In the few months Damien had been in the Cloud Plane, Zara had once again been forced to realize how little help she actually was. Sure, she could act as a mount and help him travel, but was that really enough?
Back when they first met in that lonely dungeon she used to call home, they were practically inseparable. Even though she had the ability, she would rarely enter his shadow.
She was his partner, fighting by his side and helping him overcome any obstacle he couldn't handle alone.
Even after they left the dungeon, it was still similar. At least, relatively,
As time went on, she found herself becoming useless. She was becoming nothing more than a typical mount that she saw every random cultivator using.
And this realization hurt her more than she could ever imagine.
