QUICK UPDATE FOR THOSE WHO'VE ALREADY READ THIS: It's going through some editing right now. Just to add some description and grammar correction.

Tam's POV

A/N: Legacy and Stellarlune spoilers!!!! Plz don't continue reading unless you've read all the KOTLC books! enjoy...

Even though the Neverseen let me go, my life still sucks. Linh's avoiding me. Glimmer, the one person who I thought was my friend, basically hates me. My parents...still suck.  

I was used to that already though.

Yeah. And people wonder why I'm depressed. Sophie told me about this human thing called emo. Then Biana said I was emo, whatever that means. I guess I am. Biana said being emo means that you're incredibly depressed, running on an hour of sleep, and you wear all black. 

Yup. That's me. 

Don't get me wrong, I like sleeping. But I haven't gotten a full night's sleep since I came back from the Neverseen. 

Nightmares.

That's what keeps me awake.

Linh hating me forever.

The Neverseen coming back for me.

Worse things I don't really want to put into words.

Tiergan can hear me when I wake up from those because I'm usually screaming.

And I can't tell anyone, because they already don't trust me, even though I was forced to join the Neverseen. Being knocked unconscious and then waking up somewhere really far away can really mess with you. 

Mostly though, they don't trust me because of my ability. Nobody does. Not even myself. So I got away from people, wore all black, became emo, or whatever Biana calls it. 

Sometimes it helps when I go on a walk.

Tiergan's got this huge forest behind his house. 

I'm not allowed out of my room without my dwarven stalkers, but it's not hard to shimmy open a window and drop out.

There's this trail I follow.

Mostly overgrown and old, but it leads to a grove with the perfect amount of light and shadows.

They balance each other perfectly.

I think that's why I like it. Because of the balance. It helps me think. I would never show anyone this place of course, because then the magic would be lost.

I know what you're thinking.

'Oh Tam, when did you become such a big softie?'

Stop thinking that.

I'm not soft.

I've never been as tough as everyone thinks though. Linh knows. She says I've got a hard shell, but if any water seeps through, I'll break.

She always made everything about the ocean.

I promised myself I wouldn't show anyone the grove. 

Until Biana decided to visit.

A/N: Hi! I hope you like this first chapter, this whole thing is going to be a bunch of smaller stories mixed up into a bigger one! I'll write as much as I can, but I have an active social life. If anyone ever reads this: Thank you so much for even opening up the cover! It means a lot to me! 

A/N from future me re-reading this: hehe wow I'm cringy. Let me just fix this a lot.