*sigh* It feels like I'm buried underneath all of these documents...
If I may... Might I suggest that you get some rest?
It had been two years since the royal halls of Terra Kingdom were taken over by those disillusioned by the Knight of Light and his actions. Alicia, the young revolutionary-turned-Queen had strived to work together with the people, the Guild Alliance, and the Magic Society to bring peace and stability to the land, but the list of documents on her desk never grew any smaller.
Aragon was the picture of worry; he knew that the thing that ate away at Alicia was not the shadow monsters spilling forth from an unknown dimension beyond the Dark Magic Research Tower, but the feeling that she wasn't doing right by her people and the pile of criticism on her desk that proved it.
Are... Are you still unable to forgive him for what he's done?
I... I don't know. Did he also feel the same as I do right now? Like he was held deep underneath the water, with no end in sight...
As Alicia's eyes glazed over, Aragon finally began to let out the worlds that he'd been holding back for years.
My apologies. I do realize that abandoning Terra Kingdom in its darkest hour is unbecoming of the Knight of Light, and is absolutely an act of gross negligence, if not treason. But... Rudy is the most devoted man that I know.
Whatever took him away from us, and whatever is keeping him from returning to us... I am sure that it poses a far greater danger to us, and he is working tirelessly to bring it down in a faraway place. If he has not fallen in battle, then I am sure that he will return after triumphing over an evil greater than what we could have ever imagined.