It had been years since Alina last saw Stella.
In the three months and seventeen days that Stella was missing, Alina never had a peaceful night's sleep.
Her sleep was always bothered by nightmares of seeing Stella's corpse in her previous life and the tragedies that followed afterward.
'This wasn't supposed to happen,' she often thought as she worriedly waited for any good news regarding Stella but she was always informed of the same news.
There were no developments and there was no sign of where Stella, her knight, and her brother had gone.
Alina was beginning to panic that Stella may have been already dead when she heard that the Grand Magus had gone to Valyenor to help in the search.
Hope bloomed in her heart just as it did with everyone else who cared for the return of the three.
But months passed and even the Grand Magus who was the best magician in the empire was not able to find the three.
