"Did you get hurt?" Zinya asked. "How bad was it?"
"Can you show us your fight, Dad?" Filia and Frey asked, drawing a stern gaze from their mother.
"Can I?" He asked Zinya with a chuckle.
"Show it to me first and then I'll decide." She clenched his hand and used a mind link.
It shared not only the battle, but also the feelings he had experienced. Zinya cried when she saw the Master fight to protect Ryssa as if she were her, and the child the Dryad carried in her womb as if it were theirs.
"Mom?" Filia asked in worry. "Is it that bad?"
"No." She sobbed. "It's amazing. Your father is amazing. Show them, Zogar."
The children focused more on how their adoptive father had given his all protecting Dhiral because he saw them in him, so the mind link ended in a long family hug.
"Well? What do you think?" Vastor asked Tezka the first moment of respite he had.
He handed the Rune Stores to the Suneater as soon as he returned home, giving Tezka the time to perform a cursory examination.
