It only took them less than a day to travel back from Qiryn to Zemaria since Elsa, Elandir, and Valeria helped the water and air mages on board manipulating the water and air elements around them to make the ship sail faster.
Elandir kept his hood on his head until they reached Rügengard Castle, to keep the onlookers from murmuring to each other since it would be the first time in many years that they would see an elf in their land. It has been more than half a millennium since Qiryn closed its door to everyone or maybe more.
Prince Andrius and Prince Drake happily greeted everyone from the entrance of the castle and were utterly disappointed when they didn't see Rocco with her.
Prince Andrius was the first one to ask since Drake already had an idea of what happened. "Where is our grandson? Wow, that is so awkward to hear. But back to my question, where is he?"