Since the day he was born, Amael had barely known anything of Eden's world.
He had been taken to the Garden Realm a handful of times, but never by choice. Each visit happened only because his father decided it would happen. Sometimes Nihil brought him there as if it were an obligation, not an invitation, dragging him into a realm that never felt as though it had been meant for him in the first place.
Belle, on the other hand, wanted the exact opposite. She wanted her son kept as far from Eden's Realm as possible, and with good reason. Amael was the Vessel of their oldest enemy, a living danger by nature alone, whether he wished it or not. To her, Eden was not a place of wonder or belonging for him, but a place where too many eyes might look at him and see only what slept inside him. Nihil, however, seemed driven by another purpose entirely. He wanted Amael to know Eden's side, to understand its powers, its rulers, its structure, its truths.
