Leena was the first to answer Vicente's questions, bringing out what she knew. "Well, I haven't seen my father for a long time... So forgive me if I need some time to remember certain things better."
"No problem." He assured her, in no hurry to get the answers and information he so desperately wanted. "Can you tell me where he went? And how long has it been since he left?"
Leena smiled with a bitter expression, a mixture of amusement and regret. She said in reply, "Well, where he went I don't know. Even he wasn't sure of his fate at the time. But it happened 2,000 years ago. But my father lived in Amae for a long time before setting off on his sea journey to Anicane."
Vicente imagined that this was related to the plans of the elves and dragons of the Polaris Realm.
"Why did he leave? Did he ever tell you?" he asked this young-looking but obviously very experienced woman.
She nodded in affirmation. "He told me he wanted to find others like them. In my father's time, he was the only Polaris Realm native on our island. He never told me what his real purpose in life was, but he did say that he came to Anicane with the desire to find others like him. He was lucky to arrive on one of the islands where there were members of a race similar to his, but he was never satisfied with that. But he was a great father, senior Vicente. He took care of me, my mother, and my brothers, and only then did he leave."
Vicente asked curiously, "That was about how long after he arrived in Amae?"
"A few centuries. I don't remember exactly. It was told to me by my mother and him, but I don't really know the exact time."
"That's enough, don't worry." He assured her before asking another question, "But did he tell you why he wanted to find others like him?"
Vicente didn't comment on Tasar's last thought, not being there to think about the mistakes that this mother had made. But he was interested in what this guy had experienced, appreciating Tasar's memory.
Vicente asked his questions, probing where Tasar's mother might have gone, if there was any way he could estimate whether she was still alive, something he also asked Leena.
They both seemed rather pessimistic about the vital state of their parents. They both believed with virtual certainty that their parents had been dead for a long time. But while Leena did not know where her father might have gone, Tasar knew about his mother's initial destination.
"... Back then, she told me that if I ever wanted to find her, I would have to travel to the Red Enclave."
Larissa had heard of this place. "The Red Enclave?" she asked in surprise, narrowing her eyes as she looked at the middle-aged elf in front of her.
Tasar affirmed as he shook his head and said, "Yes, the Red Enclave. I never understood what my mother could want on a vampire island, either. But she told me so many times that I could never be confused."
The Red Enclave was a long way from Amae and Light Cay, the region of Anicane where Vicente had arrived. But there was information about this island here and there, even in distant places. Given the seniority of some of them there and their current strength, knowing about such a place wasn't so difficult.
Vicente was silent at this confirmation and couldn't help imagining that Tasar's mother had left with the aim of dealing with the vampires in order to somehow help the people of the Polaris Realm.
'That's complicated. How exactly did she think she could help the elves of Majestic Treefrog Grove with this?' He didn't quite understand Tasar's mother's motives.
So, thinking about that elf's words, Vicente asked, "Tasar, did your mother want to go to this place on her own, or do you think her master might have convinced her to do it?"
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