Another First Person POV drabble I wrote during our China trip. This one is before the first Triad War, with more reference to Katze than to Dragon vs Pheonix the Roleplay.

The timeline is set on when Alcaedo and Vondaemia manages to find Draenaria through Phobos.

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When I finally saw you again, you seemed so small, so ragged and haggard. But I knew immediately that it was you.

I watched the psychic called Phobos near you. Watched as the life seemed to return to you as he approached. As the pupils of your eyes seemed to follow every one of his movements.

When I saw your smile, I felt none of the relief that I thought I should have had. Instead, I was overwhelmed by sadness.

What was it that had caused you to age so much in merely a few months? Who or what had snatch you innocence that I had so tirelessly tried to protect?

The thought of you suffering in these few months when I was not there pains me. So much that I had to fight the tears that threatened to roll off the crevices of my eyes. Beside me, I could see Daemie drop to her knees with a soft thud. Hear the gentle whimpers emanated from her lips. Feel the sorrow that she felt as I did.

However, I had no time to comfort her. For you had already sat up from that little linen bed of yours. When you saw us, I could feel the self-revulsion that crashed into your mind in waves. I could hold in my tide of emotions no longer.

A tear left my eye and rolled down my cheek, disappearing from sight as it collided with the maroon carpeted ground.

‘Drae, what has happened to you?’ was all I could think.

-Ende-