"Xolotl, my husband! Father truly was in the wrong. He truly was unfair to you... but I will protect you! I will keep you safe in the Lake Capital, even if it costs me my life!..."
"Xolotl, you are the father Xiuhua worships! I beg you, you can resent my father, but you must never resent our child... Once Xiuhua succeeds to the throne, you can still be like the immortal Elder, deciding the great affairs of the Alliance, becoming the sun behind the Divine King!..."
"Xolotl! Look at me, look into my eyes!... I was all alone with our child, bitterly waiting for you for more than five years... Can't you even look at me once, give me one warm embrace?!..."
The former High Priest's Mansion had now become Xolotl's Prince's Palace, and also Alisa's residence. Golden Chain ornaments symbolizing the sun hung everywhere in the Prince's Palace, inlaid with Obsidian that shimmered with flowing light, and carved with eagles made from Lake Gem.
Yet at this very moment, the "Eagle of the Lake" was trapped within the "Golden Chain of the Sun," like the God of Volcanoes in a towering rage. Xolotl glared with a pair of lava-hardened "Obsidian" eyes, mortal fury caged within the prison of ideals. And hearing Alisa's words, he finally turned his head, stared at the wife he had not seen for five and a half years, and demanded.
"Alisa! Did you know Avet's scheme today?... Why did you not give me even a single hint in the letters you wrote to me?... Could you really bear, for the sake of our son, to make me bow my head like this before so many Priest Elders and nobles?... If not for the future of all under heaven, if not to avoid civil war in