Fate has been whispering suggestions into me. A dream of midnight, a far off whisper, a voice I recognize follows me.
It's bright as I return from thoughts to body, caught myself dozing off again. This visitor asks for the same thing every time. But no matter how good his argument, we cannot repeat the events of the past and have settlements in the desert. It has simply caused too much anguish for those who lived there. After the forth and final no, he leaves my court escorted by palace guards. Finally I can be alone with my thoughts. The birds glide through the open archway. Wanderlust fills my heart. There's this strong tug from within me telling me to check, look to where the twilight mirror was. I know what will happen once I get there. I will see nothing and the little piece I hold in my hand will continue in solitude.
Sleep escapes me. Each minute passes like an eternity expanding out. As I force my eyelids closed, a hand touches between my breasts... right above my heart... Sharp burning eyes pierce the darkness. Lightning. It's wasting me. I can no longer flee these thoughts.
I find myself outside in the rain. With the water, it's chilly enough to numb my skin, I am free for a moment. She still chases me. In the sky, the fading portal she has left. It's blue veins pulse as if holding on to its last piece of life. I dress myself, put a red robe on. No one must know. I'm at the gates of castle town staring at the hole in the sky
should I take it? Try it? I think about the desert, the mirror and try to dissolve into...
I open my eyes and I'm standing behind the rock that carries the reflection, I have to remind myself I can never see her again.
I shut my eyes and walk slowly around the rock. It's so quiet my footsteps sound like thunder. Prepared for disappointment they open slowly. "Ehh!?" There's the mirror intact. The smallest triangle in the center is missing a piece. I reach for my satchel and place the shard hearing an audible "click". The mirror shines. Holographic energy forms into stairs and a platform as a shallow portal extends into the obsidian rock. My heart is pounding. How? Is it a trick? A dream? I walk onto its steps and into the circular platform accepting this event as destiny. I close my eyes again and let the forces guide me.
