Neo sat down on the cold hard dirt in the middle of the cavern.
He rested his forearms on his knees as his eyes fixed firmly on the jagged opening of the cave that looked out into the fading light of the mountain pass.
His mind was a tangled mess of conflicting emotions.
'How could Seo… leave me?' Neo thought with his fingernails digging into his own palms. 'For that guy?'
He stared at his empty hands.
He didn't have his sword, he didn't have his armor, but he had power. He had five elements accessible to him now… He possessed a holy affinity… He was a loyal knight who had sworn to protect her with his very life. He had knelt before her, offering everything he was.
'What does he have that I don't?' Neo wondered with a bitter taste coating the back of his throat. 'What the hell is going through her head?'
A sudden scuff of boots against loose rock echoed from the tunnel outside.
Movement.
Neo reacted on pure instinct.
