The Messenger Comes Wearing Black

Her searching had never ceased, her eyes keeping their focus on the surrounding areas. The flower that could save her mother's life had to be somewhere in the thicket and fast she was beginning to lose the hope that she had desperately clung to. A sorrowful sound emerged over the territory and her eyes started to water. It was Sequoyah's voice. She ran towards it, panic and fear present in her eyes as she ran towards the man who had led beside her for so long. They were all they had left. She skidded to a halt, literally, a few feet in front of him and she felt like she was about to break, her heart disappearing along the way. "I... I didn't find it in time, did I?" Her voice was weak and defeated as she looked into her brother's eyes.

A certain empty feeling set in as she looked at the knight before her. She could feel herself deteriorating.