The Empire of Zeth/Chapter 10

Nightmares twisted through Evy's mind. She was back in her parent's castle again as a small child. She searched frantically for her parents through the eerily empty halls. She had to warn them - they needed to run away before it was too late! A looming sense of dread wrapped around her like a smothering blanket with each empty room she checked. "Mama!" She cried out, opening yet another door to an empty room. "Papa! Where are you!?" *Sob*

She opens runs down the hallways. There is only one door left and she flings it open. Her parent's bodies lie on the floor of their bedchamber. Her mother is nearly cut in half at the waist, and her father's body slowly disintegrates as she tries to run to them. The room shifts as she moves, and they move further and further away no matter how fast she runs. "Papa! Mama! D-Don't l-leave m-me!!!" The world spins and goes black.

"Evy! Evy, wake up! You're okay - you're safe!" Evy's eyes slowly open. She's lying in her bed in her chambers. Ranth is sitting on the bed next to her, lightly shaking her shoulder. He flinches slightly as she opens her eyes, half expecting to go sailing into the wall, but Evy doesn't react. Master Garath rushes into the room with holding a pitcher of water. "Evy!" He exclaims. "You're awake!" He sets the pitcher on the nightstand and sits down on the bed opposite Ranth.

"R-Ranth? M-Master?" Evy croaks weakly. Master Garath pours her a cup of water holds it to her lips. Evy gulps it down, then coughs. Master Garath pours her another cup and she drains that one as well, then a third one. When he tried to give her a fourth cup, she shakes her head and he sets the pitcher and cup back down.

(NOT YET WRITTEN!)

Chapter 10: Aftermath

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