I've Come

He had never even seen his son. His wife was all alone raising their child, he couldn't imagine the weight on her shoulders. What about his elder sister? Was she doing okay? And what about Dyon? He wanted to be there, to help the Mortal Alliance become the Mortal Empire, to be a silent backbone that propped them up even if he didn't have any true strength of his own, but this was all taken away on the whims of others… 

"Eli, you should try this." A familiar black robed young man pushed out a dish of exotic fruits. "The Unblemished One helped these grow personally, you'll love them."

The group sat in the castle's inner garden. Those with similar or overlapping abilities to Eli seemed to frequent this place, but Eli was the first with an actual Botanist ability. The others had proxy abilities like energy manipulation that could help certain plants, but not all of them.