Kassandra's POV
I could feel her coming. Even though our connection was nearly broken I could still feel her.
From the moment she had been taken from me I had felt incomplete. My other half was gone. I had no idea where. No way to get her back.
Laas had been furious. By the time the guards had decided to show up she had already destroyed the area, I did nothing to stop her.
Our mate had just been taken, we should be allowed to vent.
"Are you ready?" Scar asked from her floating position beside me.
I looked over at her and smiled sadly.
"I will never be ready for this," I told her honestly.
"But I will still do it," I said just as Fen came up to my other side.
Fen had also changed during her absence. His happy attitude had faded and he closed himself off only really opening up when he was with Scar. I knew he wasn't happy with what was about to happen but he also knew that it had too.
"They're here." A voice said from behind me. Looking back I saw the entire Illirian army in different formations behind me.
The time had come, it was the war of prophecy and I would have a front-row seat.
A shiver went down my spine and I saw Laas pick her head up and heard her whine.
A black dimensional portal opened a small distance away from me and it brought back the memories of her being taken.
Of her clawing the ground, fighting against the chains that were trying to drag her into oblivion. The way her blood had flowed from the two wounds in her shoulders.
The promise she had made to me about finding her way back. It seemed she would keep that promise, just not the way we had thought.
We watched as members of the dark faction poured out of the dimensional portal but we didn't engage yet.
It was then that I saw her. The last to exit the dimensional portal. She still shined so brightly. A lone star against the darkness. I wanted to go to her, throw my arms around her, and never let her go again but I knew that I couldn't.
She took up a position in front of the dark faction, directly opposite me, and for the first time in what seemed like forever, I was able to look into those beautiful swirling rainbow eyes.
The short but meaningful time we had spent together. How she looked at me as if I was her entire world. The way her presence made me feel safe. I missed it all.
"Kassandra." Scar said snapping me out of my daze.
Nodding my head I summoned Oblivion and watched as she summoned her blade of darkness.
I'm not sure which side did it but someone let out a war cry and both sides attacked.
I moved directly for her and she did the same. As soon as our blades met there was an explosion of power between them.
She looked into my eyes and I felt Laas crying out for her mate and I wanted to do the same.
"Kassandra." She said and I felt my heart skip at the sound of her voice.
"Aliana..... I've missed you," I said as I pushed against our blades forcing them closer to her.
"You've gotten stronger my love." She said and I smiled internally at her praise but frowned when the blades started moving back in my direction.
"But not strong enough." She said.