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Chapter 1
Fade Wakes Up
"Something is different."
As I opened my eyes I find that the world around me falt off. I touched my head trying to shake the sleep that wants to re-claim me.
"How long did I sleep for?"
The last thing I could remember was a war going on with the Elfs and thin pressure as if everything around me was being condensed into a small container. After that, I fall into a long and dreamless sleep.
"Need to get up and find out what is going on."
I let my conscience out and envelop the entire Fade. What I found shocked me there were things that could be and things that had been but nothing that was right now anywhere.
I got up and headed out my door to see what had happened to my home. When I stepped outside I saw a green and black vortexes 5 feet in front of me, pulling spirits inside.
I raised my hand to stop the pule and make it go away but nothing happened instead I got caught in it and pulled through with all the others. When I fall to the other side I could hear screaming. I looked up and saw my children change into horrible beings scared and frightened, lashing out at everything around them.
I stood up and walked over to one of them.
"Shhh ... it is going to be ok come. Come all of you. Let me see. Oh, my poor little ones what has happened to you?"
I tried to help stabilize their minds so that they could find themselves again but I could not, the world would not bend to my will and help me. That is when I found out that I could barely fill the Fade around me. I looked around and saw that the tare that contacted this world to mine was the only place that I could fill the Fade. I went over and tried to go through again but was rejected. It felt like there was a barrier that allowed things to come through but not go back.
I then looked around me and saw that I was in a land of white snow. I then started to notice how cold I was. I have never felt cold in my whole existence. As I put my arms around myself and discovered that I felt more soled here, I went over to an ice wall and looked at myself. I had wavy black hair that went down my back to my waist. My skin had become a golden brown my eyes were a blue-green like the moons up above with a little silver to make them look like I had stardust in them. It was then I realized that it was not just the children that had changed but so had I. Whereas instead of looking like the others, I took on the image of the mortals. I looked human.
"No. No this can not be happing."
I sat down on the wet snow and pulled my legs to me. For the first time, I felt scared and I did not like it.
"Mother, it is going to be alright."
I looked up and saw Compassion in front of me staring back into my eyes. I looked him up and down and found he also looked like a man but not at the same time with a big hat on his wheat-colored hair.
"What has happened? Where are we? Why can I not fill the magic around me? Why do I look like this?"
I cry.
"I can help but you must come."
I looked at him and nodded my head. I then got up and looked at the others. Wondering if I could get them to come with us.
"There is nothing you can do they or too scared to leave this place. We must go know."
I felt my heart clench at the thought but I know that if I was going to help them I need answers.
"I will find a way to help you all I promise."
I then walked away with Compassion never looking back. I did not know that at that time I would never get the chance to see them again let alone be able to keep my word to them.