"Rein!" he shouted. 'Gods, Rein, answer me.'
He heard and felt nothing.
Rein's presence, in all its many aspects, was gone.
Sin sank to his knees, his arms limp at his sides, his body wracked with a trembling he couldn't control.
Marta, her breath hitching in deep sobs, crawled over to him and wrapped her arms around him, pulling him into her embrace.
Sin let her hold him and, after time, even managed to raise his arms to wrap around her to comfort her. But inside...emptiness consumed him. He felt nothing except the godsawful tight band around his chest and the cavernous void at his center.
Take care of the others, my love.
Feeling as if he moved in a fog, Sin's gaze found Ian, sinking onto a bench at the table, his face gray with grief. Wen rubbing at scrapes on his hands an
