Chapter 23 - The Mother Beneath the Stars
"My little star..."
The battlefield disappeared.
Not literally.
The war still raged around them.
The Hollow still clashed against Ability Wielders.
Nihros still towered over the sanctuary.
But for Fin...
Everything faded into silence.
Because standing only a few steps away...
Was the woman she'd spent years imagining.
The woman whose face she'd only seen through broken memories.
The woman who had kissed her forehead before giving her away to save her life.
Queen Elara.
Her mother.
Fin couldn't breathe.
She simply stared.
Elara hadn't changed.
Her silver hair flowed gently in the celestial wind.
The royal armor she wore gleamed with tiny constellations, though several cracks ran across its surface, as if even death had failed to e
