A beautiful red-haired woman in casual attire sat behind a large desk, one leg crossed over the other as she placed one elbow on the desk, and supported her head with her curled fist.
Isolde turned to the side. Sunlight bathed the massive office her father once occupied.
It came from the looming window right behind her desk. Her eyes were on a document but her mind was adrift from its contents.
She recalled the vision she had last night. The second night after Godfrey left, and in that vision, she saw darkness shift like it was sentient.
It consumed an entire city, swallowing all the people.
The face of a little boy crying flashed in her eyes. She tried saving him, but the boy was taken by the darkness, and when it was about to consume her, she woke up.
'Is that the Ruination?' Isolde's eyes glinted.
