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Amara feels her power weaken the moment she steps foot on the dry soil of Edom. There’s no nature here, no life, and she feels the lack of it like a personal loss. Amara pauses, wondering if this is the best course of action. As the Seelie Queen, she has people relying on her - her people, an entire realm of subjects who count on her to look out for and guide them. But as herself? As Amara the individual with her own wants and needs and desires? As Amara, she only has one person counting on her she needs to be with right now.
She hates how weak and vulnerable she’s allowing herself to be in this moment, but her love for Lilith overpowers that hatred tenfold. A hundredfold. Amara might be willing to die for Lilith, and it very well may come to that depending on what awaits her in Lilith’s realm.
None of Amara’s messages are getting through, and she can’t sit pretty on her throne in the Seelie Realm while Lilith is in danger. She can’t watch another person she cares for die, not when there’s something she can do about it.
The rational voice in the back of her mind reminds her that she doesn’t have to watch, though. She can simply turn around and go back home, back where the air she breathes and the ground she walks on fuels her power and gives her life, rather than the poison she feels seeping into her with every step across the dismal, barren wasteland of Edom. She can turn around now and no one would know she was ever here, and she could feign ignorance and see nothing. If she doesn’t see, she’ll never know what fate befell her lover.
Her love.
Amara’s steps hesitate, but they never stop, and soon she picks up speed once more. She’s come too far, she’s grown too involved, too invested to turn back now.
These aren’t her lands and she’s just as aware that she does not belong here as any of the demons who inhabit the realm of Edom, but they all keep their distance as she approaches Lilith’s location. Perhaps they can sense that she means them no harm… or perhaps Lilith has made their connection clear enough to her minions that they leave Amara alone out of loyalty. Their loyalty to Lilith, and Lilith’s loyalty to Amara.
She hopes it’s the latter - that she and Lilith are so intertwined that even the demons of Edom can sense their devotion without question.
Perhaps that’s why Amara knows something is wrong - really, truly, dangerously wrong - the closer she gets to Lilith. The demons who previously gave her space now follow behind her, as if she’s leading them willingly into a battle she didn’t know was coming.
If it saves Lilith, it’s a charge Amara is more than willing to lead.