Memories streamed past Eva's mind in a flood, four thousand years might be a blink of an eye to an immortal, but it was enough to make many unforgettable memories.
She remembered losing him for months on end in a far-off world where he became lost, and she found him stuck at the top of a mountain, speaking with birds.
The winter had been hard on that world and the mother of four baby chicks had nearly died protecting her babies from the cold, so Lost placed the birds on his stomach and lay there for weeks, slowly giving the family heat to survive the winter.
That particular bird was fairly aggressive and Lost had suffered from countless pecks and scratches but he was still laughing and conversing with the disgruntled mother.
She remembered teaching him how to channel his powers, but he was too unfocused and lacked discipline to be a competent fighter.
Eva recalled giving him a task to subtly kill off a herd of corrupted leopards over the course of a day, but he instead unleashed his flames and turned them all to ashes at once before trying to run away to another world to play, she had called out in anger,
"Lost, what did you do?"
"Well, I cast fuck everything… in that general direction."
"Language!" and she seized his ears, "Who taught you to speak like that."
"Ow, ow… please, I can't say or I would be betraying my friend."
Although Eva had failed to admit it, in a lifetime of endless war and death, Lost was the only one who could make her smile.
The voice of Lost reached her, broken, "You…. Know what to do when the… time is…"
Eva opened her mouth in a silent cry.
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The flames of Convergence held the Third Prince for two seconds, as it consumed even his momentum and cries of anger before another eruption of red lightning tore it apart and the figure of Lost glowed so brightly it almost equaled the consciousness of Rowan who was tearing reality apart.
A purple light covered Lost and he vanished, before appearing by the side of the Third Prince and he exploded.
The explosion was not spread out but was focused, resembling a large palm, pushing the Third Prince back for hundreds of miles as he fought against it while screaming obscenities. With a cry of rage, the Third Prince plunged his hands into the palm and tore it apart.
The flames of Lost vanished.
With an angered shout, the Third Prince screamed, and the power that erupted from his body was a thousand times more powerful, in a brief moment, he wiped out every one of Rowan's children, including Eva, and Rowan's consciousness pillars began to shatter under his unshakable might.
The end had come for Rowan, and his dominion fell under the tyranny of the Third Prince.
Then a bell tolled in the heavens as Rowan's Spell became complete. It was too late, the Third Prince had failed and he looked up in horror and expectation at what was to be unleashed, and at first, he was puzzled.
Above him, reality had been divided equally, one part was the universe along with this dimension which had been squeezed to occupy one area, and the other side was nothing but an expanse of golden light.
He muttered to himself, "dawn… dusk, what could it mean?"
It did not take long for the truth to be revealed and the eyes of the Third Prince glinted.
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