Chapter 345: The Tree of Elements (Part Four)
The faery lifted his hands and shadows gently swirled around Annalise, surrounding her in a distortion field that made Esmeray appear as if she was watching him through a screen door, and the blue-golden tree as well. And when she tried to get out of it, she hit a wave of something so cold it burned her skin.
The distortion thickened and she started seeing faces appear out of the corners of her eyes. There was Valerius, Damien, and Kenric. Her parents whom she hadn’t met for a while. All her friends - Leela, Ezra, Elijah, and Marley.
She was in a vortex of all those people who were dear to her.
For a moment, she got freaked out as terror started taking control over her. She wanted to shut her eyes, but instead, she ended up following her husbands.
They seemed to be busy training the Seelies, working hard every minute of the day to save the people and the world they loved so dearly.
Just seeing their faces again, even in some strange magical context, made her soul ache for their company. Even if she just spent a really lovely night with Kenric a couple of days ago, her heart was still crying for them.
’Valerius, is that really you?’ She tried to call out to the Winter Prince through the mind link. "Damien... Kenric!’
’Annalise...’
She did get a response but it wasn’t from her husbands, instead, the voice belonged to Esmeray.