A deep crimson glow slowly overtook my eyes as I conjured thick, swirling smoke, the portal that would lead us back to our kingdom.
Who wouldn’t want to return home? To be back in the place where everything was familiar, safe, and untouched by pain or danger? And yet, as much as I longed for the comfort of my homeland, a part of me yearned to run in the opposite direction. I wanted to race back into the depths of the forest and scream his name, hoping against hope that he would turn around, come back for me, and that we could escape together—far from the forces that sought to tear us apart.
The portal thickened with the expanding mist, mirroring the ache in my heart. My time here was ending, and with it, any certainty that fate would grant us another chance to be together. Would I ever s
