Frozen Memories: Heirs of Ethra
READING AGE 16+
The trip through the portal to Ethra is extremely draining for first-timers, usually, draining them unconscious. It\'s when Mina awakens alone in a dark Amthirion saturated cell, that she realizes the long-awaited trip to Ethra will not be as welcoming as originally assumed.
My feet carried me as far away from the bar as could be managed. It was only when my heels scraped against the smooth stone behind me that I realized I had backed away as far as I could.
Why...why was this fear taking hold of me? Why could I not fight it? There was something painfully familiar about the theme of this place that burned a hole through my will to push past my fright.
When I closed my eyes to push out the anxiety, a flash of my past pulsed through my mind’s eye. There was a cell, dank and smelly-the floors saturated with water that had just been used on me with a power washing hose.
“Alright, Frost,” I heard so clearly as if I was there...as if this wasn’t a walking memory in the deep recesses of my mind forcing me to remember my torture-this voice not to be confused with the one that I had not a moment ago heard greeting me.
“No!” I exclaimed frightfully, gripping my hair panic-stricken. The full details of my past life had never been completely delved into, but the scars of the past would still find their way to the forefront at times in small traumatic...and painful memory flashes. “I don’t-I don’t want to see this again!”
“You are a troubled one,” The man said at the other side of the bar.
I gathered my composure enough to return attention to the current situation at hand-to this male standing in the dark before me as opposed to what I knew to be a terrible reminder of a treacherous memory.
“What...what do you want?” I managed to finally spit out.
The man standing before the bars, his eyes aglow in teal blue stared at me in eerily long silence before a dry chuckle barely parted his lips. “I think I’d be more inclined to ask you this question, my pretty little femlin.”
Femlin? I had never before heard such a term. I could only assume that this was a term from Ethra. Suddenly, I wished that I had further ventured into the memories that I had declined to explore when offered by Keyvah. Wait! Keyvah! Amorah! Max! Everyone! Where had they gone!?
Unfold
“It has been seven and a half months since my return from Ethra, and just as Nixon said, there were answers to be found about both my family and myself. I returned to my childhood home. There, I found a few things that I did not have the time to look at before. There were small clues, nothing too ground-breaking but still there were answers,……
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