Cosma had promised to deliver the stolen Soulgems back to where they belonged. I looked around anxiously, waiting for my friends to appear to me. My stomach was clenching with nerves, and when a few minutes went by and nothing happened, I swallowed a nervous laugh and heard myself speaking.

"Everyone... I did it. I hung in there. But I'm so lonely!"

I listened hard. That was their cue to jump in and tell me that I was being silly because I'd won the war and now we'd work through what was left together.

But there was nothing.