Prologue
She walked down the long driveway of the looming manor house with a heavy weight on her chest. She was worried about what she was going to say and deliberately slowed her pace so that she could think. As the manor drew near she began to cry silently. She walked up the elegant front steps and was about to knock when she realised that no one would be inside. She twisted the gilt knob and entered the house. It was so quiet that the heels of her boots sounded like gunshots in the air and she winced. Slowly she entered a room and stood on a circular design and drew in a breath calming the fear that was rising in the pit of her stomach. She could do this. Closing her eyes she focused in her breathing until the world melted away. When she opened her eyes she was in an elegant palace in an impossibly large cavern formed out of rock. She walked along a narrow hallway and into the palaces throne room. The assembly of people in the hall was minimal but she could still feel the individual power emanating from each of the figures before her as she breathed one of the figures noticed her. "Ava" said Henry a look of absolute horror passing over his face. "What are you doing back and where's Kate." The moment that Ava had dreaded was now here. "Henry" Ava said the tears clear in her voice. "Kate's gone."