Elements: Can You Trust Me? (Book 3)

Injured & Houseless (Chapter 3)

The only place that makes sense for Sasha to go to is back to the abandoned kingdom of Wysteria.

It was the only place she had ever called home. Probably the only place she will ever call home as well.

Sasha sighs, annoyed by her limping as she makes her way inside the palace. Vada has given them a secret entrance into the place but the leader herself couldn't leave given that she was bound to the place.

Limping into a med room, Sasha scavenges for anything that could help with her injuries. Thanks for literally ruining everything here Wysteria!

"Oh for magic's sake!" Sasha throws aside a piece of burned bandages. "Why isn't there anything here?!"

Punching the drawer, Sasha moves on to the next cabinets, hoping for anything to help. She finds some cleaner bandages and uses them to quickly replace the blood filled cloak parts.

The Elemental Master of Darkness then destroys those pieces. She finds a cast for her leg and arm and puts it on.

I look like a mess. Sasha looks down at herself, ignoring it, Sasha sits down on one of the broken down couches.

Can I really just stay here till I'm old and gray?

Heh, it's by far better than being tossed aside by mages, or being tortured.

What do I have to lose being here? Besides being lonely and maybe losing my mind at one point...

Would my magic leave me? Darkness...it would go to someone who could actually help mages with it.

I'm not worthy to have this magic.

Never have been, never will be.

There must be a way to give my magic to someone else right? Elemental magic is the only one that can pull that off but I don't know if I can do it myself.

Think Sasha, even if you do find a way, who would you give it to?

Maybe I'll just wait for it to leave me and then go to someone else.

Sasha stares up at the ceiling. Her eyelids dropping. She lifts her bruised hand up into the air, trying to catch the light in her hands.

But she can't catch it.

I'm Darkness.

I can't hold the light.

Then darkness claims her.

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"Run harder!" Ku calls out to the teens. "You are running like babies! Incredible on the field but slow in training..."

"Give them a break Sensei," Amy laughs. "Those poor kids just fought off Wysteria's goons, and school starts soon."

"All the more reason to train," Ku counters. "There is a void in the threat to the world, which will not last long knowing our luck. He strokes his long, fading, black bread. Ku's mud-brown eyes watch the teens.

"Oh, just give it a break already," Amy leans against the control panel, her leaf-green eyes looking down towards the teens who are running some laps. "Basically, I'm trying to say that it wouldn't hurt to lay off for a bit..."

"When we get lazy, the enemy strikes Amy!" Ku lifts his staff into the air as an emphasis of his words. "We can not be careless."

"I know, but like, just one day," Amy raises an eyebrow. "That never hurt anybody."

"True," Ku admits. "But the worry will not leave me, so we will train everyday. One day...one day they will become stronger."

"Suit yourself," Amy sighs. "My apartment feels so empty..."