Author's Note: Yay! An update! Please enjoy!

She was in the light and Elika sighed. The last thing she needed at the moment was another cryptic message from a woman that she didn't know. But strangely, no one ever appeared before her. Elika was simply waiting and the Crown Princess wondered if she had been too harsh in tone earlier. Perhaps, she should've been a little kinder like she had been taught by her mother.

"I am sorry!" Elika called out into the room. "It was wrong of me to snap at you."

The Child of Light must fulfill the duty set out by the Gods.

"What?" Elika spun around, trying to figure out where the voice in her head had come from.

The Child of Light must fulfill the duty set out by the Gods at all costs.

"What or who is the Child of Light?" Elika had heard the words "Child of Light" earlier but still she did not know what it meant.

The promised one—the Child of Light—must fulfill the duty.

Elika's eyes flew open and her heart was pounding a mile a minute. She tried to slow down her racing heart, but the voice had sounded so sinister and yet truthful at the same time. It confused her a lot. Sighing, she rested her head on the soft pillow and remembrance filled her mind. The Prince and her had been rescued by an Ahura!

"You're awake," Elika looked to her left to see the Prince step out from the shadows which were being cast by the moon. He looked tired and she wondered if he had been waiting for her to awaken all this time. "I'm glad."

"What happened?" He sat down next to the bed in a wooden chair and grabbed her hand, gently stroking it with his thumb.

"You passed out, remember?" She nodded, though it made her head hurt. "And Elian brought us here?"

"Elian?" Elika muttered. "Why is that name so familiar?"

"Because it was I who contacted you child," Elian stood in the doorway and came in without so much as an invitation breaking up the tender moment between the couple. "And it was I, who knew you at the palace." Recognition lit up on Elika's face.

"I have so many questions!" Elika confessed and Elian smiled tiredly.

"All in good time, my dear," There was a twinkle of mystery in her eyes. "Yes, all in good time."

"Who is the Child of Light?" Elika asked and Elian visibly stiffened.

"Who . . . who told you about the Child of Light?" Elian paced about the room, her hands nervously twisting in her grasp.

"Tell me," Elika demanded in her most regal voice. "Please."

Elian sighed and sat down at the edge of the bed.

"The Child of Light," Elian began. "Is the one person who can save us now." Elika heard in the back of mind:

The Child of Light must fulfill the duty set out by the Gods at all costs.

And Elika knew that this upcoming story would not have a happy ending.

Author's Note: Next chapter, we finally learn what the Child of Light is supposed to do. Review please!