Lal Mirch was still not finished with taking in all of the information they had been granted today. "A witch?"

Violet could only nod to that "Yeah. I'm a witch"

Silence filled the room, Vio herself in an awkward stage between being relaxed for having the information out and having seen her friends again and being tense because of her uncertainty how her bondmates would take it in.

Verde was the first who collected himself, shifting around a few of the papers he had been working on.

"How does magic really work? What are the limits?"

"Well, you know all about physics and natural order and rules. So take that and completely scratch everything you know. Magic completely breaches it and kicks it. Logic is actually something you won't find in most wizardfolk." she plainly stated

"There are no real limits. We can kill with a single spell, brew potions that can heal, kill or enslave people. Mind magic is a whole thing. We can actually read thoughts, manipulate them or completely erase them. We have several kinds of transportations some for example rely on travelling through fireplaces or apparate what you could understand as teleportation. We have creatures like dragons or unicorns. We can read the future and curse people… If you can think of it, there is a magic for it. It would be quite hard to explain everything about magic… I personally wouldn't even be able to explain most of the questions you could ask but I can get you some books though."

Verde just nodded, already scribbling down on his papers trying to find out how he could fit it into his worldview. Plainly sticking to his ways to not fall into a frenzy attack about how this broke almost everything he knew. Collecting data always came first.

Lal broke the silence again "is your ability to change magical as well?"

"Yeah, I'm a Metamorphmagus, they are actually quite rare because it's an inherited trait and it's still more luck if it activates in you. I only know two Metamorphmagi beside myself, my godson and his mother but we all have blood ties to the Blacks, the only family in England that is known to have produced several."

Violet picked up one of the biscuits from the tray, slowly breaking small bits off to nibble on them.

Her eyes fell on Yuni who had been oddly silent and seemed to be musing about something. The little sky looked up when she felt Violet's eyes on her and she finally spoke out "You were really close with them."

Violet snorted at that "They are my best friends, what did you expect?"

"No… that's not what I meant. There was something more…Were they former elements? Like did you share a sky or bonded with them without a sky?"

The biscuit piece in her hand crumbled, not really having expected the conversation to turn towards this occurrence "Shouldn't you already know it?"

"I can't see the past '' the little sky almost pouted about the fact but was more invested in finding out more about her favourite cloud.

Violet just sighed, there was no real reason to hide stuff now. She would definitely not reveal what status she had in the wizarding world but anything else? Free game at this point. She had never liked secrets, especially after Dumbledore had kept everything from her for years. It was ironic that she herself had guarded her secret for so long but the difference was that her secret only impacted personal relations and not a whole civilization and war. She had never put anyone in danger by lying.

"I mean you are right, they were guardians, not all of them active and the bonds were weaker because of the difference in flame level especially because we weren't aware of what they really meant." she admitted.

"What happened? " Reborn finally spoke up, he had spent most of the impromptu meeting just observing. The situation was an unknown and if he wanted to adapt then he had to collect every possible information. His dark untelling eyes focused on Violet, he wouldn't let any miniscule movement escape him.

While he was mentally dreading the fact that she might have truly lost her sky at some point he still had the pressing need to find out. It was still harsh on him that he had been unable to find out what their cloud had been hiding and everything in him was pushing him to never let anything like this happen again.

Reborn was a professional and he was the best. Even in casual matters he would never allow himself to be oblivious, he had failed once and he would never again. Especially not with his cloud.

"Something happened" she paused shortly after that, to collect herself and to not back out at the last minute "and my skyflame shattered."

"What?" it came out louder than Reborn had wanted, his thoughts racing and the same alarm went through all of their heads. This hadn't been what he had expected, not even close to it. He had been ready to deal with a griefing cloud. A cloud that might have needed counselling even after all these years.

He had never even considered that Violet's cloud flames could have been a secondary, not with their strength. He went through all of the signs, watched her body language like a hawk but he couldn't even find one aspect that would imply that she was lying.

"I was a cloudy sky while growing up. After my sky shattered my cloud flames took over as my primary." she offered an explanation, while twirling her thumb around, distracted by the memories that came up.

Reborn pulled his Fedora down, he had not deemed it possible for Violet to shock them again to such a degree but she had done it and Reborn clenched his fist under the table to stay composed.

Skies were royalty in the mafia, while it didn't mean that every last of them got unwavering respect there was still a general consensus that they needed to be protected and treated in the best possible way. Not that everyone's views aligned on that chart in how it was best to really treat a sky. It still didn't change the fact that even the thought about bringing a sky to the point of breaking was a taboo. It was vile.

Yuni herself looked horrified. Sky flames filled a person more than the other types. Even while inactive their flames had a huge impact on them and the world around them. You just had to look at Tsuna to really see what just a sealed sky would have to go through. She couldn't even imagine what it meant for someone to lose that part of themself. To be that incomplete.

"How are you still going?" she breathlessly whispered.

Violet laughed at that, without a bite but a subtle harshness "I had to."

While the thoughts of the arcobalenos were racing, circling around all the new even if horrifying information a lot made actually way more sense suddenly.

Skull himself had never even once acted like a cloud besides a few instincts. His behaviour had always been strange and again Violet wasn't better in that regard, to be honest it wasn't that hard to see a skyish nature in her.

If her cloud had only been secondary it would make sense while all of the typical characteristics would have lacked.

Naturally she didn't have the aura of a sky, it was made out of sky flames after all. Her behaviour and effect on others wasn't completely fitting the criteria but with a broken sky flame? It would make sense. Even how Skull had been able to get everyone against him and at the same time reel them in was skyish.

No one had been able to look away from skull or leave him alone. The discord in himself turned the attention against him but it still made sense.

Lal was able to find her voice next "So they were your guardians?" her voice sounded rough.

Violet nodded "At least partially. I doubt we ever had a full bond. Differences in flame level is one of the reasons."

"But that meant your bonds still snapped. Why didn't you leave them? It must have been painful to be around them."

Violet's head snapped up and she looked at her more fiercely than ever before, a small showing of what strong of a sky she must have been in the past "I would never ever forsake my friends. Nothing and no one can ever separate me from them."

Her sky shards, almost tinkling in her and sending a spark up from what had been left and it left them speechless.

Violet was a sky, a possessive, guarding cloudy sky. That would lay her life down for those she had claimed. She was more than anyone could have wished for in a sky.

Reborns mouth was dry from the simple not even flame loaded presence he had felt from Violet. He wanted it and the poor desire left him aching. Especially because no sky aura was accompanying it, just a hollow echo of what once was and it almost drove him mad on the spot that he couldn't have it.

"Verde. I want you to research how to fix a shattered flame." he gritted out, still only focused on the former sky in front of him. He almost had phantom pains from it. His own flames roaming around initially, desperately searching for any echo of the sky in front of him, just wanting to mingle and bask in them.

Verdes' hand almost trembled when he pushed his glasses up his nose "I would need a concrete view on how her state truly is. I need to know what I will be working on."

Violet stilled at that, biscuit long forgotten "You… want me to try accessing it?"

Verde just nodded, leaning forward and mustering her with an odd fascination she couldn't place.

She wasn't really sure what she should think about it. She had come to terms with her missing part. She knew how utterly destroyed her sky was but she couldn't bring herself to tell them how hopeless it really was. So she followed his request.

Violet closed her eyes, searching for her core. After all these years of accessing her flames, she had gotten closer to understanding it. Her magic and flames were actually in one core, not like she had thought at first in seperate ones. It was one bright ball of colour, the way to differentiate the aspects were with colours.

The outer layer of the ball was brightly purple, shining strong and mixing lightly with the pink of her magic. For once she focused more onto that and went deeper and looked more closely in the middle of the pink area she could see a glassy orange. The shards were not building a proper ball, but there wasn't a claffing hole either. Instead her purple and pink mixed together, surrounded them and held them in place to not harm each other further, still they left gaping holes only filled because of her humming magic and cloud flame.

Violet steeled herself and reached inside, carefully grasping a shard. It hurt but she didn't let up, focusing everything she had on it, while it cut herself up.

The arcobalenos had sat waiting, Reborn had his hand firmly on his fedora rubbing over the brim. The tension weighing down on all of them noticeably.

Violet had sat unmoving for several minutes already, her eyebrows furrowed in concentration and even a few small pearls of sweat vere visible. Still none of them moved just waiting and with a sudden burst the whole room was filled with skyflames, not the physical manifestation, just the plain feel of their aura, horribly messed up, almost screeching in pain but oh so breathtaking and strong. The aura was screeching loud and shrill, not an ounce of harmony left. While it simultanly brought a feeling of utter despair, hopelessness and pain with it.

It only lasted for a mere second before they fell again and Violet sank down deeper in her chair, gasping for air and rubbing over her chest. She had been in pain.

But all the Arcobalenos could think about was how they wanted it, no matter how messed up the current state was.