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It was an odd thing—Ares was both the most relaxed and yet the most tense he has ever been in his life. As the city burned on, the peace would enter into his system; that is until he started to let his mind wander. Taking time out of any day to just focus his mind away from certain thoughts almost seemed like a ritual of some sort for the god. Sitting down next to a cliff facing the calming blue sea, that is where one could find him. 

Lucia had been holding off finding him, but she had time before she went on this journey with Ajax– before she went to the dark and tried her own odyssey without her brother’s level head. It was a gamble, but she was willing to make it. Yet she was hesitating on the treeline, she wasn’t sure he wanted to see her– or he’d care. He might just toss her off the cliff. But her voice caught the wind, “Dad….” it was hard for her, she just.. didn’t know what else to do. She wasn’t Rene, she wasn’t the favored one– honestly she wasn’t sure where she stood anymore. Everything was such a mess.