Chapter 552: Tea
The walk back to Hollow Shade was filled with silence. Though Holo had carried them outside the city through various Flicker spells she had decided to withhold her Orange magic and let them walk through the grassy hills of the valley, all the way back to the city.
Stryg had dozens of questions for his sisters but he held them back and tried to face the problems he had been avoiding ever since Ananta had told him the truth of his nature. If he kept ignoring them, if he kept rejecting who he was, then tonight’s incident would repeat itself.
He was a titan, a hybrid of mixed descent, but predominantly a titan. He hated that, it felt as if fate itself had taken away the part of him that made him a goblin, that made him Sylvan. But he supposed Lunae was a titan and who was more Sylvan than the Mother of the Sylvan Tribes? The thought gave him some comfort.
As they reached the gates Stryg got his first good look at the shade wall since the siege. The once ebon black stone was now a semi-translucent grey like glass covered by a thick layer of dust.
“Someday I’ll restore it,” said Holo, determined.
“You’ll need a prime archmage to help you and last I checked, the Ebon Realm is lacking them,” said Melantha.
Holo glanced at Stryg. “I’m sure I’ll find one, in time.”
He didn’t hear her, his mind was elsewhere.
The gates were closed, as usual. Hollow Shade always closed its gates at night, on account of the shades. Now the shades were gone, but looking up at the giant wall looming over them still made Stryg feel small.