've left the collar on, Will grabbed the back of his neck and gave it a bit of a squeeze. "If you talk about putting the collar on me or even try to, You'll know what it's like to fly without wings or magic." Will told Robin as a warning not to collar him ever again.

"And I've continued on through worse Robin, you know this better than anyone." Will also told him.

Will couldn't help but chuckle a bit at the teasing, slapping him in the back of the head before falling over, landing back in the pool of blood and vomit. Will sighed and slowly stood himself up. "What I need right now is a bath, unless it's okay to have a council covered in blood." Will said, still using Robin and Organna for support.

Merry was still a long way from finished healing Will, though the presence of the sun made her work a lot easier to do. As the cart was brought around, Merry would follow Robin and Organna as they got Will up onto the cart and made to rest in the hay. Merry would stay right with Will and continued healing him, though she'd frown to Robin as he spoke again of the collars, "I'll beat Will to that one. Pull out one of those collars around me, Robin, and I'll give you a pinch of my own... The same pinch that put that bad mouthing disease on his back earlier last night." she says as she refers to Pentre and the full body electrocution that saw him counting sheep in crispy skin.

Organna would snerk and giggle quietly to that, "Oh, c'mon, guys. Give Robin some slack. He's been good to us so far and it's clear he's only talking out of concern. It's clear he's got a lot of heart for his general... Though I have to wonder... Is there any room in that heart for one more?" Organna asks curiously, giving Robin a hinting wink.

Pixel would be riding on Glitter as he and Moonlight followed close to the cart as well, making the group of them a proper convoy. Moonlight would ruffle her mane and give a whiney grunt of her own as though to ask if what she was listening to was for real.

Pixel would roll her eyes and stay quiet for now, looking forward to Lilim being awake again as Elesa's whimpering and panicing was about to drive her developing maternal instincts into overdrive. She was starting to get curious exactly which was really stronger... Fairy Wish magic... Or the curse of a Dark Goddess, because Pixel was about to try her hand at breaking Lilim's Nocturnal curse.

Will didn't refuse the sponge bath, not having the strength to fully cleanse himself. Although, It did feel awkard for Robin to give him one, when every other time he got a sponge bath from someone it was from one person, who was a woman. But once Robin was done and was putting his clothes away, Will grabbed the sponge and his jacket, carefully washing the blood off it before seeing the outfit Robin Brought him. Seeing as how he had no choice, he picked one and started putting it on. Ryan wasn't one for wearing fancy suits and robes, unless for special occasions, but he did look good in the outfit Robin provided.