Isabelle couldn't believe what was happening. She stood there, frozen in shock and watched as the icy girl wanted to take her away, like he had done to her brother. The promise of her being released afterward fell on deaf ears. It felt like she had turned back in time, but it wasn't her brother who was being punished.
It was her.
And then the icy girl turned away from her and approached Michael. And then he put her hands on courageous, naive, little Ilian.
History was repeating again.
The moment Isabelle finally unfroze was when she heard Michael scream after Ilian, when she saw the boy slowly fading in the swarm of pixies. It was the moment she realised that if she couldn't change the past, she could at least stop it from happening again.
"Wait!" She shouted, her voice breaking on the word, as she was terrified of what would happen next.