Enoria is preparing for war with Irithara, and the team sans Kaleth are doing the best they can to put a stop to it before it progresses even further.
Their plan? Find Mereria, get her help with killing Relioth, and save Kaleth in the process. They...
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To say that Yorin was a peculiar person would be an understatement. He was incredibly friendly, yet at the same time seemed to have the nuances of normal behavior a bit backwards. In a way, he reminded Nira of Mel, but while Mel was optimistic and hopeful, Yorin was clearly depressed.
When they'd talked about Relioth creating the Aperios, Nira hadn't noticed it because she had been so cold, but when she thought about it more, she realized that Yorin hadn't sounded scared or even unnerved by his oncoming death at the hands of Relioth as revenge for killing his children—and holy crap, Nira still couldn't believe someone as heartless as Relioth had had children and wanted to avenge them. In fact, Yorin had sounded relieved by it, like he wanted to die.
Not enough to take his own life, but he was clearly guilty enough about whatever he'd done—or hadn't done—to not want to continue living. Nira would have tried to make him feel better, but there were two problems with this. First—Yorin could be lying to her about everything, and she hadn't known him for long enough to trust him, and two—what could she even tell him? He was impossibly older than her, and she was working with only a fraction of the information she would need to make an attempt at comforting him.
All she knew was that there had been a war between the Eternals from Irithara and the ones from Enoria, and that the ones from Irithara killed most of the Enorian Eternals. That was it. She didn't know why or when it had happened, and Yorin refused to tell her anything.
But that really wasn't the issue at hand. No, the issue was that apparently not all Eternals could teleport. In fact, it seemed that as far as Yorin knew, not one of them could. Then again, Yorin didn't get out much, so Nira couldn't take that as fact. Still, the problem at hand was that Yorin couldn't teleport, so the trip would take longer than she'd thought.
"Are you sure you saw Relioth transport this way?" Yorin asked for about the fourth time. They still hadn't left his 'house' because they'd gotten stuck discussing what the best way to get to Aleara was.
"Yes," Nira replied, folding her arms and sighing tiredly. "I stepped through one of his portals or whatever it was."
She'd slowly started slipping back into her Iritharian accent subconsciously, even when speaking in Global, which made her a bit sad. She wanted to hold onto some of the things Enoria had given her, but it would most likely be for the best in this case. If a day came when an Iritharian royal spoke in an Enorian accent the monarchy would probably fall apart.
Yorin didn't look disbelieving anymore—now he was fascinated instead. And a bit excited. "You didn't happen to ask him how he managed to create this portal by chance, did you?"
Nira wanted to facepalm, but since she needed his help, she forced herself to stay calm and polite. "No. I had other things on my mind when I was being basically kidnapped by a mass murderer." Okay, maybe not so polite, but Yorin didn't seem to be offended. More the opposite, actually.
