Kayla and Lia walked side by side. As former comrades-in-arms, the queens of two nations, two girls of the same age, they chose to meet the "resurrected" former king together, for both political purposes and psychological needs.
Compared to Queen Kayla's openness, Queen Lina's heart was a mix of different feelings. She had single-handedly endured the most difficult moments of the Dreya Kingdom, changing her mindset, exhausting her wits, and governing the nation, sacrificing all her freedom for her homeland. But now, her pillar of support had returned, the very support that should have been there when she needed it the most.
This feeling of being abandoned yet joyous was twisting the stubbornness of the iron-blooded queen.
She looked at the huge meteorite not far away that had now taken on a different shape, the smoothed sphere being continuously deconstructed in the hands of that tall figure, swallowed by the earth.
