ANDEN
CHASING THE SUN
Anden hadn't been in Caido for long. Yet each passing day felt longer and harder than the last. Living a life without Eloise Marie wasn't something he had ever dreamed of. Yet here he was breathing without her. Minus the whole breathing thing. Technically he didn't have to live without her anymore, he wasn't alive. He was... Well dead. Like in the stories Anden's twin would share with him at the fire. How sometimes the dead don't sleep and return to the world of the living. Except Anden didn't feel dead. He felt alone, lost even, but not dead. Maybe that's why he ended up at the temple. The structure was breathtaking. Back home everything was crafted from the wood of the Evergreen Forest. Seeing the craftmanship put into the temple left Anden speechless. He wandered around the temple, albeit aimlessly. This was where people went to mourn, and seek answers. Before Caido, his family would tell adventures to prayer at the local temple before venturing into the forest. To make peace with themselves, and with their gods. Is that why he came to the temple? To make peace with himself?
No. Anden knew better than that. No god or goddess could take away the empty feeling he felt. Even if they could, why would they? He never did anything for them? Never left an offering, or made silent whispers in their honor. No, Anden came to the temple for answers. Oliver mentioned the Voice. The Voice being the reason he was even separated from Eloise Marie in the first place. He needed to know more about the god. Surely someone in the temple could provide the answers he so desperately needed.
Looking around the Temple he was at a loss. His few interactions in the Hollowed Grounds had made one thing clear to Anden. There were many fates worse than searching for your twin sister. The people of the Hollowed Grounds were just that - Hollow, so many broken from something in their past. Would they even care about Anden's troubles?
