Balenor's Sweetheart - Hayley's Story

Chapter 2: Know No Limits

*Yeah, I figured I could do with a couple of chapters from the view of the Void. Hope this is good!*

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Shilena
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I am standing close to the front of Castle Balenor. Lord Mosino sent me on a mission to investigate this event. Now that our enemy, Hayley Suntora, is 16 and allowed outside of the castle, we can finally plan our final strike. From what I heard around the Void, Mosino wasn't always our King. A man named Yaros was, and he was the one who killed Hayley's parents, Gina and Maximus. I was sent out to investigate the consequences of that event, and I reported back that the guards in the castle decided to lock the gates and keep Hayley safe inside the castle until the day she turned 16.
And now that the day is among us, for which we at the Void have waited so long for, we can finally start planning how best to end the reign of the Suntoras once and for all.
After Hayley steps outside, she is greeted by Elise and Sofia. Elise is the Commander of the Imperial Temple of the kingdom, and Sofia is a Priestess to their precious Saliora. We at the Void take no notice of Saliora. She's Balenor's Goddess and also the Goddess of Health. No. Not for us though. We're not soft goody-goodies. We don't believe in weaklings like Saliora, and we will certainly NOT live under the reign of a Suntora!

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"Hey, Shilena!"
I just returned to the Void and Jessica is the first to greet me. Jessica and I are great friends.
"Hey Jess. How's things?" I ask.
"Could be better to be honest," she replies. "I just got back from spying on the temple."
"Good timing huh? I just got back too."
And we tell each other everything we saw and heard. She tells me that the temple will now have to start recruiting more people than usual because of Hayley being free, and some of the soldiers will have to act as bodyguards to Hayley. I then tell her everything I saw at the ceremony in Cloud City.
"A little low..." she says. "Hey how about we go see Lord Mosino together about this?"
"Yeah," I reply. "I don't want to stand in there alone with just me and him. I sometimes get a shiver."