61. Truths and other things

(ELYN)

I had so many questions, but I knew asking them wouldn't get me any answer.

"She is lying, King Egor. She has the stones. Vincys stole the stones.”

"Oh shut up, you crusty twat waffle!"

Vincys. Stone. The spirit who gave me the stone! I gasped.

Was my father dead? I knew spirit's were mostly the souls of the dead who refused to move on with Kaheli, the goddess of death, because they had things to do in the realm of the living.

A small, unexplained feeling spread through me.

How could he be dead?

After all these years, I finally found out who he was, and he wasn't even alive?

"Little girl, this will be easier for you if you do what is asked of you," the king said. I shook my head with a grunt. I wasn't going to tell them where I thought my dad was.

I tried to listen to the sounds that were coming from outside this small room.

I could hear the tinny sound of swords clanging. I could hear the wind. And beyond all of it, I head it. The roar of the sea. My body stilled