Many Years Later…
Erik
Music floated through the evening air, and the overwhelming mood of celebration lifted everyone’s spirits. I’d just handed my crown over to Vin, King Vincent The Second, my first-born son. This was his coronation party filled with friends and family and the entire population of Ignis Terra. He twirled his mate around the dancefloor, beaming at her in adoration. They hadn’t had the easiest of starts, just like his mother and me.
Instead of watching the party and the revellers, my eyes only flitted over everyone as she drew my gaze to her. Always her. Like a beacon in foggy seas, she pulled me in with her bright light. Spellbound, I watched her dancing with Iris, my second daughter. They twirled and dipped, and when she bumped into someone next to them, she tipped h
