Argentum rushed to Phoenix, who was cowering on the floor spitting out black blood and clutching her left eye, whimpering in pain.
She cowered down next to her and tried to calm her down while Sephora sent Azathoth to fetch someone and then rushed over to them.
“Alright dear, you’ll be fine, Azathoth is fetching someone with a bit more knowledge regarding magic and medicine than we do. He’ll be here soon, but for now, could you tell me what’s wrong?”
“I-it h-hurts.”
“What hurts Phoenix?”
“E-everything, but especially m-my eye…”
“Could you show me?”
Phoenix slowly removed her hands from her face revealing her eye glowing and small black cracks running through it and her tattoo.
“What happened here, Sephora”
“Achelois, you’re here?!”
“Indeed, and it would seem that you were quite fortunate I was.”
The newcomer was a tall woman with pale blue hair and stormy grey eyes. She was wearing a dark blue dress embroidered with a golden disk on one shoulder and a silver circle on the other and her voice was melodious and soothing.
“Especially, seeing as you and the fool who’s busy running laps around your palace because he can’t keep his power in check are too careless to take proper care of this girl!”
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“W-wait, what do you mean by that?”
“She’s hypersensitive to all kinds of power, and you don’t even bother to check that and instead you go ahead and push the purest form of one of the most destructive powers in bloody existence into her and then you’re surprised when she almost dies!”
“Wait a damn minute, she’s dying?”
“No… but it’s a near thing. So while Azathoth will, once again, be getting lessons with my brother as a punishment.”
Sephora winced at that.
“Sephora here will be having me and your twin sister here as semi-permanent house guests.”
“T-twin *cough* s-sister?”
“We’re twins?! And wait, you only mentioned where Phoenix is staying, what about me where am I staying?”
“*sigh* They told you nothing, didn’t they children. Yes, you are twins, to be exact you are Argentum and Phoenix Equilibrium, the only children of Balance. As for your second question, depending on the weapon that Ilmarinen makes for, and yes, he’ll be making one for your sister as well, that will determine where you go next as you will be sent to an Instructor for said weapon.”
“But what if I don’t have an aptitude for the weapon that this Ilmarinen guy makes for me? And why where Azathoth and Sephora making some huge deal about us?”
“If there’s one thing that Ilmarinen is good at, it’s making the right weapon for a person. The weapons he makes are soul bound after all, so they have to be. As for your second question I’ll let your Instructor tell you about that as it’s a bit of a sensitive topic for many and as such shouldn’t be talked about in any of the high-lords presence, especially the Void-empresses and the Eldritch-kings.”
“Why do I need to have people in my palace…! I built it so far away from everything else just to be alone and no-”
“This is your punishment for being irresponsible so buck-up and get some rooms ready!”
Standing a bit to the side Sephora was pouting and then sulked of into the depths of her palace.
“Was it wise to annoy the lady of the house?”
“Wise? No. Necessary? Yes. My former student needs some reeducating every now and then. Anyway, come along you two let’s go get your weapons, and then we can talk about who your Instructors will be.”