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The next day, when Abril woke up, it was already noon. She saw Alessandro sitting at the table by the window. He was staring intently at the stones in a glass jar. She sat on the bed and asked him,\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cLessan, how are you?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Alessandro put aside what he was doing, approached the bed, kissed Abril on the forehead, and said,\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m perfectly fine, and that\u2019s thanks to you. How are you?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m fine.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you hungry?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, I\u2019ll go ask for the food to be brought to us.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Alessandro got up and headed to the door. Before he left, Abril remembered the children and said to him,\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe children\u2026\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t worry about them, I\u2019ve already asked for them to be taken care of.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
After Alessandro left, Abril got up. After washing and changing her clothes, she felt curious about the jar of stones that Alessandro had been staring at so intently.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When she picked up the jar in her hands, she felt as if something was pushing her, and she dropped the jar on the floor. From those stones, a dark smoke began to emerge. Instinctively, Abril stepped back, terrified, not knowing what it was.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Alessandro entered and saw the same darkness that had surrounded Baron Terren. He ran to where Abril was to protect her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you okay?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI just wanted to see what was in that jar, but I felt something strange and dropped it. That black smoke started to come out, I\u2019m sorry.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cStep back, that\u2019s dangerous.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
They both headed to the door, and the smoke moved towards them. At that moment, Abril\u00a0<\/p>\n
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heard a voice speaking to her in her head, telling her to use her magic to erase that darkness.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When the darkness got closer to them, Alessandro shuddered. That darkness conveyed something extremely twisted, malevolent. Then Alessandro felt Abril hugging him, and she\u00a0<\/p>\n
said,\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cClose your eyes.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cNow.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Alessandro did as Abril asked, not knowing exactly why, but he trusted her. A blinding light emerged from Abril\u2019s body, and that darkness was erased.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can open your eyes now,\u00a0<\/p>\n
She told him, and when Alessandro opened his eyes, he saw that the darkness had completely disappeared.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Abril didn\u2019t really know what had happened either, she just said before fainting,\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I made it disappear.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Alessandro caught her before she hit the floor, but he heard something else fall, a tinkling as it hit the ground. It was the earrings that limited Abril\u2019s magic; she had removed both of them. Alessandro carried her to the bed, laid her down gently, and quickly put the earrings back on, sealing the magic that had begun to escape.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He gently caressed Abril\u2019s face and called her name several times,\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAbril.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
But she didn\u2019t wake up for the rest of the afternoon. As night fell, someone knocked on the door of the room. When he opened it, Alessandro saw his brother.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cassian, seeing the worried look on Alessandro\u2019s face, asked,\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHas something happened?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s Abril\u2026\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened to Abril?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The hallway wasn\u2019t the best place to talk about what had happened, so Alessandro told his\u00a0<\/p>\n
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brother,\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019d better come in.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
+25 Points\u00a0<\/p>\n
When Cassian entered, he saw Abril lying on the bed. He approached, and seeing her pale face, Cassian asked,\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYesterday, I brought some strange stones. Abril dropped them, and the darkness emerged. Abril released her magic to fight it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cassian remembered that Maya had spoken to him about the darkness and said,\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou won\u2019t believe this, but I heard about it today.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did they tell you about it?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThey told me that the darkness was a weapon humans used long ago to defeat the elves, although I don\u2019t really know what that means.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Alessandro took one of the stones that had previously contained the darkness and showed it\u00a0<\/p>\n
to Cassian.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYesterday I discovered that Baron Terren was using street children for experiments. He did horrible things to them and used one of these stones to increase his power, a terrifying and chilling power. Do you think it could be the same?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know, maybe it\u2019s the same thing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat could King Venobich be plotting with all this?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cKing Venobich?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cApparently, he was the one who gave such power to Baron Terren.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cLessan, in the book they showed me about elven history, all the kingdoms appear, including the kingdom of the elves. On that map, the darkness was marked, and the place where everything apparently started was in the kingdom of Laios, where King Venobich resides.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you think he\u2019s found that weapon?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think so, although he may not know how to use it very well and that\u2019s why he\u2019s experimenting with it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Alessandro ran his hand frustratedly through his hair. King Venobich was already incredibly strong with just his magic; having darkness as a weapon would make him even more\u00a0<\/p>\n
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formidable. It seemed dark times awaited them.\u00a0<\/p>\n
+25 Points\u00a0<\/p>\n
This time, the war will be worse than the last. King Venobich doesn\u2019t seem willing to lose\u00a0<\/p>\n
again.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cassian had always wondered why King Venobich was so determined to conquer Cottet. There were other kingdoms, more prosperous than Cosset, yet he had never attacked other kingdoms; his war had always been with Cosset.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cLessan, there\u2019s something I\u2019ve been wondering for a while. Why does King Venobich only attack us? What exactly does he want from our kingdom?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re not the only one who has wondered, Cassian, but I really don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t know what King Venobich wants from our kingdom. I only know one thing: he will never get it. I won\u2019t let him take my kingdom.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
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