chapter 66

Bastian

"But if you're so strong, why didn't you fight back? Why not run away before now?" Louis asked the question we all were asking ourselves.

"I just gained all this," she said, spinning her finger and the orb of light that always appeared and followed her around when darkness fell moved on her whim. "I tried a few times before but they didn't make it easy and the fall out of trying made me realize I needed to be smarter than them. I made a few friends in places they didn't expect, I could have maybe taken them one at a time, but then what? How do I prove what they planned to do to me? How do I keep a tyrant off my fathers seat on the council? How do I make them see? I only had a little time with my father and his love has been all that ever mattered to me before meeting all of you."

"So what's this got to do with us," Lou asked.

"She, ain't staying Lou, she's telling you all the reasons why it's more important she do all those things rather than stick around here," I said blunt