Chapter 6
Aura's body felt heavy and her legs, limp. She could feel her horse staggering under her, as she urged him forward with kind words.
"Only a little further." She would whisper, almost as if she were trying to convince herself.
She had left the shelter near the river at nightfall, barely having slept during the day and unable to eat when she awoke. Her dreams were cursed by visions of her father dying, the picture so vivid that she barely realized she dreamed until she awoke. A cold sweat dripped from her brow as fear paralyzed her. Is this a view into the future? Or has this already happened? Or is this simply a dream? She thought to herself. And these thoughts tormented her to no end. She left that night with more fatigue than she had arrived and more hunger than she could have imagined.
Aura began to feel darkness envelope her and her senses dimmed. She leaned on the neck of her horse and felt her energy leaving her, but before she fell into darkness, a golden glow could be seen behind a large stone sanctuary. This alone gave her hope and she gently squeezed her horse into motion. A dark figure emerged from the warm light and held the horse by the bridle. A pang of fear entered into her mind. Friend or foe, Aura had no way of knowing, but she was too tired to continue fearing. He spoke heaven's song but fatigue made the words unrecognizable to her ears. A question, he had asked her a question, she realized, but she could not comprehend as she collapsed against her will.