084: Shards

[Ona]

She didn't warn us. She hardly even said goodbye. She looked at us with such sad eyes as she swept her hand upwards and we became encased within a sphere of darkness.

"I am so sorry..." Her last words faded and distorted as my brother screamed her name, screamed for her to stop.

But she couldn't hear him.

I held my little brother close while the darkness swept our little family, our remaining guards and nurses, up and out of Elfholm to Luxandra above.

Freedom. She sacrificed herself for freedom.

When the inky darkness receded, we were only footsteps away from the Eastern Gate in the Realm of Air, close to the home duchy of Eleanora the False Queen. Carnelia used her newly developed abilities to phase our entire number across a vast amount of space.

Not even the Elf King himself was able to move us all so far so quickly.

What is she becoming now that she is growing up into her power?

"We need to get moving," I try to urge my brother, who has fallen to his knees, his hands reaching