the unfortunate events of fate

 There are two things Aelia hated more than anything in the world; one was being apart from her family, and two was change. And not the kind of change that morphs your mentality into another way of thinking —, no she loved that, she lived for that kind of change — but not the kind that rips you away from your whole life. Everything and everyone you've ever loved or known just gone. She hadn't realized the full extent of what she'd gotten into yet and always thought the stories her mothers told were more warnings or an acid trip gone wrong — she never thought it'd be in her lifetime that she would transcend one reality to another.

 It began with a feeling, briefly, as if floating on air. And then another tumbling one that whirled in her stomach as if she were falling, descending rapidly. Aelia's eyes flew open, gasping for air as she grasped the sure ground beneath her and arose from purple and pink wildflowers to face out to a vast lake. For a second, there is relief, and about to chuckle with it, but there is a sudden realization. Realization that this was not the lake she'd grown up next to her entire life. In fact, the lapping quietness of it is enough to make her want to scream to fill the void where the waterfall was supposed to be.

 Lunar eyes fly to the ground beneath her, heart thumping as she noticed she was on the cliff's edge, overlooking the vast body of water. A ripple of nerves pulls tight through her chest — what were the Five trying to tell her? It was a quick thought, one that didn't matter as she stumbled backwards, slapping right into a stone pillar, its crumbling edges threatening to spatter onto her if she wasn't more careful. “This... This can't be happening. No.. It's a dream... A dream, yes.” There were a few times she was able to tell that she had been dreaming, and usually, once she figured it out, she would wake, right?

 The reprieve of waking didn't find her; the Daystar's hope was starting to dwindle. Her golden body started to tremble the longer she waited, staring out at the lake, fear starting to gobble at the sparks of hope.

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