Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-24685738-20170725043749/@comment-5583506-20170727184357

"You wanted to see me?" Tyrus asked, finding Catryn standing out by the porch, overlooking the seas surrounding Cespar.

"Yes", she said. "I need you to return to the mainland."

Tyrus turned pale. "Wait, what? But... but we just got here? Are you sending me away?"

"I want you to come in contact with my supporters in the Golden Coast region", she said. "You will rally them and answer my summons when I call for you. As we've just learned recently, things will be dangerous. I can't afford those rely on me to be all spread out when the worst happens... which it will, I fear."

Tyrus didn't seem content with the decision. "But... but I want to be by your side..." he said, gently touching her by the shoulder.

"We've talked about this, Tyrus. I... I like you. But I don't love you. I think of you as if I would a little brother. It would be wrong of me to think anything else."

Tyrus seemed relentless and wanted to push forward his feelings. Maybe she would come to her senses if he was being persistent enough? Or would he just push her further away from himself?

"Please?" he said. "I don't want to leave you."

"You must", she said. "Look, it's not because of... whatever you might feel for me or I feel for you. It's because of this cause."

"The cause. Fuck this cause, Cat. Look at what happened back at the mainland. A crazed prince. A dark cthonian god? And now you are helping the mad prince's very own flesh and blood. Who's to say that they are any better?"

Catryn was disappointed with his response. "Do you really have so little faith in me, Tyrus?"

"N-no, I..." He sighed. "I will go", he lamented. "But I don't like it. I do it because I..." He struggled to get the words "I... I love..."

"I know", she said, looking out at the sea again. "Sorry."

Tyrus said no more. "I will... go look for a ship then. Someone to take me back. Anything you want me to tell them back at the Golden Coast?"

"Just that they should remain vigilant... and await my order."

With that Tyrus nodded and left her alone. She could tell that he was hurting and she hadn't wanted it to be like this. But she couldn't help it. She didn't love him. She cared for him as a close friend, but she couldn't love him.