When he woke up he suddenly realised that his body went threw a sort of transformation. He felt stronger sturdier more resilient. He felt as if no normal sword would be able to cut him.
Then he looked inward, his heart was beating slower than usual yet it was pumping way more blood, his lungs were the same size yet he felt he could breath in more air.
But at some point he felt something that he had never felt before, there were two sphere radiating with energy. One was bright and warm while the other was dark and cold, he knew what they were, they were his spirit cores. He felt a powerful essence coming from them but he couldn't control him yet.
The feeling was invigorating
The only thing that was different between his cores and those of other people was the number of them, he had two when other emberborn had one.
When he finally became aware of his surrounding, the first think he heard was his father's voice:
"Are you okay? What happened? Why is your hair black? How do you feel? What happened?"
Cael said with a tired voice: " You said what happened twice, and please ask one question at a time."
" Did I ? Well that's not important, are you okay?"
"Yes, I …"
Then Korr interrupted him and asked with a serious voice: " What happened"
Darian told him to let him talk but Korr insisted, the question was too important to delay
Cael said "okay I'll tell you"
Cael proceeded to tell them everything, the pain he felt, the begging, the despair and the cursing as he did he saw the face of his father turn more and more sombre while Korr's face remained the same, he couldn't read the old man, was he even old? He assumed he was because he was friends with his father but in reality he had no idea. The marked ones had a way longer lifespan, heck he didn't even know what stage of awakening he was, he just knew that he was unfathomably powerful.
After going on the tangent in his head he remember the dream and it shook him to his core and when he told them about it. He did not expect it but when he did thought that he saw Korr shiver.
Then Cael asked:" What do you think"
His father stayed silent but Korr answered:" First of all, congratulations you are now an Emberborn now let's get into it. Feeling a lot of pain during your awakening is normal, gods know I still have nightmares about mine but I've never seen someone survive such an excruciating amount. Most people would have ether burned to death or died of a heart attack induced by the pain. As for the blinking in and out of existence I have no idea, people marked by different gods do not experience the same trial.
People marked by the shards of the bright god Solaris experienced heat and pain, the one marked by the steel god Kalvis felt the weight of the whole world smashing into them like a hammer on an anvil, the one marked the water god Agwé felt as if they were drowning in a bottomless sea. So I suppose that it was just due to the spirit core of the dark god awakening."
Cael nodded throughout the whole speech but he was only thinking about vengeance, he was angry at the world but he couldn't finish that train of thought because Korr wasn't finished.
" As for that dream of yours. I don't think it was a dream, I think your consciousness was transported to Vezenor, Vezenor is way bigger than our realm so I don't know where exactly. But your physical body stayed. That would explain why half of your hair is black, your spirt changed so your body followed. But that raise a question how did you travel there I have no idea, you obviously can't control your essence yet and there are Light Vein here so that should have been impossible."
As the last word left his mouth, he felt something coming fast in their direction.
There was three people, he couldn't feel their exact power yet but he knew they were coming.
" Darian you have to hide now" he shouted
" And Cael brace yourself, we have some company."