Maybe This Time

Moments earlier...

The whole room was like a placid lake, and there was a pavilion in the middle. A beautiful woman that looked in her late-twenties was seated on the edge, enjoying a cup of fragrant tea. Her eyes were closed, and her hair and robes wouldn't move as if they were frozen in time. There was nothing but tranquility in the pavilion, and the woman in white continued savoring her tea in silence.

If one was to see this landscape, one could mistake it as a perfect painting.

Two sets of ripples appeared on the lake... and two stalwart figures appeared beside her just like that. However, it was as if she didn't notice any of them and continued with her dallying.

"Your Eminence," one of them spoke, making the woman respond with only a hum, "the Abyss has risen. She's en route to that woman you approached before."

"And Prince Sky?" Nuwa responded as she kept on savoring her tea.

"Bound to die."