56 Catching Up (1/2)
Approaching his family Sagar spread out his arms so that he could wrap them all up in on big hug, which they all complied with. Talia did the same thing with her family leaving really only Umbra by herself but she didn't really mind as she knew such a thing would happen whenever she decided to come with the two back to the Drak residence.
Turning back to face Umbra, Sagar introduced her to his parents, ”Mom, Dad this is Umbra a friend I made while attending the academy. She was already long time friends with Talia so it didn't take much for us to get acquainted with each other.”
Beatrice looked at Umbra for a second and immediately realized who she was, ” Wow, you really do look like your mother but it seems like you adopted the Rex signature hair color.”
Umbra would be lying if she didn't admit that she was excited to meet Beatrice as she has admired the women for as long as she could remember but hearing her bring up her mother caused Umbra to throw that to the back of her head, ”You've met my mother?”
Looking a bit surprised Beatrice answered, ”Of course I have. We met at one of the balls that was hosted by the royal family,she was younger at the time and had yet to marry the King. We hung out every now then but lost contact with each other whenever l left the capital.”, Beatrice had a somber look on her face before continuing, ”We even promised to go to each other's weddings but it didn't turn out in our favor and too many things ended up happening.”
Umbra always wondered why her mother talked about Beatrice a lot but Umbra assumed that like her she just admired Beatrice, it turns out that they were friends in the past. ”If you want when I return to the palace I could tell her of your return.”
Beatrice waved out her hand, ”No, you don't have to worry about that she actually came a few months back when it got out that I had returned. We both took the day off and caught with all the things we've been doing these past few years. She did tell me about you and I had thought about having our children meet but who knew that you two had already gotten acquainted with each other.”
The two of them continued talking while Sagar and Garris decided to leave them to their own devices while the father-son duo caught up with each other.
”So son, how's the academy been treating you, good I hope.”
Sagar nodded his head,”Yes things have been going good over there. I've learned more than I attended to but that isn't necessarily a bad thing. How about you Dad, things over at the Silverback's going good?”
Garris let out a laugh while telling his son, ”It's been great, the Commander recently promoted me to the Colonel which allows me to go on harder missions along with earning bigger income.”, Garris paused before looking at Beatrice then said in low voice, ”With your mom being here with the family she technically can make more coin than me but it's good to have another source of income, I just stopped taking missions as frequently as I used to. There is also not much missions that require a Colonel to lead them so that's another plus.”, he then let out a sigh,”Now I just get stuck with some paperwork mainly but I can't really complain.”
Garris then shifted his gaze from Beatrice to Aquilia who was resting within her mother's arms. Seeing his father's look Sagar said, ”Don't spoil her too much mom does enough of that already.”
Turning back to his son, almost offended he spoke, ”I'm not sure if I'm one to talk about spoiling, don't think I didn't notice the energy coming off of whatever item you're holding in your pocket. You missed your sister's birthday so you probably plan to gift her with that.”
Rubbing the back of his head in slight embarrassment Sagar couldn't deny his father's accusations. The so called item in his pocket was a simple necklace at least it's appearance was. It was something he managed to request be made from some materials of some beast he had fought while he was out hunting. The beast itself was hard to take down not because of it's strength but mainly because it had a strange ability to rapidly adsorb the energy from it's surroundings and use it however it wanted. Sagar was constantly damaging it so it put the energy into healing it's wounds, but Sagar was able to kill it because whatever it used to activate this ability ran out and the beast was no longer able to heal. Sagar later researched what it could be and found out that it was an ape that was able to pick up the unique trait that usually only spirits had access to, hence their name 'Spirit Ape'.