"If my conjecture is right, I can only wonder why it is that your Exarch and mine are so different... yours, presumably stronger, and mine... feeble, and weak," Felih murmurs quietly, anxiously. Such thoughts of different reflections, of timelines and alternate universes, of infinite possibilities and the ever-looming terror that Felih will be the one to doom it all.

At least P'rihnn can distract him with talk of the Scions. He's already concerned enough as it is, listening as he goes and gets into nightclothes, before his tail bristles and puffs up.

"He took the twins?!" The way his voice sharpens is already sign enough of how distressed the mere thought makes him. "It's bad enough to steal away the other Scions- but the twins!"