"Well, where are you going to go now?" Nessa asked.
We stood on the steps on the Light Hall, on The Isle of Stars. How many monsters have done that? I thought to myself as I gazed at the forest in the distance, and then the jagged cliffs with waves that crashed into them.
"I don't know," I said, with a shrug. "Ayil invited me to join her in Iethia to train with her." I looked at the magnificent pillars of clear stone that pulsated with dim light, and sat in rows as if they were frozen guards.
Nessa grabbed me by the chin. "You have to let her go," she said, with a tilt of her head. "You have to let Ezra go."
Ezra was still a part of April, but Nessa was right, I didn't want to leave her side. Edan had invited Nessa to go with him to Shangri-La along with Isaiah and Yolanda.
Eveie and Ella were to stay in their little home here on The Isle of Stars, as promised by the Fae.
Malachi, being Ella's brother, was granted citizenship here by April's first official act.
A new era between monsters, angels and even demons, had started. Things were changing in our worlds, including Iethia, but I wasn't sure if I was ready for that change.
"I knew you'd be here on some balcony overlooking the ocean." A voice said behind me.
I turned to see April looking at me with Ezra's indigo eyes.
She stepped closer to me and then held out her curved arm and moved it in front of her face. April's hair smoothed to lie like silk across her shoulders, and her wings faded behind her. Ezra, as I remembered her, stood in front of me smiling.
"The ocean had always fascinated you." Ezra wrapped her arms around me.
"It's you," I said, hugging her back. "Come with me." I wanted to say it, but knew it could never happen.
Ezra smiled. "I am in April now, and it's her life that keeps me. I am her guide and her strength-we can never be together, but my memory doesn't have to die."
"There has to be some way-maybe the Fae?"
"I can't stay long." She looked into my eyes. "I wanted to give you one last gift before I fell into silence."
She pulled me close and we kissed as everything faded around us except for the constant crashing of the waves and the wind curling around us as I clung to the last moments I had with her.
You will do great things Seth Fairstone-you will do great things?
Her image faded as April's eyes opened, and she looked at me with slight confusion.
"Um, Ezra, was it?" She uncomfortably asked, and I nodded.
"Thank you," I said.
April smiled as a woman dressed in a white gown and the same translucent wings behind her, asked April to follow her.
"It's my dad," she said, with a sigh.
"Is he?"
She shook her head. "No, but he isn't well, and I've got a lot to learn from him."
I nodded my head as the Fae woman prompted April again with a timid voice.
"I'm working on something that would extend our relations to Atlantis." She smiled. "I never thought that place actually existed until Malachi told me about it, and everyone here confirmed it." She slightly chuckled. "Anyhow, if you don't have anything else going on?would you like to help with it-I don't have anything started yet, but?Ezra said you liked the ocean, and I've never been to Atlantis, obviously, but I'm pretty sure there's probably a lot of ocean going on there." She shrugged her shoulders as her wings fluttered slightly behind her.
I smiled and searched her eyes for any spark of Ezra, but she was silent. Ezra had given me one last gift-my dream of traveling to the ocean, and even though I wouldn't be with her, her gift would forever be with me.
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