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Holding the stone in his hand, Kaelthas did his best to try to pick up and understand what Aurum was saying. Something had happened to the stone he had given her. What was coming thru made little sense to him as he shook his head a bit trying to make heads or tails of it. "Of all the times this thing would go on the fritz" Kaelthas groaned as he stood up. While distorted, Aurum's voice sounded, almost pained. The usual sound of it seeming to distort and change into what sounded almost quavered thru his end. It wasn't what he was expecting to hear during their time apart. Had something happend to Aurum? Was there an ambush during their travels? No, something like that wouldn't have happened and even if it had the dragoness could hold her own.


Shaking his head as he was slow to stand off his bed, Kaelthas walked over to a nearby table as he set the stone atop it. If it was something that Aurum considered an accident then maybe it was worth his cancelling. "I hope she didn't transform and injure someone" Kaelthas groaned as that thought came to him. The kingdom had not yet known that she was a dragon. While more had some what suspected she was beast born, none to his knowledge likely knew yet. "If that was the case, this would warrant my arrival" he muttered before taking to the paper. He worked quickly on writing an appology to Mathais for having to leave early. "Guard, come here. Take this to the lord of this castle and ready the children and the cart. We leave tonight for the kingdom" Kaelthas said to him shoving the note into the man's chest. It would still take him some time to return home but he hoped it would not be to late to settle any problem that may have arrisen.

Arriving to the cart Kaelthas had beaten both guards and his children. In his hand was the stone gripped firm. He had tried to send and receive several more messages to Aurum in the time since the first. They had all fallen into a dead stone as the prince seemed a bit flustered. He was keeping himself from thinking the worst that could happen, but Aurum had not been very clear. "What happened over there to have you in such a fluster" Kaelthas muttered as he stood in the stables. It would still be almost half an hour more till the guards arrived. In ones arms lay the two, now sleeping children. The other held nothing in his hands, noting he had delivered the message. "Right lets go" he snapped beckoning the guards with the children inside. "Make haste driver, the winds blow foul tonight" he called before stepping inside to head home.

As the soldiers ran around trying to deal with what was infront of them. The king lay where he was still, the few remaining members that had come with them tending to him. Each of them had their own wounds and injuries to take care. Instead they, and Aurum focused their attentions towards him rather then themselves. "Enough" he said his strength returned enough for his voice to echo like usual. Taking a slow breath the king steadied himself. "Aurum, Heal your wounds child." For the time being, thanks to the girls efforts he felt well enough at the moment. "Your time isn't so precious that you can forget about your own injuries" Varyian bellowed. Even in his injured state his voice carried a weight to it but also a warmth. He always was more worried about those around him then himself.

The trip was a long one, made longer and more droning by the sense of urgency the prince felt. His sleep had not come easily as they moved towards home. His mind on what could have happened. Part of him wanting to cast a spell of flight to quicken his return. The thought of him leaving the children dismissed that idea from his mind. While his magic was powerful, it was difficult to attune a spell to effect them. Their bodies were a mix of both his and Aurum's and made spell weaving difficult around them. "Just keep calm till I am there" Kaelthas muttered looking down at his lap were both of his children's head lay. It was a difficult task he was finding each day. Being a father to Aveli and Kahfka, preparing to become king, and also do his best to make Aurum happy. How much easier it would be he wondered if they were not of noble decent. To have met in the central kingdom. With his mind slipping towards thoughts that were not as troubled he drifted off.

It was mid morning when the carriage arrived back at the castle. Kaelthas greeted in a much more somber way then was the normal. The help acting a bit different but trying to keep a normal face. "Where is Aurum?" Kaelthas called as they reached the front gates and the doors of the carriage opened. His voice held no usual grace or calmness to it. It was flat and tired in what little sleep he was able to catch the past day and a half of travel. Moving quick, Kaelthas forced the maid infront of him to near a running pace as she led him. They headed towards the infirmary where a pair of guards stood outside. Giving a wave of his hand towards them he entered the infirmary by throwing both doors open. He had not heard a peep of the matter of what was happening from a soul yet. The sight before him was not what he had expected. He had expected Aurum with a few knicks surrounded by guards or something of the like. Instead, his father lay in a bed covered in bandages and his wife lay next to him. Her body covered in wounds.

Seeing his wife in such a state, Kaelthas didn't know what to think. It looked as if they had been thru hell, the both of them. Moving outside, Kaelthas grabbed one of the guards and asked what happened. Neither of them seemed to know of it tho as he pushed the man away in anger. Turning back to the room, Kaelthas walked inside it closing the door behind him as he went towards the bed. Aurum, draped across it, didn't stir at his approach. Her wounds were severe from what he could tell with an arrow protruding from her gut. How long had she been like this? Had she refused the healers he wondered. Looking at his father, he seemed on the surface to hold wounds as well but his did not seem to be near as severe. Unlike his wife he could not smell magic and had little knowledge of healing spells. For some reason he was never able to get them to work right in his younger years.

Leaning down next to Aurum he shook his head, lifting his hand he gave a small utterance. As he did a nearby bed floated over towards them. He would need to get the healers in to clean her wounds. It wasn't until he kneeled down and wrapped his arms around her did he realize. Her Glimmer had dissipated. In his worry he had not noticed it, the glimmer only up when the two were in public. "What happened" he muttered lifting Aurum up from the resting position. He did his best to move slow. The arrow in her shoulder now visible to him. From head to toe his some what small wife held wounds. All closed up, none from a healer as best as he could tell. Moving her to the bed nearby he again uttered a single spell. The bed again moving, this time coming to a rest next to his fathers. "Healer" Kaelthas called soft into the room doing his best not to wake either of the two sleeping.