A portal opened inside the newly built royal chambers in the capital’s center. Seth, followed by Henrietta, Maya, Hollie, and Tiana, walked out of the portal, looking around the beautifully decorated hallway they had arrived in.
Even Hollie looked impressed, her eyes darting around the different paintings stuck to the walls.
“Are these - “
“Pictures of different sceneries from the future. There are even ones of distant worlds. That one you’re looking at is an image of the world tree, Yggdrasil, seen from the chaos of outer space. She’s -“
Seth’s words stopped as he noticed a red-faced Aleena stepping through his portal just as he was about to close it. Her head was slightly lowered, and her hands were brought together at her waist. She kept rubbing the back of her hand out of nervousness.