Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 2415

Chapter 2415: Plan For It

The room had settled by the time Sylas finally stopped moving, with Cassarae stretched against one side of him while Nosphaleen had claimed the other and Xarvenya rested nearby with considerably more dignity than either of them.

The earlier heat had faded into a more soothing warmth, and neither one of them seemed particularly interested in pushing Sylas toward the next problem waiting outside.

It was Xarvenya who eventually broke the silence, though her tone remained calm enough that Sylas almost missed the weight behind the words. "That woman from before, the one who interfered with you in the World of Spirits... I think she may be the same person responsible for my brother’s death."

Sylas looked toward her.

Xarvenya didn’t elaborate immediately, instead staring toward the ceiling while sorting through memories that had long since stopped being simple grief. "The methods are different, but the feeling is the same, especially the way she interferes without properly appearing herself. Whoever moved against my brother preferred forcing events from the shadows as well."

Cassarae’s expression lost some of its laziness, while Nosphaleen remained quiet and watched Xarvenya from the side. Sylas considered the words, not for the possibility of truth, but for Xarvenya’s tone instead. It was trusting and vulnerable in a way he hadn’t seen from her since those events in the past.

He already knew that she was correct, he had already known of what she said, but that wasn’t the point.

"I’ll kill her eventually," Sylas replied. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Xarvenya turned her head toward him.

"You don’t need to worry about it."

There was no flourish to the words, nor any attempt to make them comforting, and that was probably why Xarvenya accepted them so easily. Her expression softened by the smallest degree before she nodded once, seemingly satisfied with the certainty rather than the promise itself.

Cassarae snorted from Sylas’ other side. "You really do have a strange way of reassuring people."

"It worked."

"It did," Xarvenya admitted.

...

Sylas stayed with them for a while longer before eventually leaving, and not long afterward he found his father sitting alone outside, looking out over the land surrounding their home.

Conversations between the two of them had never required much effort, but they were rare in a different way, usually interrupted by Isolde, Elara, some crisis, or Sylas disappearing into another part of the universe.

Cedric glanced toward him when he approached and smiled. "Your mother got to you too, didn’t she?"

Sylas sat beside him. "She thinks I should be home more."

"She’s right."

Sylas didn’t argue, and Cedric’s smile deepened slightly before his gaze returned to the distance. "You know, I had ambitions too when I was younger, not quite like yours, but enough that I could’ve spent my whole life chasing them if things had gone differently."

Sylas looked toward him.

"Then I met your mother." Cedric laughed under his breath, shaking his head. "Isolde would never have chosen a man who didn’t know how to sit down once in a while, and I wasn’t interested in finding out whether she was bluffing."

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