AU Heliopath’s World: Heliopath: Talking with Rynne and Dylan

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Written for a random number prompt.

Heliopath stood with his back to the other people in the room and stared out of the window, trying not to let then anger he was feeling get the better of him. “Why does everyone in this town defer to Falcon? He’s an idiot.”

“Unfortunately he’s also the leader of the Black Hollow and we always knew it would be hard to get anyone else to work with us if the Black Hollow didn’t,” Rynne replied, sighing.

“I’ve never understood the logic,” Dylan said. “They all hate each other, they all try to kill each other, but try to get them to work together for their own good and none of them will because Falcon doesn’t have the vision to see outside his little box.”

“This town has never had much logic.” Heliopath turned to look at the two people who had followed him to Ildieu, even though they both thought he was an idiot for returning. “Unfortunately that’s what happens when you gather up all the mages in the world and stick them in one place. I think one of the major problems we have is that Falcon doesn’t understand the history of the town, the reason it exists, or anything about the world outside the four walls that make up Ildieu.”

“Why doesn’t he?” Dylan asked, tapping his fingers on the desk in a way that made it obvious he was irritated by the whole thing.

As Heliopath sat at his desk, leaning back in the chair, he explained, “As time passes knowledge gets lost. The Black Hollow was created because some mages were unhappy with the way things were run and they wanted to have their own place to make their own rules. Once the main home of all the mages was in the centre of town, about where the library is now, but now we’re scattered because other mages became unhappy and created more places for them to have their own rules.” He shrugged. “They also have no idea that some of the mages left Ildieu, when the magic that kept the gate closed finally failed.”

“If all the mages were shut into Ildieu how did we not end up extinct?” Rynne asked, her head on her hand.

“That’s a question I don’t know the answer to.” Heliopath wished he did. He wanted to know how the mages still existed when the plan was for them all to die out in Ildieu. “Even though I know a lot about the history of Ildieu I don’t know everything, because some of the books have been lost. There are a few from the early years that may have been burnt, or at least that’s what the black mage running things thought when he realised they were gone, and then from later on in our history, just before the most recent black male ran the Black Hollow. Which was over four hundred years ago.”

“I’ve always wondered why there are no female black mages,” Dylan said, sounding less irritated as the conversation turned from Falcon to Ildieu itself.

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.