"Hit me now so that I can overcome them with our current therapy session."
"Actually, I have good and bad news. Which do you want to hear first?" Kamila asked.
Lith knitted his brows in disbelief, tickling her skin. With Solus and the tower gone, his body in a weakened state, Orpal's return, and the inevitable fight with the World Tree, one of Mogar's most powerful beings, Lith doubted any news could be good.
"The good news." He replied, hoping that no matter how small, he could use whatever silver lining he could find in his situation to plan ahead and deal with the bad news.
"Well, after your disappearance, I called everyone, including Baba Yaga." Kamila said. "Not only did she help us capture you but she was also able to deduce the involvement of the World Tree from the fragments of Darwen armor.
"Thanks to that, Zoreth could contact Tezka and ask for his help. He says he has a way to find the Yggdrasill and has been working on that while you were still in your Abomination form."
"Tezka is one of the most ancient and powerful creatures I know besides the Guardians." Lith sighed in relief. "He is not the type to boast or pretend to care. If he said that he can do it, it means he's confident in his plan.
"Locating the Yggdrasill's Fringe is one less thing to worry about, but there's still a million to go. Anything else?"
"Yes." She nodded. "Zoreth called the Organization and Yaga reached Silverwing. It's not just the people who care about you who have assembled in the Desert but also those who care for Solus.
"You need all the help you can get to fight the World Tree and one more white core is a great addition to the team. Especially a white core with her own mage tower!"
"Her what?" Lith raised his head from his pillow abruptly to look Kamila in the eyes and make sure she was serious. "That doesn't make sense. We visited her just a few months ago and Silverwing was nowhere near completing her tower."
"And she still is." Kamila replied. "That's why Baba Yaga gave Silverwing a big hand to complete her project in time to rescue Solus. The Silverspire tower is sitting right next to Baba Yaga's hunting cabin, about twenty meters in that direction."
She pointed to the west wall of the bedroom.
"If we ignore dimensional displacement, of course. Otherwise we might actually be kilometers away from Silverspire. This place is so big that I've yet to finish visiting it."
"Silverspire?" Lith echoed with a mocking scoff. "Silverwing named her tower? What is she? Five?"
"Well, I must admit the name is a bit pretentious but I think she did the right thing." Kamila chuckled. "You have a tower, Baba Yaga has a tower, and now Silverwing does too.
"What are you going to do the next time you're all assembled and someone asks about a generic tower? Speak all at once? Draw lots?"
"I had a tower." Lith grunted, his expression turning sullen. "And I never bothered naming it because it already had a name. It's Menadion's tower and just mentioning it would put me in a world of trouble."
"Solus is gone, not lost." Kamila shook her head, bringing him back to his mood booster position. "And so is the tower. You are not alone anymore. You have lots of people you can trust and you've already revealed the existence of the tower to them."
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