Three Years Later
Sometimes, destiny chose your future, and there was nothing that anybody could do about it. Reminded of the words I'd once thought, I knew that this was wrong. Sometimes, if you were brave enough, going against destiny was the best thing you could do.
"And she exiled you?" Sam demanded.
After my actions, my mother had had no choice but to banish me from the Realm. It wasn’t something that was easy for her to do and we still spoke and she often came down into this world to visit me.
I laughed and said, "Sam, I've told you this a million times!"
Sam pouted. “I know, but I want to hear it a million more times!”
The sun was out, it was mid-September. The four of us – Sam, Simon Nathan and I – had travelled down to a patch of grass near a lake. The sun glinted off the
