Chapter 6 - With Great Power, Comes Greater Problems.

The feeling of touching the gem was something familiar, it felt like she had been thrown across different realms and yanked right out of them, before she could even actually be there to see anything.

The only thing she didn't feel this time was the pain.

The one that made it feel like her head was about to crack open and rip apart along the lines of the Thanis tattoo on her scalp.

It didn't feel like that at all, instead, it felt almost soothing.

She saw Thanatou's soldiers marching into Me'k, the wall gone. She heard the voice of the woman whose face she had never been able to see, but whose presence brought her dread always, her voice echoing, sounding like a sad song.

Then she was yanked out of it again, breathless.

Alaris was standing away from her, his reptilian eyes were gone, now replaced with one blue and the other red.

"I knew it," excitement laced his voice and he smiled from ear to ear.