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 Togashi refused to stand on ceremony with Avyna, even before he married into the family. The two held each other in very high esteem and Togashi appointed himself as her protector even though he knew full well she had no need of one. He made no show of the fact that he deeply admired her. His ears twitched as he heard her telltale footsteps approaching and he looked up out of his book, his silver ponytail falling over his back. The Empress looked more stressed than ever after being in negotiations all morning—especially with her husband still furious with her. Even if the two had not said anything publicly, Togashi knew just by being

The split happened with the marriage of Slyxis, Heir of the Dras'thar throne, and Avyna, Queen of the Ajarie. Two generations before the marriage, the two races fought against one another in a cull that decimated both populations. For thousands of years, the line of the Dras'thar royals had remained pure and strong, never straying from the blood of its own people. And despite his people's outcry against such an occurrence, Slyxis forever united the two races under one banner. But some factions did not want peace. They did not want a happy ever after. There were those who had lost a great deal to the war between the races. They could not acce

In the beginning, there was stillness. Space and Time were a simple, bound fabric. Order and Chaos were ideas that had not been formed. There was only the quiet, scattered, faint light of stars that had existed before time was truly put into motion. But amongst those stars existed Darkness. A being that had no true conscious thought and that had no sense of when time began and when it would end. It was not until the explosion of a star close to what would become the focus of the being's thought that It awakened. And with Its awakening, there formed Its opposite. A being of pure Light, shining through what had once been Its precious Dark