My Dearest

"You want me to believe that you have been guarding these ruins for my sake?" asked Arthur with a frown, lightning crackling around his body. Jasmine looked at him with deep, emotionless eyes as the tension rose between them.

"Many people received epiphanies that allowed them to grow stronger, wiser, or just miserable. I received nothing like that even as the Princess of the Yozia Empire. One day, my grandfather said these were our memories from a different life, and a spiritual awakening would retrieve them."

As she narrated the distant past, Jasmine took off her cloak and threw it to the ground. Her dreadlocked ginger hair reached her waist while the falling cloak revealed a set of knuckledusters on her hands.

"Are we going to fight?" asked Arthur as his lightning crackled. "I know that you are working with Seref. You used the powers of the Holy Crown to disable my wrath once before."