"You've been sleeping less right." a distant female voice says
"You've been overworking yourself.."
"you're tired aren't you?"
"You're in pain aren't you?"
"it's okay now...let me take care of you"
Ragnar suddenly wakes up raising his head from the table he was laying his head on, he pinches the bridge of his nose in a mix of frustration & restlessness.
He looks at his wife's unconscious body in the med pod with tired dead eyes.
"Ra..." a faint voice fades in and out of his hearing
"Gnar..."
"Ragnar!" his bodyguard shouts as he is finally fully mentally present.
"What is it Alex?" Ragnar says pinching the bridge of his nose again.
" I've been informed that a terrorist attack occurred at your mansion" Alex replies while looking down.
" what?" Ragnar says standing up and running his fingers through his hair.
" Erik & Clive are dead" Alex Says sternly
"....." Ragnar sighs and cups his face with both of his hands.
"What state were their bodies found in?"
"Erik's head was burned down to the bone...Clive was....he was found under the rubble.....its..it was hard to tell" Alex replies.
"Where's Seraphina?"
"She's....we don't know it appears-"
The air vibrates as Ragnar clenches his fists in anger the windows begin to slowly crack as he sweats and grits his teeth in frustration.
"Ragnar! Your wife's in the medpod stop!" Alex shouts trying to calm Ragnar who collapses to the ground on his knees.
"Go....look for my daughter...please" Ragnar says in a weak desperate voice.
Alex looks at him with sadness in her eyes as she nods and walks off.
Ragnar begins to cry as he clenches his chest in pain.
Hours later...
"You decided on Kane huh?"
" Yeah....you think its a bad name?"
"I think it makes him sound like a rough meanie...but I don't think that's what you are isnt that right honey?" She tickles under the chin of the baby with her finger.
"Well maybe if you were as good as me at fencing you would've-" he gets flicked on the head.
"Your papas such an arrogant man...isn't that right honey?" The lady says as she pokes the baby's nose making it coo.
"He has your eyes doesn't he"
"Hmm....I mean we both have the same eye color" she says raising an eyebrow.
"I'm just tryna compliment you..." He says rolling his eyes.
"I know...I'm just messing with you dummy." She says leaning her head against her husband's shoulder.
Ragnars eyes open....
Head leaning against the table once again as he wakes up from his nap he runs his fingers through his hair and blinks hard and slow....he's experiencing a bad headache aswell.
He leans back against his chair and sighs and just stares at his wife in the medpod.
The telepod nearby begins to beep, Ragnar reaches for it and taps his finger on the blinking light and static begins to play with a muffled voice.
"Swan..?" Ragnar states in a flat tone, the security question he created with Alex to confirm if its the real her and not mimic augmented users .
"Is this really necessary? We don't really have time..."
"I said Swan" Ragnar says interrupting her.
She sighs." Yellow tail"
"You come across anything?"
"We found her Ragnar....."
"Is she there? Let me speak to her Alex"
"Ragnar I'm sorry...."
"No....God.....no...no" Ragnar stands up lightly shaking his head.
"I'm soo sorry" Alex says her voice lightly quivering.
"This is my fault....I should've stayed with her please don't blame yourself Ragnar not one bit of this is your fault" She says trying to reassure him.
"Ha....haha..I...don't bother..I was the one who sent them.. Erik...Clive...Seraphina..I burdened my own children with the weight of the world on their shoulders...their mothers life....I should've went and brought Solomons boy myself...I was just paranoid...paranoid she'd die the second I turned my back.." He says sitting on the floor and leaning his back against the wall while cupping his face with his hands.
"Ragnar there's something else....something I have to tell you...her body...the wounds it looks like it was....w....as....rik..." static begins to fill and her voice begins to cut up.
Ragnar stands up and walks over and grabs the telepod and shakes it hoping it regains connection. He begins to smack it lightly.
"Come on...." He mutters frustrated.
Suddenly a low rumble is felt in the room as the lights flicker, Ragnar looks back and sucks his teeth.
"Bastards" he mutters as he looks down in frustration, a shockwave plummets directly from above ripping through the room and narrowly missing Ragnars wife Cassandras medpod.
Ragnar is sent flying through the building directly outside and slams through the grass creating a crater in the ground. As the dust settles a large bald dark skinned man in a black leathered jacket drops down.
He slowly walks over anticipating an attack but smirks to himself.
"Hmph easier than I thought.." as he says that a floating slab of rock suddenly from behind hits him carrying him straight to the crater Ragnar is in as Ragnar rises out of it, releasing the pulling motion with his left hand and planting his lead foot into the ground, throwing a overhand right straight to the chest of the bald dark skinned man the force completely disintegrates the slab of rock behind him. The bald dark skinned man coughs up blood as the punch slams him to the ground.
Ragnar clasps his hand around the man's throat and lifts him up with one hand choking him.
"You fuckwits really think you can catch me off guard huh?" Ragnar says gritting his teeth and tightening his hold on the man who's eyes are beginning to roll back.
"Drop the man Ragnar.." Ragnar looks up to see where the voice is coming from and sees a figure in a white robe and Silver mask standing on the floor he was on with his wife.
"You wouldn't.." Ragnar says narrowing his eyes at the figure realising what he implies.
"You really want to gamble your wife's life? Or...what's left of it?" the figure says with a slight chuckle.
Ragnars eyes quiver and he grits his teeth in frustration veins begin to protrude from his forehead as he let's the man drop who begins to violently cough.
"Ragnar Blackthorne under the authority of the Grandmasters you are under arrest for the coup against Alaric Solomon and deliberate targeting of civilians in the wetlands of Aurellia." The figure declares.