Violet Dream; Dawnblood

"I think I saw the light from up here, there's a bright glow coming from this direction." El called out, specifically to the rabbit spirit since Tzita was held securely in her arms. The light they had seen from a distance away, which flashed like Christmas lights, was now affixed in an always on position. It was the perfect beacon for El to run towards, hoping it was leading them in the right direction. For as long as they had been in this forest, the voice of it had never steered them wrong, so he placed his trust in it.

He could also an intermingling of a bunch of other different lights rushing towards them fast with the speed in which he was moving. They would be upon these beacons in no time at all and then they could finally get some directions to where the Virgo was located.

El took a look around the area, awestruck by size of the center piece of this area of the forest. He'd never seen a tree grow to that size before, so it was another that amazed him about this world. In fact, it had taken his mind completely off Tzita beginning to glow with light after being blessed by the rabbit spirit.

"Oh, excuse me, do you know Lady L'sia?" El asked, turning his attention to this ghostly apparition of a man to referred to Tzita by her first name.

El responded to Tzita's tighter hold around his neck, but tightening the grip his hands had on her knees and hip. He could sense... discomfort seemingly emanating from her, and he hoped that his tighter hold could ensure his lady that she was still in his highly capable hands.

The introduction of Teus was taken in stride, not without a hint of wonderment, but not as much as could be expected with meeting a god. El had seen many mystical spirits in a rather short span of time and figured those bore no difference to what a god in this world was. Of course, that wasn't to say that him being introduced as Tzita's brother hadn't caused an actual surprised expression to cross his face for a moment.

El nodded his head, the best he could do for an introduction while he held on to Tzita for her dear life. "Elliott Faulkner. I would shake your hand, but..." for obvious reasons it wasn't possible. "I wasn't aware Lady L'sia had a brother. I briefly met with your father and we had a small encounter with your other sister." Or the monstrous abomination she had been turned into. El didn't really remember the specifics of the encounter, just the morning after.

"Glad to finally put a face to the voice in this forest."

He could use Durandal to cut the tension he sensed in the air, but for now El tried to pay it very little mind. Tzita already had a very complicated and... prickly personality, and he assumed that the other members of her family weren't any different. While he no basis for this assumption, and no experience with having family members of his own that he didn't get along with, El had a gut feeling and those were usually all he needed to know he was right.

El's gaze was shifted from the radiance of Tzita's brother to the giant tree that they stood in the presence of, for a very brief moment, before it returned to where it originally was. it sounded as if he was communing with this forest in the same vein of how Tzita and he were with the spirits that had been giving them their blessings. The hypothesis could be wrong, but it was the only way that El could understand it for now. The general idea of what Teus was trying say, being that he and the forest, while are two parts of the same whole, are separate entities, came through loud and clear for the knight-king from another world.

With Tzita tightening herself up into the nape of his neck and closer to his body, El was able to free his hand from hip and hold it out to her brother for a shake. No matter how radiant and noble he seemed, for El he could better judge a man by the caliber of his handshake over his general appearance and demeanor. "Your help would be much obliged, we're searching for the Virgo spirit and we thought she was deep in the forest here. Also, yes I know Lady L'sia can be a handful, but..." He paused and looked down at her before returning his gaze to Teus, "for now, she's my handful."

El thought to pinch Tzita thigh to get her to settle down and stop being so prickly. He wasn't sure of the past between her and her brother, why she had her powers sealed in the first place, but they were doing just fine. Playfully he tapped her thigh, before returning to the conversation that he was having with her luminous brother.

When they locked hands, finally, El hummed quietly to himself. The grip was firm, but not overbearing. There was a nice amount of strength in it, but not enough to hurt either of their hands with the pressure. Tzita's brother was indeed a nobleman, who wielded a lot of power, but was particular in the ways that he used it. While he could overwhelm with the intensity of his power, he preferred a more withdrawn hand and would only act when absolutely necessary. El nodded his head.

Teus' question threw him however, and caused El to stop his hypothesizing and shaking his head in the opposite fashion, "No... according to the Pisces spirit, or maybe it was Taurus, my affinity is with the Earth." One of the spirits had told him that and it was the entire reason that he and Tzita were on this journey to find Virgo in the first place. Thinking about it, Pisces was definitely the one that said it because since he and Tzita had slept in Virgo's court, the spirit was awakened because of his Earthen affinity.

"That is what Pisces said, right Lady L'sia?"

If there was a moment, besides all of the moments, where El was glad that Tzita was alone then it was right now. She, thankfully, remembered everything that had occurred to them and was able to explain it all to her brother so that El didn't have too. While she didn't look like the type, clearly there was more to her than met the eye. El already knew this fact though, it was the reason he was so intoxicated by her now.

The explanation wasn't necessarily that complicated, not to El anyway. He had never been one to submit to learning about the spiritual powers that be, thinking it more prudent and practical to training his body so he could protect the kingdom he ultimately failed at protecting. There were spiritually inclined men among his ranks and those of the kingdom as whole though. Wisemen and sages that advised the king on matters of war and strategy, as well as witches that cursed bad little children and harlots. The witches were... probably a myth, much like the dragons.

So while he could not speak a word of insight into Teus' explanation, it didn't fly over his head. He internalized it, as he did everything he took in while exploring this world, and nodded his head in understanding. Teus was clearly a wise man. "Hmm..." El thought for a moment, looking to Tzita for her opinion, "What do you think?" She knew her brother, and this world, better than El. He was a man El figured he could trust, based on his hand shake, but ultimately he valued Tzita opinion more.

"I say we give it a shot, no harm can be done, it seems."

There it was, and El relinquished his hold on Tzita so that she could get clear of the experiment zone. He didn't think there'd be any danger to her if she stayed close, but none of the people that were here were sure about what was about to happen. As of late, El had been getting much stronger than he remembered, faster and capable of taking heavier hits like when he stopped Taurus from charging in Buck's grandpa's body. It was just as plausible to think that Tzita could get hurt if she stayed too close.

He steeled himself with a tight upright posture that echoed his feelings of being ready, and clenched his fists at his sides with his eyes closed waiting expectantly for the intense glow from Teus. Staring directly at it could prove disastrous to his eyes, whether Teus though the light would be a harmless annoyance or not, and he preferred not to look at it. If what Teus was saying was true, then there was a chance he'd feel some kind of spiritual awakening or something.

Nothing felt different, as he basked in the glow of Teus' light. El didn't feel stronger like he had when he'd been blessed by the Taurus, but it was more so that that specific feeling had never left him. For the longest time, since leaving the settlement, El had continuously had this feeling lingering in the back of his head like a long last euphoria. It always felt like he'd took a small hit of his favorite drug, and so he couldn't understand the feeling of being without it.

"Hmm... nothing really... feels different." El said, flexing his tightly clenched hands between and open and closed position as his body internalized and metabolized the radiation emitting from the light that Teus produced, storing it in his cells and increasing the physical parameters of El. Without realizing it because his eyes were closed, right before Tzita and Teus very eyes, the man before them began to levitate. He hovered a couple feet off the ground before beginning to ascended higher, spinning around in the air as the cloak of his outfit fluttered in the light breeze.

He spread his arms out from his sides and shrugged his shoulders. "I don't think it's working." A very contrary statement, considering the occurrence.