Through the portal

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I look for the last time up close the holograms and pixels of the empresses Maple Hauyne and Allegra Matrix Opal. Sorrow waves approach the coast, caressing, gently moving around the little boats.

They will always live in the memory of Rune.

I hug my four younger brothers, Keanu and the twins Ren and Roan and I just look at Isolde who I can't touch because he can destroy me. His power is deadly and he can't control it around people.

They were the best mothers, the most attentive mothers, even in the darkest days with them there was no darkness, I don't think I could have asked for better. Mother Allegra may have been just the biological mother of Keanu, and me, mother Maple only biological sons were the twins and Isolde, but to us they, are all our biological mothers, they all treated us as if we had all part of them.

I'll miss them equally.

All the lessons, I learned from them. All the memories we shared are buried deep into my memory.

I wish this moment never arrived.

My soul aches so much at the idea that now they're gone and I won't seem them again.

They were always there for us in the worst moments, they were always there writing us letters, waiting for us with open arms and supporting us in everything they could. As much as they loved some things and their comforts, out of love for us, they left everything to always be available to us. There are few bad moments and millions of smiles and beautiful memories with them.

I look at my father who doesn't have the slightest courage to approach the capsules. He loved them very much. The most affected in the family I think will be our father, he has denied food many times, and he could not announce the death of his wives himself, but someone else did. The last time I saw him like this was when Empress Pryce died.

If I had known, I would not have gone with them. I know that as an older brother I have to take care of my brothers, but damn, if I even had the slightest idea I wouldn't have left. I would have stayed with them until the last second.
I feel someone wiping away a tear that has escaped from my eye, and kiss my temple.

"Everything will be fine, darling."My mother Nevaeh says hoarsely from crying.

The doors open and the guards carry the capsules out of the palace. I wish those capsules had never moved from there, I feel like I needed more time. I don't want them to go away.

My mother Nevaeh takes my hand and we walk behind the pods and out of Alexandrite's palace. A palace, a city that has witnessed the death of now 3 empresses, first, Empress Pryce Spinel and now Empresses Maple and Allegra. The only empress who didn't die in Rune was Empress Stormie who died in the middle of the Obsidian battle in Indigo.

The palace that always seemed impressive to me, my birthplace, my favorite place; the bone colored palace that I liked because it was not very big, with an entrance of faces of past empresses and emperors in the middle of the sea, surrounded by statues of men and women kneeling with one hand straight, and the other in a fist, while the water of the sea covers up to their waists; now it doesn't seem so beautiful to me, rather I don't want to return here, not where my mothers died.

After seeing how the capsules moved away in the not so infinite ocean, we returned to the palace and this time the road to the palace did seem long. I have no head to think about anything other than my deceased mothers. I put my hands in my pockets and look at the pavement. I want all this to end, I need someone to tell me that this is a joke, that my mothers are waiting for me in the palace with open arms.