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"I just don't want you to leave...." Scarlet said, and Da'Karro felt something within him wrench, what were these emotions, why were they happening?
Da'Karro clamped down hard on his emotions, a warrior could not be so susceptible to his own feelings, "I do not exist to serve you!" Da'Karro snapped, his frustration manifesting in anger, "I am not your friend I am your keeper. I will do my duty but nothing more." He said, and quickly exited the door slamming it behind him. He was struck with the overpowering urge to stop, reopen the door and apologise, but shoved the thoughts to the back of hius mind where they could be analysed later. This was not who he was, this was not his path, his future.
He forced his feet to turn and walk away, back towards where the war council sat, once there he would relieve Isabella of her duty and instruct her to watch Scarlet, Da'Karro suddenly hesitant to enter the girls presence again. The effect she had on him would get him killed, as it almost had today.

Decimus endured the Lady Julias rant, weathering the storm as a mountain weathers a passing breeze.
"I instructed Scarlet with the information I had at my disposal, Lady Julia. I knew I had nothing to do with the attack, and assumed that her protectors, as their reputation stands, would betray their employer, especially not the ones guarding your sister. Outside of this knowledge, I knew not whom could have organised such an attack."
He cold eyes bored into her own.
"I was therefore forced to instruct your sister to trust no one, not even you, just to be sure her safety was ensured. I assure you Lady Julia, you and your sisters health remain one of my primary concerns."
He turned to the assembled nobles and citizen council members, all hint of his cold calculation gone, returned was the charismatic man who could sway nigh on any with words alone.
"Apologies friends and honoured guests, the mornings frantic assassination attempt have made everyone a bit tense, I pray you excuse myself and the Lady Julia."
There was a chorus of muffled assurances and condolences, but Decimus had already returned his gaze to Julia, the cold calculation returned to his eyes.
"The men who were apprehended have been questioned and interrogated, any information they have not revealed will be extracted form them over the course of the next few months, although your protector Ramas assures me they will give in long before that. He is currently scouring the city for any who possess information about the attack. I assure you lady Julia, every effort is being made to apprehend the culprits behind this attack."