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"Are you from the guild" Agraxat sighed perplexed.. "Was this meant for me?"

"No Agraxat, you have carried me on your back like broken wings, it is but now i had to cover you in the storm"
The whispering answerred, in a voice that did not differentiate itself much from her own..

"a ghost?" Agraxat pondered aloud trying to touch it..

Her reaching forward was met with a cold she had not felt before, and quickly she retracted her hand.. "You áre not alive, what are you.."

The shade contour pushed itself out of the wall untill it stood before her in the shape of a man..

"Asfalen"

It whispered calmly, with clear determination.

"Your name is Asfalen?" Agraxat questioned, as this was not a familiar name.. at all in the world.

The shade-man now moved convincingly as a person, as it bent toward her and made a dramatic stance of introduction..
"It is"

"I watched over you, Agraxat.." Asfalen continued without giving her room to respond.. "He made me.."
Agraxat wanted to interrupt but was again left no room.. "And everything i've seen made me realise that it is part of him"

"what did you see" Agraxat now finally impeded..

Asfalen's face now warped into something that could only be interpeted as a struggling attempt to smile..
"That i love you deeply"

Agraxat stumbled on her legs a bit.. what had she just heard.. did this odd apparite just sworn her love?!
She barely even knew ..him?.. and it already spoke of traveling with her.. and love.. almost as if he was..

"Telemann??" Agraxat uttered again trying to touch the shadowish figure emediately oncemore pulling back her hand from the freezing cold it emitted. It even threw a deep frown on her face in confusion..

"Oh.. no" Asfalen cackled slightly, oncemore enstranging her further by its unnatural sound..
Then it recomposured itself..

"But i am part of him simply as the blood that runs through his veins"

"And you came to..watch over me?"
Agraxat interrupted him succesfully oncemore..
"As what.. does he not trust me?.. is he jealous? I am here on a mission you know"

"A mission you failed" Asfalen sighed returning the intrusion. "If it were not for me, and with it a mission 'i failed"

Agraxat could only ask him again what he meant..

"Oh" "This was not the plan afterall, i was only to guard his possession" Asfalen continued.

"possession!?" Agraxat followed, was there something more important than her mission right now?

"You" Was Asfalen's shocking response.

Agraxats world crumbled, was this what she was to Telemann now? A damn possession? goods?..a commodity??! How dared he have sent a conjured spirit after her to keep safe her as if she was some object..
She could not supress her irritation and broke bonds in words..
"Then you'll have to guard thin air"

"I already chose not to carry out the mission he gave me" Asfalen reassured her.. "I told you my feelings are as strong for you as his"

Agraxat whimpered..walking back and forth;
"What good is that to me.. in orbis name, creature.. i do not know you at all, you are not Telemann, you are not.. and i could never know a ghost as you, i cannot even touch you"

Asfalen moved back slightly, he understood the problem of his ..wishes.. She was right.. he could have the same feelings for her.. but he was just a conjured spirit.. just a cold creature from another realm that could not hold her without ..killing her himself..
"Then.." Asfalen spoke bravely.. "I will help you carry out your mission, and that be my.. expression of love.. and no more.. till it is done"

Agraxat had gained an ally.. but..perhaps she had lost her true love by its existence.