Walking(Cont. from Confrontation)

[Pandora D'Winter]

((This was the only place I could think to put it))

Once they had left the group the only thing left to do was to get out of the forest and on their way to the castle. Pandora looked over at her companion and tried to figure out what she was going to say to Ryan, someone had to behave intelligently was the first thing she could come up with but even though Ryan had acted like an idiot she doubted that one would go all too well.

[Emilian Sota]

"My, my, that was fun." Emilian kept his eyes forward, he had never been so far into the forest and was unsure of the layout. Once his feet got used to the random roots and tracks on the ground, he looked over at Pandora. "Am I to assume that didn't go as you planned it?"

[Pandora D'Winter]

Pandora nodded "Stupid hotheads." She said flipping her hair over her shoulder, Ryan had been all for a fight but then he had made himself look so immature it was embarrassing. "I wanted whatever was going on to be resolved in whatever way necessary, Michaels been acting paranoid and Ryan was all well kind of like he was today the poor guy."

[Emilian Sota]

"Michael's always been like that. He's never been able to really control his emotions." Why he was having an actual conversation with this girl, he had no idea, but his thoughts were on Michael. "Though he used to be...harder? He used to be..." he shrugged, he couldn't figure out how to say what he wanted to say, so he moved on. "I'm not even considering Ryan, he needs to grow up."

[Pandora D'Winter]

Pandora smiled "He's just so innocent." It was one of those things she loved about Ryan. "And Michael, well I heard that relationships change people sometimes." One of her friends had almost been ruined by a guy, "I've just never seen one that changed someone like this." He must have really loved that girl, it was the only thing that Pandora could think of. Her thoughts moved between the two other boys they had been so stupid tonight.

[Emilian Sota]

Emilian shrugged, "Innocent. He needed a wake-up call. It would have happened sooner or later, I just happened to be the one to do it." He didn't feel any remorse of any kind for what he had done, it didn't bother in him the slightest.

[Pandora D'Winter]

Pandora shrugged "Just make sure you don't ruin him on your road to victory I kind of like him the way he is." She didn't know why Emilian was taking to her like she was an equal but it was kind of nice.

[Emilian Sota]

"He annoys me," Emilian said bluntly. The whole time he had wanted to ring Ryan's neck. "I won't go after him, but if he comes to me, then I'm not promising anything." He looked straight ahead again, he knew that if he went after Ryan, there may not be much of Ryan left.

[Pandora D'Winter]

Pandora shrugged fair enough the reason that she had let Ryan come here in the first place was she didn't want him doing something totally stupid and get himself killed. "I'll try to keep him out of your way but his love for Vannah might be a bit of a problem." He didn't seem to realize that despite the fact that he thought he was protecting Vannah that she would always be the better fighter.

[Emilian Sota]

Emilian nodded and his thoughts turned back to Michael. He had been so strong once, it dumbfounded Emilian how much Michael had changed in the few months since they had last seen each other. "It's a shame," he said, "Michael."

[Pandora D'Winter]

Pandora shrugged "I don't know what I can really say about him, I didn't know him before he switched sides though I do have to say that his current state of mind is better then his moody artist phase." That phase had just been annoying, actually far worse then annoying.

[Emilian Sota]

"He still draws?" Emilian asked, looking back at her. "I remember he always used to sit in the corner with that dratted pad of his," he said with a small smile. "I don't know how many of them he had stashed in his rooms."

[Pandora D'Winter]

Pandora nodded not seeing how anyone who even slightly knew Michael wouldn't know that he would never stop drawing or maybe it was because she was an artist too that she understood how much it was necessary to life "You've known him for how long and you didn't know that. He's always drawing one thing or another." Usually whatever was on his heart but she couldn't blame him there because she did the same thing.

[Emilian Sota]

"With how he's changed...I don't know what he still does. You don't know," Emilian stopped, a slightly pained look in his eyes, "He doesn't even speak the same way anymore." He didn't know why the difference in Michael's personality affected him so much, or why he was allowing it to show. He sighed, and Lucretia's words came back to him, watch as your whole world comes crashing down around you. Did she have some strange sense of foresight?

[Pandora D'Winter]

Pandora looked over at him and almost felt sorry for him, he was what he had been brought up to be and everything he knew was changing. "Maybe you have to accept that the boy back there isn't your Michael anymore his someone else entirely." She knew that it would be hard to accept if Emilian ever accepted it at all but Michael really was someone completely different.