55- Shattered

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I was exactly as Morgarath wanted me.

I was finally, and utterly, broken.

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As we traversed through the tunnels, with the overbearing rocks on all sides, I tried to memorize the routes we took, but the twists and turns were more than I could handle, and I knew that, without our guides, we would be hopelessly lost. At this point, I wasn't even sure how they knew where to go. All I could do was hope they weren't leading us into a trap.

We had only gone a few more meters before a sharp pain hit me. It caught me off guard and sent me to a knee.

"Gilan!" Teyran exclaimed as he kneeled next to me. He put his hand on my shoulder and I was glad for the support.

A pulsating light came from the pendant around my neck, but unlike the previous times, the light was harsh and black. With each pulse, I felt pure pain radiate through me. But it didn't feel like a physical pain like the other times. It was something I couldn't quite pin down. I wrapped my hand around the pendant and held it up.

It didn't look like it had in the past, but now it was pitch black, occasionally accented with flashes of lightning.

"Something's wrong." Teyran said, "Something different happened this time." We continued to watch it as it kept pulsing with lightning. A deep thrum seemed to emanate from it, but you couldn't so much see it as hear it.

The pulse seemed to follow the beat of her heart, but the humming grew faster and increased in pitch. As it grew we had to cover our ears to try and block it out. Lightning continued to flash across the dark surface, faster and more prominent as the pitch climbed.

Then, all of a sudden… it stopped. The tunnel now seemed eerily quiet, but my eyes were still glued to the orb. It had turned a solid black.

"Well…that was…interesting." Teyran whispered, "Now that it's calmed down again we should…" He stopped, seeing the same thing I was. A large crack was slowly spreading across the surface.

I was unsure of the significance of this, but when I glanced up at the others, I knew it was nothing good. I almost asked Elaéyadar about it, but she sensed my question before I asked it.

"We need to find her. Now." The guards glanced at each other, nodded once, and we were following them through the maze of tunnels once more.

/

-Ally-

I felt Morgarath's iron grip on my mind lessen, and I slowly drifted back to reality. My eyes flickered open, but I felt like I wasn't really seeing what was in front of me. I was numb. A cloud of fog seemed to hang inside my body, blocking everything else around me. Vaguely, I registered Morgarath pulling my head up to look at him. I tried to focus on him, but my eyes simply gave up and slipped to the background. I was able to focus just long enough to comprehend him smiling, his fangs glinting in the torch-light.

I barely felt his fangs biting into my neck until I felt the deep-seared fight of my Evnarima struggling to hold on to what little magic remained in it. But I knew it was futile, and I accepted my body finally giving up.

For the first time in my life, I didn't feel even the slightest trace of my magic inside of me.

I didn't have my magic, my Evnarima was broken, and I knew that my family would never find me in the infernal place. I was utterly, truly, alone.

I barely acknowledged Morgarath as he drained the blood from my body, and blissfully, the darkness took over and the world was lost to me.