Annalise and Esmeray walked for a short while before they walked out of the dead forest looking to a hill where Annalise found a very familiar scene. She remembered seeing the exact place when Esmeray made her enter the Seelie Realm during their initial encounters. The familiar place in front of her was none other than the Seelie Court which was in ruins.
Her gaze moved away from the hill and landed on an almost transparent ward standing right in front of her, the only thing that had been protecting the Seelie Palace from the dark energy for the past ten thousand years.
"Last time you failed to get past this ward. But I believe you can make it possible this time." Esmeray encouraged her as he too gazed at the ruined Seelie Palace with a look of pure longing and sadness filling his eyes.
