As they start to walk home, the moon is rising in the distance and Menzost stops for a moment to admire the view. "Isn't it beautiful hun? It's adorable just like you." Menzost says looking up at Adaram. "You don't know how much I love you, hun." Menzost starts having tears in his eyes as he holds onto Adaram.
"Aww, Babe I love you too. Why don't we take a seat and admire the moon for a bit? We've been nonstop all day and need a well-deserved break." Adaram begins to sit under a maple tree that they are near.
"I just don't understand why this is all happening to us. Haven't we been through enough? Why did it happen on the anniversary of The Blue Rose? Does the tavern have something to do with it? What do you think hun?" Menzost turns to Adaram who is staring intently at The Blue Rose in the distance.
"Everything is connected..."
"What do you mean babe?" Menzost looks at Adaram as he turns the pages of the book from the library.
"Everything is connected, babe. The tavern, us, you..." Adaram looks as if a light switch had just flipped on in his brain. "It's all for a reason babe. I know there is. There must be a reason why this is happening to us."
"What do you think it is hun? I remember vaguely when I was growing up I was told stories about how a great descent of King Shendon would be found many decades after the Great War. Everyone thought it was a myth, a fable. Just like the blue man..." Menzost is deep in thought now. "Holy shit. Everything we were told years ago in our childhood was true but we were told they were myths."
"They only were true in Stuya. In Estros no one was to believe it. They were told they were fables but in Stuya, all of these fables were true. Realities for everyone that was there." Adaram starts to realize all the things he has been told as a child were true, but no one in Estros wanted them to be so they shut them out.
Fables, Myths, Legends, and maybe even Gods may be real. Those who dared speak out against Estros were to be outcasted to Stuya. A land of outcasts who were told they were weirdos, those who were told they were freaks for believing the truth were to be singled out and thrown into a foreign nation. A land that they were always told was the enemy soon became their new home.
"I can't believe Estros would do that to people. We were always raised to believe the opposite that Stuya would outcast people and Estros would bring them in as their own but has it all been a lie?" Menzost sat in complete disbelief as Adaram was speaking to him. "Has our whole childhood been a lie?" Adaram asks with tears in his eyes whilst looking at Menzost.
"It hasn't hun, If it were we wouldn't be here. We wouldn't be who we are and you certainly wouldn't be with me." Menzost says while cradling Adarams hands. "Don't worry hun. We will get to the bottom of this. Not just for us, the tavern, Gascon, but for the whole nation. They deserve to know the truth once we figure it out."
"Alright babe, thank you. I needed this. I love you so much." Adaram says as he wipes away his tears.
As they get back to the house, they put the books down on the table next to Gascon's collar and the note that Iden left. What does it all mean?
What does it have to do with Gascon?
What about Menzost's grandfather? Does he have something to do with this?
Menzost hasn't figured it out yet. They still need answers if not from the books maybe they have to hunt down Iden themselves to figure it out.
Whether it takes days or even weeks, Menzost needs to figure it out not just for himself, but for Adaram, and for Gascon, who is still nowhere to be found.
"Hey babe," Adaram says from the bottom of the stairs calling towards Menzost sitting at the table reading one of the books.
"What's up, hun? What's on your mind? I thought you went to bed." Menzost says without looking up from the book.
"It's getting late, We've had quite an eventful two days why don't we call it early tonight for the safety of our sanity," Adaram says.
"I think you are on a good track hun. I could use the rest. All of these words are clumping together into a giant mess." Menzost puts down the book and heads to bed with Adaram.
There they continue to talk about all the myths that they have learned when they were children.
Like the one of how rumor has it that King Shendon had his only son sent to Stuya cause he went on a trip to 'find the mystical shapesifter'. The story continues by saying how this son came back from Stuya and assassinated his father for his rightful place on the throne but sparked a war instead.
Was this outcasted son of the Stuya noble who assassinated King Shendon? Did this son cause a war just to prove he was right? Or was it all a myth, a legend, a fable?
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