Skullius was astonished at the sight. He hadn't expected Alaris to be here. If the barrier hadn't messed with his ability to sense everything within the Purity headquarters concisely, he would have noticed him lurking within immediately.
Quite different from his own look of shock, however, Elita donned a face heavy with guilt at the sight of Revia. The weight of it grew tenfold when Revia exposed her relief at seeing her and smiled. The burden of tension was released from the former undead just from seeing the woman whom she had considered to be an older sister.
And yet, this older sister, Elita, had, at some point given up on everything she had left behind on Aigas. When Void had taken her, everything had become bigger, broader and less black and white. Suddenly, there were more evils around her, but some of them were necessary evils that she understood. Good characters she met turned out to be evil and evil characters she met turned to be good… and then evil, and then good.
