Need

Previously

…As she strode through the moonlit castle, her hunting cloak settling around her shoulders like a second skin, Elara felt a surge of determination. She would face the beasts, navigate the illusions, and find the Sunpetal Bloom. She would bring the cure back, not just for the land, but for Kael. She would break through the gilded cage that held him captive, even if it meant facing the darkest corners of her own heart. The adventure had begun, not in the wild, untamed lands she knew so well, but in the desolate landscape of her own marriage, a quest for a love that seemed to be fading as surely as the magic of their world. And she would not fail.