A thousand years passed. Aethelgard became a legend, a whisper in the waves, a story told by old sailors to frighten children. No one believed it was real anymore.
In a small fishing village called Haven’s Reach, lived a girl named Elara. She was a quiet girl, with eyes the color of sea glass and a love for the ocean that ran deep in her bones. She spent her days on the shore, collecting shells and watching the waves. Her father was a fisherman, and her mother had died when Elara was a baby. She didn’t have many friends. The other children thought she was strange because she would stare at th