Homecoming

The woman had no trouble passing the security checkpoint.

...Just like that, Mordret entered the stronghold of the great and powerful clan Valor.

His birthplace.

It felt fascinating to come back here. Mordret did not exactly consider this place his home, but he remembered it well. Not from when he had lived here during early childhood, but from the time he spent here right after coming back from the Dream Realm. 

He had been twelve… or was it thirteen?... and already an Awakened. Reaching Bastion first, and then coming to this beautiful place. 

Everything in the waking world had felt soft, but his return…

Was not at all like he had imagined. 

As memories flashed in his mind, Mordret felt a dark, suffocating emotion rise from the depths of his soul. 

'Now is not the time.'