They found me floating on the Sapphire Sea. I was a silent infant with large doe eyes. I didn’t even cry when the saltwater drenched my hair.

They took me in and treated me well. I had four sisters and two brothers. I was given a love I was never destined for. And if they had known why I’d been sent to them, perhaps they wouldn’t have given it to me at all.

No one talks much about the kingdom of Roria. It belonged to a time older than the oldest of them. Its jade-studded walls are gone now, the dusty fragments of an old legend, but they were bright once.

We were an island kingdom, a bright blob on the water. Our skies were filled with glimmering birdsong, and our fish wore colours you could only imagine. We were a kingdom of magic and excitement. But we we...

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