So here the two siblings catch up with each other a little more,
Challa sighed upon learning the reasons for her Father's hatred of Sarpah combined with what she had learned that a spell had been cast upon him to lose control of his willpower and kill the first Sarpah he saw which was the start of this whole mess!
She remembered Seven-Scars saying that both her mother and father had been taken to Tishnia and specifically both were in Tiari, the City of Blue Roofs, it would be a long journey from Magar to Tishnia so it seemed like they would have plenty of time to prepare, but Challa feared no amount of time was enough to prepare her for eventually facing her parents!
"I'm worried..." Challa said "...During my time in the other world, I had...Dreams...Visions...That I had been taken to this world for a reason, you see Ari we are players in a much larger game..."
And she told him, mostly without fear of any Taskara hearing because she was pretty sure the Tribesmen knew about the impending danger that's why they were so willing to accept the Turtles and do all these strange things they knew the survival of Dardunah depended on it! But anyway she told him that there was a conspirisy with this strange Sarpah a First Cousin to one of the Great Sarpah Princes but this Insane Sarpah was actually trying to summon the ancient enemy of the Gods themselves the Devourer itself! He believed he was capable of controlling the Devourer and that he would use the Devourer to take over and rule Dardunah forever!
"...From what I understand, the Turtles will be necessary in preventing the Devourer from crossing over..."Challa said "I just fear that Father's hatred of Sarpah could...Cause him to jepordize the mission."
Ari's mouth felt very dry after hearing all this, he put his finger in his mouth like a child as he stopped and thought, he remembered when they were very small, Challa had been fasinated with the story of the Great Mother and Father's flight from the Devouer she asked questions about what the place they swelled in before was like, and everytime the adults would answer with scowls and harsh words of 'That is not for us to know!' she also asked if the Devourer would ever be able to figure out the disguises of fur, feathers and scales that Great Mother and Father put the Janah into that seemed to frighten the adults even more that if to say such a thing would cause it to come true!
As she grew older and went through her education at the Academy of Nilam, Challa actually became a secret favorite of many of the prominent scolars there, that despite her odd ways they could see she was actually very bright, in particular the Scholer Ataj, a Caribou who was a persistant scientist who did not buy into myth and relgious explantions and thus determined to find the way the universe worked assured Challa that her questions were actually quite reasonable and thus Challa became opened to the more scientific way of looking at the world which many outside of Nilam saw as dangerous the Tishini Priests did not like Ataj and saw his writings as heresy.
But it seemed abudtantly clear to Ari now that it was because of those reasons Challa had been chosen by the Devah to be sent to another world, only she had the mind broad enough to handle living with what normal Janah would consider abominations...Seems like her childhood musings had actually been a kind of foresight to what was about to happen, the return of an enemy even Great Mother and Father could not handle they could only flee from, so they needed to call upon another world entirely for assistance!
"It is a frightening prospect..." Ari said quietly "...Particurally since you seem to be in love with the blue masked Turtle..."
Challa spun around "Who told you that?!"
Ari simply folded his arms "I'm not as dense as I look Chanchalla." He said "Last night I noticed the glances you Leonardo exchanged, and also Aneka mentioned certain things this morning..."
Challa simply tugged on her ears "What am I going to do?"
Ari sighed "I have always felt...Uneasy about what Father said about Sarpah, that's probobly why I went poking around those old books, after meeting him...He seems to have all the Noble Traits a Sunborn Warrior should have regardless of whatever he actually is in his own world...We have been worrying about your future Chanchalla, we wish you to be taken care of, and it almost seems our prayers were answered, that Turtle seems the best husband we could wish for...To be the most important part is he makes you happy...Now that we have all been reduced to Outcastes, our Sunborn powers stripped away, the old rules no longer apply if this is all the Devah's doing than perhaps your love with this Sarpah is meant to be and Father doesn't have to like it..." Ari stopped himself when he realized what an extreme thing he was saying...
Challa smiled sorrowfully and said "But even with Father aside there is still the fact he is by Dardunah standards an abomination...And carries the strench of the sewer with him...Besides...It seems clear to me he is needed in his world...I can't ask him to leave his family and everything he loves behind to marry me..."
Ari rubbed his chin "You do bring up good points..." He said "...I suppose what the Devah want us to do is live in the moment and work on the mission we've been given...We'll see what the future holds."
So yeah Ari is the 'Shipper on Deck' so obviously there's going to a long journey to reach Challa's parents in another country so gonna have to figure if how to write it if I should just timeskip to when they reach their destination or what