For a second she could've sworn the clouds answered. A rumble that could only be product of her imagination shook her bones causing her eyes to narrow into tiny slights of yellow that stared into the dancing forms of the clouds above. One went above the others, its fluffy contour shifting into a shape she knew very well.
It was Jinx's face.
Staring right at her from the highest point of the heavens, the place where her eyes should've been were ilumitaned by the sun. And even if she knew it was just an illusion, the sight of her queen eased the burden that laid in her heart. She smiled brightly at the cloud and watched it open its maw to do the same.
But instead of a smile, the phantom gave a mournful whine and disappeared into thin air. Cara whipped her head to meet Mordecai, as real as it had felt she knew the lament hadn't come from her made up cloud queen. "Mordecai", she said simply, her enerdy transforming the frown that had laid upon her face into a smile. While she might've felt jealous in the past, today she saw the male as nothing but an ally. That assuming he'd stay, though in the naive mind of the young queen she was convinced every member would stay.
