Her touching his face is pretty distracting. Not in a bad way, but it takes him a moment to remember where things tie in.
"I remember telling you that when I was born, everyone was terrified of people who were different. The reason was because there was a... prophecy, I guess, that said that the Nine Kings were going to be born again. Because their souls were too powerful to move on, or something."
He's a little fuzzy about what exactly he told her that night around this part, but he trusts her to ask questions if she's confused.
"But everyone freaked out. They thought that maybe the Kings would come back for revenge, or enslave everyone, or just end up causing a lot of trouble like the did the first time. So that's why they started gathering up anyone suspicious or weird--mostly kids and stuff--and testing them to see if they had any kind of magic. That's why I got taken away from my mother. I was still--human back then, but you know. Having white hair when you're ten years old really makes you stick out."
He reaches up to consciously mess with his own hair for a moment, putting his bangs back in front of his face, even if Euri had brushed them away earlier.
"A lot of kids got pretty messed up because of it. Some of them even died, since no one knew anything about medicine back then. It wasn't fair at all." He pauses, closing his eyes again. "But they found all nine of us eventually and locked us up in a castle far, far away and called it good enough."
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"I remember telling you that when I was born, everyone was terrified of people who were different. The reason was because there was a... prophecy, I guess, that said that the Nine Kings were going to be born again. Because their souls were too powerful to move on, or something."
He's a little fuzzy about what exactly he told her that night around this part, but he trusts her to ask questions if she's confused.
"But everyone freaked out. They thought that maybe the Kings would come back for revenge, or enslave everyone, or just end up causing a lot of trouble like the did the first time. So that's why they started gathering up anyone suspicious or weird--mostly kids and stuff--and testing them to see if they had any kind of magic. That's why I got taken away from my mother. I was still--human back then, but you know. Having white hair when you're ten years old really makes you stick out."
He reaches up to consciously mess with his own hair for a moment, putting his bangs back in front of his face, even if Euri had brushed them away earlier.
"A lot of kids got pretty messed up because of it. Some of them even died, since no one knew anything about medicine back then. It wasn't fair at all." He pauses, closing his eyes again. "But they found all nine of us eventually and locked us up in a castle far, far away and called it good enough."