This wasn't the first time dad dropped a bomb on me. Durelin. Dad's younger brother. He had disappeared once he was done Foxfire, and came back only a little while ago, disappearing an hour after. Why? Why did he not stay in contact with any elf but Sophie's dad? Does this have something to do with the black swan? Most importantly, why did I find a small gift box in my room a few hours before he came?

After all the things that have happened in the Lost Cities, I knew that nothing was as it seemed. I opened the black, velvety, gift box, and inside I found a necklace and a neatly folded paper. I put the necklace aside and started to read the note, tension rising in me like my pyrokinesis.

If you are reading this, it means that you know of their recent arrival. You've probably heard of Black Swan, and well... they're the amateurs. There's no point in a secret if everyone knows it.

If not in a box, then time is up in the clocks.

For we will come to light, and maybe with a fight.

The elven world needs to know

The truth, and it will glow

They are deluded by the rules,

Making them all fools

The story of how humans and elves divided

Is false, and not provided

We know you want to understand us

But that's enough of the answers

And don't looking around

You don't know what you'll discover

Try to find us, and you'll see

The impossibility

What do we ask?

Only a little task

Find out what is there

Outside of what's inside

Follow the clue

The only one true

The clue and

The mystery

We will meet again

When the key's placed

At the one not traced

Marella, daughter of Durand and Caprise

A star of the sea, with ease

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