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Loyalties mean nothing if it's only one-sided.
He'd had enough. Every day it was the same damn thing, over and over. Alaki would moan, bitch and complain about Teo's angst, which in the albino's mind was completely and totally justified; he'd lost his kids for Christ sake! In love with two people (make that three, thanks to Tawny's arrival) and he'd chosen the one who couldn't even spend time with his own daughter. Miwa needed her father, damn it!
Alaki would -have- to step up now, though. Teo had explained his intentions to Camilla, who understood and, though she didn't like it, she agreed to watch over Tawny, Miwa and Alaki while Matteo was gone. He'd be back someday... but not for a long, long time.
He'd packed his satchel with the bare essentials; a pair of flasks filled with water, an old blanket, a change of clothes and some dried meat. Next, he went to the stables and hitched a horse. He had full intentions to leave and go it alone, so he saddled up and led the horse out of the caves.
...as he left the caverns behind, he realized something; the trip would be terrible alone and he'd done nothing to fufill his promise to Gemma, to earn her forgiveness again.
So he tied the horse to a tree and headed back inside, grumbling as he went. His pace was so quick that he made it to the den she shared with Giuseppe in record time. Upon figuring that Giuseppe had gone out, he didn't bother knocking and just slipped in, eyes wide and alert, ears up, temper on edge.
Gemma?
