Zhara moved to sit down and said “when we were young, I was in training with my master at the palace. I had been there for a few new moons when one night I was working on my patrolling skills when I saw something coming out of the young princes window. A black shape holding him, like a black fog made solid. They flew out of the city and I went to get Mahad and mana. I knew the guards wouldn’t be fast enough and the three of us could handle it…we rushed out them and was able to track them down to an abandoned temple south of here. He was already on the alter when we got there. We got him out, but that night…something woke within me. My power triggered in the presence of that…monster. I only told my master the next day…I don’t know if he told the pharaoh about it…”