From a single look at Rayna's face, Da knew there was trouble. From the firm steps she took to the large vein that would show on the side of her forehead. Since her hair was brushed back and placed in a ponytail, it was really visible on her.
The fact that she was here in the library of all places and walking toward them ant she had been looking for them. Da was trying to do the calculations in his head as to what the possible reasons could be.
'Did she figure out I lied from Fixteen? I thought you were ant to be the smart one of our little group. Couldn't you have thought of sothing to buy more ti?'
What Da didn't realize was that Rayna had caught on to more than he originally thought because she wasn't just annoyed that he had lied to her about one of their brothers, but it was that she had figured out they had stolen from the vault.
She looked over her shoulder, seeing that no one was close, she stood there looking Da right in the eyes.
"You two, what are you planning, why did you take crystals from the vault?" Rayna asked. "There better be a good answer for this, and especially you. I already inford you that I would speak to my father about the other item, and you took it anyway."
"You've completely ruined my trust in you. For going against a higher clan mber and using my trust like that, I want you taken out of the Clan!"
In Rayna's eyes, she had every right to be angry. She felt like she had been taken advantage of by a lower-ranked Clan mber. Just when she was doing them a favor. It didn't matter how talented they were.
If they were to act like this, then they had no loyalty to the Clan, and who knew what they would do in the future.
"Wait!" Da said, getting in the way of the two of them. "Don't take it out on him; I can explain, just let speak to him first. Look, we won't run away, we can't, you would catch us, right?"
Right now, Da was hoping to appeal to Rayna's good side. She seed to still be acting with sowhat of a level head, and she imagined it was just because it was him. If she wanted to, she could have reported this straight to one of the elders or their father, but instead, she had gone looking for them.
Da and Raze pulled back a bit, heading closer to the area of scrolls, while Rayna was tapping her feet away, blowing hot air. She didn't even know why she was letting the two of them speak, just giving them ti to co up with an excuse.
'Da, I swear if you weren't my brother who had saved my life with your request, I would have turned you upside down and chopped you limb from limb already. What crazy things are you planning to do!' Rayna thought.
"It looks like we've been caught," Raze whispered. "But you thought this was going to happen, so you had a plan, right?"
"No," Da replied instantly. "I thought that we wouldn't get caught; rember I was just going to take you to the library and then head back out of the clan, never planning to go back. I thought they would find out a week or so later."
"Honestly, right now, I don't know if it's our saving grace that Rayna found out, or if it's the worst case."
"What do you an?" Raze asked.
From the interactions he had, Rayna wasn't a bad person, or at least wasn't bad towards Da, and the two of them had a stable enough relationship for her to even allow them this chance to talk to each other.
"Because if it was soone else, I could just silence them to keep the secret," Da explained.
These words that were used, silence, Raze didn't know if this was a technique that Pagna warriors knew or not, but if it wasn't, he was pretty sure Da ant kill. It ca as a surprise that Da would be willing to kill one of his own Clan mbers, but it might have just shown how important it was that others didn't learn of what was to happen.
"Because it's Rayna, though, she's a high-ranking middle-stage warrior. We would need the help of the whole Crimson Crane again to take her down, so the two of us doing such a thing is out of the question."
Hearing this, now Raze was understanding that they were in a trickier situation than he first realized. They couldn't run away, and any attempt made would be difficult. They were in the deepest layers of the Abyss; trying to rise to the top would be one of the hardest challenges ever.
'I guess there is one thing I can do,' Raze thought. 'If Da can hold off Rayna long enough, I can use the crystals to open up another portal or create the portal to head back to the cave at the academy. If I did that, I would just have to get the others at another ti.'
With that looking to be their only solution, Raze was about to suggest it until Da had spoken up.
"I have an idea, sothing that I'm pretty sure will work!" Da had an unnerving smile on his face.
"How sure are you of this plan of yours?" Raze asked.
"I'm 90 percent sure... no, I take that back, 80 percent?" Da then looked at Rayna, who seed to be getting impatient with the vein on the side of her head growing larger. "Maybe 70 percent."
"Just what plan of yours keeps getting lower by the mont!" Raze whispered in an angered hushed voice.
What he wanted to know was if it was better than his plan. How strong of a warrior was she when compared to Da? To draw a complicated circle, it would at least take him two minutes at a rush, maybe even longer. What were the chances of Da holding her back for that long?
And if they did it his way, would the Neverfall Clan beco their enemy?
As if he could read his thoughts, Da answered. "If this works, at least we won't beco an enemy of the Demonic Faction, rember what I said, it's the one thing we should never do."
With this, Raze decided that he would put his trust in Da, but not without having so sort of backup plan. Because in the past, whenever he would put his trust in people, it would never work out.
Breaking from each other, the two of them started to walk over and approached Rayna.
"Finally, did you two discuss long enough to co up with so half-la excuse?" Rayna asked. "Because I really don't think there is any good reason for the two of you to have stolen from the vault."
"But there is, my dear sister," Da started off in a soft voice, and almost like a movie, looked from the ground and then up, staring directly into her eyes. "It's because I plan to leave the Neverfall Clan... this is what I believe I deserve as my parting gift, and in doing so, I want to help this person by my side."
"This person is deserving of being helped, and I think you would agree because he is the Dark Magus!"
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