Seeing this. Ellie grinned wide, remembering the days when her mother had spent hours and hours tirelessly playing with her and her sister.

For as long as she could remember, there was no father in the family of three. After seeing their mother cry when one of the sisters asked about this matter, both of them had decided that they would never bring up the topic again.

None the less, life had been great.

Yet, everything shattered completely when her sister was abducted 4 months ago.

Together, she and her mother had searched the entire city to no avail. Even the government had given up, and they heard whispers cursing a slavery ring.

Since then, her mother's appet.i.te had decreased day by day. It wasn't that they didn't have food; their family was given a pension each month which her mother had always saved meticulously.

The problem was that her mother seemed like she lost the will to live.

With her health dwindling day by day, Ellie took to visiting all the healers she could find. To them, it was quite clear that it was an illness that no magic could heal. Thus, just to give her hope or to cheat her of the little money she had, some resorted to handing out bogus herbs and ointments which they said would save her mother.

No matter how many times she saw these fail, the little Elf Girl never lost hope.

Only, today, she had run out of the money she had saved from her allowance, and she had no idea where her mother stored the money in the house.

With the last of the money she had, she had bought a newspaper on the street which was very cheap for some reason.

As Ellie watched on, her mother slowly sat up on the sofa and took the herbs into her hands, sighing.

Just as she was about to throw the paper away which was around the herbs, her eyes widened as she saw a headline that shocked her to her core.

"ELDARA, FORMER QUEEN OF ELDINOR ARRESTED FOR TAKING PART IN ELF SLAVERY! 117 ELF CHILDREN SAVED BY THE SAVIOUR OF OUR PEOPLE, ELDRA DARTINGNON! READ ALL ABOUT IT ON THE VOICE OF ELDINOR!"

It was as if the headline had rekindled some sort of fire inside the weak elf woman's body, as she stood up with the last of the strength still left in her frail body.

Grabbing a few fruits from the table, she stuffed them in her mouth before holding Ellie's hand and walking out of the house while poring over the wrinkled paper that had almost been thrown away a few moments ago.

The events shocked Ellie, who had just been wis.h.i.+ng that her mother wouldn't leave just like her sister had. Seeing her eat solid food for the first time in weeks, Ellie couldn't help but thank the healer who had given the herbs in her mind.

Only, she couldn't help but feel a little scared as she saw her mother take her to a huge building before asking someone for directions and heading to a room inside.

Was she going to be left here for using all of her allowance?

Just as questions like these started forming in her mind, she saw someone that looked exactly like her.

'Why is a mirror here?', she asked herself, before realizing that the girl was wearing different clothes and also looked much weaker and paler than her.

Finally realizing who this person could be, an expression of yearning appeared on her face before she walked forward with shaking steps. Her mother had already left her hand and fallen to the ground, with tears flowing unabated from the relief that she felt.

Reaching the other girl, Ellie slowly raised her pudgy hand to pinch the cheeks which she missed so much. In all the 6 years of her life, the person in front of her had been the one who accompanied her in everything.

"Kellie?", she asked, before being hugged tight by the twin with whom she had shared her mother's womb.

The two little girls clutched each other and bawled their hearts out, startling the government officials in the offices around them. Yet, the small family couldn't care less as their mother also joined in and hugged them both while repeatedly kissing them on their foreheads and cheeks.

After an hour, the trio finally left the government office, holding each other's hands tight, afraid that something might break them apart again.

On the way, the mother took out the paper which had allowed her to have this joyful reunion in the first place.

Although the name seemed vaguely familiar, she couldn't place it.

Still, she branded it into her heart, along with the name of the person who was responsible for piecing together her shattered family and saving her life.

Eldra Dartingnon.

As she read the fantastical events that unfolded during the Grand Debate, she couldn't help but admire this figure for her pa.s.sion and sense of duty which made her put family aside for the good of the Nation.

Feeling sad that she had cursed her before without knowing all the facts, she denounced the news organizations that spread the bogus news and added an honorific to the figure's name which she hoped would become reality:

Queen Eldra Dartingnon.