The Reunion at Hand.

"Se...seriously?!" Lexie appears flustered "You had to really kick open the..."

"Shush, women!!!" you hold your hand out towards her face, showing her the palm of your hand, telling her to stop "The leader has returned!" you say loudly, taking steps up the marbled tiles up to the Throne where you can actually see a red haired and brown haired women both now staring your direction.

"You're a moron..." Lexie grumbles out as she follows just a few steps behind you.

"Darien!!!!!!!!!!!!!" a voice screams off from the side as you hear footsteps slapping across the ground "You're back!!!!!"

Now that's the type of reaction you were hoping for!

"Zoe!" you turn your head, smiling at the always cheerful black haired girl.

"Oh my god. It's been...Ahhhhmazing here!!!" she begins "Ashe has been teaching me and training me and telling me things and helping my form and teaching me weapons and showing me around and being nice to me and...and..." her eyes look over at Lexie. "Ohmygod!!! Is that...is this...THE LEXIE?!?!" her hands go to her mouth as her eyes stay parted wide "Oh my god oh my god!"

"The Lexie?" Lexie raises her eyebrow at the girl.

"You're even...you're! Oh my god. Wow..." her hands go to her cheeks "Wow wow wow. You're!" she points "I'm." she points at herself "Wow!!!"

"Lexie, Zoe, Zoe, Lexie!" you smile, placing a hand on the small of Lexie's back, pushing her forward into the young women.

"You really are intoxicating." Lexie smiles at Zoe "Darien was right."

"Oh my god, he mentioned me to you! Ooohhh yes! That's awesome! That's amazing! It's so nice to finally meet the woman who tamed Darien!" she let's out, before immediately bringing her hands to her mouth, regretting what she just said.

"Tamed?!?" you question her "What?!?"

Her hands remain covered over her mouth as her whole face starts to turn bright red.

Lexie laughed hard as you just rolled your eyes "Yeah, he's not that bad once you get to know him." she winks at the black haired girl "Come on, I'll tell you whatever you want to know about him." she moves next to the young women as the two of them walk over to a small table, sitting down to catch up.

"Play nice you two!" you say with a stern voice as you step passed them, continuing your march up towards the throne where two well dressed ladies are standing.

Although something was off. Karisi looked like her normal self, decked out in her elegant wine colored dress that curved all around the features of her body, a dazzling golden necklace, gem studded earrings and a triple layered golden bracelet with emeralds encircling it just made her ooze her normal royal self.

But Ashe, Ashe was different.

Closer and closer you got and the normal muscle toned red headed Sunrider who wears her tight leather pants, her leather shirt, with her dark brown belt, her normal little to no make up or jewelry, her always little bit of gruff and grime on her face due to her training was actually dressed completely unexpectedly.

"Uhhh..." your mouth fell to the floor and your eyes felt as if they were going to fall out of their sockets as Ashe turned toward you.

She was wearing a dress, a very beautiful light blue dress which actually worked extremely well with her skin tone. She too, had a golden necklace on, not as big as Karisi's, but still quite large and also had two smaller golden bracelets around her wrist. She put on more make up around her face, causing her already perfect skin to look even more absolutely flawless if that's possible. She was using a little bit of extra eyeliner and eye shadow, both a shade of red, caused all her features to pop as much as her hair. Speaking of her hair, she still had it curved short around her face, but it looked flawless, no frizz, no fluff, no problems.

"Wow. Ashe..." you were speechless, unable to find words.

Ashe brought her right hand up as her body turned a little shy, she brushed her hair back behind her ear and soon her cheeks were beginning to match the same color as her hair. "Darien..." she giggled out. "Stop."

"Just having her play the part." Karisi steps away from Ashe, walking down the stairs from the throne "So tell me, Darien." Karisi begins, her intricate sandals she had strapped around her legs echo with each step of the stairs she descends "Since you're back, I'm guessing everything went well?"

Straight to the point, typical Karisi, "Well, let's just..." you stutter "I'm not sure..." you pause, thinking "If you'll like it but..."

She takes her last step, standing next to you now, looking up "Go ahead. Use your words." she nods her head, toying with you.

"I uhh, well, I don't think you're going to be Queen of Rathkin..." you swallow, looking at the elegant royal women.

"Oh?"

"Well, ya see, I think...I believe Edmin is going to be back here soon, in a few days. Rixx too. And the entire Rathkin army."

"And, what of the Syndicate?"

"King's dead. City is safe." You look up at Ashe who seems to have a giant weight lift off her shoulders "We'll march our army back north in another day or two, but..." you begin "But no way Edmin will ever be able to stay in charge there. Nobody will get behind him, hell, I won't get behind him. I believe Rixx is going to bring him back here. At least...I'm guessing that's what is going to happen."

Karisi scrunches her eyes, thinking hard, her index finger toying with the side of her skull "So you're telling me, you went all the way to the Syndicate, by yourself, to talk with Edmin, only to tell him to march his ass back to Rathkin and he was just okay with that? No fucking way. There's no way he would agree to those terms."

You groan "Uhh, well...not, not entirely." you swallow. "Edmin didn't know this plan and honestly, he wasn't going to let me leave the Syndicate most likely. But, Rixx..."

"Of course it was Rixx." Karisi cuts you off "And there I go again, Edmin returns and I'm pushed aside again, fuck..." she paces off to the side, her body getting a little angry.

"Well..." you look at the pacing frustrated ball of energy that is Karisi "There was no way I could ever get behind Edmin being the leader of the Syndicate, no way in hell." you pause, still watching the fuming lady "But! There is someone I know that could fill that spot. Someone I know that I could get behind. Someone I know that I could trust to do right for the Syndicate. This person knows how to lead, knows how to help the people, knows the politics well..."

Karisi stops pacing, looking at your hooded face, trying to read your expressions underneath.

You raise your hands up, gripping your hood to pull it down behind your head, your eyes connecting with the lady "I'm just hoping that person will come back to the Syndicate with us..."

With a smirk forming on your face and the curling up of the side of Karisi's lip, she knew what you were getting at.

"What do you say, Karisi? Care to join the Syndicate?"