Chapter 406: Shadows
"Yes, yes. Then what happened after you were caught?" Arabella could bear such smugness since she knew he was, indeed, very much capable.
"Incidentally, among the people who caught me was Evania’s fiancé and another was her loyal guard. When I said I went there to inform them someone from their kind was in the human realm, they questioned me more since they had been looking for Evania’s soul which had been missing for a while. It was then that I learned she was Evania, the only princess of the shadows," Alwin revealed.
"I see," Arabella slowly nodded her head. "No wonder you said it could cause a war between Umbra and Estrella."
Alwin explained that Evania was among the long-lived races they called Shadows. Once they mature, shadows can live without the need for a physical body.
A physical body becomes their weakness so there were those who gave up their body after some time and lived completely in their shadow form.
Thus, Evania did not actually need a human body to survive in the human realm. She could have remained in her shadow form and moved much more freely.
Evania’s mysterious helper when she eavesdropped on Fatima only brought out her true form. Since Evania had lost her original memories, she fully thought she was truly Evelyn and Renee and did not know about her abilities.
"Evania ran away from her marriage. She was supposed to get married to her fiancé, but she left her body and went to the human realm. From her memories that I read when I caught her, I learned later on that she dreamed of living in the sun."
Alwin said that Umbra barely had any sunlight. And Evania dreamed of living in a place that was bright so often in contrast to her dark home. Thus, she longed to leave. But her responsibilities would not allow her to do so. And she did not even want to get married to her fiancé.