We talked for a while. Carrying on the conversation, I explained more about my home plane, Aynezh, as well as learned from them how the war is going, and what is going on in the central worlds.

“I never thought the central worlds and the main plane would be so… exciting!” I exclaimed, fascinated by all which Aether had told me.

“I suppose that’s one way of looking at it.” Aether replied with a little nod of acknowledgment.

“So, is it safe to assume that besides the Void pull, you have nothing else on this planet that’s stopping you from leaving?” Aether asked.

I nodded, with a small hesitation thinking about Hickory, “Are you sure you didn’t feel the pull?” I asked, trying to confirm what should be impossible.

“Brother Aether does not lie, there was no such thing,” Ynos, who had a very handsome voice, finally spoke up with absolute certainty in his voice.

I was a bit stunned by him speaking up, “I- don’t mean to be disrespectful, it’s just that…” I paused trying to think of what to say.

“It’s okay, I understand.” Aether chimed in, with some reassurance.

“Thank you…” I replied, my voice trailing off, as my tail tucks in a bit more from the embarrassment.

“How long have you been stranded here for?” Immy asked, as she wandered near the statue of my mom, and tapped on it with her claws.

I got really embarrassed, as I had not even been keeping track of how long I have been here, maybe most of my life as I am now, “A little over a year, I think…” I finally said, trying to not make it sound too long.

“Did you find anything fun in this world?” Essie excitedly asked.

I scratched my head thinking about what was fun here, but everything mostly came back to getting attacked by mortals, “There are some mortals, but they try to attack me everytime they see me, so I just spend most of my time here.” I said, gesturing to the sculptures around the cave.

“It’s not bad, really. I think I am becoming better!” I tried reassuring them, before continuing, “It’s just… I miss home.” I finished, trying to smile off my sadness.

I felt a small pat on my head, which I lifted my head a little to see the little green dragon, Essie, patting my head, “It’s alright! Brother Aether is the cosmic pillar! He’ll guide you home!” she exclaimed, reassuring me.

Surprised, I lifted my head a little more to look at Aether which nodded back, with a big proud smile on his face.

“You mean cosmic as in P-Pillar of existence?!” I said in disbelief.

“Of course!” Essie replied proudly, puffing out her chest. “Sister Immy, and Brother Sidus are the pillars of Light and Darkness,” She added on more to my disbelief.

I reeled back inside my mind, as the abyss energy grabbed at my mind, “My, what new knowledge is this.” The abyssal self said smiling appearing behind them, though the other dragons seemed to not be able to see her.

“H-How?!” I explained.

“What do you mean?” Essie asked, with a small tilt of her head.

“Mother said that pillars almost never survive their naming ceremony, and that’s why there are no adult pillar Dragons!” I exclaimed, in disbelief.

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“Brother Aether is the strongest! He was even personally named by the King!” Essie added on more.

I found it hard to believe what I was hearing, half of what was just told to me, I had been taught are impossible and unimaginable. I had talked to the King, if that was real, but the pillars, that should be impossible.

“Well, seems the impossible came to you, dear Lost. Well I should also be impossible.” Abyssal commented, chuckling behind everyone, but confirmed my suspicions that only I can see what she is doing.

“You know, Lost, maybe because they are pillars, they didn't feel the voic’s pull, unlike you.” Abyssal commented cuckling.

“I- maybe that’s why you don’t feel the pull?” I finally commented out.

“Perhaps.” Aether commented, also seeming to now refocus on the conversation.

“Why speculate when we can simply go and find out the truth firsthand?” Ynos interjected, as he stood up tall and proud showing off how strong and confident he is.

Aether’s reacted with a small chuckle, but that was just background noise. I looked at this dragon stunned, by how confident he was in his strength as if it was absolute. His golden scales glistened within the cave, his muscles strong.

“I can’t believe I’m saying this, but he has a point.” Sidus agreed with Ynos.

“Well, in that case, no better time than the present.” Aether said, standing up, bringing my attention back to what the conversation was about.

“Wait! Wait! Wait! Pillar of existence or not, it’s the Void we are talking about! It’s too dangerous!” I stammered out quickly trying to stop them.

Ynos laughed at my pleas, and with a smile replied, “Don’t worry, you don’t need to be afraid. I’ll protect you!” He proclaimed, somehow even standing taller, like a pillar of strength.

“Ah!” I was stunned and flustered, I didn't know what to say, my mind went blank for a moment, unable to process what I was going to say, as I looked away and mumbled under my breath, “This is stupid, your stupid, I am stupid, why am I going to do this..”

“I didn’t think Ynos had it in him,” Immy said to aether barely, just audible where I was able to eavesdrop on what was being said.

Breta, the goddess, replied, “I don't think he understands what he’s doing”

Their tones slowly became too hard to hear, as I was too busy trying to not think about the big golden dragon, who is clearly big enough to hold me. Not to mention much muscle he has, and no matter how much I know the Void is dangerous, his sheer confidence makes me want to believe him.

Then I felt him nudge me. And wrapped his tail around me, as I walked with him, mostly coming back to myself, and approaching the edge of the cave. His presence, large and impossible to push out of him, of how close he is standing next to me, and just how much bigger he is than me. Then suddenly his tail let go of me, and still really flustered and starting to pay attention to what's going on, I looked over and saw Sidus walking away from Ynos, who seemed to be really confused.

“Wait, we’ll let brother Aether test it out first.” He said.

“Huh,, why?” Ynos questioned, still confused.

“There’s a possibility that the only reason we didn’t feel the pull is because of his cosmic element.” Sidus explained to him.

“Ah, so we’ll go after him?” Ynos asked Sidus which replied, “We’ll all go, but we have to be smart about this. We can’t risk anyone getting lost in this Void, especially when we couldn’t even see it.