A ray of light seeped under the heavy eyelids.
Rupert thought she was already dead, but the eternally shifting ground still roused her from an indistinct slumber.
The gentle rocking seemed to awaken some childhood dream, making her again and again believe she was back on that ship called the 'Istania Crescent.' It once was the flagship of the fleet personally built by her father and mother.
——It was the dream of the Istania People chasing distant horizons.
Unknowingly, tears started to fall like raindrops, and an indescribable sorrow inexplicably lingered on her heart. Her breathing weighed heavily, as if a sharp thorn was lodged beneath her throat, with burning pain surging and crashing like waves, engulfing her entirely.
But even amidst such heaviness, she gently trembled as she lifted her eyelids——A ray of light seeped under the heavy eyelids——through the blurred teary vision, the princess saw two intersecting shadows, and the infinite light beyond them.
