Desert Flower Monarch

Obscured from sight, the waves caressed the shores. All around them, the wind flowed, rustling the dormant sand. And the sound of people's hearts beating all around him.

His senses picked several things. But only these things. Nothing else. 

He could see her but not sense her in any other way. Even as he tried, he couldn't detect any energy coming off her. She stood close to him, but he couldn't feel her body's warmth nor catch a whiff of her scent. And amidst all the heartbeats, he didn't find hers. She stood there, yet her presence seemed absent.

'I still can sense everything around me. The people are still there. The energy is there. And the world is there. Only she isn't there. Or she doesn't seem to be. But I see her!'

Hex tried to reason. He tried to come up with an explanation. His chances against an Enlightened Knight were zero, absolute zero.