[color=a187be]“Miss Jo, don’t worry. Curt’s ability is to enhance the properties of something. As Leon heals, Curt can speed up the process, now please. Tell me what happened.” Hue briefly explained before giving her a nod and crossing his arms under his broad chest and listened intensely to her story. He remained silent as she spoke and gave her a nod of ‘okay’ when she said she would be staying but a look of confusion moved across his face as she said that Leon asked her to stay.

Tapping his foot against the ground he turned and went into the bedroom as Curt was finishing up. He explained the situation to Curt before he turned his gaze down to the sleeping Leon. “You don’t think he’s that stupid do you?”[/color]

[color=f7941d]“I don’t know…” Curt said in all seriousness as he looked down at the sleeping man. “But who’s going to argue with the wild lion of the heavens?  I’m sure he knows it’s bad and will do his best to get rid of it. But… I don’t know if it will work.”[/color]

[color=ed1c24]“WHAT?!” Scorpio roared as the gods stood outside of Leon’s bedroom and the Punishment gods received the explanation from the Department of Wishes. “How is that possible?!”[/color]

[color=a187be]“The human is doing her job.” Hue responded with a nod and a shrug of his shoulders. “It wouldn’t surprise me if Leon figures it out by the time he work up. He’s almost as desperate to return to the heavens as you are Scorpio.” The girl scuffed at him as if to say ‘it’s not fair’ that Leon was figuring it out faster than everyone else. “But it seems like there was a mix of pain before everything settled.”[/color]

[color=0072bc]Axel finally spoke up, “So could it have gotten worse before it got better than? Like he was pushing the boundaries on the sin or committing one then the king decided it wasn’t a big deal?”[/color]

[color=c4df9b]“That does sound like something the king would do…” Alexander commented quietly as he crossed his arms over his chest and turned his thought filled gaze to the floor.[/color]

[color=ed1c24]The gods’ attention turned to the hallway to see Jo had arrived to them gathered outside of Leon’s room and Scorpio was the first to her. “Goldfish!” She snapped in her authoritarian tone as she sized up the woman. “Leon’s mark has faded to almost half visible. What are you doing to remove his sin? Explain, now!”[/color]

“Goldfish!” Leon’s voice boomed from his room despite the door being closed. Scorpio stepped in her way to stop her from going in only to hear, “Scorpio you will regret letting her pass.” Leon’s cold and arrogant voice echoed through the door, threatening enough to convince the scuffing and irritated-looking Scorpio to step to the side and let her enter the room shutting them out.

Leon was sitting upright, a wet towel dabbing his head as his large chest rose and fell with heavy breaths. His broad back was resting against the assortment of pillows on the large bed and his short covered legs stretched out in front of him. The pant leg rolled up to reveal the tattoo, the mark of his sin, had truly faded. Unbelievable, he could go home once it was gone but… as his amber-golden gaze turned up to the goldfish walked in, now he wasn’t sure if he wanted to go back…