ELINA I see with a silent pain how the sun begins to set on the horizon, and I feel my heart shrink because I know the time is coming , Bastian has not come back, but I have listened to him every so often, trying to ask me if I am okay and if I have calmed down, using mind links, but I have not answered him at all , I do not have the strength or the will to talk to him now, and it is still hard for me to believe that he can be capable of something so atrocious , of causing me so much pain. The door opens and I turn my head slowly towards the entrance of the room, and then I see him, the huge figure of my father occupying almost the entire space of the doorframe , looking sadly at me from his height, and I feel my heart break into a million pieces at that image, he has his hands and

