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Cursing herself for her weakness, she swiftly turned her head away and wiped her eyes with a delicate but trembling hand.
She didn't want Isha to see her this way—to see how much of the way she addressed her just now weighed on her.
But no matter how much she tried to conceal it, her heart was far from steady.
Nyx swiftly sniveled once and regained her composure in an instant. Her face returned to its usual stoic and cold expression but the only response she received was a soft chuckle in her ear.
Her golden eyes narrowed as she sharply turned her head to the side.
To her mild annoyance, Isha was now sitting beside her on the swing as if she had always belonged there.
Her platinum dress had sohow dried completely and clung to her ample chest without any straps to hold it in place.
She looked ethereal like a fairy resting amidst nature's embrace as her silvery-white hair cascaded down her shoulders. Read exclusive adventures at My Virtual Library Empire
She rested her chin lightly on her palm while carrying an amused glint in her blue eyes.
"Why are you crying, little sister? Are you emotional that I called you that again?" Isha teased in a light tone but it was simultaneously laced with a deeper emotion that she tried to suppress.
Even though Isha played it cool and pretended to be detached and superior, Nyx could see through the act.
She could tell that even Isha had beco a bit emotional.
Feeling her deep stare, Isha turned her gaze toward the sky and admired its endless blue expanse.
The gentle wind carried a fine mist from the waterfall and occasionally brushed against her skin.
With one hand resting on the swing's backrest, she appeared to be entirely at ease yet Nyx knew better.
She recognized the subtle tension in her posture and the way she avoided direct eye contact for too long.
Nyx sighed softly and suddenly felt the weight of years pressing down on her heart.
Despite the walls they had both erected, the mont carried a strange sense of nostalgia. Finally, she whispered as her voice trembled slightly.
"It has been exactly two hundred years, six months, and thirteen days since we last t and called each other that… big sister."
At those words, Isha's expression froze. Her blue eyes flickered with sothing indecipherable before she turned to fully et Nyx's gaze.
"Indeed, it has been a long ti since you called that... little Nyx."
Nyx's full lips parted as if she wanted to say sothing more and sothing aningful but before she could, Isha's next words shattered the delicate mont.
"But you don't need to, my dear little sister. Even if you try so hard, we can't go back to those tis again."
Isha's voice was even yet it carried the weight of an unhealed wound.
"Not after what your mother did to mine. So, there is no need to try. Nothing can revert our situation to what it was."
A tense silence stretched between them.
Nyx's golden eyes trembled for a fraction of a second before she masked it with cold indifference.
In a stoic and emotionless voice this ti, she stated her purpose for coming here.
"I need one of your Astral Serenity Lotuses."
Isha arched a delicate brow at her request.
"Oh? Care to explain why? You should know, Nyx that these lotuses are so rare that I can count the known locations in which they are found in this world on one hand.
They take five hundred years to bloom from the state of a bud. It is also imnsely important to my soul's ascension and... to maintain my mother's current state."
Her voice was calm but her gaze was ice-cold now.
It was the first ti she had shown such an expression since Nyx's arrival.
Irritation, amusent, and teasing had dominated their interactions until now but this was different.
It was a quiet and simring warning.
White flas flickered in Isha's cerulean eyes while Nyx's golden irises darkened as if the suns within them had set and been replaced by an ominous dark fire.
The air between them crackled with silent tension yet neither made a move.
Then, Nyx took a slow breath and cald herself.
"I can give you three drops of the Empyrean Hellblaze Essence in return for a mature Astral Serenity Lotus."
For the first ti in their entire conversation, Isha's carefully maintained composure cracked. Shock flickered across her face before she quickly concealed it.
However, Nyx had seen it.
"What reason could possibly warrant such an unfavorable trade, Nyx?" Isha asked after a mont in a low and cautious voice.
"Does this have sothing to do with that 'he' of yours?"
This ti, Nyx was completely unfazed.
She t Isha's gaze impassively and said,
"That is none of your business. You just have to focus on what I am trading for the lotus."
Isha sighed and knew that she would get nothing more out of Nyx not after she herself had shattered the emotional mont that had started simring between them.
She leaned back slightly with a thoughtful expression.
"Alright, but since you are offering three drops of the Empyrean Hellblaze Essence, I won't cheat you.
I will add thirty ounces of Red Crystal Sand along with the mature Astral Serenity Lotus."
Nyx gave a small nod and was satisfied this ti.
Red Crystal Sand was an extrely rare material and not found anywhere on the Agate Star World.
Only a few lifeless planets in the outer reaches of their planetary cluster held deposits of it.
One had to possess the power to connect their very beings with the heavens i.e. be a Heaven Connection being to be soone strong enough to transcend the worldly restrictions of this world and survive the vast emptiness of space.
Even among such beings like her and Isha only a handful had ever successfully mined the sand as the journey near their ho star was grueling.
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