Myra that feeling she had burst in to a much larger, warm feeling. She realized that Rumare had company last night. She smiled faintly, happy that he had relieved some tension, so to speak. Good for him. She could almost feel their heartbeats from the door, and she was totally serene. But why? Wasn't it just a little while ago that she was envious of not just their relationship, but of Kaalys in general? Why had that feeling of envy stopped? She had so many questions to ask Mara, next they met. She stifled a giggle. "Alright. Tell Kaalys to pack herself some provisions, if she's coming along.", she said back, hoping that Rumare wouldn't be startled by the fact that she knew who was in there with him. She started back down the stairs, but the moment she lay foot on the first step, she slipped and started to tumble down the stairs. She closed her eyes and guarded her head with her arms for the impact, but it never came.
Instead, she was now standing in the rose colored mist of Mara's realm. She felt lighter now, and she looked down at herself to find that instead of her normal dress, was a thin linen robe. But she didn't feel exposed, or afraid, or in pain, or anything other than love. It seemed that Mara had decided to talk to her now, when she had the questions fresh in her mind. She saw the warm mist start to shimmer and the benevolent form of Mara now started to shape. "Hello again, my beloved.", she said in her mystical soothing voice. Myra knelt before her once more. "My Lady, Mara! I am blessed with your presence once more!", she exclaimed with great joy. "I understand you have many questions for me. You need not ask, for I have the answers you seek. You wish to know why you no longer feel the same love you felt for your friend, correct? It is because I have taken that from you, and placed it on to another. I do this because the pain you would feel when you realized he loves another would have been far too great for you, for though you are my Avatar, you are mortal. I could not let you suffer the way you would. Now, you are gifted with another. You know him, though not well, but you will soon.", Mara told her, gesturing at a seemingly empty spot to her left. The mist swirled and pulled together to make a vision of a familiar man. Where had she seen him before? Corelas! It was Corelas! Mara's stomach sunk, and she felt like her chest had tightened as she looked at the vision. She turned her head back to Mara, who was wearing a perfect expression of love. "Your second question, one that you did not even realize you were asking. You wish to know why you felt such an aura of love, and how you could feel the beating of their hearts. I have blessed you with another gift. While you did not know it, the Priest in my temple did know who you were. He gave you a move treasured gift. The amulet you are wearing, it is enchanted unlike any other. It grants you the power to feel and recognized true love, but only when you wear it. Now, for your last question. You wish to know why I did not direct his love toward you.", Mara told her in a saddened voice. Myra felt a sudden shock of pain and absolute depression at her last words, but quickly went away when Mara put her hand on Myra's shoulder. "The pain will come in short bursts for a while, but it will go away in a mortal month or so. Whenever they come, wrap your hand around your amulet, and it will stop.", she paused and put her other hand on Myra's other shoulder. "I did not give you his love, because I have already given it to another woman. She would be just as devastated as you would have been, and I would not have been able to cleanse the wounds of her heartbreak. Only you can truly enter this realm; my true realm. I will not allow you to yearn or ache, I have placed your love in the heart of Corelas Calindil, and his in yours. Trust me, my child, you will be very happy.", she said softly, pulling Myra in to a soft embrace. Myra almost immediately fell asleep in the warm misty arms of her Goddess, and was gently led out of the realm.
She awoke in a blur, her body throbbing, and a sharp pain in numerous spots along her arms and legs, as well as her torso. She opened her eyes. Well, she tried to open her eyes. One of them had been swollen up. She tried to move her head, but there was a suddenly surge of extreme pain when she tried. She screamed as loudly as she could. And, in the few second she saw her body, she could tell that there was blood everywhere. But screaming only made it hurt worse. Her eyes jolted from place to place around her, looking for a familiar face, ANYONE. She found Thorek and Corelas rushing toward her. She took in where she was. It looked like she had not only fallen, but flew in to the wall in front of the top of the stairs, it had knocked her out, she had fallen down from the wooden wall, and crashed down on to the middle of the stairs, then tumbled down the rest of the way. It was a wonder she was still alive. She was in tears now, the salt mixing in cuts and bruises on her face, burning along the way. She had such a pitiful look on her face. Trying to lift her hand out to one of her friends, another surge of pain, this time much greater, shot through her. She screamed even louder, until her voice cracked, and shook uncontrollably. She blacked out once more, this time, not returning to Mara's realm.
