“Even if you say you can’t love me back, my love belongs to you and will always be yours whether it’s here or the afterlife. That is, if the afterlife is even real.” King Raithen spoke from his heart. Morielle could see that same candor he always showed to her.
And these words, they echoed in Morielle’s mind as they headed back to Zilny, three days later. The last five days of her life was pure ecstasy as she was together with him. Her plans to kill him did not even occur to her nor did she possess the will to do so. It all just went to smokes.
It was the first day of winter. The thick flakes of snow pelted down on them.
She wondered how Sves and Dandrus were faring now, after that grand defeat in Ilgi. Judging by the report she heard from Rhovatt Pren, the two were not killed during th
