kingdom crumbling 🏚

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About a week after the letter, I had almost forgotten about it. Until one morning, when Zendu rushed in....

"Zehra!!! ZEHRA!!!!" he shrieked. I turned around. "The shop!! There was- some sort of earthquake and-" Before he could even finish, I ran towards him and we went to his shop as quickly as we could. The whole street had been demolished by this- earthquake...
Then I remembered. THE LETTER!

I had barely believed the letter, but now the ominous day that father spoke of was upon us...

I looked at the desolated shop in horror, and I also saw a huge crack spread across the sky. Then, another crack, larger this time, engulfed a whole street in its grasp.

A crack forms in front of Zendu. I tried to grab him and help him up, but it was too late. He fell tragically into the jaws of INNESCAPABLE DEATH!!

I knew I could do nothing to save him, so I ran. I ran to the place I have loved all my life: the meadow.....

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