His blood

- Dania!!! Don't touch anything, especially that binder, do you hear me?

It was Abi who shouted these panic-filled words at me. In spite of his terrible fight against the invaders, using various considerable magic weapons that he could create but limited to thirty, and impregnated with light, he still took the trouble to shout them in his magical voice, just to make me understand how dangerous it was to do so. I found myself at the top of that pillar, alone and lost in the most confusion, not knowing what to do. Powerless to save my friends. Worse, a monster came out of the waters, a monster without eyes, gigantic, with a misty, slimy tone, ejecting a syrupy substance from all sides. I had the impression to find myself in front of a monster, rotten to the inside. I was cornered against the support of the binding.

- Dania!

The despair in Seiran's voice tore at my heart. I thought, resignedly, that I wished I had more time to get to know him better... I turned to him. I told myself that if this was really the end, then I would wish that the last thing I saw in this life was him and him alone. Then I realized that a singular fact had unconsciously caught my attention, so I turned back to the symbols inscribed on the stone leaves of the book.

- Dania!

I didn't listen anymore, too focused on what I was reading.

- ...Zeogias blood will set me free.

I looked at the hideous water monster that now stood before me to take my life, and I looked at my friends dying in a fight they would never win. I had nothing left to lose, it was all to try, it would work or not. I shook my head, standing up defiantly as the monster brandished its arms to deliver a blow that would probably be fatal. And to tell the truth, I think deep down I always knew the truth.

I brought my hand to my mouth to bite it to the point of blood, and with what was left of my energy I smeared my wounded hand on that lightless, lifeless gold plate.

Then, as soon as the blood touched the sacred sheet, in a brief moment everything stopped, time stopped its infernal machine.

- But how... it is impossible...

Abi was stunned, looking at me without understanding. If he knew, I thought..., then a kind of hurricane woke up, unleashing its almighty anger on all that was my enemies, it sucked up everything. These monsters that I hated, were carried away in the webs of this unimaginable force. Abi, felt chains in his being being broken and torn off, to make way for a power restored, a power acquired, that part of him that was taken away for a fault he had not committed, was given back to him in the most unexpected way, while the sordid spells that had held him back all his life, were taken to where their true place was, swallowed up in the total nothingness

When it was all over, when our enemies disappeared, swallowed up in the bowels of the monstrous hurricane I had created, and that too went away. We all met and hugged each other, happy and relieved to have survived a desolate and tragic situation.

Abi stood in front of us, turning to me and smiling with all his teeth, sparkling teeth that are certainly the reflections of a recognition that was not mine but rather to some indefinable being that they will probably never know...

Alas, the troubles were not all eradicated. Because of the chaos I caused, the shock cracked the door and allowed the soldiers of the fog to enter this buried prison.

The border shook, the border that condemned us to this world, began to dissipate but not yet enough. They approached, inexorably, but our fear had already disappeared, replaced by an unbearable tiredness, which forced me to kneel down, before lying down on this rock, which had lost its coldness.

- Dania...

- Dania! Hold on!

I heard my name ring out several times today, and again more than it has in my entire life. And that again and again because of him,...

I saw Abios, finally free of his evil spells, summon his true powers. He burst into flame, intoxicated with a power beyond imagination. A power that made him the pillar of an entire kingdom. But despite this marvelous turn of events our enemies in the mist were still too strong, so the magician also bled his hand and spread his blood on the wall. Seiran understood what he had to do and did the same, smearing his blood on the wall opposite Abi's, which triggered an outpouring of magic that finally pushed the dark horsemen back.

- Welcome to the world of sovereignty, Prince Abi. said the ruler of the flying with a friendly smile. Brothers help each other, right?

Abios returned the knowing smile.

- Yes. Thank you.

Magic poured into the lake that had lost its curse and created a bridge. Abi stayed behind to make sure the bridge didn't collapse as we all crossed it, but also to prevent the emissaries of the curse from doing so.

Seiran joined me and then took me by the arms, me who was already half unconscious and watching the whole scene, capsizing between the world of dreams and reality.

- Seiran, don't let them hurt me.

- Of course not Dania, my love.

When the border of the neighboring kingdom of Orios opened, and let us pass, my last memory was of the immense breath that Abi had produced to completely close that border that we had despaired of ever opening, that burning breath scratched my skin, flaying it with its sharp blades of liberation, and allowed me to enter into unconsciousness with peace.