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The Queen of Light had taken me in. She had promised me a chance to help with the fight against the Unseelie. They were our enemies. They had kidnapped my big sister and declared war on us after the dissolution of the trials. They had their monsters, and we had our will to fight against the darkness.
It was kind of her to invite me to the palace to get instructed on divination magic. She knew my chances of seeing something about my sister, who was still a captive of the Unseelie, were higher than any other diviners with no unique connections to the light fae champions lost to us.
I had no right to imagine rushing an invite by the queen simply because of hunger. She had been very gracious to me and deserved that favor returned to the best of my abilities.
I passed through the corridors that led to the great hall. The smell of food made my stomach grumble again, but I ignored it and walked further away from it.
I walked quickly and did not stop until a sudden feeling of urgency took over me at once.
I knew this feeling. It felt like dozing off, yet it was the closest thing to waking up. My feet could no longer move as my vision darkened with the coming dream that was true.
I fell. And I kept falling until the images came.
A river parted as soon as I saw it. Downstream, it crashed into a well, breaking it, destroying it. The stone became foam as souls drowned in it. Upstream, the river broke the crown of clouds in the sky. Rain poured, joining the rivers and creating a flood. A vision of war came together in the flooding crimson waters turning into blood. The sky broke into two, light and dark came down. Fear rose in me as the light and the dark joined together.
The vision ended with a figure in the dark, whose face I could not see.
“Are you okay?”
I heard her voice, and the vision was gone. I blinked several times to get rid of the blood blocking my view. It was not real blood; I knew.
I was on the floor.
Her face was like a dream in itself. Aislinn was on her knees beside me. My hand was warm in her hand. Excitement rose in me as I struggled to return.
“Twice born from a union of enemies,” I stared at Aislinn as we both heard the words spilling from my mouth despite my will. “From unity comes war and peace.”
My voice was cracking. What I said made little sense, but the words were engraved onto my mind, and I knew I could never forget them.
“What?” Aislinn asked, her face twisted with fear.
“Dark in light and light in dark," I heard myself whisper. “With suffering, it will cease.”
Aislinn’s brows raised with understanding. She did not release my hand, but her grip tightened.
She waited for me to speak again, but I had no words left to say.
“You had a vision,” she said after the long pause. “You should tell someone.”
My head was hurting. I thought the vision caused it, but when I brought my free hand to the back of my skull, I felt a bruise.
“I must have hit my head when I fell,” I told her.
“Can you sit?” She asked. She seemed visibly relaxed to hear me make sense.
With her help, I managed to lean against the stone wall and sit upright. The river was all over my mind.
“Did you hear the words?” She asked.
“What?” I was confused.
“The things you just said,” Aislinn explained excitedly. “Did you hear the words being said to you in your vision?”
“No,” I replied. “I only saw images.”
I told her what I’d seen. It felt like I was describing a dream, but as I spoke, Aislinn’s expression tightened.
“You’re an interpreter too, then,” she said once I was done.
