The last bloom
Magic is the energy that comes from our souls. It creates everything in this world, filling human hearts with the desire to live. Magic brings goodness, takes lives and heals: it does whatever its owner wishes. People who discover it in their hearts bring light and darkness into the world. But in an instant, everything changed. The empire built on bones blossomed with the colors of salva and burst into joyous smiles. The people forgot their maker. Forgotten what their hearts and their souls were capable of. The worlds that used to exist side by side with each other disappeared into the dark forests and were separated from the empire by a fringe. And the mystery and magic itself was sealed in the farthest depths of the palace.
The Adalhedis Empire sealed the people behind stone walls and showed them a different future, and the four true kin became the protectors of the seals holding back the darkness around them. Kellian, the daughter of one of the true family, had never encountered or seen magic. She had seen the salva flowers spread throughout the empire, heard her mother's cryptic stories, but never once had she seen those strange creatures or felt the stirrings in her heart. But one day her heart thundered in her chest. One day she saw something that awakened life in her. Her world finally shattered into tiny pieces of glass.
