Lily once again found herself sitting in a forest on a log across from Eldara, the Nature Goddess who had provided her her gun and the sweet fruit from the last time.
However, ThIs time Eldara was not smiling. Nor was Lily. The look on both of their faxes was tense as they stared each other down.
Lily was the first to break the silence.
"Well, it has been awhile. How are you going to help me this time around?". Her voice was coleer than she intended.
Eldara did not answer right away. Her eyes glimmered with something Lily had never seen from her before. Fear.
"You carry a shadow within you," Eldara said softly. "One born of the same root as your gift. I felt it before, faint and distant, but now it grows stronger every day."
Lily's jaw tightened. She looked down at her hands, remembering the blood she had spilled, the lives she had taken. The lives of people who betrayed her family.
