The forsaken (Rainimator book4)

The past

POV Stella

my eyes were tight shut when the stone was used, travelling through time with it, I didn't want to look, all of time what would that look like, and how long until we get...."Stella, you can open your eyes we're already there," Gwendoly said.

"Hmm? oh...I thought it would take longer," I said slightly embracing. "Where is Meeps and Shizuku?"

Gwendoly looked around. "WHAT WHERE ARE THEY? THEY SHOULD BE HERE!" She said panicking. "DID WE LOSE THEM IN TIME? OF GODS! WE HAVEN'T JUST KILLED THEM HAVE?" I had never seen the enderkin so scared before, probably of Sheila killing her because she lost her sister somewhere in time.

"We're fine, just higher than we thought,"

We both looked up to find Meeps and Shizuku tangled up in the trees above us. "Time stones clearly aren't an exact magic is it?" I asked.

"It's old magic, predating the ender kingdoms and lost to time, that rock is all that is left for them," Gwendoly said summing up a pair of arcane tree cutters and cutting the vines holding Meeps up and dropping her, the only thing Gwendonly didn't think of was Meeps landing on me.

the good news is I broke Meeps fall so that's nice, bad news is my arm really hurts now. Gwendoly repeated the same with Shizuku but created an arcane pillow under her to break her full softly. Shizuku out a squeak when she landed.

"How did you make a pillow?" I asked confused.

Gwendoly smiled. "Well, Stella my dear, in all my years travelling I learned a lot, including how to shift Arcane magic into many different forms, allow me to show you," Gwendoly waved her arms about from the air white glowing dogs appeared, and then Chicken that clucked and walked around.

I looked confused. "But...how?"

"lot's of training," Gwendoly said.

"What about Lilith? what kind of magic does she use?" Meeps asked.

Gwendoly looked dark suddenly. "That magic is evil, Lilith uses something called Eldrich magic, it was created by something from beyond, the magic and corrupt, and alter the body, Lilith is only in the first levels of it, it was unnatural, it is more powerful the arcane magic, but not even the Entity was willing to use it, it can also spread from person to person if the person spent a long time around them,"

"Is that why you hate Charlie?" Meeps asked.

and there goes the mood...completely, we came to stop before, Gwendoly stared down at the robotic red panda.

"Why do you care?" Gwendoly asked angrily.

"Because, I've seen how you've made him feel," Meeps said.

Gwendoly glared at Meeps. "he is a danger to us all! he grow up with Lilith, the Eldrich magic must exist in him too! it is only a matter of time before he tries to kill us all,"

"You have met Charlie?" I asked, "I don't think he would hurt a fly if he tried,"

"Charlie won't hurt me," Shizuku said.

"And what about what he did to Crystal?" Gwendoly asked.

Meeps stared eyes wide at Gwendoly. "What..."

"Can you honestly tell me that if Crystal had never met Charlie, she would have gone insane, I helped raise that child, watched her grow! and I saw how that man changed her!" Gwendoly yelled.

"because Crystal and Charlie made each other happy! anyone could see that, you're just trying to deflect blame for the fact you didn't stop what the Entity and the red legion done to her," Meeps argued back.