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"What's done is done. The past is gone." Reynard looked at the two remaining figures around the file. "Why do we dwell in what has happened? Have any secrets really been revealed tonight? What has been voiced is only that which we already knew but were two scared to talk about."

"I didn't know you went to the meeting place after our agreement." Cytheria said.

"Are you surprised? For how long have you known me sister?" Reynard took a sip of wine. "How many years before the bargain and then for how many more after? There was nothing malicious in going. No one was harmed and no further oaths were broken."

"We agreed that it wasn't necessary, that the promise no longer needed to be kept."

"Sister, please. That's not why I did it." Reynard looked at Perun. "We agreed amongst ourselves that the promise no longer needed to be kept, that the oaths that bound us had been nullified by circumstances."

"How convenient." Perun drawled.

"Don't be sarcastic Perun, it does not suit you. Even you cannot deny that things at that moment were so vastly different then they were when we made out promise. We had been forgotten, who are you protecting when the world no longer believes in your existence?" Reynard stood and paced around the fire. "We had ceased to even be legends brother. The very hint of our existence was mangled into strange tales of others baring only passing resemblance to us, our deeds or the promise that we made. Our purpose had faded." Renard shared a look with Cytheria. "This is what we deemed to be true, and why we broke the promise. In our eyes, and I still believe this, the promise no longer held, their end of the promise had been broken and forgotten."

Reynard paused for a moment and looked at his brother and his sister. "Cytheria, I did not go for the reasons that you and Kywn think. I went for myself, for sentiment. The promise was no longer needed, but I could not break my own bonds with the place."