Chapter Seventeen: EdwynFor more seconds than Aeron could keep count, no one spoke.
“I knew you would not sleep forever,” the mage named Edwyn spoke, his ghost-like face attempting to smile. But, to those present, it looked instead like a grimace of pain. “I knew you would find your way back to me.”
“I am so sorry, Edwyn,” Tamsyn whispered as he approached his friend, trying to equate the proud, lively man he had known so long ago with this withered husk before him. “I took the coward's way out and left you behind all alone. I should not have abandoned you or my responsibilities. It was our duty to help the new races on their feet. I left you to carry that burden alone. I will never forgive myself for allowing you to come to this.”
Aeron saw the anguish in Tamsyn's eyes and the elf thou
