memories of all that's left behind

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When Zerachiel didn't show up at Ishiah's tent in the afternoon for his normal bout of training, the blonde had suspected that something had gone awry. At the same time, it was difficult to know for certain; one thing that Ishiah had observed about Zeke long ago was that he was more the type of person who would be swept away by distractions, often coming back without any way of recognizing that he was in the wrong at all for missing a lesson. Upon receiving a note from Trixa in the mail, however, he felt that his suspicions were confirmed. Someone who had been with Zeke for years, who cared for him only in the way that family could and spared no time or detail when it came to watching over the boy, would know if he had left.

It was really too bad.

Ishiah walked on over to the pair's hut, just across from his own in Bohemia, as soon as he'd returned from a shift at work. Quietly, he knocked on the front door, knowing Trixa would hear. Suspecting that she would need to talk about it, or at least to commiserate about it, as much as he needed that.

He still wasn't accustomed to losing family. And this time, without any guarantee that he would find Zeke again later on in life.

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Trixa was sharpening knives. Her own, and any other she could get her fingers on. It was busywork, but the busier she could keep herself, the less time she would have to think about the gaping holes in her life here in the island. Of her unique little family, she was the only one here. For someone who's life was based on movement, having no ties, the swiftness with which Griffin and Zeke had wormed their way into her hear and her life was surprising. Even Leo, who had been a constant for centuries had often left to pursue other had suddenly become so much closer, bound to her for their recent loss of power.

But to put in in her Mama's terms she was settled. And now that she was suddenly unsettled, she was sulking. But her Mama wasn't here. And Zeke was gone.

She heard the knock and mentally ran through the list of people that would possibly stop by.

"Door's open, Ishiah."