Faira felt the tears again threaten to fall from her eyes when he said that this was not how things were meant to be. How many times had she pictured how her future might have been, if he were still alive? How happy they would have been? How he would have stood at her side as she someday took her mother's throne, and they continued the cycle of the Empresses of Aesthan? Now, it just felt like some cruel joke.<br/><br/>Many dark elves had deals with demons, so it did not surprise her. And the force he faced had to be rather powerful, if he was privy to such knowledge.<br/><br/>"I feared something like that. I used to feel her light so strongly, and I thought it was the loss of my mother that had dimmed that feeling..." She took a step closer to him. It was a reflex she had to halt, she knew that it was just the echoes of their past. Her heart wanted her to remember and to seek the comfort he had once did provided, but it was not rational.<br/><br/>"Is that why this blight has come? What has happened to her, my love?" The last two words escaped her mouth before she could stop them.