Ben-
Five seekers suddenly appeared in a poof of smoke and surrounded them. Two grabbed Yanna by her arms, causing her to drop her sack of herbs. Before he could react, two grabbed him as the third came into view. What they both saw, shattered their dreams and their hearts.
It was their most beloved friend, Vel-Yori, who held the Eelocks out and ripped their free will from them, as they fell face-first to the dirt.
It was she, who dropped the teleportation stone and brought them to their cells, beneath the council tower. It was she, that the council forced him to obsess over for centuries in repercussion to his sin of love.
His heart felt torn in two as he remembered the events that happened next.
