"Fall."
Her words, like venom, stripped away their choices.
All three of them suddenly fell to their knees, the ground morphing itself around their limbs to keep them there. No matter how strong they were, they could not defy the earth.
"I can't move..."
Lucy grunted in vain, every attempt just as useless as the last.
Hina and Kristen were no different. They tried their hardest to release themselves. Alas, they failed too.
Staring at them, Hefrina calmly observed them for a while.
For over 500 years, she had been isolated from both the gods she grew up with and humans.
No one knew why she chose to settle in the human realm, not even the gods themselves.
"You... I remember who you are..." she began, but this time her eyes fixed on Alaric.
Unlike the rest, Alaric was the only one who wasn't affected by her command.
Standing right before the goddess, he simply blinked, too lifeless to understand the events unfolding around him.
