Quinn wasn’t the only one that had thought the Graylashes were the ones who had started the war. Nearly everyone did. They were the ones who had attacked the military basis first. The ones the people believed to be in control of the whole situation. After them, the rest of the leaders seemed to follow suit.
This was a known fact to nearly all of them in the room, and now suddenly the Graylashes were saying it wasn’t them but this unknown family that Quinn was looking for.
"Who are the Blades?" Quinn asked.
Hector, for a second looked at Owen. It said it all. It was a warning there were no words that needed to be spoken. He was asking him if he was really going to do this.
"Your relationship can’t be that close to the Blades if you don’t even know them?"
Quinn wasn’t sure wherever he should reveal this or not, he still wasn’t even sure that the Blades Vorden was a part of and the ones people kept talking about were the same thing.
"My friend, he is part of the Blade family," Quinn replied.
Then it all came back to him. He had indeed met the Blade that Quinn was talking about. During the tournament, he had even borrowed their powers. The two of them were together mostly during that time.
Was that boy doing everything on his own, without the support of the actual Blade family? If that was the case, it would explain how things had come to where they were today.
"Your friend has been keeping a pretty big secret from you, I take back what I said earlier. You might not be close to the Blades, but you must have been very close to a Blade, him in particular for him to have done everything he had done.
"The Blades were the ones who started this war, and it all started because of you," Owen said.
Everyone turned and looked at Quinn, and if he could have turned to look at himself at this point, he would have done so as well.
"After the inter tournament, there were many that were after your power. An original power that they hadn’t seen before, but your message, which I assume was told to be said by your friend, was one for the big four at the time.
"It was telling us to not touch a hair on your body; otherwise, the Blades would come to deal with them. But you see, Trudream was a fool. He was new to the big four and didn’t really understand the Blades’ power. We warned him, but he decided that he would go against the Blades in search of the shadow power.
"A family that no one knew about couldn’t be that strong right? And Trudream perhaps believed in his own family’s power a bit too much. I’m sure you have all seen the result of Dreamland?"
Paul’s heart sunk, hearing those words. If what Owen was saying was true. The reason that Jack Trudream and all of Dreamland was destroyed was because of this Blade family. One of the strongest forces in the world, gone like that.
"How? How could one of the big four get annihilated like that!" Blip shouted.
Quinn couldn’t even look at Owen right now and was just staring at the table. He didn’t know what was going on anymore.
"Whether or not Trudream is alive or not, we do not know, but his disappearance was because of the Blades, and without a doubt that was what had started this war. We, the Graylash family, just decided to be the first ones to act. The military was already starting to have in fights with each other as they found out about Truedream’s disappearance."
"I imagine it would have been a shock to them all, to think that a strange power was able to do something like that without them knowing."
While Quinn was struggling to think. Paul decided to take over the questioning for a bit because he couldn’t believe that the military would know nothing about such a strong family.
"How, who are these people?" Paul asked. "We knew the strength of the big four. We kept tabs on them, and it was the reason why the fighting stopped, the reason no one decided to act. Everyone was of equal power. There is no chance something like that could happen?"
"We knew?" Dennis asked, noticing the slip-up.
There was no point hiding it now, and it was in the past, anyway.
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