"Lightning" Means "Family" (Rose, Leon)

[Elias Wyatt]

"He better be here soon. I have questions."

Judging by Elias' tone, they're not necessarily nice ones, either. He keeps looking at Rose, letting her work for a while, before he grabs her face with both hands.

"Rose. We're going to find them, but I need your help to do it."

[Rose Princeton]

Most people aren't equipped to deal with her, no.

But luckily she responds well to Elias 99% of the time.

Her lip would wobble and her eyes were teary but she'd nod, keeping herself from spiraling into a mental breakdown.

[Zack Asiv]

It wouldn't take too long before Elias's father returned. His left arm was missing from the elbow down, his hair and clothes were haggard and disheveled, and his eyes had dark circles around them. The few soldiers with him looked half dead, but the look in Lucien's eyes was full of fire and hatred.

He seemed to be in a trance as he was going to walk right by Elias without even blinking.

[Elias Wyatt]

"Dad."

Elias says as Lucien walks closer, and for once, it doesn't sound blank or emotionless. There's an actual undercurrent of feeling, of legitimate loss in his tone.

"My children are gone."

[Rose Princeton]

Rose just clings to Elias' arm, trying to keep herself together.

She didn't know what to say. Everyone looked like they'd been through so much.

[Zack Asiv]

At the sound Lucien's eyes blinked as he froze. As if hearing it from a long distance away he would turn to find the source before his eyes lowered to Elias, his face cracking from the stern look into a frown as he saw the state of things.

"So is Gaia..."

He'd look at the missing portion of his arm before looking back at the duo.

"I have searched so far... I've spoken with the Valdyr, they had pointed me to someone with a visual ability to find any object or person... That's the next mission. I need supplies and reinforcements to make the trek, I lost sixteen on this trip."

There were three with him. His voice was a contrast to last time. There was no emotion. Unlike the doting and emotional father from before, this man was stone cold, almost heartless.

[Elias Wyatt]

That's perfect. It was exactly what he was going to ask for, a person they could go to in order to find where their children went.

Seemed he was one step ahead of him. But the loss of his mother... that was something he couldn't deal with, right now. He can't even mention it out loud.

"Then we'll go with you. I'm... not quite as strong as I was before, but I'm sure I can help."

The end of the world and the struggle to keep his realm from falling apart was more taxing than he'd ever dreamed.

"But... if it helps, I was thinking this was one of the only places I could get myself a second eye and have them transplanted. That might make up the difference."

[Rose Princeton]

Rose avoids complaining about him changing his eyes. They'd gone through that already.

"I'm sorry about your wife..." Rose would say softly. She doesn't know what she'd do if she lost Elias. It'd probably be the polar opposite of how Lucien was dealing with it.

[Zack Asiv]

Lucien's eyes would drift between Elias and Rose for a moment before he nodded.

"Gaia was struck by a giant black chain and driven deep under ground until she was so far I could no longer hear her. I had to get the kids away and to safety, then they vanished in a flash of light."

A lot happened all at once it would seem, but he would look to Elias.

"No doubt you mean special eyes?"

[Elias Wyatt]

His throat clenches, and Elias finds he can't answer right away. After a few swallows, he finally nods.

"...yes. I have one, that I took from a Katashi in Prota, but I don't have a second, or the ability to put them in myself."

He has no idea if Faye could do such a thing for him.

[Rose Princeton]

Faye...might. She's hanging back and looking at the remains of Lightning country. She would have liked to see it all in tact but not much was like that nowadays.

Rose would look down sadly at the story. She was once again struggling to keep a hold on herself, sniffling as her tears started again.

[Zack Asiv]

"It's possible to get the surgery done here. We may have a spare eye in the treasury. But it would be inside the tower... I would recommend one at a time, the recovery period for the eye transplant is quite a bit."

[Elias Wyatt]

"I have souls built up. I can heal myself."

Elias says with a frown.

"Recovery should be fast."

[Rose Princeton]

"Maybe you shouldn't r-risk it." Rose says somewhat quietly.

[Zack Asiv]

Lucien would nod.

"Either way we'd have to somehow get into the Tower to find any other eyes."

He'd show them into one of the buildings, where some of the people were loading up some odd looking rifle's with Qi crystals and sharpening weapons. Not much else was going on until they walked up to another room in the building. Inside would be hospital beds, mostly full, with other make shift beds made of tables and others made on the floor.

One primary physician for Lightning Country was leading nurses and volunteers. A large man with suit pants and dress shoes, but just a jacket over his bare chest. Long black hair slicked back and a large scar on the left side of his face from hit forehead down to his neck. Elias would recognize him as. Soren Mizrahi. Lucien would approach and give a small bow as Soren looked him over quickly.

"This is who you want to talk to about an eye transplant."