[Darin's quiet and Zelda can likely sense why. Discussing this is not only incredibly personal but it could lead to further questions. Questions about the nature and origin of his powers. The prophecy. Everything he is.]

[His hands ball into fists briefly. What happens if he tells her? Would she be scared of him? He wouldn't blame her but...]

[But Zelda is pretty much his first friend. And somehow she's managed to want to stick around despite the fact he's been an incredible ass to her.]

[He clasps the bracer back onto his arm.]

I don't know the details. [It's not a lie. He doesn't know everything about how Dromas came back. Just that he was somehow given a new body and raised in the realm of the Archfiends.]

Not...all of them. But he's alive. And...he hates me. Before I arrived here I was on the run. Being hunted down for an assassination I didn't commit. There was an eye witness...someone saw a man who looked exactly like me with blue hair. So...that's all they needed. I was in Arclight that day and people...

Well, people didn't need much of a reason to suspect me.

[He stands and starts to pace, running a hand through his hair, pointedly avoiding eye contact.]

Long story short, I escaped and chased down the guy who framed me. It...It was Dromas.

He'd dyed his hair blue knowing I'd be blamed. He wanted me to find him.

[And then he massacred the entire city of Eruyeka just to prove a point. To show Darin how strong he should be.]