"I miss you, Elara."

Elara's POV

My exhausted body lay perfectly still against the crisp, sterile sheets of the hospital bed, wrapped in a numb, heavy exhaustion, while my unconscious mind drifted seamlessly into a highly vivid, deeply entrenched memory disguised as a hazy dream.

I was barely three years old. A dirty, torn dress clung to my tiny, trembling frame as I wandered completely lost in the towering, ancien