Song: [Forbidden Codex – Hoskey]

                ~Rosabel’s View~

                My running didn’t last very long. I looked back to see that none had attempted to follow me, or at least were able to. “Thank you, guardians. Your sacrifice will not be for naught” I thought to myself. My pet Mandora had disappeared into my dress pocket, and I had completely forgotten she was there, the leaf atop her head the only sign that she was still there. I continued on my way, eventually realizing that I knew where I was.

I had walked up to an abandoned park, the very site of my old games with the younger Iris and her pets. Oh I missed her, but still I could not restrain a nagging feeling that she could’ve helped my father nor the feeling that I was still being followed.

I continued to walk around the deserted area, eventually finding a spot near a cliff where we used to hide. I hoped that maybe some soldiers from the Firmament Kingdom would attempt to find me, and this location would prove to be the most likely location I would hide in on the path to the Firmament Kingdom. So I waited in a small crack in the stone. I eventually fell asleep, completely missing the legion of Firmament Soldiers who came past, looking for their Crimson Princess.

                I woke up to a loud noise rattling outside. Mandora had awoken beside me, shuffling her leaf. “Wait…outside? Where am I?!” I thought to myself yet again. I remembered falling asleep at a small crack in the cliff, but where I am now is nowhere close to that location. I continued to walk pointlessly around the area I was in, dusty books were scattered among the shelves around me, then I heard a whispery female voice coming from somewhere nearby.

“Come closer” the voice said, “come find me, and you shall have what you seek.“ Out of pure curiosity, I followed in the direction of the sound. Only then did I realize I had been in a large library, the stone walls giving the idea that I may be inside the cliff. I couldn’t believe it, a whole library, underneath the very place I had spent my childhood. I continued to follow the voice, only to be led into a room with a book stood atop a mantle. I walked up to it, Mandora continued to squeal and sputter, as if telling me not to come closer, but the voice in my head had been very persuasive. I continued to walk up to it. A nice book, it was, and the voice had been emanating from it. I was amazed at the magical book that had been hidden in the cliff for who knows how long.

“She said I could have whatever I seek… power to get rid of some separatists would be nice.” I thought to myself. My Mandora shuddered.