But all that she knew and loved would soon come to an end.

Unless she could do what she had dreaded all her eternal life.

Her name a millennia ago was Sha’ndea; a name that she had all but forgotten over these long years.

She knew what she had to do. She had seen the future and hoped she could leave it all behind.

But that was not to be. What had been foreseen now had to be done.

She would not leave the existence that she loved at the mercy of those who had no respect for life.

There was no goodness anywhere she went.

The laws of nature were no more given precedence; selfishness and greed had over-ridden the populace.

Evil had already manacled its hold overwhelmingly, almost everywhere.