Mind Racing
From the Chronicles of Myra Sunveil



She felt the ether gather around her.

"He will pay, one day, I promise." She didn't know if the words had passed her lips or not before the ether whisked her away, but she meant it to the very core of her being.

She had found out what had happened to Glor, and it made her angry. She didn't know what the feeling was at first... She couldn't remember ever feeling this way before in her life. She felt as if, if she saw Dolenamo, she could gut him with a dull knife and pull out his innards without so much as an ounce of guilt, while staring him in the face.

Thoughts of finding him and making him pay raced through her head. Those thoughts and so many others. She looked down at the ring on her finger. And looked at the empty space she would have shared with Laina.

Her eyes strayed out over the forest. Suddenly it seemed so large, even ominous...

She leaned her bow against her throne and made her way down to her front door. It was unlocked. She reached for her key on the wall, and stopped, frowning. She would not lock her door. That would be admitting she was afraid. Besides, if Glor or... Laina came by, they needed to be able to get in.

Instead, she gathered what little ether she could control and set a small ward on the door. If this door opened, Reverie or no, she would know it.

She climbed back up to her roof and took off her armor. She unrolled her bedroll and laid it on the pentagram tiles on her roof. Sparing one last glance over the woods, and satisfied there was nothing odd stirring out there, she laid down on her bedroll, and pulled her blanket over her.

Her thoughts wouldn't let her sleep. First Dolenamo... She'd never met him, yet now he haunted her. She would pay him back for what he did to Glor. She swore it. Then... Laina had been about. Glor said he saw her. That was the best news she had heard today...

She squeezed her hand to feel the odd sensation of the ring now on her finger. Then there was that. What was she going to say?

She sat up. And sighed, quickly putting the idea to go try to track Dolenamo far from her mind. She laid back down and just stared at the star filled sky and watching the mini clouds her breath made in the cold night air until actual sleep claimed her.


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