Walking the high walls of Himmelsberg Artanis grew tired and restless. The sun had long been long down and the cold winds chill had reached his bones hours ago. He wrapped his dark cloak around himself tightly hoping to trap any warmth in but it was to no avail. He shook almost violently, his sword clattering against his hip, he tried to walk a little faster in another attempt to warm himself up. He decided he needed to get warm now if he was to keep his hands and feet so he went inside the monastery. He looked up from the main room and could see the stars, brighter then he ever had seen them before. He watched them high in the sky, his frozen feet forgotten and all his problems seemed meaningless. He watched the stars as he once did as a young Astralis recruit. He looked around, a shooting star cut the sky, and saw a particular spot where there was a star missing. He was reminded of that night, the night he fell from the stars.
The once tranquil feeling he had was replaced with Dread his eyes glazed over and memories were being relived.
Loud voices were shouting, it was in the middle of no where. The argument was growing heated both sides knew they were right and the other was impossibly wrong. Voices were slightly slurred, drinks had been shared just moments before, faces were red with anger. Artanis was furious, his blue armor shined in the light of the stars that were shining exceptionally bright this night, he was screaming at a man. The man would not back down and was coming at Artanis just as hard both verbally and with physical presence. His heavy armor had fur on it making him look like a bear, his body was lean and large to tote around the two handed weapon he bolstered. There was some light from a nearby torch one of them dropped but neither cared to pick up or probably even remembered was there. The large man spoke in a gruff voice "I am a Saint of War you little mongrel, and I was killing before you were a stain on your mothers linens"
"Artanis?" a voice spoke and a hand was on his shoulder. Jerking forward out of shock and spinning quickly he saw Zerose. "Artanis what are you doing?" he asked confused
"It is cold out and I was warming up" he said quickly as he walked forward, he stole another look at the small dark spot in the sky and walked past him into the darkness. Zerose was a little confused looking up saw nothing out of place.
