Master Of None

"He really needs to relax. He is going to perry himself sick." Remey was shaking her head while watching Gil pace around in the water. He had barely listened to her and Su when they told him to sit down and just breathe. 

"It's someone he cares about. If it was one of us he would be acting the same way." Su was right but that didn't make Remey any happier. 

"Alice, are you doing alright? Do you need a break?" Since Alice was still singing in the middle of the injured, Remey knew that she was burning through her mana fairly fast. The slight nod from Alice was not enough to make Remey back off though. "The other healers are working hard and the major injuries are healed. My potions are also doing the work. If you don't rest then you will end up just like Alma who needs to rest for some time." It felt rude speaking this way to Alice but this was a habitual tone Remey had learned through raising her orphaned siblings. 

"Don't worry, she will stop in a minute. Walker is coming this way with Adair." Su saw the two walking over looking pleased with their actions. "I saw you had to be very strict just now." As much as Su didn't like the risk of confrontation, she recognized that the actions Walker took were necessary. 

"Oh, we did. It was quite exciting. Those tamers are very foolish. I have to make a stop on my way back to the village because of them." Adair had a slight sneaky smile while speaking and shaking her own head. 

"They were going to try and take a kraken egg or two away. There was no way we could let that happen." Walker took the mana potion that Su held to him and drank it after speaking. Alice stopped her singing just as Su had told Remey she would. Onyx on the other hand slithered over and shrank himself to become his tattoo form. Walker could feel the exhaustion that was taking place as Onyx relaxed from the stress. He had pushed himself much more to help Alice and defend against anything that dared come near them. "Rest well." The whisper didn't get a response but Walker knew Onyx heard it. 

"OI think we should go and check on Scylla. Then we can move those unconscious toward the city. That would make things a lot easier for the clean up efforts too." With Su's guidance, Walker did just that. He could still see the demi-human forces gathered nearby and was still curious about Scyllas' condition. 

As he swam over he gathered the looks from many of the demi-humans but was soon looking at the group part for him to come toward the center. Sitting in the center was a tired looking Scylla surrounded by the leviathan she was partnered with. They had shrunk down yet again in to the form they would hide away in. "Ha, I know I'm a sight to see like this." This drastic change in Scylla was very different from the way she would normally act.

"I would say you look no worse than some of the others over there. The barbs from one of the tentacles got you, hm?" Walker could see the large scratch on Scylla's arm. She had tried to hide it but it was not something she could easily do. Before she could argue Walker had forced a healing potion in to her other hand and used a light heal spell on her. Scylla had been stopping her soldiers from helping her since she was too proud, but she could not stop Walker who didn't follow the normal actions of a soldier. 

The demi-human aquatic forces gave Walker looks of respect and honor. They knew that he had done what they couldn't convince Scylla of and were glad. She had long trained with them and fought beside them when necessary. This was just another battle that they did not want to see her harmed in. This wasn't just a surface level respect. This was years and years of respect to build a caring loyalty to a general they would never abandon. 

"I need to ask you something." Scylla had bitten her tongue and drank the healing potion she had been handed. She then stared right in to Walker's eyes with extreme focus. 

"Just say the word and I will make sure I do my best. But you need to rest or I won't help." This was just a bluff since Scylla was tired she didn't pay it any mind. She knew what Walker was asking of her was for the best and not because he wanted to use her for anything. 

"I can feel my last partner. It's in that city and I need to find it. You know what I mean and you know the importance. I don't want to cause too many problems but I know that if you go in you may be able to figure things out." The relationship between Scylla and her leviathans was more than just a taming bond. It was something that they had since birth. Their souls were one as far as she and they were concerned. Being able to sens the last of their partners was easy. But getting them together was the challenge. 

"You have my word that I will search that city to the best of my ability." Walker knew exactly how serious this was and why. He turned his gaze to the ruined merfolk city and nodded. "I need the rest of your forces to help transport injured in to the city. Do you think they can manage? I would say they are the best off in comparison to all the forces that joined together." It was not a lie. The demi-humans were similar to the merfolk. They were more accustomed to the water and had better handled the battle. 

"All troops. Escort the injured and set up a medic camp outside the front gates!" The order went out and the action was instant. 

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