![]() ![]() One day, the ocean will be missing a feared pirate captain whose heart is full of love and courage and who gazes at the horizon, longing to know what’s beyond but still never forgetting that returning home is the most valuable treasure of all. But even the purest heart won’t save her from the inevitable. One day, Laura will rule over Castele, and she’ll be the kind and just queen Yuelia knows she can be. And this will repeat and repeat and repeat, until she’ll have no more tears to shed and still feel like she’s going to drown in her own grief. Nothing but a memory no one but Noelia and she can recall. Still as colorful, still as lively, but different nonetheless.Īll the kids she played tag with, all the people who smiled and laughed and loved so much-they’re long gone. It’s like she’s blinked and all of a sudden everything is different. About the deep love she’s developed for Origin Island, and how much has changed. She thinks about the many days the two of them spent here when they were little, playing with the children and exploring every corner. “That’s the price of immortality, whether you like it or not.” That’s just how it is.” Noelia likes to act like she doesn’t care about Reveria, but she did help save it, after all, and Yuelia knows she’s grown quite fond of the young pilot without whom they would’ve never made it so far. “We may be gods, but even we cannot change humanity’s mortality, Yuelia. “Robin is one of the smartest people in all of Reveria, but I doubt even he could find a way to live forever.” She looks back at her, seemingly expressionless, but Yuelia knows her well enough to see through her mask, to see the sadness and grief sparkling in her eyes. Noelia closes her eyes and tilts her head back, taking a deep breath and letting out a sound half chuckle, half something else. We’ll be here for eternity, stuck in a prison of memories and things that were and aren’t anymore. They’ll be gone and I’ll never see them again and no one will be left except for us. Laura, Olivia and Andy, Daemon, Pinoa and Leilah… even Pam and Ava.” Tears well up in her eyes, threatening to spill over, and she covers her face with her hands and presses her lips together in an attempt to stop a sob. It’s just… eventually, they all will be gone. ![]() “What makes you say that?” Noelia’s voice is wary. The abrupt movement sends some of the leaves on the ground flying. Her sister’s second eye shoots open, and she sits up. “That one day, we’ll be the only ones to see the end.” Noelia opens one golden eye, glancing at her. “Don’t you think it’s scary?” she whispers, finally finding what seems like the right words. What it means when death is something she will never even brush with her fingertips. Because sometimes, no matter how much she dreads it, all she can think about is what it means to be immortal. The steady motion is the only thing keeping her from breaking down in tears right here and now.īecause sometimes, realization hits her like a wave of icy water. Yuelia watches her chest rise and fall with every breath she takes. Her sister is lying on her back with her eyes closed and her legs bent at the knees. ![]() A few red and orange leaves are falling from the trees surrounding them, floating through the air until they land on the soft grass next to her and Noelia. Yuelia gasps for air, her feet dangling in the cool water of the lakes right above the path to the Forest Shrine. ![]()
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