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heading down the street towards his home.
     
    Flinging the door open to his house, he rushed into the bedroom and found Tessla crying on the edge of their bed. “What happened?” she asked looking up at him. Illadari saw her face was that of Katlynn’s and fear began to set in for Illadari.
     
    “Where’s Kessler?” Illadari asked quickly. If anything happened to my son, Illadari thought to himself.
     
    “Gone, just like the entire illusion seems to be… It’s all gone!” Tessla screamed at him. Rushing to his doorway leading outside, Illadari looked up and down their street panicking.
     
    Something must have happened to Ada, Illadari thought to himself as he went back inside and shut the door. Going back into the bedroom, he looked at Tessla as tears streamed down her face.
     
    “We have to leave, we can’t be seen in this house, this home doesn’t belong to Amon and Katlynn!” Illadari insisted.
     
    “We need to stay here until nightfall,” Tessla said. Illadari began to pace the bedroom.
     
    “I agree,” Illadari said.
     
    Cupping her face as she sobbed, Tessla said, “I want my son back!” Comforting her, Illadari placed his hand on her shoulder and kissed the top of her head.
     
    “We will find Ada and get this fixed,” Illadari said.
     
    **
     
    A loud knock on the door came startling the two of them a few hours later.
     
    “Illadari!” Ponio shouted. “What are you doing? The arena battles are starting soon and you aren’t there!”
     
    Turning to Tessla, Illadari shook his head and put his finger to his lips.
     
    “Oren said if you don’t show within the next ten minutes, he’d be letting me take over. Instead of just taking your spot, I wanted to be a good friend and come see what’s going on…” Ponio said. They could hear him sigh in disappointment as he continued, “Fine. I’ll do it, but I tried.”
     
    “Won’t you be in trouble?” Tessla asked in a whisper.
     
    “It doesn’t matter. We have bigger concerns than my job at the Halls right now,” Illadari said. Tessla nodded and then started crying again. “What’s wrong my love?”
     
    “Kessler… your job… everything in our life is falling apart in a very short amount of time,” Tessla said as she dug her eyes into his shoulder. Pulling back, she looked at Illadari, “You should change into your blue robes… You don’t want to be traveling around with the face of Amon in those.”
     
    Illadari nodded, going to the closet to fetch his blue robes. He turned to Tessla and asked, “Could you cook something up? I’m starving and need to take that bitter leaf.”
     
    “Sure and you mean your Hilted Banes Leaf,” Tessla said with a faint smile in the midst of all the tears. Wiping her face clean of the tears and her nose that was dripping, she went into the kitchen and began cooking.
     
    **
     
    That evening, the sun began to set across Silvermeer and businesses closed up for the day. It was about time for Illadari and Tessla to make their way out of their home and go into the Darkwood Forest to find the witch Ada, but a knock from the front door disrupted their plans.
     
    Tessla was putting her mandolin into their large traveling pouch when the knock on the door froze her and Illadari in place. Illadari turned to Tessla and mouthed without saying a word, “Who is that?”
     
    “I don’t know,” she mouthed back to Illadari.
     
    Then a voice came from the other side of the door, “You said you would join Sam and me for dinner and now you just ignore my knock? Some friends you are!” Liza shouted angrily as she kicked the door and left.
     
    After her footsteps were gone in the distance, Tessla spoke up. “I forgot… We were supposed to have dinner with her and Sam tonight… I feel bad.”
     
    “Don’t feel bad, if I would have had to hear another one of those fishing stories, I think I’d go crazy!” Illadari said.
     
    Laughing, Tessla put her hand on his chest and kissed his lips