[ He falls silent, thoughts turning inside his head. What are the chances that someone gets kidnapped more than once? And to be torn away their family for even longer is... Well, despicable. Not that Van has any real family left to speak of, but he feels the pain of that all too deeply every day. That this woman has to experience it again is not just. Being able to see them again is just cruel, especially if it wasn't at all real.

He'd seen that pool, but at least he'd been spared seeing his mother and brother. Instead it had been Cardia, and that troupe of fools who called him friend. A strange feeling curls in the pit of his stomach at the idea that he might never see them again. ]

I paid it little mind when it appeared they couldn't hear me. But I don't understand why they bothered to show us something like that. They didn't do this in the last place you were taken to, did they?

[ Trying to see if there's some sort of link... ]