Chapter 29: Broken Bonds

Xiathera walked around the table, kneeling beside her sister. Mialtros looked at the sword in the fire, then at Kalzek who was happily posed on his seat, a cup raised to the sky in triumph. Xiathia herself looked…miserable.

She was hollow eyed and skeletal. Ghirti looked no better.

Mialtros recognized the look in her eyes as the same one from the desert. She looked at Xiathera. The woman ran her hands over Xiathia’s face. Her fingers left trails of frost on the stilled image.

“Xiathia and Ghirti were…emotional wrecks. Grief can affect the mind in many ways. Their grief was guilt ridden…they blamed themselves for the death of the town. Both thought they could have done more to save their home. Taken the people away. Even if they had gotten anyone away from the dimension-”