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Chapter 4

Ellania's Personal Journal: Entry not Dated
Added Sun Jul 31 23:02:36 2022 at level 40:

It happened as if in a dream. I was by the Drowned Tree within Lady
Rarywey's holy temple. I was resting near the rowboat. Silently
listening as it jostled ever-so slightly in the water. And suddenly,
I was back in my lover's arms. He was holding me, as he often did.
I was looking up at him adoringly. Before I knew it, the person known
as Ellania Arcamenel was no more. The life of an Elf lived in a place
called Thera was just a mere fantasy, or maybe even a nightmare. It
didn't matter anymore, because we were together.

From there I was transported into a future. A future for the new life.
This... False Ellania. We were married. We had children. Many. They
were healthy an beautiful. I learned all their names. I spent what
felt like a lifetime there, but now as if a dream. Even as I sit here
writing in this journal, I can't remember a single child's name from
this false life. A life I wanted to be true.

I was ripped away from this bright future. I was reminded it was all
a lie. A fabrication of a troubled mind. A lament from a heart
shattered. I was transported to that very night. The night it was all
taken away. This vision, or truth, was ready to show me. I had fnally
come to my heartbreak.

It was a night. The moon was waxing. As this vision led me, I was able
to see this fale Ellania with her love. My love? He was kissing her
goodnight. She walked into her (my) home, but something brought her
back out. Something she needed to say or do. It was difficult to tell.
However, when this false Ellania found her love, he was intertwined
with false Ellania's rival. A woman who so troubled false Ellania, that
I couldn't even make out her face in the vision.

And there it was. An affair. It's difficult to describe the pain,
really. It was less of a pain, and more of an overwhelming blackness.
And I watched as the despair creeped across this false Ellania's face.
I saw her break. I felt it. And I continued to watch as this false
Ellania turned away from the horror she had been observing. Slowly
walk away. And keep walking, and walking until she came to a Lake.
She stopped, a moment, shed a few tears, and walked right in.