Hi'dric Varon Normell- Hi'dric's Office
As Hi'dric left Sunil's room, he immediately headed to his office, his smile and his form falling. He sighed as he sunk down into his chair, just staring at nothing for a long time. He shook his head at everything that happened today until his mind crossed Serena. One of the most devoted people he had ever known and even grown to love as a sister and confidant was gone. Just gone and he carried her blood on his hands. What was he to do? No matter who it was, if they blasphemed the name of Aditi while in the cult and a High Priest at that, it meant death in his eyes.
Still he couldn't help but feel the hole in his heart at Serena's absence, making him do something that he hadn't done in over 400 years. He cried. He let the tears flow out as he turned to the window, watching a new day dawn. Another day of his immortal life, another day to mark him without the ones he grew to love. He cried for his family, his first cult and first lover. He cried for his child that he could never hold in his arms and be a father for. He was given the curse of life when he should have died back then and watching the people he loved around him die for all eternity.
For as much as he spoke about family and love, they always slipped through his fingers. He would always lose them in the end.
Maric, Guruk, Sunil, Jocasta and now Xena. People he had grown to care for as his own. How many more would he lose to the curse that followed him, if they were to be harmed or die, it would be his fault. It would be more blood on his hands because he loved them, because he cared, because he considered them family.
He continued to stare out the window as three last tears fell. One for his past, one for Serena.
One for himself.