Role

Chapter 5

I was there as false Ellania drowned. I'm told drowning is quite painful,
but as I watched, I could almost see a sort of relief on her face. As if
this fate were better than the one she left behind. I witnessed as she
drifted down, down, down... Then suddenly I (The real Ellania) was pulled
as if in a current. One I simply could not fight.

At first there was panic. But then... Calm. Unlike any calm I've ever
experienced. I passed out of form and conciousness for a time. Then, I
saw it. Starlight. Starlight off in the distance, past a void of darkness,
but starlight none-the-less. I was whole again. I was whole and I can
remember it all clearly. What i had forgotten. Grace and Mercy. A
cleansing from something or someone. A being or entity pulling and pushing.
Seeing me as none other ever had.

Then, once again, there was the current. Pulling me. Faster, faster,
faster.

That was where the vision ended. I awoke in a sweat and out of breath.
I was back at The Drowned Tree. Tsiynil was looking at me with a wry
grin. I thought, for a moment, it really was all some sort of magic.
Perhaps I had been bewitched. However, as I thought and thought. Searching
my mind and spirit, I cannot escape the truth before my eyes. After that
vision, when I close my eyes, all I see is Starlight in the void.