Locate The Sword

[Anika’s POV]

All around me, I could sense Mateo, but no matter how much I reached out, I couldn’t find him. What was this? Why did it feel like he was right here with me?

‘Anika?’ Fallon’s soft voice drifts through the void I’m trapped in, drawing me to the world that exists outside of it. ‘Are you there?’

‘I am,’ I confirm. ‘What’s wrong?’

‘We need your help.’

Help? What in the world could they need my help with? All this time, she had been fighting to keep me confined, but now that I was needed, she was willing to allow me freedom. I didn’t know if I should be concerned or thankful. Whatever it was I was needed for must have outweighed her desire to keep me at bay.

‘The anima sword,’ Fallon explains. ‘Fineon thinks it may be closer than we think, but he needs you to help him locate it.’

As the words drift around me, I can feel myself being pushed forward towards the light of the real world, where Fallon and Fineon exist.

After giving a stretch, I look around to find that I am now t