Chapter 20: Why????
The door clicked shut behind him as Zephyr stepped into the quiet stillness of his room. Afternoon light seeped in through the arched window, casting a pale golden colour across the floor. He tossed his outer robe aside, jaw clenched tight as the day's humiliation echoed through his mind.
"Trash."
"Aetherless."
"Daring to show his face again."
He kicked over a stool, the wooden legs splintering as it struck the wall.
'Let them laugh', he seethed silently. 'Let them mock me now. I'll bury that laughter one day' so.
He pressed a palm against his temple, trying to suppress the fragmented memories that had returned since he rejected that leash given to him. His thoughts were a tangle of pain, vengeance, and a hunger to claw his way out of the pit they'd thrown him in. It seems after he awaken his Aether his soul has settled on the body and has inherited everything. His pain, his sorrow and vengeance.
A soft knock interrupted the storm in his head.
The door creaked open. Serena stepped inside, eyes lowered respectfully, a faint smile on her lips. She held a scroll case in her gloved hands.
"I thought you might want this," she said gently, offering it.
Zephyr took it with a frown, brows drawn as he opened the seal and unrolled the parchment.