A few months after the incident, his son was getting better, That was the main reason he was proud of his son was, his son may not be much but he could at least pick himself up from the ground and not lay down there defeated.
"Son there's something I have always wanted to tell you. You see, we the male in our family have a special ability which manifest in us after an traumatic incident". He turned to see his son who was now looking at him seriousness and interest painted his face.
"This is the ability to gaze into all truth, it grafts the ability to discern the truth into our eyeballs transforming it into Truth seekers, it help discern falsehood from the truth and by peering into emotions".
"But they are not without consequences, when grafted the power and all truth lay bare before you, you, look too much you will have to comprehend it, so be careful what you peer into or else you could get corrupted by gazing into the soul of a Stain".
His son was deep in thinking, when he first mentioned ability he could have sworn that his son was excited but now he was frowning.
'He's probably wondering why he haven't awaken the ability despite what he had been through'. That was the only logical explanation he could come up with, anybody would be happy about having a bloodline inheritance to inherit, but his child was frowning, only if he knew what was going on, on the mind of his son.
'damn it how does knowing if my enemy is lying going to do any good, give me something to work with, something to save me or fight with what good is been a lie detector going to do'.
"Marius it's your turn, Mom's done decorating me and cyris, come come let's be fast we don't want to be late". Looking at the masquerade of his sister he sighed but didn't bother to resist, he resigned to fate and followed her to the inner room. The family of five locked the door behind them and moved into the busy street, four of them were decorated beautifully or like masquerade in Eclipse opinion.
His father was the only one who wasn't decorated, when he asked him why, he received a knock on his head followed by. "Am a grown up man".
Their family was been greeted by anyone and everyone which he found weird, why because everyone seems to ignore the fact that he was indirectly the cause of someone's death.
They finally got to the village square where after greeting a few people his Timon pulled him aside and gave him a few instructions.
"Remember when things get heated don't stay around, coordinate with your mother and leave with her and head towards the house and his. I have filled her in on what's about to happen". With that his father left, without letting him say a word.
Looking as Timon merged with the crowds he sighed then turned to his sister who was bugging him to try out some food. The food looked appetizing and smelled so too but seeing how exposed it was he was having second thoughts.
"I don't feel really hungry, remember we just ate am still full".
"Weird, you would never refuse food not to talk of eating as you like. Well it's your loss".
It wasn't only because of how exposed the food was, but also because he was tense, he kept looking around but anticlimactically nothing happened.
'hmmm I feel left out'. The environment around him was electric with movement, dancing, singing, and eating he was the only one left out.
" I never expected to see you here you seems to have calmed down". He heard his sister anger laced voice. Turning to the direction of his sister he saw a black haired girl walking in his direction and from how his sister was shielding him behind her he could tell she was the one her sister just talked to. The girl stopped in front of Eclipse and his sister and lowered her head.
"Hmmm it seems you came to apologize, apologies no—
Without warning the hand of the girl shot out and hit Eclipse on his face, the force of the slap caused his face to move in the opposite direction of the slap and even caused a cracking sound to resound from his neck, upon impact his cheek hit his teeth hard splitting the inner cheek causing him to spit out blood.
Everything was blurry, his blurry vision cleared to see the worried face of Marius's mother.
"Where am I".
"Don't worry dear you are safe now, that barbarian won't hurt you anymore".
He could hear the voice of the girl vibrating in anger, issuing words like,
"You bastard, you came back alive but left him for dead, give me back my brother".
Eclipse was speechless. "Was I just slapped silly, how". His face turned red as he took in the embarrassment of being defeated by a girl, how would he put it nicely.
'it was like she slapped the thought right out of my mind, i couldn't think I was blank'.
With the help of his mother and sister he stood up on his feet, mouth bloodied
he looked at the girl and his heart skipped a beat.
The girl was lying on the floor with the elder overseeing this gathering by her side, she was fast asleep but she was still crying uttering 'my brother, give my back my brother I beg of you'. It was at that moment he realized she was also a 'alive', at least in the past. He had been subconsciously viewing them as relics of history, although he knew the dairy really sent him to the past but he has been focused on the idea of surviving that he overlooked the fact that if a civil war was to break out he wouldn't be the only one affected, if they ever lost someone they love they would feel the pain and not comfort themselves with the idea that they were already dead like he would.
"Here wash your mouth let me see the injury".
When he was lost in thought thay have already arrived at someplace else, he obediently took the water into his mouth and rinsed out, opening his mouth for his mother to look at.
'they are all real, I should treat them as such'.
"Weird where the injury".
"Huh".
"I can't see the injury".
"Maybe it healed up".
"Don't be a baby cyris, wound don't heal that fast.
'is my exousia related to healing, that's that's
'that sucks.