After Ava's sacrifice, there was great quiet in the Nexus of the Ancients. Standing in astonishment, the council members and Gabriel's friends were grieving and incredulously shocked. By Gabriel's side stayed Ethan and Lydia, their looks a mixture of dejection and resolve.
Gabriel broke off the quiet with a voice hardly audible above a whisper. "Ava, she left."
Tears welling in her eyes, Lydia took a soft hold of Gabriel. Find her, Gabriel. Her sacrifice cannot go in nothing.
Speaking sternly was the High King, Amarus. "We have to get ready for the Order of Shadows even while we look for her. Knowing we own the relic, they won't sleep."
Ethan set his jaw determinedly and clinched his hands. "Ava thought there was another application for the relic. What she intended has to be determined
