章節 602: An Elf's Tale, Part 10

'Someday… I hope you could forgive us too…'

How many weeks, how many months had passed… since she last heard those words resound? The early days of winter's arrival, and winter's stay… she thought back to that peculiar human's parting words - here, now - it was the only thing in her mind that would actually echo.

The cold burned her - the falling snow like flames scalding more the raw red of her skin. 

She screamed, roared, and heard herself resound nothing. 

Grey smoke swirled the skies, obstructing the infinite stars from shining their luster. It burnt to breathe and the chaos around her plummeted burning trees in the haze, each reverberating thud quaking the earth like a malicious echo flailing her pounding brain. She could hear the crackle, the snap of their branches, the rest of its splintered roots catching fire, and those words once more, again, and again…

'Someday'

It wasn't today, it wasn't tonight…