My heartbeat races as I gently land on the soft grass in my mother's garden. It has been too long. After the battle with Reuben, both Eloise and I were injured, and we stayed in the hospital for six months recuperating. No one in the empire contacted my mother or my wife as they had no way to, so they didn't know. I'm sure they thought of the worst. 

" Zuriel, I'll see you later. I need to do something," Eloise says. I nod. She will probably see that lover she left here. It took time to get everything back to normal after my uncle's war, but we did. She...