Chapter 63

Basten spent the past two years visualizing changes Phoenix would have undergone by the time he came back from war. He had expected a few changes but what he had not expected when he left the rest of the soldiers heading towards the king’s castle was the goddess standing by the bank of the stream pacing from one end of it to the other. If she hadn’t called his name he would have sworn that it was a different person. She arrived at the water earlier than he did, he had expected that he would have a few moments to make himself presentable before she showed up. But when he saw the figure running through the thick of the forest towards the location he had told Teo and Dan to tell her he knew he could not wait for a moment to put himself in order before seeing her.

When he called her name, unsure of whether or not she was actually the one standing there even though she was calling out his name, he was surprised to see how different she looked. She was taller, exactly the same hei