219 : The Green Moon

ELIJAH

I can’t believe this. Dad?

“How?” I ask, my voice betraying the composure I try to keep in front of him. He was dead.

He died in an accident involving rogues when I was fifteen.

Dad walks towards me and I take a step back, afraid that he isn’t real. Is this a part of my hallucination too? Am I sick?

“It's been a long time. You’ve grown and taken over the throne,” Dad’s voice grounds me back to reality.

“You–you are not real.” I hiss, narrowing my eyes at him. “You were dead.”

“I’m as real as you are. No need to doubt it,” He says, his stoic face bringing back memories of childhood.

“Then how the fuck are you here?! You were dead! Or did someone dig your grave and revive you?” I spat, worried that my assumption might be true. With how things have been, Rena finding out her supposed dead mother is alive, Nixie and Theon alive, anything can be possible. People are just dying and coming back to life, making a joke out of death.

“I never died,” He replies nonchalantly, as i