He dreamt that day, a dream which was real.

  The moment he had fallen into the world of dreams, he found himself in a familiar world of darkness, which gave way to the stars about him. He turned on his heel, seeing the various figures, each staring at him like he were some kind of beast in a cage.

  “A stranger in our nds,” one said.

  “One of many,” another added.

  He reised the pair of them, who seemed to be leading this inquisition. “It’s a pleasure to see that you’re well, Miss Eveil,” Adam said, noting the appearance of the godly being, so familiar, a se. His eyes could barely take note of aures, as though he was fetting what he saw immediately as he saw it.

  Adam go see the boy ohrone of bck, terribly jagged. “Long time no see.”

  “You know of us?” Eveil asked, her voice so sweet and melodic.

  “Of course I do,” Adam replied, smiling. “I know of you and Sozain well, we’ve spoken before. I also know…” Adam’s eyes darted to find him, but instead, he saw anure. “Lady Arya? What are you doing here?” Adam bli her.

  “You know me as well?” Arya asked, her appearance easily seen and easily fotten.

  “Of course,” Adam said, dropping to a knee and bowing his head. “Lady Arya, Goddess of Swords. You had given me your strength, and I am not the the type tet my favours, even in my life.”

  “Goddess of Swords?” Arya asked, staring at the kneeling young half elf. “I am the Goddess of War.”

  “Goddess of War?” Adam asked, befng around, noting all the ods. He vaguely remembered them, but the one he was looking for wasn’t around. “Where’s Bandlor?”

  Eveil and Sozain exged a look, one which had caused their siblings to tense up for a moment.

  “How do you know that name?” Eveil asked. Her voice was the same as before, but it held a greater weight on his shoulders, as though she ressing him down with her tone.

  “Let’s not get ahead of ourselves,” Adam said, standing against the pressure. “I asked my question first. Where is he? Bandlor should be here, standing alongside you. Hey, Bel-“

  It had only taken a moment for the strao appear, cutting into the domain. It was a knightly figure, adorned in the whitest of whites, and his bde was so close to cutting Adam apart, not even a finger’s width away from his face, only held back by a dark string which had caught the bde.

  “How rude,” Sozain said, his finger raised from the arm rest ohrone. “Did you think I would allow you to cut a guest of mine right before me?”

  “This is a matter above you,” the stranger in white replied, simply. His tone of voice was even, but it was full of authority.

  Adam blinked, looking at the string on the bde, which was so thin, a could easily hold back the being which was still pressing his bde forward, trying to cut him. “Who the hell are you?”

  The knightly figure remained gring down at Adam, and Adam tried to recall who he had pissed off in his previous life. He tio dwell oter, and the eime, the figure’s body was terying to break through the bck thread.

  ‘Looks like Sozain is proteg me for now, so I guess I tinue?’ Adam cleared his throat. “Anyway, I’m gd you’re doing alright, Miss Eveil.” Adam smiled a genuine smile. “If you weren’t I would have been particurly pissed off.”

  Eveil stared down at one of the various anomalies which had appeared. “Will you expin yourself, young man?”

  “Well, your fath-“ Adam was cut off by the stranger in white having appeared beside him, who seemed to have cut through the thread of bess, only for his sword to be caught by another sword, near identical to his own, but it was pletely bck.

  “How rude,” Sozain said, staring at the stranger in bck who had appeared. “Why are there so many who are breaking into our space while we siblings are speaking with uest?”

  “You may say such words, but it’s because of me that this boy still lives,” the stranger in bck, who had caught the stranger in white’s bde, said.

  “Do you really believe Lord of Order could y a hand on this boy if I didn’t want him to?” Sozain asked, raising his brow.

  The stranger in bck did not respond, but he remained cshed with the stranger in white.

  “What are you doing?” Lord of Order asked.

  “What is expected of me,” his bck twin responded, a wild grin on his face.

  “This anomaly must be destroyed,” Lord of Order stated. “This is a matter above us.”

  “You will not be harmed,” Eveil assured Adam, holding her scale in hand. “You may tinue.”

  Adam he times that the being wao attack. It was only when he was trying to mention Belle. “Lord of Order, eh?” Adam smiled, before his eyes fell to the stranger in bck. “So let me guess, you’re Lord of Chaos?”

  “Hello there,” the Lord of Chaos replied.

  Adam smiled. “You aren’t so bad.” Adam noted Eveil staring at him, waiting for him to tinue. “Anyway, where’s Bandlor?”

  “Bandlor is a name long fotten,” Eveil said. “We all remember the name, but we do not remember who he was.”

  “Bandlor, the God of War?” Adam said. “You’ve fotten him?” He stared at the group, blinking at them. “What a bunch of shitty siblings you lot are.” He chuckled, though wondered if poking fun at the gods was a wise idea.

  “So he really was our brother,” Sozain said, hiding his smirk.

  Eveil stared at him, noting the gloating tone. She had always mentiohat she would have never fotten a sibling, but it seemed she may have been incorrect. “How is it that we have all fotten our brother?”

  “Why are you asking me?” Adam asked, shrugging his shoulders. “You’re the ones whot him.”

  “It was a rhetorical question.”

  “Oh, sorry.”

  Eveil stared at the boy. The gods eaderstood that the situation was far more plicated than it appeared. It was especially plicated sihose two had intruded, and even more so because so far, as far as the gods knew, Adam stated not a single lie as they spoke.

  “Bandlor was fotten, huh?” Adam narrowed his eyes. “Bandlor? But…” He stared at the one known as Lord of Order, who was still being held at bay by Lord of Chaos. “Bandlor, Bandlor…” Adam whispered, trying to think about why the god might be missing. ‘What happeo you, Bandlor? Where are you? Is it because of me?’ He recalled that Bandlor had sacrificed himself that time, but did that mean he was no longer in this world? This realm?

  “It is strange,” Eveil said. “We read the minds of all beings below us, eveher anomaly beside you, but we ot read your mind.”

  “Really?” Adam asked, fshing his mind with lewd images. “I’m fairly certain st time you could.”

  “Last time?” Eveil asked, staring down at him, still unphased by the lewd images.

  ‘Either she has a good poker face, or I’m not going hardcore enough,’ Adam thought.

  “I have been keeping an eye on you,” Sozain said. “Yet, even within the Iyr, that tale yours you told was blocked to my ears.”

  “There are things that you may know, and things you ot know,” Lord of Order said, trying to stop them from speaking more.

  “Do you have a special e to the Iyr?” Adam asked, narrowing his eyes. ‘He ying on me in the Iyr?’

  “Yes,” Sozain replied, simply.

  “Oh?” Adam narrowed his eyes. “It’s a little unfair that you don’t tell me when I’m being so forthing.”

  “I apologise, but we must know more about you first.”

  “Whether I am friend or foe?” Adam asked.

  “Yes.”

  “You helped me in my previous life as well,” Adam said. “I was helped by yourself, Lord Sozain, when your father could not, and Lady Arya too. I won’t fet it. I also won’t fet I died for you, Miss Eveil, so I hope we have a wonderful retionship together too.” Adam smiled ily.

  “You died for me?” Eveil asked. “Why would you die for me?”

  “I was asked to die for your sake,” Adam said. “So I hope, in that world, you’re doing well.”

  “You speak of the other worlds within another ribbon?” Eveil asked.

  “I don’t know what that means, but sure.” Adam shrugged his shoulders.

  “Who asked you to die for me?” Eveil couldn’t help but ask.

  “Your father,” Adam replied, as Lord of Order mao force his bde to the half elf’s neck, though he remained frozen as Eveil’s scales appeared beside him, perfectly banced.

  ‘Father?’ The gods had thought the same thing in that moment. A brother and a father, fotteo the whims of higher powers.

  “It seems you don’t wao speak about their father, Order,” Adam said, staring at the bde, so close to his skin, almost toug him.

  “This is a matter far above us,” Lord of Order said. “Such things must remain buried.”

  Adam’s ears twitched at the phrasing. “I ’t even speak of their father?”

  “You know of our father?” Eveil asked, keeping her finger raised, her scales keeping Lord of Order at bay.

  “I do,” Adam said. “He’s the reason why I’m here. He’s the reason I died the first and sed time.”

  “How many lives have you lived?” Sozain asked. He was ied due to the fact he was the God of Death.

  “This is my third life,” Adam said. “My first life was oh, my sed was on this p, but on another ribbon, and this is my third…” Adam tilted his head. ‘Does that mean Belle does in this world? Is he missing?’ His eyes fell to the pair before him, the strangers he didn’t know. ‘Lord of Order and Chaos?’

  “We should speak aime,” Eveil said, straining to keep the stra bay. He grew more powerful as Adam spoke about her father. ‘They really do not want us to know more about him?’

  “What about him?” Adam asked, pointing to the stranger in white. “Won’t he try and kill me?”

  “He will not bother you,” Eveil assured.

  “Order must be maintained,” Lord of Order said.

  “Are you on my side then?” Adam asked the bck fellow.

  Lord of Chaos refused to reply.

  “He will not bother you,” Sozaied after his sister. “Tell me, Adam, son of Fate.” Sozain wondered if he should ask. “Are you the son of that Fate?”

  “It’s just a name,” Adam said, though he smirked. “Though, I do pay my respects to Her.”

  Sozain had almost rexed, but hearing the st few words caused him to tense up. “Then, we will leave you on your way.”

  “Before I go,” Adam said, gng at Lord of Order and Chaos, shaking his head. “Even with the pair of you, you ’t repce him.”

  The pair of them remained silent.

  Adam ughed, w when he had grown so brave. He stared at the gods and goddesses once more. “Belle,” Adam said, his st act of bravery.

  “Belle?” Sozain asked, his finger raised. Hundreds of bck threads formed around Lord of Order and his bde, which had pressed against Adam’s throat, so close to cutting into the half elf.

  “The name of your father,” Adam said. “Belle, the God of Chaos and Order, and don’t you fet it.” He threw out the peace sign towards the two Lords. “Dueces.”

  Lord of iled.

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