(Soren)
The minute Serena flies through the wall, the portal of white, shimmering light closes up behind her, engulfing her form in an iridescent glow before she and my brother all at once wink out of existence.
For a brief few seconds I stand there, shocked, my body trembling as the silhouette of her form fades from my mind, her existence spun away on the wind. Not a trace of her is left, a subtle scent or hair, or fluttering scrap of cloth, nothing but a ringing emptiness, and a hollow ache in my heart. It is that moment a link inside me snaps.
