A bond Between Brothers

[TheProwlingScorcher]

"I thought Long and hard on how I should manage you Togoshi. Perhaps too long."

"As for you Hina. You are owed an apology for not only involving yourself in said conflict but having to speak within my steed. Your work for the illuminated has proven facinating. However, my absence was but a grief filled one. Not only I am pushed towards a choice I initially refused to make, I am made responsible for it. I now understand that the one who has grown alongside within the gates of sheng has been lost. Dying by the hands by one who wields power and corruption to their own whims."

"As for you Togoshi. You know more than anyone here that your actions for dawnstone are asinine in the Totsuka clan's eyes. All or a man who spits upon his own oath for survival. To delve in willing corruption? That goes against everything that is represented as one who resides within sheng, as one who once followed the steps of the cloud weaver."

"You are also more than aware that you have no power to exile me from the Totsuka clan. For ones work within our walls does not end with Exile, and never has."

"It ends with death."

"If you want to decide the future of that of the Totsuka clan? Then come try. ONE of us will die this night. And after dealing with you? I shall march alongside Arnet, and claim her rightful place upon the throne. Those who conspire with the cowards of dawnstone will be swallowed within the flames of the sun. I promise that."

"As for you Hikaru. I beg you do not follow within the path of your wretched brother. For he is far to gone for his own good."

The Azure Dragon finishes his speech. He is to rise once again.