Chapter Five
She did her best to smile.
She was happy to see life returning to the land around her. Truly. She’d been gone only a week, yet her mother had fallen into such a state of sorrow the land had been covered with a blanket of snow on her arrival.
A trusted servant had filled her in on what had passed in her time away, and it had been worse than she’d feared.
Her mother’s tears had frozen upon hitting the ground, and multiplied until the plants went into hibernation or died. Animals had hidden, confused and afraid. Her mother’s subjects had been grief-stricken, wondering what would become of them if Seph didn’t return.
Would Gaia cease being a life-giving goddess, and instead become one whose sorrow took life away?
No one had known. They had remained worried until their belove
