Chapter 1

Time was irrelevant. Date was unknown and would stay that way for many years as long as she would call this place her home. It just didn't feel as home anymore.

She pulled open a drawer of her nightstand and took out something that was wrapped in a handkerchief with a flowerprint. Carefully she removed the handkerchief and placed the content in the palm of her hand. A thin line of sunshine peaked through the closed curtains, making the object shine in sparkles.

She took a deep breath and took it between both her thumbs and pointerfingers.

It was a ring of whitegold with a small lily on it.

Her eyes shone with delight just by looking at it. She then closed her eyes and whispered the same sentence over and over again: "Sol suma longis Persephone, minjanu as Ellyasu Tedom."

A bright white light appeared from under her left hand and she frowned but kept her eyes shut. Her right hand started shaking a bit and she bit her lip, but kept on whispering the words.

"Sol suma longis Persephone, minjanu as Ellyasu Tedom."

Her right hand started to shake even more and little drops of sweat appeared on her face.

All of a sudden a venomously green light shot out of her right hand and immediately she opened her eyes.

With pure horror written on her face, she looked at the two bundles of light and saw the ring absorbing the white and green colours. She shook her head and opened her mouth, but no sound came from her lips.

Words were written on the insider of the ring, without pen or pencil, just out of thin air.

Both lights quickly dissappeared.

She was trembling while she held the ring close to her face and read the inscription.

Startled, she dropped it and both her hands folded around her belly.

"No, this can not be true," she whispered, while tears rolled down her cheeks.

For a long time she stood there, in the middle of the room, her hands around her belly. The ring on the ground before her bare feet.

When the sunlight lessened in brightness through the closed curtains and finally dissappeared, it was then she started moving again.

She grabbed a bag, opened on by one the drawers of her closet and nightstand, and threw clothes and other stuff in the bag. She closed it, got onto her feet and looked at the ring in thought. After a few seconds she took it off the ground, looked around the room and ran out of the door, to never set another foot in the room ever again.