Sighing, Lunastrasza summoned her father. He appeared not two moments after her thoughts went to him, emerging from the shadows with that same smirk on his dark gray face.
“Well, I daresay it is a red letter day, to have you summon me willingly, my dear.” He greeted, capturing a lock of her luminous hair in his long fingers.
She simply stared at him, sighing. “I needed your help.”
The shadowlord’s eyes glinted with sparked interest. “Oh? What with, my dear?”
“Romathion remains trapped with Nefarian’s mind. I would...ask you to aid me in freeing him. Please, Yisariach, you must--”
“I must not do anything.” He replied smoothly, tucking the lock of her hair behind one of her slender ears. “You are in no place to make such demands of me, my daughter.”
“If you truly loved me, like you say you do, then you would do this for my happiness.” Her retort was sharp. If she was to get what she wanted from him, she’d have to be firm.
Yisariach snorted, laughing cruelly. “Oh, yes, my dear...how very scary. You truly do have your mother’s fiery nature, that is for certain.”
“...I did not summon you to argue.”
“And what is in this for me? You do realize that Romathion is quite the headache for me.”
This was the tricky part. “...Anything but my servitude to you.”
The shadowlord laughed again, folding his arms over his massive chest. “Very well, then. Since your children’s lives are of no worth to me, then I shall not take any of them...but...” He blinked, an idea seemingly coming to him. “Ah, yes. You will not be able to birth any more children for the rest of your days.Your womb will never quicken again.”
Lunastrasza’s blood ran cold. This was his price? She didn’t have time to debate whether or not she was alright with it. She needed Romathion back. “...Done.”
With that statement, the shadowlord reached out a dark hand and placed two fingertips on her lower abdomen. A shock of pain went up her spine, and she bit her lip hard to keep from crying out.
And as soon as he drew away his fingers, it was done. There was no time to dwell on the matter, however, as Yisariach leaned back, the smirk still etched into his features. “Now then, my dear...shall we? Where is this book that freed him the first time?”











