Hello there!
I am back with a new chapter and more of Milah's story. Did you like what you'se seen on the previous chapter? Well here, have more!
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Thank you a lot!
That being said...
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The next day when Ruby called them, Emma and Killian were already prepared to go to the hospital and see if the doctors had any new news about Milah or if she was in a better condition. When Ruby called, she instructed them to go pick up Belle on their way to the hospital and assured them Milah was awake and she was perfectly fine.
Emma and Killian jumped into Emma's bug and started to drive toward Gold's shop, where Ruby assured them Belle would be waiting for them. On the way there, Emma sent a message to her parents and another to Regina, telling them to go to the hospital and wait for her there. She also said that Ruby and Milah would be there, knowing very well that Ruby would explain everything that happened in the last twenty four hours.
When they arrived at the shop and went inside, still hand in hand, the first person they saw was Gold. He looked at them and rolled his eyes when he saw their joined hands.
"I can't believe your standards are so low, Miss Swan," Gold told her with a mocking tone.
Emma was about to say something about how being with his son lowered Emma's standards very much, but she shut her mouth knowing it was not the time for that. Instead, she told him they were looking for Belle.
"Ah, yes. She said you would be coming to take her to the hospital to see Milah," he said, indifferently. "Is she in danger?" he asked again as if asking about Milah was an obligation for him.
"Sadly for you, no," Emma said, imitating the same mocking voice he used earlier.
"Yes, you are right, that's too sad."
"Cut the crap, Rumple." Emma snapped at him, "I know Belle talked to you to help Milah."
"That she did," he said, nodding at her.
"So?" Emma said, waiting for him to continue.
"I did not agree with anything like that," Gold said.
Emma looked panicked at Killian and somehow shocked that even Belle could make him agree to help Milah. "You must be curious as to why she is alive."
"Actually no, I'm not. Milah was dead and now she is back. There have been cases like this one many years ago in the Enchanted Forest but before you ask me what I know, I know nothing. It's never been in my interest to know how a dead person came back to life," Gold explained.
"You've got to be kidding," Emma said looking at him with anger. She read him, she knew him, he knew something and he didn't want to tell them what it was.
"Tell me Captain," Gold said, ignoring Emma and moving his eyes to Killian. "How does it feel to have your first love and your True Love in the same place at the same time?"
Emma felt Killian stiffening beside her and looked at him
True Love. Gold said 'first love and True Love'. He must know that Emma and Killian are True Love, but how? They had been careful and only Henry and Milah knew the truth. How is it possible for Gold to know that her and Killian were True Loves?
"How do you know that?" Killian asked Gold with narrowed eyes and Emma looked at him, also curious of his answer.
"Oh dearie, I've known from the beginning. I just don't care about you two," Rumple said simply. "But I must say, Miss Swan, in a different world, your parents would have killed him for seducing a princess."
"Then it's good you don't care," Emma snapped at him. "How are we supposed to help Milah?" she asked, moving the subject of the conversation back to Milah.
"Belle said my dear ex-wife has something like old memories coming back to her during the night. If some of her memories are missing, then this," he opened a drawer to take something, "should help." Gold said, putting a dreamcatcher on the front table.
"A dreamcatcher?" Emma asked, surprised.
Gold gave her the dreamcatcher, talking at the same time. "I am sure you remember how to use one, right, Miss Swan?"
"I do, but I only used it once, on a dog," Emma said taking the dreamcatcher from his hands.
"There is no difference between that animal and Milah," Gold commented and Emma wanted to kill him for what he just said.
"Rumplestiltskin!" Belle's voice came from the back of the shop before she appeared too. She nodded at Emma and Killian and looked judgingly at Gold.
Gold looked at Belle but ignored the look on her face. "I mean, there is no difference in using it." he said looking back at Emma. "You will use it the same way you did when you used it for Dr. Hopper's dog."
"And then what?"
"Then, hopefully she will have her memories back," he said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world and Emma was just stupid for asking that.
"Thank you, Gold," Emma told him.
"Don't thank me, Miss Swan. I am only doing it because Belle is, for some unknown reason, friends with Milah, and also because Henry asked as well." Gold explained. "But this is all I am willing to do."
"Thanks," Emma said before preparing to leave the shop. "Are you coming?" she asked Belle, remembering that she had to come with them to the hospital.
"Yes. Just give me five minutes," Belle answered. Emma nodded at her and then took Killian's hand and went back to the car.
Back outside when Emma was in front of her car, she went to open the door and get inside, when she started to feel a bit dizzy and for a moment, everything spun with her. That was when she finally realized just how tired she really was. Both her and Killian had only gotten a few hours of sleep after they came back from the hospital. They had decided to finish their date in a big style and then afterward, Emma felt too stressed about everything that was happening with Milah to fall asleep easily. Of course Killian, as the stubborn pain in the ass he was, decided to keep her company until she fell asleep. Which is why both of them got only four hours of sleep at most and when the alarm started ringing in the morning, Emma's first instinct was to throw the phone out the window, right into the ocean.
Noticing Emma's reaction when she opened the door, Killian looked at her with worry and with an eyebrow raised, silently asked her if she was okay.
"I'm tired," Emma told him while getting in the car.
"Me too," Killian agreed with a little smile and followed her inside the car.
Emma looked at him and sighed, "I hope Milah is okay."
"Do you really know how to use that?" Killian asked, pointing to the dreamcatcher in Emma's hand.
"I did it once," Emma said looking at the dreamcatcher. "Hopefully I can make it work again."
"I am actually surprised he helped us," Killian said, looking back towards Gold's shop.
"Me too. Maybe Belle is really good at persuading him," Emma said raising her shoulders.
"I have to apologize to her," Killian said, lowering his eyes to the floor. Emma wanted to ask why but as she opened her mouth to speak, Killian raised his eyes and looked back at her, "For what I did to her the first time I came to Storybrooke."
"Oh…," Emma said, finally realizing what he meant. "She will forgive you."
"Do you really believe that?" Killian asked with worry on his face.
"She's living with Rumplestiltskin," Emma said. "If she can forgive him for everything he ever did, she can forgive you too."
Killian let out a deep breath and spoke again, "But I shot her."
Emma put a hand on his cheek. Killian looked at her sadly, "In time, she will. Trust me."
As she finished talking, they heard the door to Gold's shop open and they watched Belle come out of the shop and walk towards them quickly.
She opened the door to the car and sat in the backseat. "Sorry, I had to talk about something with Rumple," she said with a small smile.
"It's alright," Emma assured her, starting the engine. "Let's go to the hospital. Ruby has probably gone crazy by now."
"You're probably right," Belle agreed. "Let's go."
The drive to the hospital was short but filled with silence, everyone thinking about something else.
When they got to the hospital, they went straight to Milah's room. Mary Margaret, David and Regina were already there with Ruby, who was trying to explain to them what happened.
"Emma!" Mary Margaret said when she saw her. "I was so worried when you sent us the message to come here."
"I know, I'm sorry, but I wanted you to be here," Emma explained to her.
"You don't look too good, Emma," David said, looking at her.
"I know, I'm just tired," Emma said, knowing that the lack of makeup and sleep allowed the bags under her eyes to be visible to everyone.
At the mention of her tiredness Emma saw David's eyes moving from her to Killian but she decided to ignore it. Instead, she started to talk to Ruby. "How is Milah?"
"Perfectly fine," Ruby answered. "Whale checked her and he said that everything is fine with her. In fact, she says she feels much better than before, if you can believe that."
"Then what happened?" Emma asked, surprised by what Ruby had just said.
"She didn't say. But I get the feeling that she knows. Maybe you will be able to talk to her," Ruby explained.
"Okay," Emma said nodding to her. "Let's go see Milah," she said, starting to walk towards Milah's room.
She knocked on the door and waited for the faint "come in" that came from inside. She opened the door and smiled at Milah who was still on the bed.
"Hi," Emma said with a smile.
"Hi Emma. Come in," Milah said smiling at her.
She opened the door more and soon she was followed by Killian, Ruby, Belle, her parents, and Regina. She saw Milah smiling at Killian, Ruby and Belle, but then, when she saw Mary Margaret and David, her smile fell. Emma realized that it was probably because she didn't know who they were and why they were there.
"Milah, this is Mary Margaret and David. My parents," Emma explained and watched as Milah relaxed at Emma's explanation.
Milah smiled at them and acknowledged them with a small "hi".
"It's so nice to finally meet you," Mary Margaret said, smiling at Milah.
"You too," Milah said.
"Milah," Emma started. "What happened?"
"Someone took me," Milah started.
"What?!" Emma, Killian and Ruby said at the same time.
"I will explain everything to you," Milah said raising a hand to stop them from asking further questions.
After that, she started to tell them everything that had happened the previous day, starting with what had been going on in her mind the night before, to how she woke up feeling bad and decided to take a walk in the forest. How she felt drawn to the beach and how the woman with an impossible name came after her. Then Milah told them what happened in Atlantis and what she found out from the Queen.
Emma's mind was blown by everything Milah told them. First because apparently, Atlantis, the story everyone knew but no one believed in, was a real place with a real queen and people that were living there. Secondly because, apparently, Milah was some kind of puppet or pawn in someone else's game and she was now free of it.
"What else do you remember?" Regina asked Milah when she finished her story.
"What do you mean?"
"From what you were telling us, your mind has been trying to tell you something all this time in your dreams."
"They were just dreams," Milah said with a shrug.
"They were memories," Regina contradicted her.
"Really?" Milah asked amazed.
"Come on, Milah. What else did you see in your dreams slash memories?" Ruby snapped at her from behind Emma.
"Everything is a blur," Milah started. "But now I am sure that I was always in that throne room. Thetis is there in most of them but so is another man. I know something is happening but I don't know what. And I don't know who the man is. I can never see his face completely."
"The dreamcatcher might help with that," Belle spoke for the first time since she arrived.
"What?" Milah asked, looking at her with an eyebrow raised.
"This," Emma said, lifting the dreamcatcher in her hands, to show it to Milah. "It has the ability to pull out your memories."
"Even those I don't remember?"
Emma didn't know how to answer that, so she looked at Regina for help. Regina nodded, "You don't remember them, not entirely, but you memories are there trying to reach you. The dreamcatcher will work for sure."
"Okay then," Milah said looking at Emma. "Let's do this."
"Regina, I am going to need your help," Emma said looking at Regina, not knowing for sure how to start making the dreamcatcher work again.
Regina nodded at Emma and started to explain to Emma what to do. "Just close your eyes, try to channel your magic and put the dreamcatcher above Milah's head," Regina explained. "And you," Regina said looking at Milah. "You have to concentrate on what you dreamed about. The dreamcatcher is going to do the rest of the work for you two."
Emma nodded at her and got closer to Milah. She closed her eyes and tried to channel her magic, as Regina said, but she could feel that it wasn't working. Emma tried to think about all the other times she had used her magic and Rumplestiltskin's old words came to her mind. "Think about what you feel, not what you do."
So that's what Emma did. Everytime she used her magic, she felt something strong inside of her. She felt the need to save her mother from Cora. She was afraid of the Shadow hurting Killian even more. She felt sadness and love and a special need of having Killian alive, back when she kissed him in Neverland. Now she felt determined to help Milah find out what happened to her.
With that thought, Emma started to feel the magic in her fingers starting to spread towards the dreamcatcher. She raised it above Milah's head and waited. With her eyes still closed, Emma heard Regina telling Milah again to concentrate on her dreams and Emma just knew that it was working when she felt the dreamcatcher in her hand tremble. Emma opened her eyes and lowered her hand.
"Did it work?" Emma asked Regina.
"Only one way to find out," Regina said. "Show us the dreamcatcher," Regina said and Emma raised the dreamcatcher, showing it to everyone.
With her movements, the dreamcatcher started to glow and an image appeared in the center.
Emma could see Killian on his ship dressed in his pirate clothes. She could tell that he was sad. He was surrounded by his crew and they were lifting a piece of wood with a white pile on it and throwing it in the water. As the thing fell into the sea, Emma could see that the white pile looked more like a body rather than just trash. Looking at the Killian beside her, Emma could read the confirmation on his face. This was the moment Killian had to bury Milah's dead body into the ocean. As Emma looked again at the image within the dreamcatcher, she saw Killian throwing a magic bean into the ocean and a portal opening, and then the Jolly disappearing into it.
Then the image changed to something else.
As another dead body had been thrown into the ocean, Nereus sat on his throne and watched, rolling his eyes and thinking about the stupidity of the people above. He continued to look at the body while it was falling deeper into the dark waters.
"Sailors," he thought. "All they do is send dead bodies into the ocean and start fights."
Nereus was using his magical mirror to watch what was happening in the waters of the Enchanted Forest. Those were his brother Poseidon's waters. Nereus knew he had no right to do that or to intervene in his brother's work, but from time to time he loved to "fish" this or that body out, and give them another chance at life in Atlantis. People were strange creatures. They liked killing each other, or killing innocent people that shouldn't have died. To those innocent people, Nereus liked to give a second chance, either as simple people in the waters of Atlantis or as servants in his castle. He also had a special place in his heart (and castle) for his Nereids.
There were beautiful women who died as innocents and if he saw in them something really special, they were made his Nereids. They were sent into the world, not just in Atlantis but all the realms, to help sailors in need. Their job was simple; they were to help sailors find their way home when they were lost in the ocean, to help them find their happiness or to help them when they were in danger. He knew sometimes the sailors fell in love with his Nereids, and sometimes even the girls were falling for their sailors. When that happened, if he was in a good mood, he would let her leave him and the life of a Nereid behind.
Watching the body that was falling into his brother's waters, Nereus wondered if it was a woman or a man trapped inside the white cloth that was covering the dead body, so he called for Thetis, his first and only magical Nereid.
"Thetis! Come here for a moment, darling," the king commanded.
In less than a minute, Thetis entered the throne room with the superior air of a princess. She was, after all, like a princess to him. He and his beloved wife, Doris, never had children so when he found Thetis and made her his first Nereid, he and Doris also started to treat her like their own daughter.
"You asked for me?" Thetis asked him with a smile.
"There is a body in the waters of the Enchanted Forest. What can you tell me about it? Woman, man? Innocent or killed in war?" Nereus commanded.
Thetis just nodded at him and then moved her eyes towards the direction of the body that was floating in the water. Thetis's eyes turned yellow while she studied the body and then she started to speak.
"Woman. Innocent. She was killed by a great source of dark magic." Thetis opened her eyes and looked at him. "I can feel there was a great regret in her soul when she died."
"What about it?"
"I don't know exactly. I can tell that she lived with a sailor, a pirate she left behind when she died."
"Could she be one of the future Nereids?" Nereus asked, suddenly excited at the prospect of having another beauty with him.
"She has potential," Thetis said nodding at him. "Though she probably wants to go back to her pirate."
"We should bring the body here."
"How exactly? Poseidon was mad the last time we did that, if you don't remember."
"Let me worry about my brother," he said putting his fingers under her chin. "Can you bring me that body, my sweet princess?"
"Of course," she said with a big smile at the name he used.
Thetis closed her eyes and started to say the odd words of the spell she always used when she opened the bridge between Atlantis and the other worlds. The red smoke started to flow out of her fingers and form a circle in the middle of the room.
Soon enough, the body of the dead woman dropped in the middle of the room. Thetis closed the portal and they both looked at the covered body.
Nereus took two steps forward and knelt above the body. He started to pull the white sheet that covered it away and revealed a dark haired woman. She was beautiful, Nereus had to admit that. Her dark hair was still curly, even if it was wet, her lips were red and full, she had jewelry in her hair, ears and around her neck and was also dressed from head to toe in pirate clothes. Just like a queen. A pirate queen, perhaps.
"She is beautiful," Thetis said from behind him, as if reading his mind.
"She is," Nereus agreed with her. "She will make a beautiful Nereid."
He raised his hand and put it over the woman's heart. He tried to channel his magic, to bring her back to life, but nothing happened.
"Why didn't it work?" Thetis asked him.
"I don't know, it should have worked," Nereus said, looking strangely at the woman in front of him.
"May I?" Thetis asked, coming beside him.
"Be my guest," the king said, taking a step away from the woman.
He looked at Thetis as she started to work her magic over the woman's body and then she looked at him shocked. "She doesn't have a heart."
"Can you take care of this?" Nereus asked her. "We've dealt with this before."
"It's going to take time,"
"We have an eternity, my dear," Nereus said obviously.
"I am going to need someone to take her to my chambers," Thetis explained. "And I will also need a new heart."
Nereus raised his eyebrows at her request but chose not to say anything. "Ask the servants for whatever you need."
He watched as Thetis left the room while some servants came to take away the body. Now that the room was empty again, Nereus sat in his throne and waited for news from his daughter.
Hours passed until he had news from Thetis. Up until then, he couldn't even go anywhere near Thetis' chambers and more than once he felt magic flying over the castle. He didn't know what Thetis was doing to the woman's body, but he knew that it would be good and he would not regret asking for her help.
"She is awake and alive," Thetis said, entering the throne room five hours later.
"Amazing!" Nereus said, jumping to his feet. "Take me to her."
The two of them walked together towards Thetis' lab. When Nereus entered the room, he saw the woman sitting on a bed. When she realized that she was no longer alone in the room, she looked towards the door, directly into Nereus' eyes. He was instantly mesmerized by her big, black eyes.
"Who are you?" she asked him with a demanding voice.
"I am the one who saved you," Nereus answered calmingly.
"I thought she was the one who saved me," the woman said, pointing to Thetis with her finger.
Nereus choose to ignore that and instead asked her who she was. "Who are you?"
"Who are you?" The woman asked instead.
"My name is Nereus, King of Atlantis. You are in my palace," Nereus answered making a grand gesture with his hands in front of him.
"I've never heard of this kingdom in the Enchanted Forest."
"That's because you are no longer in the Enchanted Forest," Thetis answered to her before he got a chance.
Nereus watched as shock came over her. "What is your name?" he asked again.
"Milah," she answered slowly.
"That's a beautiful name," he said smiling to her. "What do you remember?"
"I died," Milah answered letting her head down.
"That's very true. What happened before that?" he asked again, needing to know more about this woman.
"The Dark One killed me," she answered and raised her again to look at him. Nereus could see the anger in her eyes at the mention of the person that killed her.
Nereus nodded. "Ah, that monster."
"You know him?" Milah asked with surprise in her voice.
"I knew him a long time ago, but I don't know what his name is now."
Nereus met a Dark One many years ago, back when it was a woman and she was killing many innocent people just because she liked to. Back then, the Dark One even tried to kill him because he was bringing people back to life, but Nereus' magic was stronger and the Dark One was banished from even trying to reach Atlantis ever again. Since then he had not heard anything else about that monster and he had no idea whom he or she was now. And if Nereus was completely honest, he didn't really care.
"Rumplestiltskin," Milah's voice saying the Dark One's name interrupted his thoughts.
Nereus moved his attention back to Milah, "Why did he kill you?"
"He was my husband. I ran away from him and fell in love with another man."
"Why did you run?" Nereus asked interested in her story.
Milah lowered her head down again and started to talk, not looking at him, "It doesn't matter."
"With whom did you run?" Thetis asked beside Nereus.
Milah raised her head again and answered. "With a pirate captain."
"And you fell in love with him?" Thetis asked again.
"I did," the woman answered with the smile of a person who was very much in love.
At the mention of a lover Nereus felt the need to find out what happened to him. If Milah was to be a Nereid, she would, most likely, wish to go back to this captain. "Did you leave him behind when you died?" the King asked her.
"I did. And I hope he is still alive even though I died," Milah admitted.
"Milah," Nereus said with a serious voice. "I am offering you the chance to be alive again, to go back to the Enchanted Forest and maybe be with your pirate again."
Milah looked at him with big eyes. "How?" she asked, surprise being evident on her face.
"I am the king of Atlantis, and I like, from time to time, to save people that died when it wasn't their time. I bring them back to life and I give them a second chance, here, in Atlantis. I also have a few... special girls, who are called Nereids. They help sailors in need. I am offering you the same chance. You could either stay here, in the city, or serve as one of my Nereids," Nereus finished his explanation. "I would like you to be one of them to be honest," he added with a smile.
Milah looked at him with narrowed eyes. "Why?"
"You have… potential," Nereus said, not knowing for sure how to explain what he saw in her.
"There must be a catch. What do I have to do while I serve you?" Milah asked suspiciously.
"Nothing, really. Just to take care of your sailor," Nereus said, shrugging his shoulders.
"And this sailor? Can it be my love?" she asked with an expression that almost looked like confusion.
Nereus nodded at her, "Yes."
"And can I stay with him forever?" Milah asked again.
"Usually I am not in the habit of letting go of my Nereids so easily. But it is possible," he admitted.
Milah sat in silence for a few seconds and Nereus was willing to bet that she was thinking about his offer, "Okay then," Milah answered. "I agree to be one of your Nereids."
"Amazing!" Nereus said happily, clapping his hands in front of him. "Allow me," he came closer to her, with his hand stretched in front of him and Milah just nodded at him.
He stepped closer to her and raised his hand over her chest, mirroring the movements he did hours ago,when he tried for the first time. This time, though, when he tried to work his magic on her, he wasn't stopped by anything. He worked his magic on Milah and watched as a new necklace, the Nereid's necklace, appeared on her neck.
"It's done," the king told her with a big, happy smile.
Milah shook her head at him, "I don't feel any different."
"You will. You are able to breath underwater now. And you can travel between lands," Nereus quickly explained.
"Thank you?" Milah said, although it came out more like a question than an actual thank you.
Nereus started to laugh at her. "Do not worry about thanking me, Milah. I am the one who should be thanking you for agreeing to this."
Milah nodded at him and he was happy to see that the corners of her mouth were turned up in a small smile, "When can I go after Killian?" she asked, looking at him with pleading eyes.
"Whenever you want. But I advise you to stay here and rest for now," Nereus said. "After all, you were dead a few hours ago," Milah agreed with his idea and Nereus felt that it was time to let her rest. He left the room, letting Thetis explain to Milah more about what it means to be a Nereid and what she would have to do.
Milah left Atlantis two days later after she was recovered completely and after both Thetis and Nereus taught her what to do when she got back to the Enchanted Forest and after they instructed her on what to say to people who would, inevitably, ask how and why she was alive. She left for the Enchanted Forest with the promise of coming back soon, to inform Nereus of how things went with the sailor, Captain Killian Jones, as she called him.
Only, Milah came back weeks later, sad and almost crying that she couldn't find Killian or any news about him. She begged Nereus to tell her if the pirate was dead, if perhaps he died after her death, killed at the hand of the Dark One, but Nereus couldn't find anything. The man was, for sure, still alive somewhere. So Milah left again, in search of him.
Her search was in vain though. No matter how long Milah searched, there was no trace of him. She searched for years, both on land and on water and there was still nothing. After many years of looking for a ghost, Milah decided to stay in Atlantis. From time to time, she took little jobs to guide a sailor or two and to help them, but nothing big, because, deep down Milah was still sad for not being able to find her pirate, even if Nereus assured her that he was alive.
After a while, Milah forgot about her quest and even if her heart skipped a beat every time she was sent to help a new sailor, she stopped thinking so much about him. She understood that maybe he didn't want to be found and she knew Killian well enough to know that when he wanted something, nothing could stand in his way.
Then one day Milah came in the throne room, asking Nereus for a favor.
"You want to leave?!" The king yelled so hard that almost every person in the castle heard him.
"I want to go and explore more lands!" Milah yelled at him in return.
At her words, Nereus sit back on the throne, pinching the bridge of his nose to calm down. "And what land do you want to explore first?" he asked, letting out a deep breath.
"There is a land without magic. I hear it's quite beautiful," Milah explained quickly to him.
"That land it's not very welcoming to magical people," Nereus said, knowing very well the people of that land and what their opinions were on magic. They even stopped believing in them, the old Gods of Olympus, and the powers they once had.
"Then let me go as a human, not a Nereid," Milah said, sounding almost desperate. "You said it was possible."
The king looked at her and shook his head, "Not yet Milah."
"Why?" she asked, intrigued by his denial.
Nereus let out a deep breath and tried to explain to her why he couldn't let her go just yet. "You did not end your first and only official mission."
"Killian," Milah said, understanding what the king was talking about.
"Yes," Nereus agreed.
"But I can't. You know that. I can't find him," Milah explained, desperation starting to be present in her voice again.
"I know," the king said, letting out another deep sigh. He closed his eyes and started to think about a way to give Milah what she wanted and keep up the rules at the same time. He liked the woman, she was a good one and he wanted to help her.
"I am going to let you go to that land," Nereus started after coming to a decision. "But I will have to take away your memories," he finished.
"No!" Milah yelled at him.
"I can't let you know what you really are in that realm."
"So how much of my memories are you going to take away?" Milah asked with a severe tone.
"Just those you made from the moment Thetis woke you."
"I am still going to remember the life I had back in the Enchanted Forest?" Milah asked him.
"Yes."
"Will I know why I am alive?"
"I am afraid not."
"Then what will happen to me?"
"You will live as the human you once were."
Milah closed her eyes and thought about what he was suggesting. She would remember everything; her son, Killian, her life with him, but she would not remember that she came back to life and spent years looking for him but not finding him.
"I agree," Milah finally answered him.
With that, Nereus worked his magic on Milah's mind. He took away the memories she had made since she woke up in Atlantis and then put her to sleep so his spell could work at its best intensity.
Nereus knew that the next time she would wake up, she had to be in the Land Without Magic. So with one last kiss to her forehead, Nereus nodded to Thetis to send Milah away to the Land Without Magic. Thetis couldn't tell him for sure where she ended up since she didn't know that land, but she assured him that Milah was there.
Now she was on her own, in a land unknown to her but Nereus knew that she would make it out there. Milah was a strong woman. She had proved it countless times and who knew, maybe she would even find happiness in the new land. Time would tell for sure, but for now, Nereus' watch over Milah was done.