Wizard #590 sat next to the fire, watching the four sisters play - they were close enough in age they could play together, but what was striking was the differences in skill and in interests between the four. He wondered how this had happened - fire, water, wind, and earth. Was it pure randomness? Or was there something else at play?
This day would cause the family to be irrevocably changed forever - the thought that the four main elements may not have been randomly chosen could not be removed from Amir's mind. He was trapped in the vessel of his own mind, obsessing that his family might have been destined for more. He saw the girls playing hide and seek - Adrienne looking after the other three and he felt safe to take his eye off them to head to the meditation stone.
"It isn't that far" he kept telling himself as the girls disappeared out of sight. Amir, for what felt like ages, asked the powers that be at the meditation stone what he should do for his family. Time passed, and a small speck of terror began in his stomach. It grew larger and larger until he snapped out of the trance he was in and rushed back to where the girls were playing.
He saw Adrienne and the other two, but no Beyna. He called to Adrienne, the oldest, and she brushed him off as if he was crazy as they were just playing hide and seek. But as Amir continued to call for Beyna, the other three slowly joining in, the family began to get more and more worried as Beyna failed to respond.
Darkness was soon upon them, and the search lasted well into the night. They searched everywhere - and Beyna was nowhere to be found. A middle sister, Beyna was sometimes forgotten, as was her rune.
As the sun breached the horizon on the 3rd day of searching, the family splintered - Adrienne blamed Amir and left. Amir kept the other two sisters, who were the youngest, but things were never the same.
Beyna was still out there - attuned to the earth and anything green, she had found a stick during hide and seek. The stick was plain - it looked just like a dumb stick, however the pull was immense. Something was at play here as it drew her in a dream-like state farther and farther from her father and sisters until she reached the grotto.
Wizard #591 greeted her and invited her in.
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