Chapter 7

Komand'r did not return for the rest of the hour and Galfore did not ask any questions about why when he came back. In fact, Komand'r was not brought up again for the rest of their visit, though she was still close in Kori and Galfore's mind; Ryand'r- being so young- was too distracted by the simplest of things to really care.

Kori had hoped that when it was time for the visitors to leave Kom would at least come down again to at least say goodbye to Ryand'r but she didn't and this bothered Kori immensely no matter how much to tried to push it aside. So it stayed unresolved for hours as Kori absentmindedly waited around for her sisters return and the more she tried not to think of it the more she did and incidentally, the more her anger grew. She was still contemplating it as she made her way for dinner but had already resigned herself to the fact that her sister was not going to come out of her room and that she would not get her chance to talk to her sister about her atrocious behavior during visitation. That is until she entered the Great Hall to see her sister seemingly completely fine chattering to a group of peers.

Like a hunter stalking it's prey, Kori stomped up to her sister, her anger and frustration at having waited for her all day to speak to her only to see her completely at ease, fueling her into turning her eyes green.

Feeling her heated gaze, Komand'r turned slightly in her seat, her black hair swinging into one of her listeners face who didn't even bat a lash. Slowly, Kom smiled at Kori which only enticed more anger out of Kori.

"Sister! I was just telling our classmates about how outstanding our results were from our professors! I knew that we would of course since the warlords did give me exceptional praise." Kom said with faux enthusiasm as Kori walked up.

"But you never came down to the hall to find out your results from Knorfk'a Galfore so how would you know?" Kori asked unable to hide the anger in her voice.

"I was told, now sit down sister your interrupting my story dear and you know how rude that is when you interrupt." Kom said in her usual drawling dismissive way and Kori- unable to compete- reluctantly held off her offensive manner for fear of more embarrassment.

The rest of dinner past with Kori sitting by her talkative sisters side bristling in anger. She was tired of Komand'rs attitude, her higher-than-thou persona. She wanted for once for Komand'r to admit she was wrong, to listen to her when she was upset; but Kom wouldn't, she was too above that.

So when she was done with eating, Koriand'r stood right up and went to bed without even glancing at her sister and the next morning proceeded to do the same. She would have kept going with ignoring her sister if she was around but it seemed that for the rest of the week Komand'r and her were running on totally different schedules, so there paths never crossed.

The anger that she felt for her sister also started affecting her classes as well. Celt-ia even dedicated a whole lesson towards resolving unresolved feelings in hopes of subduing Kori's anger, which, surprisingly, did nothing for Koriand'r. She was even more aggressive in her fighting classes, something that pleased her fighting teacher greatly- or so she assumed since her fighting teacher would never tell her and she accidentally blew up at her government teacher when he wouldn't look her in the eye.

Kori knew though that she would forgive her sister eventually for she always did; she just could never carry out with ignoring her sister for long since it caused her far more pain than it did Komand'r. She also just didn't like being angry, too much of an annoying strain on her mind and day. It was much easier to just forgive her sister and leave it all in the past and hope that whatever occurred wouldn't happen again.

So, after much thought and brewing in anger, Kori decided to forgive her sister and forgo her anger and set out to make amends.

With a surprising amount of haste, Koriand'r made her way to her sisters room eager to put the drawn out and tiring confrontation behind them.

"Sister?!" Koriand'r called, knocking on her door. No answer. "Kom are you there? I really wish to talk to you!" Abruptly, the door was thrust open and Kori stumbled slightly in surprise as she finally came face to face with her sister.

"What do you want." Kom's biting voice commanded as she stood in front of her, her body and face almost completely shadowed in not only the darkness from her room but a darkness Kori couldn't put her finger on. Yet, that hardly registered in Kori's mind as she took in her sisters appearance.

"Komand'r, what has happened to you?" Kori found herself saying, her wide green eyes alight with fear, curiosity and concern. Komand'rs eyes narrowed.

"Nothing is wrong with me! Why are you looking at me like that?" She asked, her voice tight with anger and defensiveness.

"Your eyes, Komand'r, have you been crying?" Kori asked stepped closer as her sister pulled further back into the darkness of her room.

"W-what kind of idiotic question is that sister?" Kom snarled back, still backing away and now the only thing Kori could see was her sisters dull purple eyes narrowed as they gazed into her own.

"Komand'r you can tell me, I promise I wont tell anybody if you don't want me to. Just tell me what's wrong I want to help you!" Kori cried, her hands out stretched to her sister.

"I don't need your help!" She spat making it sound as if what Kori was suggesting was more of an insult to her.

"Why Koma? Why do you never let the people who love you in? You're always so cold, so defensive and mean! And I just- I came here to apologize, to comfort you but you always have to make everything like an attack on you! It makes people hate you Komand'r and I'm tired of it all! You are so selfish!" Kori cried her frustration finally breaking free.

"Have you ever thought that I have reason to be this way sister dear? Ugh, just get out of my sight! I don't care about your dumb apology or what you think! Your just like the rest of those klorbags anyway back in Tamaran. And you know what Koriand'r, I'm sick of you too!" Komand'r retorted her voice way more icy and hurtful than Kori's before making to slam the door shut.

"No!" Kori cried, slamming a hand onto to the door to stop it. Komand'r, obviously surprised didn't even try to continue to close it. "You will listen to me Komand'r! You will listen because I care! I want to know what's wrong with you. I want to apologize and not fight but you get me so angry sometimes! But I don't want to be angry and I, I just want to talk." Kori said. There was a long pause with Komand'r only staring into Kori's green eyes.

"There is nothing to talk about Kori. What's done is done." Koma responded shortly.

"What do you mean by that?" Kori asked her beautiful emerald eyes alight with frustration and sadness at her sisters blasé response.

"It means that despite whatever you might say Koriand'r I have no interest in talking about anything with you, you could never understand." She said ready to once again shut the door.

"Stop doing that!" Kori shouted angrily slamming on the door with a fist. "Stop insulting me and my intelligence!"

"When you prove that you have some then maybe we will talk." Koma said her purple eyes never looking into Kori's as she slammed the door. But this time Kori didn't even try to stop her.

A/N: Sorry this chapter is way shorter than my usual standards. I've just realized that the longer my chapters are the less I write them so I'm sticking to shorter chapters and more updates! And thanks to those that reviewed! I appreciate it so much! Keep them coming!