The Light and the Glass (Garrett and Aria)

[NPC Vennessa]

Aria’s hands were caught suddenly, stopping her flight. A porcelain-skinned young woman turned her and beamed at her, her soft features beaming like light. Her long golden-blonde hair fell in waves over her pale shoulders, her simple white dress brushing the grass. She leaned in towards Aria, running her thumbs over her knuckles. “Do not be afraid.” the woman seemed to be teasing her. “This was meant to happen as soon as you wrote his name.” she leaned forward and pressed a kiss to Aria’s forehead, and Aria’s world would go dark.

When Aria would awaken, she would be in a softly-lit room. There would be a luscious dinner spread out before her, filled with fruits and meat and wine and more than she could ever eat alone. Of course, she wouldn’t be alone there. Garrett would be placed on the other side of the table.

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Aria felt her hands caught, and as soon as she heard Vens voice she paled even more….did this woman know she was throwing Aria to her son? One that in her time like she held most dear to her heart? She scowled as soon as she said this was meant to happen as soon as she had written Garretts name. What about the others? Garrett wasn’t the only name she had written. Why did she of all the girls keep getting put into awkward situations with Garrett! “Ven….” She didn’t get the rest out before her world went dark. What the hell did the woman drug her with? When ported to the room Aria would not wake right away, instead she was curled up in the corner. Sound asleep….after all she had just flown and walked to the city…..

[Garrett Blade]

Damn, Garrett hated being stuck on night watch. The South Gate was always the creepiest at night. On one end it looked the gloomy Dungeons and Slums, then on the other side the Forever Forest shrouded by a misty fog. So tonight was indeed probably the most creepiest out of all the times he had been volunteered.

His mind was defiantly not there, nor on his duty to watch the gate. No, Garrett's body language already portrayed how the Royal Captain felt. He was anxious about something. Something that he tried burying every day sense she had snuck back into his life. Ever sense that night they talked in the storage closet, she had been allusive. Had he been so busy that their paths hadn't crossed yet? Where was she? He was beginning to get worried.

Then something flashed out of the corner of his eye. He had thought his eye was playing tricks. One minute he saw nothing. Then the next a very familiar mother figure, well a younger, liver version of the corpse he remembered. She was beautiful and yet still terrifying to him.

Shit, Shit, Shit.

Was the only words that could come to mind, but he didn't speak. Instead he stood their frozen, like his breath was being taken away from his lungs, choking him… In reality the crazy bitch rendered him conscienceless, an dragged him away to play out this plan, his unknowingly mother figure was setting up something very ironic..

When he awoke. hours later . Garrett struggled to focus the objects in the room into clarity. His head pounding only as long as his vision stayed blurred and chopped colors of blotches became defended. in a rather unpleasant, but familiar area. His blue eye focusing on the dinner table and the feast spread upon it's top.

Garrett shook his head, trying to gain a bit more clarity before his eye feel upon Aira. Curled in a corner at the edge of the dungeon cell, fast a sleep. Dafuck was wrong with this girl?! An what had she done to get locked up in this prison cell?! Garrett's eye brow twitched as he got up from the dinner table and cautiously approached the sleeping Aria. His mind racing with questions. Trying to make sense of what was going on, an yet relieved to see that the crazy girl was alive and well.

" Aria?"

Garrett spoke softly, not to alarm her at first if she she were to wake. If she didn't then he had an alternative method. He reached into his pocket and pulling out one of his obsidian daggers, before lightly flinging the blade at her ass cheek. Surly that would wake her and explain what the hell was going on.

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The only response he had from Aria at first was a small growl as she rolled over in her sleep. She was perfectly sound asleep; a preferable state then what she would be in when she woke up. However apparently Garrett wasn’t quite aware of the reaction Aria usually had when woken up. As soon as the dagger hit her ass she awoke with a yelp and punched the nearest thing in the face. But hey! At least she didn’t set it on fire!

She blinked…..her eyes adjusting to the dark light fairly quickly, her cheeks blushed as she realized whom she had swung a punch at….her eyes trailing to the dagger on the floor…..she blinked…that bastard threw a dagger….AT HER BUTT! She checked to make sure he hadn’t ripped the dress. Suddenly not feeling in the least bad for punching him…YOU DON”T WAKE SOMEBUDDY UP LIKE THAT!

Aria turned her attention to the scene around them; her features going paler as the fact she was in the dungeons once more slowly sinking in.

”no no no no”

She was up on her feet and ushering herself over to the door. She tried it only to find it was locked. She placed her hand on where the handle was and attempted to see if her magic could pop the lock on the other side. Garrett temporarily completely forgotten about. You could tell Aria was in full out tweak mode, however holding her composer despite it quite well. When her magic failed to work it was fairly obvious they were in one of those antimagic cells….


”Crazy ass bitch LET ME OUT OF HERE NOW! THIS IS NOT A GOOD PLACE FOR THE BLOOSSOM FESTIVAL WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!”

Aria was shouting at this point, and her random outburst would explain things to Garrett.

[Garrett Blade]

It was sudden, but thank the gods Garrett had plenty of practice at noticing quick movements, an Aria's quick action was some what expected. Thank the gods he had taken the time as a young lad to learn the art of dodging; when being struck at of course.

So when Aria's fist went flying, Garrett's eye widen an he dropped down to the cell floor in order to avoid the direct blow of her tiny balled up fist. However, he just wasn't quick enough to dodge all of her swing. Her knuckled did grace the buckle of his eye patch which loosened his eye patch. In fact he had to grab hold of his eye patch with his right hand in order to keep it still over his missing eye. His good eye blinking rapidly, as he couldn't help but cut a short chuckle.

" Damnit Girl."

Garrett coughed, the word girl coming out with a chuckle as he sat on his ass on the floor. His hand still holding the eye patch up over his face as he watched her suddenly become panicked.

" Aria!! "

Garrett suddenly interjected, shouting out her name in a loud commanding tone as if demanding her attention. He was not smiling at this point, instead he was staring strait down at her with a stern un-amused stare.

" Relax… I have a key, I am the 'Captain' after all.. Or did you forget that so quickly?" Garrett grumbled before continuing. " Obviously the Goddess of Passion here has a twisted sense of humor. But don't start shouting in a cell, in a Dungeon, un less you really WANT to get caught. After all sense there is a dinner table here, then obviously a real guard doesn't know we are here…. Sense this is a high security cell after all for those who possess magical abilities. " Garrett sighed, shaking his head to glance back at the dinner spread in the cell.

" So today is the Bloosom Festival, Well that explains this feeling I've been experiencing all day. That and a good explanation for my sudden kidnapping as well. Someone must of written my name down or something, wonder who...."

Garrett pondered, giving a sly eye to Aria as if staring her down to see if she would tell on herself, that possibly she was partly responsible for her own placement here and why Vennessa would bother kidnapping him.

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Aria gave Garrett a look that could peel paint as soon as he shouted her name and used a demeaning tone with her.

”And did you think to look for said Keys?”

She said it with the same tone he just used on her, coupled with a sickenly sweet smile. Really if Ven had thought to throw them in an anti magic cell she would be SHOCKED if she hadn’t thought to take Garretts keys from him. Not long after her scowl was back as she glared at the door.

”I hate cages….”

She turned back to him with a raised eyebrow as he lectured her about not yelling in dungeons.

”…Do you want to be stuck here until we do whatever it is they expect us to do for us to be released? These cells go down for a good long ways and a lot of them are unused and unchecked in the lower levels…. “


Aria scowled when he gave her a sly side glance.

”Oh don’t you give me that look Mr, you and I both very well know I did it. I figured without Ratty you needed someone to be a pain in the ass for ya. I also signed up Adrain and Rivers……the latter is likely why I’m signed up for this……Your taking being paired with me with fairly good humor…”

Aria took a deep breath and walked over to him taking the buckle from his eyepatch and adjusting it gently for him so it would stay on.

”You know you don’t have to be self-conscious about the eyepatch, I could care less if this fell off or not; I’ve seen you without it once…kinda like how you could care less with the fact half my face is burned all to shit”

[Garrett Blade]

Garrett's brow narrowed and scrunched at Aria's snappy come back about the keys. He scoff at the thought of HIS key's missing, until he reached for his side to look for the key ring that would normally be tied to his belt.

The keys were gone.

Shit. Garrett thought, shaking his head to admit his apologies for the false hope of escape. " Well then, I guess Vennessa is more of a bitch than I thought. " Garrett sighed, hating the fact the woman he grew up knowing as his biological mother, was a massive pain in this world. Nothing like the woman he knew, but then again, He hadn't really knew his mother before Noku. So Garrett sat there still on his ass looking up at Aria as she passed the cell like a wild animal.

" Of course I don't want to get stuck here, but what choice do we have until this date is over with…" Garrett grumbled under his breath, some what agitated that she was the one who put his name down on the list. Of course she would do this. Aria, the trouble maker and trouble finder. Garrett thought before being taken off guard.

His eye widen when Aria approached and placed her hand over his eye patch and began to adjust the latch. His cheeks turning a bright red for just a second as if feeling a rise in temperature. What was this strange warm sensation in his chest? He had seen this woman at her worst and at her best, but for some reason….

The blood in Garrett's face drained, leaving his features white like a ghost. His eye widen as he seemed to suddenly stare off into space.

" A…Ar…Ari…Aria…"

Garrett managed to mumble her name. His temperature rising as sweat began to bead at his forehead. His chest tightening, heart beating at an abnormal pass… Until suddenly, Garrett grabbed Aria and shot up onto his feet. He pushed Aria away from him, cupping his head in his hands in agony. A horrible scream leaving his lips as he suddenly thrashed his upper body about, almost as if he had been hit in the head by something hard.

" GOD DAMNIT!!!!!!!! " Garrett snapped, his body almost convulsing at this point when suddenly…. He stopped moving all together. He just stood there in the middle of the cell, silent, his hands still covering over his face. For only a few minutes, until Garrett dropped his hands to reveal narrowed slit pupils staring right back at Aria.

Black twisted horns began to break through the flesh of his forehead, which curled back similar to a goat's. Hard not to see sense he slicked his hair back with suddenly blood soaked fingers. A cut appearing just at the temple of his skull, at the base where the horns were sprouting. Black scale like armor appeared over his flesh. His arms being modified by thick heavy armor and long blade like fingers. Foam forming at the edge of his mouth, dripping, as he stood there staring at his hands in both horror and disbelief. Had he been cut or bashed in the head when he wasn't looking? DID ARIA BASH HIM IN THE HEAD?! Garrett first thought, staring at the blood on his hands not aware of his current situation.

Anger slowly building as he lifted his gaze up to meet Aria's. His blue eyes glowing against a now black surface that used to be a normal, human eye. The horrified expression long gone, now replaced which what looked to be blood lust. The girl he once lost, found, admired, and promised to protect... No longer a familiar face to him.

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”She puts me to shame….admirable really but she’s detailed oriented like a certain someone I know”

Aria finished adjusting the latch on his eye patch, it was at least a short distraction and she liked playing with his hair. However she became alarmed when he suddenly start to stutter, she moved herself in front of him and placed a hand on his forehead, she could feel his temperature rising.

”Garrett are you o…”

She winced a sudden pain shooting up her back; and shocked as she was suddenly shoved away by Garrett. It was enough to land her on her butt, her eyes wide as saucers as an ear splitting scream broke from Garrets throat. Her back was in agony, however her concern for Garrett made her push through it enough to stand, though her eyes watered with the effort.

”Garrett?”

She took a step forward; her concern growing as the hair on the back of her neck stood on end…..She of all people knew a transformation when she saw it. Aria moved, tearing the cape off her shoulder as she darted behind him wrapping her cape around his arms and hands, swaddling him like an infant. Blood red scales covered her body as large black wings erupted from her back, encasing him in a strong cocoon as she hugged him from behind. Aria was hoping to restrain those blade hands before he could use them and do something he would regret.
She almost lost herself her first time transforming….this probably wasn’t that but she didn’t know what the hell was going on…….Aria took a chance and yanked her amulet off her neck and placed it over Garretts head. It kept her in her right mind when she transformed because of something her dad did to it….maybe it would work for him.

”Garrett I need you to listen.”

There was strain in her voice, though she kept it as calm as she could despite the agonizing pain in her back that cause tears to stream from her eyes...if Garrett got his hands free she wouldn’t be able to see well. The tears dripped on his shoulder; as she continue to speak into his ear.

”I don’t know what’s going on but whatever it is just concentrate on my voice. I don’t know how or why you’re transforming but you need keep you at the center off all transformations. Concentrate on Garrett, the human Garrett”

[Garrett Blade]

The human Garrett.
Concentrate on a human self?
Was there ever a human self?
What makes a human, human anyway?

These words just angered him more, for some reason or another he couldn't shake the burning desire he had. The desire to do anything to shut this fucking red hair bitch's face up. The Garrett Aria knew was lost in this sea of hate and rage. The transformation slowly consuming him as he growled like a wild beast under his breath as she whispered more into his ear.

Why?! Why did he feel this way?! He knew this girl right?! right?!!

Then again, that voice inside his head screamed out once more. So angry... So filled with wrath and hate The voice grew, telling him to stand and fight. However the more he struggled, the more he found that he couldn't move. Which made him want to take his claws and run them along her throat until nothing would come out. To take out all this unfamiliar energy and unleash it on the closest thing....

Wrath.

Oh if he knew that this was Aria. He would not have tried to struggle against the blanket wrap that bound his body in place. He would try to have run to save her from this monstrous sight. What a lousy protector he turned out to be....

As the transformation slowly began to complete. The skin on his back was beginning to bleed out through the blanket. The pain as demonic wings began to tare through the flesh as it struggled to break free of it's confined tissue. Only to be caught up into the wrap, where for once he stopped struggling and just laid still breathing heavily. Trying to catch a breath as he felt something cold tough the center of his forehead. His pupil widening giving him some bit of controlled thought. His eye glancing back at Aria as he remained perfectly still.

" Aria...." Garrett managed to speak out her name in a cracked voice. His head tilted so he could look back at her with one vibrant blue eye against a black void.

" Th-The hell is happening to me?! "

Garrett coughed out, trying to control this new strange serge that kept trying to take over. His body shaking, doing his best to not cause Aria any more pain. He didn't know what was going on, but for some reason Aria was crying. Why was she crying?! Had she got hurt? what was going on?! Oh God....

" Aria... Don't be afraid...Don't be afraid of doing what you have to. Have to, to survive. To live..."


Garrett snarled like a wild beast, his lips parting to expose the sharp like jagged row of teeth grinding against on another. His body temperature was way above normal at this point and his body reacted. It shook violently within the cloak swaddle.

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Aria held on to him tighter as he struggled, her wings embracing him, no matter how much it hurt she wasn't letting him go. The fight coupled with the pain in her back was agonizing, somthing was going on with core to... All she could feel was intense sorrow. It was only feeding off of hers that she surpressed.. She choked down a sob that threatened to break from her throat. By the time Garrett stopped struggling Aria was breathing heavily from the effort, her head resting on his back. Her eyes still opened wide in pain; she looked up when he called her name with pain filled eyes.

"I... Don't know... But hey look our scales almost match"

She choked out a small but feeble laugh in between her tears. Trying desperately not to be overcome by sorrow. However it seemed to be to much when he asked her to do what she needed to do. She broke down in sobs as she buried her face into his back shaking her head.


" I won't, not even if I could. You can fight this. Even you said I was replaceable, your not even with your curse, your not replacable to me. I don't want to lose you... Any of you. Please Garrett don't lose yourself, I need you to fight this."

She hugged him tighter still sobbing into his back as he began to lose himself again.

"Please don't leave me"

[Garrett Blade]

So loud.

Every sound suddenly became intense; Much louder than normal.
It was deafening and every sound made seemed to boom with an un-familiar vibration. It was all so confusing an tormenting at the same time. Even the softest of noises made it difficult to concentrate or focus on anything. Even Aria's voice was beginning to become some what unbearable. All because of how loud it was for him. Which brought him to shutter an throw his head back. His one good eye looking up at the stone ceiling as he clenched his monstrous shark like teeth.

His hair matted with black clots of his own dried blood an sweat dangled back around Aria's head which he felt pressed against his back. His eyes slowly widening at the sound of tears.

Was this woman crying? Why? Why was this woman crying? Mistero thought, for a brief second. His body frozen in place as he felt hands grip tighter around him and the sobbing became louder. Once again painful to hear, but he dared not move within this strangers arms. Her voice crackled with sadness and pain as she rubbed her head up against his spin.

'Garrett?'

She had called him Garrett? His name wasn't Garrett, It was Mistero… Right? He contemplated with the words she spoke; His body trembling with the grip around him as she hugged tighter and sobbed even louder like a toddler.

What was this horrible feeling that crept up so suddenly and with out warning? It was easier to push this feeling aside before, but this.. This was something he had never felt before. One that pushed and burned at his heart like a searing iron and made him gasp for air.

' Please don't leave me.'

Garrett jolted back within Aria's arms, tossing his head forward and letting out a loud monstrous cry. His eye closing and the metallic armored scales slowly retracting and fading into nothingness. His body slowly returning back to normal within Aria's tight embrace.

" A-A.. Aria . I… I'm sorry… I'm sorry I didn't mean to make you cry. Shhh…" Garrett managed to whisper before turning his head back to gaze back down at Aria. His eye slowly turning back to normal.

" I promised you I wouldn't leave Little Bird." Garrett smiled weakly, folding over slightly in her arms. Two caramel squares falling out and rolling onto the grimy floor from underneath the blood stained cape she had used to restrain him. 

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Aria held on bracing herself for another struggle when he let out another cry; however instead of a struggle she slowly felt his body shift underneath her embrace. The pain in her back was beginning to lessen to. Slowly she loosened her grip on the now ruined cape, she looked up at him, tears still flowing freely from her eyes. As he slowly came back to her she let her grip on the cape drop, and let it slide to the floor. Now thoroughly exhausted her wings that were meant for a much larger being drooped to the floor. She wiped her eyes on her arm, and walked so that she was in front of him. Her eyes studied him still scared that he might relapse…but it was her Garrett….More tears welled up in her eyes, this time out of relief. She hugged him and this time buried her head into his chest…..but two candies suddenly dropped to the floor. Her eyes fallowed them….and suddenly snapped back up to Garrett wide with shock…

”….Mine?”

Her arms dropped from Garretts side as she backed up as if stung. Tripping slightly on her own wing…she dropped to the floor on her knees…staring back at the candy, her wings slowly receding into her back with the normal pop and cracks of bone shifting. She curled herself into a small ball her hands gripping the side of her head…. She wasn’t able to quite handle this information….

”The candy….that bastard ate it….”

She shook her head…why was this secret kept from her…….he was with her for these past years….he had found her again….and she didn’t even know it. But …he had left her…he had left her alone in that orphanage….. That orphanage that tried to kill her.

”….You did leave though; I called and I called you never came. They said you didn’t want me any more….”

She looked up at him her body was trembling.

”You were Mine all along….why didn’t you tell me? Why didn’t Daddy tell me! WHY DID YOU LEAVE”

Aria returned to her curled up position, this really was too much to handle…. She was confused one part of her wanted to cling to Garrett and not let him go, the other part was reeling at the fact he just revealed that the boy….the first one to show her kindness…love….laughter…the first person she loved… the first person to truly rip her apart when he suddenly didn't show up any more; the reason her world fell to pieces for the first time…was one in the same as the man whom she couldn’t bear to lose?

[Garrett Blade]

In that moment Garrett's heart stopped. Time stopped. Everything stopped the moment those damn candies hit the ground and Aria spotted them. Why! Why of all times did she finally put the pieces together! Garrett's feature's paled as the blood rushed from his face and neck. Deep down he could already feel Aria's real Father glaring down at him. He had broken his promise. Well …. Garrett paused, his eye blinking in both fear and now regret.

'mine?'

Yep, she finally knew all right. Garrett was beginning to brace himself again, his body aching from the transformation and the deep gash on the side of his head.

" Aria ENOUGH! "

Garrett snapped, looking up and glancing back at Aria. She was already in a curled up position like a child breaking down after a over load of information. Huh, you would think she would of been used to that by now. Garrett gritted his teeth, picking himself up off the cell floor and standing up right before Aria. His eye staring down at her with in concern and yet irritation.

" Pull yourself together…. You are Queen of Thieves, now act like it! " Garrett spoke in a stern tone. His fist clinching as he turned to face the bars of the cell. His eyes staring at the runic embedded metal with a scowl. " I had no choice to leave you there Little bird, If I stayed any longer you and I would of died. I bargained with your father and in return for his help he made me promise to not see you ever again. SO DON'T YOU DARE! " Garrett paused, his fist hitting the bar with a forceful blow. Which sent vibrations through out the metal grid causing a light hum through out the cell.

" At least you didn't realize it was me, I've known who you were the moment I saw you on the shore with that mage. You've harassed me every day and never knew who I was. Everything I've done from the moment I've met you has to been to protect you…. Even if it meant if I left your side for only a moment and stayed my distance. Like your father, you were 'very' well watched. " Garrett sighed, lifting his right hand up to cover the open wound on his head before he turned to look back at Aria. Not very sure what to do at this moment. He had never had to face anything like this before back in the olden days. The days that were becoming foggy to him as he continued to live here on Teair Nova.

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”King….I kept the title the same so they’ll be looking for a male instead of a female when the time comes for it”

The voice was hallow, without much emotion behind it. She looked back up there was a deep anger burning in her eyes…..this was when she loooovvved to have Zepon around….he allowed an outlet for the anger that arose when she unearthed such knowledge….which she didn’t or rather wouldn’t release in this case…at least not on Garrett….

”I am so sick and tired of hearing that….every time it’s because I would be killed, without much more of an explanation. First it was because of Grandpa….was it because of him again? Why would you be killed? Did being with me put you in danger to?”

She looked down at her hands…..her face scrunched up in disgust….disgusted at herself for not realizing this sooner. She was silent for a good long time not moving.

”….Your scent was imprinted on me….. the memories of who you were never connected…but whenever I could smell you ….it was like coming home…that night on the bank; I didn't know why I trusted you, but I did. The night Ratty through me in bed with you; when you held me, I felt truly safe. My memories of us….our time together are hazy….but they are the only happy ones I have from when I was younger. I couldn't forget them completely; even if Daddy did mess with them. He was so surprised…and then got so mad when I wanted to keep searching for you.”

She picked up one of the candies; her anger slowly subsiding.

”These silly little things, you were arguing with him that day and left it on the table…..You wanted to tell me didn’t you….”

She pushed herself to her feet and closed the distance in between them, she was beginning just to feel numb she just rested her head on his chest….oddly her own head felt kinda wet and sticky.

”Why? Why go through all that trouble….it doesn't make any sense to me. I know why Daddy did it….but why you?”

She sighed; and looked at the bars of the cell….wondering how much trouble they would be in if she blasted the door off the cell. She looked back to Garrett and looked up at him; gently taking his right hand and lifting it so she could see what damage was done….her frowned deepened…she didn’t remember him getting hurt there….Core's voice rang out in her head 'THAT BASTARD WENT AND GOT HIMSELF HURT' Aria blinked 'What?' Core responded by giving Aria the quick run down...Garrett hadn't been affected by this before but he was now...he also made Aria check her own head. She riased her hand to the spot that was identical to where garrets cut was....she felt the warm stickyness of blood running through her hair....there was an identical cut. 'Welcome to the club....' 



”That and this  is going to need stitches….sit down. Do you have some of your razor wire on you? I'll do you first....Apparently was just attacked. It's why you transformed.”



At least this was something productive she could do….

[Garrett Blade]

Garrett's eye flashed with a bit of anger at Aria the moment the word 'King' escaped her lips. He understood the reasonings behind that train of thought. He knew she would go out of her way to protect him. Just like all those many times before when he had asked her NOT to do so. ' Stubborn girl.' Garrett kept secretly telling himself as she continued to speak.

Even when the anger built within her eyes, he kept his stance, leaned up against the bars with little to no emotion. When she stopped to look at her hands, Garrett's features softened. Now he felt guilty. Damnit, he hated this. He knew this would come back around to bite him in the ass.

' Thanks Saden, you oh holy considerate son of a bit-' his thought cut short when the silence finally broke when she spoke again. This time her words hit home. The seriousness and anger no longer present in his eyes. Instead his head lowered and his hand fell from the wound he was pressing against. Small droplets of blood splattering into small pools on the rune floor tile beneath him.

When he finally heard movement however, he lifted his head to see her approach him in a zombified manner. Her head pushing up on his chest as she rested, forcing him to turn his body and to let go of the bars. Both arms wrapping around her small torso compared to him. He held her close his hand, caked with both dry and wet blood on top of her head in a petting like manner. He stroked her untamed red hair as he struggled to breath. Let alone freeze up with Aria in his arms.

" Do you really have to ask why?" Garrett asked in a soft almost saddened tone. " Aria, I thought you were dead…. I was arrested for theft and when I finally was released I went strait to the orphanage.. They said it was a freak accident an you had perished in the fire. When I knew for certain that it was you, the little bird that fallowed me around. I was both ecstatic and yet enraged at the orphanage and your Father. How do you think I felt, that I've known you all this time but couldn't say a word…." Garrett sighed.

The blood from his forehead leaking down from his brow, dripped to his cheeks and down to Aria's scalp. He blinked twice when Aria spoke once more. His heart sinking the moment the thought of the Noru curse. Now he was a part of it…. Unware of Aria's predicament other than the cut on her forehead. However he believed that he might have caused the wound in his state of 'inhuman' self.

" Of course, I always have razor wire." Garrett nodded, letting go of Aria and reaching into his side pocket to pull out a spool of thin silver wire.

" Well then, that changes a few things that I've had in mind." He sighed, giving a slight smile to Aria as he handed her the spool. He was trying to take the grim feeling of possibly being sewn up by a broken down Aria.